PEENTZ DUBBLE studies frequently with B.K.S., Geeta, and Prashant Iyengar in India.  She holds an Intermediate Junior Iyengar Yoga Teacher Certificate.  She teaches year-around in Newton, Massachusetts, and summer workshops in Connecticut and Vermont.  She is a member of the faculty of the New England Teacher Training Program with Patricia Walden, founder of the BKS Iyengar Yoga Center of Greater boston, and workshops elsewhere in the U.S. 

Peentz co-founded, with Judith Freedman in 1986, the Iyengar Yoga Center of New York.  She taught Yoga at Barnard College from 1979-86, and was a founding member of the faculty of the Iyengar Yoga Institute of New York. 

Peentz focused on anatomy and kinesiology while earning her Master's degree from Wesleyan University.  This, and her baccalaureate degree in dance from SUNY Brockport, illustrate her life-long interest in body works and movement. 

Peentz Dubble was a co-founder, along with Richard Bull and Cynthia Novack (Cohen Bull), of Improvisational Arts Ensembles, Improvisational Dance Ensemble (which later was re-named Richard Bull Dance Theatre), and the Warren St. Performance Loft.  Peentz danced at SUNY Brockport with Richard and Cynthia and others, taught dance at Alfred University and then re-located to New York City in August 1978 with Richard and Cynthia to perform, teach, and establish the Performance Loft in Tribeca.  She continued to perform and teach with RBDT until she moved with her husband Lance Olson and daughter Anya to Boston in 1994.  She has continued to work with RBDT and composer/ saxophonist Jane Ira Bloom on choreographic projects and performances as time and geography permit.  She performed "Here Today, Gone Today -- Dances That Describe Themslves" with saxophonist Bloom and vocalist Jay Clayton to sold out audiences in New York, November 2002. 

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