The Architects

Pamela Vail, photo by Kshishtow Krjijanowsky

Pamela Vail is a choreographer, performer, improviser, and teacher. She is currently artist in residence and instructor in dance at Franklin & Marshall College. Before moving to Lancaster, she spent 8 years living and dancing professionally in New York City. In addition to being a co-founding member of The Architects, Vail is a founding member of critically acclaimed New York City-based Yanira Castro + Company (now a canary torsi). Vail has also had the pleasure of working with and being inspired by such artists as Terry Creach, Peter Schmitz, Penny Campbell, Andrea Olsen, Susan Sgorbati, Heidi Henderson, and of course The Architects, among others. She continues to perform her own choreography nationally and internationally, most recently at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival. She holds a B.A. from Middlebury College and an M.F.A. in dance from Smith College, and has been dancing since she was six years old.