Trained on scholarship as a dancer at Pacific Northwest Ballet and later at the Martha Graham Center for Contemporary Dance, Renée E. D’Aoust performed on proscenium stages and in black box theaters. Now as a writer of "Body of a Dancer," forthcoming from Etruscan Press, D'Aoust has numerous publications and awards to her credit, including a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts Journalism Institute for Dance Criticism at American Dance Festival, support from the Puffin Foundation, and grants from Idaho Commission on the Arts. D’Aoust holds degrees from Columbia University and the University of Notre Dame.