Bethany Logan

Modern Faculty + YAPC Assistant Director

Bethany Logan is a dancer, choreographer, teaching artist, adjudicator, 200-Hour Registered Yoga Teacher, and Certified Personal Trainer. She graduated from Ohio University (OU) with a BFA in Dance & Choreography and a Minor in Psychology in May 2015. While at OU, Logan received the Fine Arts Award fully-funded grant to study Ohad Naharin's Gaga technique in Italy, as well as having her choreography selected for the American College Dance Association Gala Concert. After graduating, Logan spent a year in Mumbai, India, where she trained with Navdhara India Dance Theatre under the direction of Ashley Lobo, Yehuda Ma’or, and Yuko Harada.

Logan then moved to Brooklyn, NY where her past performances include stints as a company member, collaborator, and freelance dancer with Josh Pacheco Dance Theatre, Chris Ferris & Dancers, BABEL Movement, Olivia Dwyer Dance Projects, Marika Brussell, mad.plum movement, Kelley Donovan & Dancers, The Physical Plant, Sandra Kramerova & Artists, The Median Movement, and Doug Neilson. Logan is also the founder and Artistic Director of Wild She Dances, a contemporary dance company. Her choreography has been performed throughout New York City, Ohio, Texas, and Mumbai, India. She was a 2019 Gibney POP Artist, producing and choreographing evening-length work "shaking morning." In 2018, she was one of twelve choreographers to be selected and receive scholarship for Doug Varone & Dancer’s DEVICES Choreographic Mentorship program.

Logan is the former Studio & Company Director of The Brooklyn Dance Centers, where she trained students now attending The Julliard School, The Hartt School at University of Hartford, SUNY Purchase, University at Buffalo, as well as LaGuardia High School and Fort Hamilton High School's Joffrey Ballet Program. Additionally, Logan taught in public schools throughout NYC with Dancewave, where she was also Company Manager and a teaching artist. During the pandemic, Logan taught at multiple schools in Ohio, where she had the honor of serving as Associate Artistic Director for the Gary Geis Dance Company, her alma mater.

Logan recently relocated from Brooklyn, NY to Houston, TX to fill the role of School Manager at Vitacca Vocational School for Dance. She currently dances with Karen Stokes Dance, and recently performed as a guest artist with Armitage Gone! Dance, and Houston Contemporary Dance Company. She is thrilled to be welcomed into the artist community of HTX!