Studio Stories: Reminiscing on Twin Cities Dance with Wendy Ansley - Season 16, Episode 168

Born in Chicago, Wendy began dancing with nuns who taught from
ballet records.  Her vast experiences in dance crossed the
country from UCLA to Colorado College to NYU and landed her in
Minnesota where she taught at Carleton College and served as a
Roster Artist for the Minnesota State Arts Board, teaching in
hundreds of schools across the state. Always a fighter and an
advocate for a better tomorrow, she served as Board member during
the transition from the Minnesota Independent Choreographer’s
Alliance (MICA) to the Minnesota Dance Alliance (MDA). With a
committee of K-12 and college educators, she created and
presented the Dance/Theatre license to the MN Board of Children,
Families and Learning; with Michael Engel she wrote a K-8 Scope
and Sequence in Dance and Theatre for the Minneapolis Public
Schools; and with her charter school colleagues at Community
School of Excellence, she led the courageous conversations to
vote in the first ever wall-to-wall MN Charter School Union in
which she served as Union President.