Melissa St. Clair has been a company member with Company We Keep, Broadway Dinner Theatre in California, and V. Keith Martin’s Northwest Repertory Dance Company. She was a guest dancer with Perseverance Theatre in Juneau, Alaska, touring under a Ford Foundation grant. Ms. St. Clair’s training includes scholarships with Jacob’s Pillow, Ririe Woodbury, Repertory Dance Theatre in Utah, Bates Dance Festival, and Alvin Ailey Dance School. Ms. St. Clair returned to the Portland area as Jefferson High School’s Artistic Director and Choreographer for Modern Dance Lab/NW Repertory after serving as Artistic Director and Choreographer for the American Dance Theater and St. Clair In Company. She has taught at Portland State University, the University of Portland, Dancers Workshop, and the Oregon Ballet Theatre. Ms. St. Clair served as a guest teacher for the Goethe Institute in Kyoto, Japan, and has been invited back for a second season. She choreographed and produced her own shows, All For One, Catch ‘Em in the Act, Present Journey, and Anonymous Dance, and has had the opportunity to set choreography for the Northwest Conservatory, ARTBEAT, ArtQuake festivals, Tygres Heart Shakespeare Company, Broadway Rose Theatre, the Jefferson Dancers and the Oregon Ballet Theatre’s Moving Signatures season. Ms. St. Clair has been in Who’s Who Among American Teachers (1996, 1998, 2006), and has recently renewed her interest in producing her own work with a small group of dancers formerly from the The Repertory, and now named Annapurna Dance. Ms. St. Clair continues to teach and choreograph at the world renowned Jefferson Dance Department in Portland, Oregon.