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 B.F.A. in dance. As a member of Momix Dance Theatre from 1989 to 1996, Rebecca toured 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”. 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 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, 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 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 is a contributing editor at Dancemagazine, has written for the International Journal of Dance and the Brooklyn Rail, and is features editor for the Dance Insider. 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 the faculty of The New School University. She is currently finishing her MFA degree at The University of Wisconsin. Rebecca has two children, Jonah age 4 and Elie age 4 months.

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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