Wanda Strukus

Wanda is a movement-based artist who directs and devises physical theatre and dance in traditional and site-specific settings. Recent projects include Game for 6 Dancers & 70 Books (Green Street Studios Emerging Artist Concert), an adaptation of A Child’s Christmas in Wales at the Salem Athenaeum, an outdoor, site-specific Agamemnon on the BU Beach (co-directed with Kyna Hamill) and fight choreography/animal movement for The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe (Riverside Theatreworks).  She teaches modern dance at Green Street Studios in Cambridge and has been a guest teacher of modern dance at Ninth State Studios, Tufts University, Boston College, and the Dance Complex.  She regularly offers Viewpoints workshops in the Cambridge/Boston area and as a faculty member has taught movement, Viewpoints, physical theater, and acting at Marlboro College, UMass Lowell, and Northeastern University.  She is a recipient of a Green Street Studios Emerging Artist Award and an alumna of the Jacob's Pillow Choreographer/Director Lab.  She performs with Daniel McCusker Dance Projects.

Kyna Hamill

Kyna has studied stage fighting with Fight Director's Canada and Tony Wolf.  She attended Antonio Fava's commedia dell'arte school in Regio Emilia, Italy, and has danced with Daniel McCusker at Tufts.  Recent projects include performing in "Game for 6 Dancers & 70 Books" (choreographed by Wanda), fight choreography for Tufts' prodruction of Kiss Me Kate, and an outdoor, site-specific production of Aeschylus’ Agamemnon on BU Beach (co-directed with Wanda).  She currently teaches Humanities at Boston University’s Core Curriculum.  She is the editor of They Fight: Classical to Contemporary Stage Fight Scenes (Smith and Kraus, 2003).  Read