Heidi Duckler, Artistic Director, founded Collage Dance Theatre in 1987. She has choreographed over 50 original dance works at unique sites in Hong Kong, New York, Miami, Las Vegas, Portland, Oregon and throughout Southern California including the Lincoln Heights Prison, the Los Angeles River, the Subway Terminal Building, the Herald Examiner Building, the Ambassador Hotel and the L.A. Police Academy. Called “the reigning queen of site-specific performance,” by the L.A. Times, her work has been commissioned by Miami Light, Grand Performances, Roy and Edna Disney Hall (REDCAT), Aben Dans in Denmark, and the Hong Kong Youth Arts Foundation, among others.

She currently teaches at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (Sci-Arc) and is a frequent visiting faculty member at colleges and universities. Awards include the California Arts Council Choreography Fellowship, C.O.L.A. Artist’s Fellowship, Dancing in the Streets commission, four Lester Horton Awards, three Irvine/Dance USA Dance in California grants (’03, ’05,’06), three awards from the Durfee Foundation and a residency at Yaddo. Her company also receives support from the National Endowment of the Arts, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, L.A.'s Cultural Affairs Department, Capital Group, S. Mark Taper Foundation, Puffin Foundation and the L.A. County Arts Commission.