Dance Director Resume Example
| Community Oriented Team Leadership Mentoring | Directing Choreography Theater |
- 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 riskyouth.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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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- Dance Director
- Director, Co-Leader & Choreographer
- Choreographer
- Dance Adjudicator
