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 she teaches, creates, and performs both choreographed and improvised work. Independent choreographers with whom Vail has worked include Terry Creach, Heidi Henderson/elephant JANE dance, Tori Lawrence (F&M ’10) and Peter Schmitz, among others.  Since 2012 she has been collaborating with filmmaker Jeremy Moss, Associate Professor of Film & Media Studies at F&M, and their dance films have screened at prominent festivals around the world. Vail teaches master classes and performs her own choreography near and far. 

• B.A., Middlebury College
• M.F.A., Smith College

Improvisation, choreography, performance.

TDF 200-201 and TDF 300-301.  Dance Production Ensemble I and II.

TDF 218.  Intermediate Modern Dance Technique and Composition.

TDF 227.  Intermediate Ballet.

TDF 260.  Compositional Improvisation.

TDF 317.  Advanced Modern Dance Technique and Performance.

TDF 320.  Kinesiology for Dance.

TDF 330.  Choreography and the Creative Process.

TDF 345.  Movement and Media.