Professor Jo Byrnes

Professor Jo ByrnesJo Byrnes, B.S., M.F.A., assistant professor of dance

Jo Byrnes has undergraduate degrees in Computer Engineering Technology and Theatre with Dance Emphasis, both from Kansas State University, and an M.F.A. degree in Dance and Related Arts from Texas Woman´s University. She has over 25 years of teaching experience in private studios, public schools, and at the university level. She was a founding member and artistic director of a.musing.dance.company and the Instant Dance Project. She has choreographed and performed with various companies and independent artists in the Dallas, Texas, and Boise, Idaho, areas. Jo has been a Teaching Artist for the Idaho Commission on the Arts. She has recently presented at the conferences o the National Dance Association and the American College Dance Festival. She is the director of the Cottey Repertory Dance Company and she also collaborates on some Cottey theater productions.


Courses taught at Cottey: Improvisation, Dance Appreciation, Dance History, Cottey Repertory Dance Company, Ballet, Modern, Jazz, Choreography and Creative Movement for Children.

E-mail: jbyrnes@cottey.edu



Department of Dance

  • Professor Jo Byrnes

  • Adjunct professor Christi Reeder

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The Cottey Repertory Dance Company

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