TheWest Virginia UniversityDivision of Theatre and Dancewill present a dance workshop performance Friday, June 6.

The event will begin at 10:30 a.m. at the dance studio in Elizabeth Moore Hall on WVU s Downtown Campus. It is free and open to the public.

The presentation will be part performance, part lecture and part demonstration, said Heather Ahern, director of the WVU Dance Program. It is the culmination of a three-week dance workshop that Ahern is teaching in theDivision of Theatre and Dance.

During the intensive workshop, students meet five days per week for three weeks to work on dance conditioning, modern dance technique and choreography,she said.

Ahern is originally from Providence, R.I., where she co-directed, toured, performed and taught with the critically acclaimed Groundwerx Dance Theatre for 15 years.

She is a past recipient of an Artist Project Grant from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts for the creation of a one-woman dance/play titledAmazons, Goddesses and Others.She also received a Cirino Fellowship Award for three consecutive years from the Rhode Island Foundation.

In addition to creating modern dance choreography, Ahern has enjoyed working as a movement consultant and choreographer for Perishable Theatre and Trinity Repertory Theatre in Providence.

As a teacher and guest artist, Ahern has taught and choreographed work for a variety of groups at colleges, universities and other educational institutions in Arizona, Alaska and California and throughout New England. She earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in dance and graduated with honors from California State University, Long Beach.