Franklin & Marshall College

Vail is a practicing choreographer, performer, and improviser who has been dancing since she was six years old.  She is a founding member of critically acclaimed New York City-based Yanira Castro | a canary torsi, with whom she has performed, toured and taught extensively since 1995.  Vail is also a co-founding member of the Architects, a performance improvisation ensemble, with whom Vail teaches, creates, and performs both choreographed and improvised work. Independent choreographers with whom Vail has worked include Terry Creach, Heidi Henderson, Tori Lawrence (F&M ’10) and Peter Schmitz.  Vail teaches master classes and performs her own choreography nationally and internationally.