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
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Pilates Group Reformer, Private Sessions, Pilates Mat, and Barre instructor
Pilates Instructor 2015
Core Poetry, Columbus OH
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Pilates Mat and Reformer Instructor, Small group and One-on-One Sessions
Instructor, Choreographer, Rehearsal Director, Administrator 2011
Burlington Dances, Burlington Vermont
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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
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Choreographed, performed, and led rehearsals for Global Water Dances and UnRavel
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Coordinated and performed in a lecture demonstration, Delsarte in Action, with Delsarte scholars Joe Williams and Franck Waille
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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
Appleton Auditorium, Springfield, MA
2011 Orbits Choreography by Fritha Pengelly
Appleton Auditorium, Springfield, MA
2010 Bare Bones Choreography by Cynthia Nazzaro
Appleton Auditorium, Springfield, MA
2010 La Llorana Choreography by Michelle Marroquin
Appleton Auditorium, Springfield, MA
2010 Keeping Ties Choreography by Nicole Kedaroe
Appleton Auditorium, Springfield, MA
2009 Etude Reconstruction by Kristin Foote of Jose Limon’s Choreography
Appleton Auditorium, Springfield, MA
2009 Gnossienne (1919) Choreography by Ted Shawn
Reconstructed by Jacob’s Pillow and Springfield College
Appleton Auditorium, Springfield, MA
2009 Sibling Revelry Choreography by Cynthia Nazzaro
Appleton Auditorium, Springfield, MA
2008 Dance-Art-Dance Site-Specific work by Cynthia Nazzaro,
Opening of visual artist Holly Murray’s exhibition, Endangered Species
Springfield Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, MA
DANCE FILMS
2013 Portrait, Remembered Urban Arts Space, Columbus OH
2012 Surface The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
2012 Landmark Green Lawn Cemetery, Columbus, OH