DIANE COBURN BRUNING

Diane leads College Match’s Dance and Performing Arts practice. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, the McKnight Foundation, Sundance Film Institute, Meet the Composer, Harkness Foundation, New York State Council for the Arts, The Carlisle Project, Heathcote Foundation, and a Helen Hayes Award nomination for Outstanding Choreography. She has worked with theater, opera, and dance companies throughout the U.S. and abroad including Atlanta Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Pennsylvania Ballet, Boston Ballet, American Repertory Ballet, Milwaukee Ballet, Joffrey II, Nashville Ballet, Ballet Chicago, Ballet Memphis, Daghdha Dance, Minnesota Ballet, Chautauqua Ballet, Juilliard Dance Ensemble, Woolly Mammoth Theatre, Pittsburgh Opera and Glimmerglass Operas among others. Her works appeared in the International Ballet Festival in Colombia, South American and her major work, Boots, was premiered near Berlin for Ballett Magdeburg. She has been the director of the Craft of Choreography Conference and founded and directed Chamber Dance Project, dancers & musicians in New York (www.chamberdance.org) and is currently working on two productions at the Kennedy Center with Washington National Opera.

Diane is a graduate of Butler University in Dance, receiving their Alumni Achievement Award, and of New York University with a Masters in choreography. She attended Yale School of Drama on a fellowship. Diane has been a guest artist with over twenty university dance departments including Juilliard, Tisch NYU and Butler University with upcoming residencies this year at Skidmore College, Mt. Holyoke, Elon University and George Mason University.