Contact Information
210 Elizabeth Moore Hall
Downtown Campus
Heather.Ahern@mail.wvu.edu
Phone: (304) 293.8623
Heather Ahern
Assistant Professor of Dance
Director, Dance Program
BA – Roger Williams University
MFA – California State University – Long Beach
Professor Ahern is originally from Providence, RI where she co-directed, toured, performed and taught with the critically acclaimed Groundwerx Dance Theatre for fifteen years. She is a past recipient of an Artist Project Grant from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts for the creation of a one-woman dance/play entitled Amazons, Goddesses and Others. She also received a Cirino Fellowship Award for three consecutive years from the Rhode Island Foundation. In addition to the creation of modern dance choreography, Heather has enjoyed working as a movement consultant and choreographer for Perishable Theatre and Trinity Repertory Theatre, both of Providence.
As a teacher and as a guest artist, Ahern has both taught and choreographed work for a variety of groups at colleges, universities and other educational institutions in Arizona, Alaska, and California and throughout New England. She taught Movement for the Actor in the graduate program at California State University, Long Beach, and Modern Dance Technique and Dance History at Long Beach City College. She is also a certified pilates instructor with a specialized study in dance conditioning.