Senior Dance Showcase Profile: Mackenzie Buffer

See Mackenzie Buffer in Preconceived Motions, a showcase of the choreographic talents of Colorado State University senior dance majors on Friday, May 7 and Saturday, May 8. Click here for details.

Mackenzie Buffer is from Louisville, Colorado where she began dancing at three years of age with the Boulder Parks and Recreation Center. She trained in jazz, and ballet until she began high school and started to dance with Grace Studios School of Dance in Broomfield. There she was exposed to jazz, tap, ballet, modern, and hip hop, and placed at multiple competitions around the state. Since her junior year in high school, she has taught ballet, tap, jazz, and hip hop to young students at Grace Studios School of Dance, A Dance Place, Dance Dynamics, and recently at High Country Conservatory of Dance. Ms. Buffer is currently a double major in Dance and Speech Communication at Colorado State University, and will graduate in the fall of 2010.

She has worked with Colorado State University faculty members such as Chung-Fu Chang, Melissa Corr, Lynda White, Jane Slusarski-Harris, and Carol Roderick, as well as guest artists Katie Elliot, Kim Neal Nofsinger, Gabriel Mason, and Mary Whol Haan. Her choreography has been performed on the main stage at Colorado State Universities Fall Dance Concert 2007, and the Spring Dance Concert 2008. This is currently her second year on the CSU Tour Dance Company where she has had the opportunity to perform at schools around Colorado and collaboratively choreograph with fellow members. She also recently performed in the New Visions Dance Festival in March 2010.

Mackenzie has been hired as an authentic Can Can dancer for Sharon Guil’s current project, Silver Saloon Show, and will perform at events around Colorado and New Mexico. The dancers were invited back to Albuquerque to perform at the End Of Trail show in June, and will perform in Italy and then Paris, France at the end of the summer.


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