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A member of the Trisha Brown Company in the 1970s, she choreographed 40+ works for her own group. She has taught various aspects of dance at Bennington College, Princeton University, Jacob’s Pillow, and NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, and internationally. In addition to Dance Magazine, where she was Editor in Chief from 2004 to 2013, she has written for The New York Times, The Village Voice, Dance Index, and journals in Europe and China. As Associate Director of Jacob’s Pillow in the early 1990s, she co-directed the International Improvisation Workshop and curated several programs at the Studio/Theatre (later the Doris Duke Theatre). She returned in 2025 to curate Connecting Through Time: 50 Seasons with Norton Owen. She has co-curated exhibits at UC Santa Barbara and the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, which has also presented Wendy as part of its “Dance Historian Is In” lecture series. Wesleyan University Press has published both her books: Through the Eyes of a Dancer: Selected Writings (2013) and The Grand Union: Accidental Anarchists of Downtown Dance, 1970–1976 (2020). Wendy teaches dance history at Juilliard and performs with Yoshiko Chuma and the School of Hard Knocks.