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Taryn Packheiser puts her body of interdisciplinary work under the auspices of her production company The Packtory. Her choreography combines contemporary dance, performance art, dance for the camera, and sound collages. 

"Through the Cartesian chasm comes performance artist/choreographer Taryn Packheiser, a rare and welcomed blend of technical virtuoso and clever intellectual. Quirky and inventive, her work is a hopscotch of mesmerizing physical challenges and sharp wit that begs us to re-examine the union of body and brain. And unlike many fusion artists (Packheiser's diverse movement background ranges from hip hop to classical ballet), she slaloms through a multiplicity of idioms with unusual ease. The synthesis of Packheiser's proclivity towards performance art and her technical dance training make her work both difficult to categorize and even more impossible to stop watching."
 
Cari Cunningham
Dance Writer for Dance Magazine, Pointe, Dance Spirit and Dance Teacher magazines

Photo Credit = Rebekah West

"Taryn is inventive and uses her sense of humor and knowledge of art history, dance history, art philosophy and theory, film, and pop culture to create original pieces that are well crafted and relevant. She fuses movement styles ranging from classical modern dance forms to contemporary dance trends and pedestrian movement to make quirky, interesting new movements. "

Amy Stewart
Non Profit Fundraiser and Administrator (The Children's Hospital Foundation and Denver Art Museum)

 

 "A different beast altogether, Stag Unassisted is a multi-media performance at its finest.  A dancer with the technical vitruosity that Taryn Packheiser has could simply rest on her laurels and entertain us with movement.  Instead she invites us to take a dive into her world that is overflowing with creative energy.  She does everything from filming herself on stage to rapping and drinking diet coke.  Its a whirlwind that is all to easy to get caught up in, and leaves you wanting more."
 Todd Fisher
 Greensboro Fringe Festival Director

 

"Her performances reach beyond the realm of traditional dance theatre.  She brilliantly melds performance art with original and stunning movement.  She crafts dances with intelligence, and her gift for invention always amazes me."

Marsha Barsky

Assistant Professor at Middle Tennessee State University and Artistic Director of Company Rose Contemporary Dance

The Pactory 2012