Rebecca’s love for collaborations with live music comes from her years at the Interlochen Arts Academy and later the Juilliard School, where she earned a BFA. in dance. More recently, Rebecca graduated Summa Cum Laude from the The University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, with her MFA in Dance and Performance. As a member of Momix Dance Theatre from 1989 to 1996, Rebecca performed in over 30 countries, touring extensively throughout Europe, the Far East, South America, the U.S. and Canada and appeared as a featured performer in films for Italian, Spanish and French television. Rebecca assisted in the choreography of and performed in the Emmy Award winning film Pictures at an Exhibition, a PBS, Dance in America Special. She is also a featured performer in the 3D IMAX film Imagine and can be seen in Julie Taymor’s recent film Across the Universe. She has collaborated with Moses Pendleton in the making of Passion, an evening length work to the music of Peter Gabriel, and assisted in the choreography of Lina Wertmuller’s Carmen at the Munich State Opera, also performing as a principal dancer. Rebecca is a founding member of Pilobolus Too, a duet company formed by Pilobolus Dance Theater. With Pilobolus Too she has toured throughout the world, created numerous works for the repertoire and a piece for the Radio City Rockettes, and has taught Pilobolus residencies at universities, elementary and high schools, and programs for the deaf and blind.

Rebecca has choreographed and performed as solo dancer in Jaron Lanier’s PBS special Musork - Postcards From New York.’ Also with Lanier, she performed a duet show at the Kitchen in NYC entitled Thinning of the Veil. Rebecca choreographed the U.S. premiere of the Opera Leap Over the Shadow at the Lotte Lehman Theatre in Santa Barbara, California, of which David Rubens of the Santa Barbara Independent wrote, “Stenn’s choreography is breathtaking...right on the money.” Other choreography credits include an evening length solo performed with the Da Capo Chamber Orchestra at Columbia's Miller Theater in New York City, an evening length collaboration with Squonk Opera and Attack Theatre premiered in Pittsburgh, an Off Off Broadway production of The Wild Party and three productions with Vision Into Art, premiered at the Clark Studio Theater, Lincoln Center, NYC.

Improvisation has always been a strong force in the creation of her work and in 1990 Rebecca established the first improvisational dance group for Lincoln Center Institute, which toured throughout New York City schools. Rebecca has held residencies and taught at numerous festivals and universities throughout the world, including The Juilliard School, Sadler’s Wells Theater in London, Stockton College, Southern Methodist University, Dickinson College and University of Western Ontario. She has been artist in residence at Barnard College in 2000 and 2001. She has been a contributing editor at Dancemagazine, has published work in the International Journal of Dance and written for the Brooklyn Rail, and is features editor for the Dance Insider. Rebecca has also enjoyed collaborations with renowned photographers Howard Schatz, Roy Volkmann and George Del Barrio and visual artist Terry Rosenberg. Rebecca is a teaching artist for both The Joyce Theater in New York City and The Open Stages Program at Lincoln Center and is on faculty at Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts as Choreographer in Residence. She is currently the Dance Mentor/Choreographer for the National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts. Rebecca is the proud mother of two children, Jonah and Elie, whose father has been known to play bass for the company.

Phyllis Goldman of Backstage declares, “Rebecca Stenn, thy name is woman and a handsome one indeed. Stenn moves like a gazelle, and out of her musclebound stance, she exudes a melodic beauty...she exerted an electrifying presence the minute she appeared onstage.”

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