Micheline Heal graduated from Oberlin College with a B.A. in Dance and East Asian Studies and the Helen M. Ward Memorial Award for Excellence in Theater & Dance following a ten-year membership with the internationally touring American Chinese Arts Society’s Traditional Chinese Dance Troupe. In 2010 she received a Blank Canvas Residency at the Firkin Crane in Cork, Ireland – the foremost center for dance in Ireland – where she was the youngest artist in residence the center has ever had. In 2009 she interned with acclaimed sculptor and 2010 Guggenheim Fellow Blane De St. Croix during his Black and White Residency in Brooklyn, New York. Her current work-in-progress, The Garden for Wayward Girls, has been supported by The Firkin Crane, a grant from Oberlin’s Creativity and Leadership Fund and a showing at Westbeth Artist Housing supported by Westbeth Artists Residents’ Council, Literary Arts Chair, sponsored in part by NYC Council Speaker Christine Quinn and NYS Senator Tom Duane, with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. Her work has also been seen in the 2010 FIGMENT Festival on Governor's Island and the 2010 New York Dance Parade, where she was selected to participate in 60x60 Dance's presentation on the main stage.
