As well as dancing with Arena, Eddie Oroyan dances with companies Black Label Movement and Shapiro & Smith. He has also danced with Creach/Company in NYC and has worked with Maggie Bergeron, Joe Chvala and the Flying Foot Forum, and Metropolitan Ballet. Eddie began his training at UW-Stevens Point, a 2001 graduate of their dance program, and continued training with Doug Varone and his dancers and at the University of Minnesota. He was recently featured as Dance Artist of the Year 2006 in City Pages and given honorable mention in the Star Tribune’s 2006 Artist of the Year. Choreography is also a passion of Eddie’s. His work has been recognized and performed in ACDFA Gala concerts while in college, and at the Bryant Lake Bowl, Phipps, Varsity, Southern, and the McGuire theatres in the Twin Cities area. His choreography has also been commissioned in several Twin Cities Arts schools while his piece, “Melisma,” was presented at the 2006 Choreographer’s Evening. He has also recently had work commissioned by UW - River Falls premier at the 2007 ACDFA.