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Carol began choreographing in the Bay Area in 1998, and formed the Vanguard Dance Company that year. Inspired by her own creative outlook, and influenced by Murray Louis and Alwin Nikolais, with whom she studied extensively in New York City, Carol earned both BS and MFA degrees in Dance Performance and Choreography from UW-Madison and Mills College. Over the years, she has had the opportunity to study and perform with a variety of choreographers including Janice Garrett, Li Ciao Ping, Joe Goode, Viola Farber, Alwin Nikolais, and Murray Louis. VDC has performed in collectives including Summerfest, Westwave, Marin's Composer and Choreographer Collaborative, DanceWorks, and SJDanceco's Choreoproject, and has produced their own concerts.
Carol has been teaching Modern dance consistently nationwide since 1987 for litelally several hundreds of youth in the Drum & Bugle Corps and Color Guard activity, and has also taught at UW-madison, in New York City, at san Jose City College, and, since 2002, at West Valley College. Carol is the Artistic Director of VDC, which she created through the Santa Clara Vanguard Drum & Bugle Corps to allow aspiring dancers to dance side-by-side with professionals from the community. She also created Children's Adventures in Movement, a creative dance outreach program of the Santa Clara Vanguard.