Donald Laney, Assistant Professor of Dance & Head of Dance at Western Illinois University. Graduated from the University of California, Irvine, with an MFA in Dance. He spent 15 years as the Producing Artistic Director of the West Virginia Dance Company performing the works of Doug Varone, Daniel Nagrin, Gerri Houlihan danah bella and Toneta Akers-Toler as well as creating his own choreography. He has worked regionally directing and choreographing shows at WIU, Greenbrier Valley Theatre, Clinton Showboat, Cape Fear Regional Theatre and Theatre West Virginia. He has created original concert works for the WV Dance Company, WV Wesleyan College, Marshall University and the Charleston Ballet (WV). Since 2005 he has been the Master Teacher in Modern Dance at the WV Governor's School for the Arts and in 2018 received the WV Governor's Award for “Leadership in the Arts.”