Ali Woerner

 

Doris and Paul Travis Associate Professor of Dance
Modern Technique, Choreography
Director/Founder of Take Root

Contact: [email protected]
(248) 370-3604

Links: Take Root Website

Ali Woerner (She/Her) is the Founder and Artistic Director of Take Root, professional company-in-residence at Oakland University where she is Associate Professor of Dance. She received her MFA from the University of Michigan and BFA from Oklahoma City University. Woerner has performed, choreographed and taught all over the world; including Colombia, Costa Rica, Japan, Berlin and Korea. Take Root was in residency at the Tanz Tangente in Berlin, Germany where they taught classes, created a new work and performed a full-length concert. The company has also performed at the New Dance for Asia International Festival/Seoul, South Korea, Incheon Yeonsu International Dance Festival/Incheon, Korea, Uferstudios/Berlin, Cleveland Dance Fest, Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival, the Detroit Institute of Arts, National Theater of Costa Rica, Red Bull House of Art/Detroit, TEDx, Detroit Dance City Festival, RADfest, Harvest Chicago Contemporary Dance Festival, The Music Hall Center for Performing Arts Detroit, Hamlin Field House Theater/Chicago, Northwestern University, Ohio University and at The University of Costa Rica. Woerner is the founder and director of Take Root’s Dance for Parkinson’s Disease Program, offering six weekly classes throughout South East Michigan, guest lectures for the Graduate Neuro Interventions course, leads in-services for physical therapists throughout southeast MI., was a guest host for the national Parkinson’s Movement Disorder webinar, speaker for the Parkinson’s Disease Symposium, Michigan Parkinson’s Facilitator’s Conference, Women in Dance Conference and the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine. Woerner directs Take Root’s Arts Education Impact Outreach program which is in partnership with Center for Success/Pontiac and Detroit, and Micah 6/Pontiac. She also created Soulful Steps with Take Root, a monthly class in partnership with Gilda’s Club Detroit, offering a space for those to move and connect with others on their cancer journey.  www.takerootdance.com