Jeanne Mam-Luft

MamLuft&Co. Dance

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Jeanne Sopanha Mam-Luft is an interdisciplinarian (choreographer, designer, and photographer) who is strongly influenced by design-thinking and cinematic composition. She founded MamLuft&Co. Dance in 2007 to help facilitate consistent creation and development of professional Modern Dance in Cincinnati.

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Over twelve years of directing the Company, Jeanne has created 30+ works, produced countless events, worked with over a hundred performers, and collaborated with many outside organizations and artists of international repute.

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In 2014, Jeanne became the first and only dance artist to be awarded an Arts Ambassador Fellowship from the City of Cincinnati.

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Jeanne served on the OhioDance Board of Trustees from 2009-2015, is a founding member of the Greater Cincinnati Dance Alliance, was the Assistant Director of Contemporary Dance Theater from 2010-2014, and serves as a grant review panelist for the Ohio Arts Council.

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Jeanne holds a Master of Fine Arts in Dance from Texas Woman’s University and a Bachelor of Architecture from Carnegie Mellon University. Mam-Luft studied photography and video at Pittsburgh Filmmakers. As a student, she received full scholarships to both American Dance Festival and Bates Dance Festival.

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Jeanne’s work is often inspired by her experiences as an immigrant and a refugee of the Khmer Rouge genocide. CityBeat‘s Kathy Valin has said, “Jeanne Mam-Luft is a brainy director and accomplished choreographer (and filmmaker), and it shows…Fans will no doubt appreciate the work for the virtuosity and variety.”