Laurie Goux

Laurie Goux began her Chicago dance career in 1981 and has served as an adjunct professor of dance at Davis & Elkins College and Augusta Heritage Festival since 2010. Laurie is the Company Director of the Appalachian Music & Dance Ensemble at D&E College. She is also an adjunct at West Virginia Wesleyan College and visiting Lecturer at Southern Illinois University, Austin Peay State University, and University of Chicago guest artist for the UC Dancers. Laurie has been a recipient of the Dance Pilot grants from the WV Department of Education and WV Department of Arts, Culture, and History. Her dance programs have served Randolph, Harrison, Barbour, and Kanawha County Schools. Her current arts-integration curriculum for PreK-5th grade, Sankofa Project: Africa & Appalachia, utilizes multimedia to teach core subjects. Laurie has produced programs at D&E College for MLK Day, Gospel Brunch, Jazz & Java, Day of Dance, Black History Month.
Laurie is a protégé of dance legends, Jimmy Payne Sr. (Tap and Afro-Caribbean), and in Katherine Dunham Dance Technique with Tommy Gomez and masterclasses with Katherine Dunham. She is an alumna and former faculty of Columbia College Chicago Dance Center, where she taught modern dance as a core curriculum. Laurie was a principal dancer with Mordine & Company Dance Theater in residence. A recipient of grants from the West Virginia Department of Arts and Humanities Council and the West Virginia Department of Education, she developed and implemented Arts-Integration curricula in Randolph and Harrison counties.
Her work has been reviewed in The Washington Post, The New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Chicago Reader, and by Ann Barzel, Dance Magazine. While in WV, she has collaborated on her most creative works, contributing as choreographer for international film, Dancing Joy and Rising Down, a social justice dance duet set on Katharine Manor, extraordinary Tap dancer and Kaia Kater, singer/songwriter whose original music bearing the same title was recognized in Rolling Stone Magazine. Caribbean Tapestry, a group piece set on D&E dance students and Austin Peay State University students, performed at both institutions in 2017 Spring Dance Concerts. Her choreography, …and the Women, is work inspired by the spiritual practice, movement, song, and rhythms of the traditional African American Ring shout.