Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION

MFA in Dance, The Ohio State University May 2015

Graduate Teaching Associate

Columbus, OH

Thesis Committee: Candace Feck, Department of Dance

Norah Zuniga-Shaw, Department of Dance

Studied With: Melanie Bales, Candace Feck, Meghan Durham-Wall, Susan Hadley,

Bebe Miller, Mitchell Rose, and Norah Zuniga Shaw

BA in Art Therapy and Dance, Springfield College May 2012

Summa Cum Laude Springfield, MA

Studied with: Cynthia Nazzaro, Kellie Ann Lynch, Fritha Pengelly,

Crystal Gipe Nilsson, Michelle Marroquin, and Amelia Ender

CONTINUED PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

Teaching Excellence, Albuquerque, NM 2017

NDI New Mexico

Reformer 3 Training, Cleveland, OH 2017

Balanced Body

Instructor: Troy McCarty

Mat 2 Training, Cleveland, OH 2017

Balanced Body

Instructor: Troy McCarty

Anatomy in Three Dimensions Training, Cincinnati, OH 2017

Balanced Body

Instructor: Nico Gonzalez

Reformer 2 Training, Cleveland, OH 2016

Balanced Body

Instructor: Troy McCarty

Mat 1 Training, Cleveland, OH 2016

Balanced Body

Instructor: Troy McCarty

Reformer 1 Training, Columbus, OH 2015 Balanced Body

Instructor: Nico Gonzalez

Bates Summer Dance Festival, Lewiston, ME 2014

Work Study Scholarship in Videography Instructors: Chris Aiken, Jennifer Nugent, and Shonach Mirk-Robles

Bates Summer Dance Festival,Lewiston,ME 2010

Instructors: Heidi Henderson, Rachel List, Cynthia Oliver, Omar Carrum,

Erin Owen, and Eddie Taketa

American College Dance Festival Association New England Regional Conference 2009-2012 East-Central Regional Conference 2013

TEACHING

STUDIO TEACHING, MASTER CLASSES, AND RESIDENCIES

Instructor

BalletMet Academy

Trainee Modern and Composition, Modern 7, Mat Pilates

Fall 2016-present

Instructor

Momentum: Excellence at the Speed of Dance

20 and 30-Week Residencies with Columbus and Hilliard City Schools

Momentum University Summer Program

Chance to Dance Program

Summer 2016-present

Teaching Artist

OhioDance Residency with Center For Balanced Living

Worthington, OH

Spring 2016-present

Modern Technique

Columbus Modern Dance Company (CoMo)

Company Class and Adult Open-Level Modern Class

Fall 2016-2018

Teaching Artist

Dance Residency for integrated Pre-K classrooms

VSA Ohio’s Adaptation, Integration, and the Arts Program

Fall 2015-2018

Contemporary Master Class

OhioDance Festival

Spring 2016, 2017, 2018

Ballet for Every Body

Weekly Open-level adult class

Core Poetry

June 2015-April 2016

Major Master Classes

Contemporary Technique

The Ohio State University, Department of Dance

Fall 2014, Spring 2015

Beginning, Intermediate and Advanced Contemporary Technique Classes

Drop-In Summer Classes held three times a week

Burlington Dances, Burlington, Vermont

June-August 2011

Contemporary Technique Master Class

Undergraduate level open to Dance Majors Springfield College, Department of Dance

Fall 2011

UNIVERSITY TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Modern 1

Wittenberg University, Department of Theatre and Dance

Fall 2017

Modern 1

Columbus State, Hosted by BalletMet

Fall 2017, Spring 2018

Guest Artist

Dance Documentation, Guest Lecture

Denison University, Department of Dance

Spring 2017

Ballet Technique I

Non-Major course

The Ohio State University, Department of Dance

Spring 2015

Contemporary Technique I

Non-Major course, 20-30 students

The Ohio State University, Department of Dance

Spring 2014, Fall 2014

Writing about Dance: Teaching Assistant (Instructor: Melanie Bales)

Honors Level General Education course, 20 students

The Ohio State University, Department of Dance

Spring 2015

Writing about Dance: Teaching Assistant (Instructor: Michael Morris)

General Education course, 25 students

The Ohio State University, Department of Dance

Fall 2014

Contemporary Technique

Substitute teacher for Major Classes

The Ohio State University, Department of Dance

Fall 2014-Spring 2015

Contemporary for Majors Directed Teaching (Instructor: Ann Sofie Clemmensen)

Freshman Major Technique, 35 students

Developed pedagogy strategies, led exercises, and taught full classes at the end of the semester

The Ohio State University, Department of Dance

Fall 2013

DANCE VIDEOGRAPHY

OhioDance Virtual Dance Collection Videographer & Editor

Fall 2016-present

Traveled to numerous Ohio cities to film interviews of VDC honorees, Edited videos for the Collection

Ohio Dance Videographer

Spring 2014-present

Document Ohio Dance Festival and Community meetings

Edit footage to be used for promotional and archival material

Graduate Associate in Dance Documentation

Fall 2013-Spring 2014

Filmed all Department Concerts and Assisted in Footage Archival

Bates Dance Festival Work Study Intern in Videography

Mentors: Peter Richards and Lindsay LaPointe

Summer 2014

Filmed and edited short clips about students’ experiences during the Professional Training Program

Freelance Dance Videographer

2013-present

Select work:

CDA (Columbus Dance Alliance) Wex Works #1

Wexner Center, Columbus, OH

June 2018

Denison Fall Dance Concert

Here Is and Is Where

Denison University, Granville, OH

November 2016

Reelabilities Film Festival

VSA Ohio, Columbus

September 2015

Taking Back the Short End, Paige Phillips and Abby Zbikowski Skylab Gallery, Columbus, OH

April 2014

Ten Tiny Performances, local performing artists including: Bebe Miller, Paige Phillips,

Abby Zbikowski,and Harmony Bench

Garden Theater, Columbus, OH

January 25, 2014

Floating City, Kristina Isabelle Dance Company

Riffe Studio Theatre, Riffe Center, Columbus, OH

December 3, 2013

RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Pilates and Barre Instructor 2016

Jewish Community Center, Columbus, OH

Pilates Group Reformer, Private Sessions, Pilates Mat, and Barre instructor

Pilates Instructor 2015

Core Poetry, Columbus OH

Pilates Mat and Reformer Instructor, Small group and One-on-One Sessions

Instructor, Choreographer, Rehearsal Director, Administrator 2011

Burlington Dances, Burlington Vermont

Involved in artistic and business production of two dance performances: Global Water Dances, an international site-specific performance advocating water preservation, and UnRavel, Burlington Dances’ own local variety production
Choreographed, performed, and led rehearsals for Global Water Dances and UnRavel
Coordinated and performed in a lecture demonstration, Delsarte in Action, with Delsarte scholars Joe Williams and Franck Waille
Administrative duties including client accounts, studio maintenance, and public relations

RESEARCH GRANTS, AWARDS, AND FUNDING

Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson Professional Development & Research Grant 2018

Presenter at the National Dance Education Organization Conference, San Diego, CA

Greater Columbus Arts Council

Artists in the Community Performing Arts Grant 2017

Travel Support for Seattle Sea-Bus collaboration, Indigo

Greater Columbus Arts Council

Alumni Grants for Graduate Research and Scholarship 2014

The Ohio State University

Coca Cola Critical Difference for Women Grant 2014 Research on Women, Gender, and Gender Equity

The Ohio State University

Student Funding Initiative 2013 and 2014 Recipient of a small grant from The Department of Dance for creative research

Karen A. Bell Dance Fund (Fall 2013, Spring 2014)

Vera J. Blaine Special Projects Fund (Fall 2014)

Department of Dance, The Ohio State University

Small Research Grant 2014 Arts & Humanities Graduate Research Program

The Ohio State University

President’s Achiever’s Award 2008-2012

Springfield College

P.E.O.’s Janet E. Griswold Memorial Scholarship 2008-2012

Oswego, NY

CREATIVE ACTIVITY

CHOREOGRAPHY[*]

2017 Yamabiko *

Collaboration with Megan Yankee

Sound Design by John Osburn

Ten Tiny Dance, 400 W Rich, Columbus, OH

2016 hold the line (duet)*

Collaboration with Megan Yankee

Original music composition by John Osburn

Big River Dance Festival, Huntington, WV

2015 Trace Forms (quintet)

Multi-media Performance and Installation

Urban Arts Space, Columbus, OH

2014 Scribble, a trace (quintet) Barnett Theater, Columbus, OH

2012 Pathways(trio)* Appleton Auditorium, Springfield, MA

2011 Space in Airways(Reconstructed)* Burlington Dances, Burlington, VT

2011 Space in Airways Appleton Auditorium, Springfield, MA

2010 Asleep on the Hill Appleton Auditorium, Springfield, MA

[*] Indicates performed in own choreography

PERFORMANCE

2018 The Clearing

Choreography by Leslie Dworkin

Area Choreographers Festival, Aronoff Center, Cincinnati, OH

2017 Loom

An Evening-Length Improvisational Dance Performance, Live Music by Elijah Palnik

Art of Yoga, MadLab, Flux & Flow, Columbus, OH

2017 Indigo

Sea↔Bus

An Evening-Length Improvisational Dance Performance for 12

Velocity Dance Center, Seattle, WA

2017 Playher

Choreography by Josh Hines

Ten Tiny Dances, 400 W Rich, Columbus, OH

2017 Time In

Choreography by Nicole Garlando

Columbus Cultural Arts Center, Columbus, OH

2016 Torrence 6-36-86

Site-Specific House Project, Directed by Rashana Perks Smith, Choreography by Megan Yankee

Columbus, OH

2016 Hivemind

Choreography by Christina Providence

Ten Tiny Dances, Garden Theater, Columbus, OH

2016 bodybodybodybodybodybodybodybodybodybody

Choreography by Rachel Freeburg

Urban Arts Space, Columbus, OH

2014 New Lucy

Choreography by Susan Rethorst

Riffe Capitol Theater, Columbus, OH

2014 Why do the Birds Keep on Singing?

Choreography by Paige Philips

Barnett Theater, Columbus, OH

2014 Bloom

Drums Downtown X Choreography by Melanie Bales

Riffe Capitol Theater, Columbus, OH

2013 Cornering A Hare Choreography by Paige Phillips

Urban Arts Space, Columbus, OH

2013 Floating Field Site-Specific work by Tamara Carrasco

Spring Dance Fesitval: Site-Specific Works

The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

2013 Illuminate Choreography by Mihwa Koo

Winter Concert

The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

2012 Commonplace (1997) Choreography by Susan Hadley

Dance Uptown

Mershon Auditiorium, Columbus, OH

2011 Rosie (1988)

Choreography by Lucille Dyer

Burlington Dances, Burlington, VT

2011 Piece of Mind Choreography by Crystal Gipe Nilsson