Denise Posnak
Lecturer of Dance
2006-2007 Visiting Faculty

DENISE POSNAK has performed, choreographed and taught throughout the United States and Hungary.   After graduating Magna Cum Laude from Chapman University with a degree in Education, she moved to Budapest, Hungary where she taught English and Dance in public high schools from 1998-2000.  In 2006 she completed a MFA in dance at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where her research included somatic practices in the dance classroom, dance for the camera, and site-specific art.  She believes strongly in collaboration of art forms and artists and has collaborated with musicians, filmmakers and visual artists since 2000. She is a certified Pilates instructor and continues her Pilates research through Janice Dulak and master teacher, Romana Krysanowska.   In addition to joining the UGA Department of Dance faculty in January 2007, she has served on faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and teaches contemporary dance at Floorspace Athens.