Dance and Teaching

I have a strong background in the arts, especially dance and musical theatre. My first career is in dance, dance history and scholarship, and teaching. I still love to dance, and I’m rebuilding my teaching career in my new home town. I started my training with ballet, jazz, and tap, but I specialize in percussive dance, English and American country dancing, and Victorian and Ragtime social dancing. I love teaching and breaking things down into easily understandable pieces. I understand the enormous value that the arts bring to life and culture, and I want to stand up for the arts in our society.

Here are some of the ways I could help you:

• Teaching
  • Able to break down complicated concepts
• Choreography
• Performance
• Historical dance reconstruction
• Research
• Consultation

Here are many of the dance styles I teach:

• Percussive dance
  • Tap
  • Appalachian clogging
  • English clogging, including Marley dance clog
  • Irish step-dancing
• English Country dancing
  • Calling and teaching
  • From traditional Playford and Cecil Sharp dances to modern composers like Brooke Friendly and Chris Sackett, Colin Hume, and Fried de Metz Herman.
• American dances
  • Contras
  • Square dances(?)
• Ritual Dancing
  • Morris
  • Longsword
• Twentieth-century social dances
  • Ragtime (ie: Titanic, Pre-World War I era (1900–1914)), including:
    • Cakewalk
    • One-step
    • Castlewalk
    • Blues
    • Tango
    • Maxixe
    • Animal dances (Grizzly Bear, Bunny Hug, Duck Waddle, Pony Trot, Horse Trot, etc)
    • Fox-trot
  • Charleston and Black Bottom (1920s dances)
  • Modern ballroom dances
    • Swing
    • Salsa
    • Cha-cha
    • Rumba
    • Waltz
• Victorian dances (from the Nineteenth-century)
  • Jane Austen-era social dances
    • English country dances
    • Regency footwork
  • Victorian set dances
    • Longways
    • Quadrilles
  • Victorian couple dances
    • Waltzes:
      • 1860s waltz
      • 1890s/Viennese waltz
      • 5-step waltz
    • Polka mazurka
    • Polka redowa
    • Mazurka
    • Polka
    • Schottische
  • Scandinavian Hambo

See my calendar of upcoming dances (?).

See some videos of my dancing and teaching.

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