CHOREOGRAPHER

Suzanne Costello began her career in New York and has toured throughout the U.S. and abroad as a dance/theater director, choreographer, performer and teacher for four decades. She has been at the forefront of the Arts & Health field since introducing the Caring for the Caregiver program in 1991. Since then, she has presented this program for 100’s of caregivers across all spectrums of the caregiving field. Her other Arts & Health initiatives have engaged the “often unseen populations in our world” through workshops as well as performance work. These include persons impacted by cancer, active military & veterans, persons experiencing memory loss, caregivers and incarcerated populations. Costello has been invited to present at conferences and universities globally and has been honored with multiple awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, Minnesota State Arts Board, Ohio Arts Council, Salt Lake City Arts Council and others. In Fall, 2023 she was a Guest Artist at Colorado College teaching a new course, Moving Together / The Power of Art, Health & Wellbeing. She will return to C.C. in Fall 2024 and 2025 to teach this course again. She also was commissioned to create a new work, Chapters to Come, for the Colorado Springs- based Ormao Dance Company. For this she brought together company performers with elders from the community in an intergenerational look at life chapters. The new work will be premiered in April 19-21, 2024 at Armstrong Hall, Colorado College. She is based in Minneapolis, MN.