Megan Slayter received her Masters of Fine Arts degree in Dance with an emphasis in lighting design for dance from The Ohio State University and a BA in Dance from Western Michigan University. As a lighting designer and stage manager, she has worked extensively in the Kalamazoo area with Western Michigan University, Wellspring/Cori Terry and Dancers and Chenery Auditorium as well as the Space/Movement Project and Robert Moses’KIN in Chicago, Illinois. She was the Technical Production Coordinator for The American Dance Festival in 2005. As a dancer, Ms. Slayter has performed in works by Lar Lubovitch, Bebe Miller, Victoria Uris and Cori Terry. An ongoing collaboration with dance historian and notator, Jessica Lindberg, has resulted in the recreation of dances by modern dance pioneer Loïe Fuller. Fire Dance, originally choreographed in 1896 and restaged in 2003, has been commissioned by MOMENTA Performing Arts Company in Chicago and most recently at Western Michigan University’s Great Works in Dance and Music concert at Miller Auditorium. Fire Dance was also featured at the Art Institute of Chicago in conjunction with the Toulouse-Lautrec exhibit. Other Loïe Fuller works include Night and soon The Lily and Arch Angel. A DVD of the reconstruction process and performance produced by John Mueller is available through The Dance Film Archive. Ms. Slayter has also worked extensively in development and fundraising for the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio and The Arts Council of Greater Kalamazoo. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Dance at Western Michigan University teaching light design, dance history and dance management.

• Biographies
  • Loïe Fuller
  • Jessica Lindberg
  • Megan Slayter