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DANCE DIRECTOR

Professional Summary

Exceptional leader in the areas of Dance Education, Teen Empowerment and Community Building. Skilled at developing students from all walks of life into powerful performers with improved senses of self and equipping them with tools for self-advocacy beyond the stage.

Skills

Community Oriented Team Leadership Mentoring

Directing Choreography

Theater

Personal Information

Professional performer and teacher with affiliations that include (but are not limited to) the likes of CMT, Third Man Records, Radio City Music Hall, Metro Nashville Public Schools & Bonaroo Arts and Music Festival.

Work History

10/2014 to Current

Dance Director Global Education Center – Nashville, Tennessee

Curriculum development for dance programming for Metro Nashville Public Schools (MNPS) Pre-K population in multicultural, anti-biased arts education
Provided dance Instruction for hundreds of children and adults in conjunction with MNPS, Meharry Medical College, Room At The Inn and other community organizations.
Developing arts programming for social and emotional development of at risk youth.
Responsible for the growth of afternoon programming and expansion of youth performance opportunities.
Managed schedules and compensations for six studio spaces for classes, area artists, community meetings and events.
Developed teacher training for Global artists in MNPS.

06/2005 to Current

Director, Co-Leader & Choreographer ACT LIKE A GRRRL – Nashville, Tennessee

Directed & Piloted first satellite program of autobiographical theater for young women ages 12-18 in Washington, D.C.
Directed Choreography and assistant directed for cross-cultural theatrical programming in Costa Rica and Bolivia
Established pace of programs and sequences of scenes according to time requirements, cast and set accessibility.
Created group and individual autobiographical writing prompts for participants and led group feedback and discussion
Led programming and performances in Metro Schools for YWCA\'s Girl\'s Inc.
Taught middle and high school students of varying abilities the fundamental movements of dance.
Choreographed performances for the U.N. and other events locally and abroad.
Performed producers\' duties such as administering budgets, schedules and recruiting participants and crew.
Co-planned local programming and helped train youth mentors transitioning from high-school to college. Maintained mentor relationships with program participants post-graduation.

02/2013 to 03/2016

Choreographer THE THEATER BUG – Nashville, Tennessee

Choreographed for original children\'s theater that combined performers from Kindergarten to College.
Dances ranged in size from solos to ensemble pieces with over thirty dancers of diverse abilities.
Aided Director in casting performances.
Co-Led Musical Theater Camps.
Co-directed Extreme Playwriting Workshop.

01/2012 to 03/2014

Dance Adjudicator THE POWER OF DANCE – New York, New York

Recorded technical and artistic critiques and encouragement while awarding points for performances based on ability, originality, and stage presence and over all execution in various cities throughout the United States.
Served hundreds of elementary, middle and high school aged performers.
Fostered the relationship between performers and the charitable aspects of the events.

Education

University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music Cincinnati, Ohio 1994-1997

Columbia College Chicago, Il 2002-2003

Trained professionally with some of the finest dancers and teachers in the field. Training in performance and teaching extends from the following schools Nashville Ballet, Deeply Rooted Dance, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Paris Opera Ballet and the Royal Danish Ballet.

Technical Areas of Focus: Ballet (Cecchetti and Vaganova), Modern (Horton and Graham), Jazz, Tap, African, Haitian (Dunham), Afro-Peruvian and Flamenco.

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