Performance Santa Fe is looking for its fourth leader in about seven years.

The nonprofit dance, music and theater group confirmed executive and artistic director Amy Iwano’s departure Thursday. Iwano joined the organization in September 2021, ending a nearly 30-year tenure in Chicago’s arts world. She leaves in the middle of the organization’s season, which runs from July 2023 to May 2024.

Iwano succeeded Chad Hilligus, who was at the helm of Performance Santa Fe for two years.

His predecessor, Jonathan Winkle, served in the role for less than three years. The circumstances of Iwano’s departure were unclear Thursday; Performance Santa Fe board President Leah Gordon did not respond to a request for comment.

Iwano’s stint as the group’s leader is the shortest of her 39-year career, according to her profile on the employment social networking site LinkedIn. She was executive director of the University of Chicago Presents, a professional concert series, from 2012 until she joined Performance Santa Fe. Before that, she served as executive director of the Chicago Chamber Musicians from 1993 to 2012; executive director of the Japan America Symphony Association of Los Angeles from 1990-93; and administrator of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Institute from 1984-89.

Iwano’s departure apparently is among a number of staffing changes at Performance Santa Fe this year. Only two of the eight employees who were listed as staff members on the organization’s website April 8 still were listed Thursday: graphic designer Kevin Brown and Katie Rountree, who had the title director of development in April and now is the organization’s audience development and community relations director. In April, the site listed eight employees, including Iwano. On Thursday, it listed five.

When she was hired, Iwano became the second woman to serve as artistic director of a major Santa Fe arts organization, after Santa Fe Pro Musica’s Anne-Marie McDermott.

McDermott’s tenure in that role also was brief; she served from May 2020 to July 2022.

Iwano graduated from Pomona College in California in 1984 with a degree in international relations, according to her profile on LinkedIn.

That profile still listed her as working for Performance Santa Fe as of Thursday morning, while the organization’s website no longer listed her as an employee.