Lara Branen

Lara Branen i Director Emeritus of the Boulder Jazz Dance Workshop and its resident company Interweave Dance Theatre. Lara hired the guest artists for the workshop and choreographers for Interweave each year. She has directed well over 50 dance performances through both the Boulder Jazz Dance Workshop, Interweave Dance Theatre and SRJC in Santa Rosa, CA. In 2018 Lara received the prestigious Legends of Dance in Colorado award.

Lara Branen (aka Elle) is the Artistic Director of the Boulder Jazz Dance Workshop (BJDW) and its resident company Interweave Dance Theatre (IDT). She received her Masters in Dance from the University of Colorado in Boulder where she also taught jazz dance. Since then she has taught primarily at Santa Rosa Junior College in Northern California. She has also choreographed and directed extensively through IDT and SRJC. In 2018 Lara received the prestigious Legends of Dance in Colorado award for her work with the BJDW. She has always loved to write and is excited for the opportunity to write for DancePlug.