The Mazo Movement Arts Center opened its doors in January of 2002, with the goal of providing learning, performance and practice space for a wide variety of forms. Here’s a partial list of the teaching artists that have enriched our space and our lives over the years:
2002: Kay Rhode (Mt. Horeb), Kathleen Maltese (Chicago), Ann Cabezas (Mazomanie), Otelia Kiser (Madison), Tani Djakite (Senegal), Eddie Gbordzi (Ghana), Patrice Nassalang (Guinea), Abu Mohammed (Mali), Lydia Scott (La Crosse)
2003: Mark Koenig (Chicago), Heather Good (Madison), Stephanie Skura (Seattle), Scott Anderson (Blue Mounds), Janice Simsohn (Madison)
2004: Nagindas (India), Scott Anderson (Blue Mounds), Gray Miller (Madison), Kristin Perry (Madison)
2005: Moti Zemelman (Massachusetts), Colleen Lewis (Spring Green), Esther Knudson (Mt. Horeb)
2006: Gretchen Spiro (Boulder, CO), Martin Keogh (Massachusetts)
2007: Alicia Grayson (Boulder), Keith Henessy (San Francisco)
2008: Steve Homsher (Boulder), Gretchen Spiro (Boulder), Nancy Stark Smith (Massachusetts), Martin Keogh (Mass), Mark Kotz (Green Bay)
2009: Ecki Mueller (Germany), Daiela Swarz (Argentina), Nell Weatherwax (Indiana), Heather Good (Madison), Kathleen Maltese (Chicago), Martin Keogh (Mexico)
2010: Tara Brandel (Ireland), Benno Voorham (Sweden)
2011: David Lakein (Chicago)
2012: Karen Nelson (Vashon Is, WA), David Lakein (Chicago)
2013: Martin Keogh (Mexico), Stefanie Cohen and Corey Gearhart (Ann Arbor, MI), Moti Zemelman (Mass), Ian Gunn and Bridget Rountree (San Diego) Sarah Wollschlager (New York)
2014: Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstadt (Minneapolis), Kirstie Simson (Illinois), Chris Wagoner, Biff Blumengange
2015: Melecio Estrella (Oakland, CA), Nita Little (San Francisco, CA)
2016: Katarina Witt (San Francisco), Chris Aiken and Angie Hauser (Massachusetts), Jay Ruby (AZ), Helen Goodrum (UK)
2017: K.J. Holmes (New York), Robert Kokott (Chicago), Ginger Krebs (Chicago)
2018: Scott Wells (Berkely, CA), Kathleen Rea (Canada), Robert Kokott (Chicago), Denise Schubert (Switzerland)
2019: Gretchen Spiro and Steve Homsher (Boulder, CO), Jeff Semmerling (Chicago), Robert Kokott (Chicago)
2020: Jeff Semmerling (Chicago), Sam Sake (Chicago)