For the first and only residency of winter term, the Knox Dance Program is bringing Sara Brummel, a current associate professor of Missouri State University’s Theatre and Dance Department.

Brummel has trained with, performed and choreographed for a number of ballet and modern dance companies, including the Pennsylvania Ballet, Cambridge School of Ballet, the Missouri Fine Arts Academy, and the American College Dance Festival (ACDF). She is also an American Ballet Theatre (ABT) certified teacher.

Brummel will present the first of four workshops on Saturday. All workshops are free and open to the Knox campus, and all will be held in the Auxiliary Gym.

Full schedule:

Saturday, Feb. 1
Intermediate Ballet Workshop, 11 a.m.–12:30 p.m.

Sunday, Feb. 2
Intermediate Contemporary Workshop, 11 a.m.–12:30 p.m.

Monday, Feb. 3
Intermediate Ballet Workshop, 4–5:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Feb. 5
Beginning/Intermediate Ballet Workshop, 5:30–7 p.m.

For more information, contact Jen Smith (jlsmith).

Chelsea Embree

Chelsea Embree is a senior majoring in creative writing and minoring in art history. She previously served as co-mosaic editor and as an arts and features reporter for TKS. During the summer of 2013, she served as a content intern at The St. Louis Beacon. Chelsea has studied under former Random House copy chief Sean Mills and taught writing as a teaching assistant for First-Year Preceptorial. An avid blogger, she has written extensively about youth in St. Louis and maintains a lively poetry and nonfiction blog on Tumblr. She is also the director of communications for Mortar Board and co-president of Terpsichore Dance Collective.