Highlights



Recent Performances/Teaching/Choreography
Urbanity Dance, Boston, MA
Boston Contemporary Dance Festival - Boston, MA - August 2012; Repetory Performed: Hoppopilia
I AM _________ - Boston, MA - May 2012; Repertory Performed: I AM STILL & I AM SOFT
Big Red Door & Other Stories - February 2012; Medford, MA & Worcester, MA; Repertory Performed: Green Grass Grows
Between the Lines - Boston, MA - November 2011; Repertory Performed: Gnarly Knickers
J & D Dance Academy, Reading, MA
Instructor/Choreographer - August 2012 - present
Forty Steps Dance, Nahant, MA
Windhover- Rockport, MA – August 2011; Repertory Performed: Fragile & Beethoven Symphony No. 1
Choreographer’s Showcase – Newburyport, MA – May 2011; Repertory Performed: Beethoven Symphony No. 1
Vault – Cambridge, MA – April 2011; Repertory Performed: Beethoven Symphony No. 1
Windhover- Rockport, MA – August 2010; Repertory Performed: Lux Aeterna & Two From Tull
IDEXX Laboratories, Boston, MA
Flash Mob Performer -February 2011
Revive Dance Xchange, Beverly, MA
Instructor/Dancer/Choreographer for various showcase performances and fundraisers – Sept 2009 to August 2012
Appollinaire Theatre Company, Chelsea, MA
Dance Instructor/Choreographer - Spring 2010
Stardancer Studios, Newport, NH
Studio Owner/Dancer /Instructor/Choreographer for various holiday showcases, performances at the Vermont High School Dance Festival, and annual recitals - Sept 2006-June 2009
Colby-Sawyer College, New London, NH
Adjunct Professor of Dance, Sept 2008 – May 2009
Performer’s Playground, Newport, NH
Lead Choreographer: Disney’s High School Musical– May 2008
Awards
Choreography Awards: Elite Performance Challenge April 2011; Omega Dance Challenge March 2009; BravO! Talent Competition February 2009; DanceXplosion April 2007; International Dance Challenge May 2005
Overall Studio Excellence Award - Omega Dance Challenge March 2009
Top Score Overall Awards won by students: Omega Dance Challenge March 2009; BravO! Talent Competition February 2009; Sophisticated Productions May 2008; DanceXplosion April 2007 & April 2009; International Dance Challenge May 2006 & May 2009; Showstopper March 2006
Student Title Winners: Pre-Teen Miss Sophisticate May 2008; Young Miss Dance Ovations February 2007
Training & Education
Conventions & Conferences: Dancer’s Inc 2008 & 2009; Conquest Dance Intensive 2008; Legends Dance Convention 2006 & 2007; Dance Teacher Summit 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management/College of Fine Arts
Master of Arts Management with High Honors, May 2002; W.W. Cooper Merit Scholarship recipient
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance with Honors, April 2000; Teaching Certificates in Dance K-12, History 9-12
Cecchetti Ballet Training– Passed exams in Grades I-V, 1992 - 2000