Studio Stories: Reminiscing on Twin Cities Dance with Jane Skinner Peck - Season 11, Episode 133

JANE SKINNER PECK  is a researcher, choreographer, dance
historian, teacher, writer/playwright and performer. She has
worked across  the U.S., Canada, and France for over thirty
years.   She found that dance history enables her to combine
her love of history with her love of dance. She has extensive
training in both modern dance and dance history, directing
performances with her company Dance Revels Moving History since
1990. Jane’s period choreography conveys varied past cultures and
economic classes of the Upper Midwest as well as Europe in a most
immediate and authentic way.  She has created work for St.
Paul Chamber Orchestra, MN History Center, Sibley Historic Site,
Mpls. Institute of Arts,  Macalester College, NY Baroque
Dance Company, Carleton College Theater, U of MN , Luther
College.  Her work has been seen at the Long Island NY
Fringe Festival, Long Island University NY , Winnipeg's Festival
de Voyageur, Ordway Center for the Arts, Walker Art Center, and
Intermedia Arts among others. Jane studied Renaissance and
Baroque dance in California, NY, and France. She studied
French-Canadian dance with Jean-Paul Cloutier of Winnipeg,
Manitoba, and Metis dance with Sandy Poitra of the Turtle
Mountain Ojibwe Reservation of North Dakota. 


        Jane’s dance theater shows
involve characters, stories, and live music. Dance Revels toured
Jane’s show of MN Metis history through dance throughout MN
schools and museums for 15 years.  Since 2015 she annually
writes and directs new History Alive! Lanesboro Pop-up Plays ,
with her original scripts about small town history, dance, and
music staged in the streets  of historic Lanesboro, MN.


        Jane is a highly regarded dance
educator, having taught school residencies for 20 years and has
mentored teachers in the arts across the state for years through
the Perpich Center for Arts Education. She is a frequent grant
recipient and has taught at Winona State University, U of MN, UW
Madison, Gustavus Adolphus, and Bemidji State. An historian, she
is published by MN Historical Society.