Greg Halloran, Associate Professor and Coordinator of Dance, began dancing at the age of 17 in California where he danced with the Sacramento Ballet, Dale Scholl’s Jazzworks and in various musicals. He received his Master of Arts from The Ohio State University where he performed with the famous University Dance Company in which he toured the Midwest, East Coast and Europe. He has had the privilege to dance in works by Val Caniparoli, Susan Hadley, Doris Humphrey, José Limón, Sophie Maslow, Mark Morris and Victoria Uris.  He studied Labanotation with Odette Blum and Lucy Venable, and holds his teacher certification from the Dance Notation Bureau in New York City.


Greg returned to The Ohio State University and received his Master of Fine Arts in 1996 in Directing From the Labanotated Score. He has restaged the works of Judith Allen, Ted Shawn, Victoria Uris, Charles Weidman, and Doris Humphrey including her masterpiece With My Red Fires for a centennial celebration of Humphrey in her home state of Illinois.  Most recently he staged Sophie Maslow's dance Folksay for CityDance Ensemble in Washington DC, which won a DC Metro Dance Award for outstanding group performance.  He has studied composition with Vickie Blaine and enjoys choreographing his own works, currently working on a new multi-media dance based on dogs, more specially on the loss of his beloved golden retriever Vegas.  He currently lives happily with his huge 115 pound golden doodle lap dog Cosmo, supporting spaying and neutering of dogs and fully supports the Humane Society's efforts for adoption of dogs and animals in need of good homes. 

He has taught at The Ohio State University, the Youth Performing Arts School in Kentucky, Northern Illinois University and Kenyon College in Ohio.  He has been awarded grants from the Idaho Commission for the Arts, the Inland Northwest Foundation/Florence Wasmer Foundation, a NCCI and and two American Masterpiece grants from Dance USA, New England Foundation for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.  He has served on the National Board of Directors of the American College Dance Festival Association and the board of directors for the Idaho Association of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (IHPERD).  He was recently honored with the Dance Educator of the Year award from the Idaho Association of AHPERD in 2005, and the Northwest District AAHPERD Dance Educator of the Year award for 2006.  Greg teaches Modern, Jazz, Composition, Dance History, Laban Studies, and co-directs Dance Theatre's Dancers Drummers Dreamers each year.