UNIVERSITY TEACHING
Beginning through advanced Modern dance technique, beginning Jazz technique,
choreography ensemble, Choreographic Studies courses - all levels, Oral Roberts University dance major courses
Beginning through advanced Modern dance technique, Texas Woman’s
University dance major courses
Beginning through intermediate ballet technique, Texas Woman’s University
dance major courses
Teaching Assistant for doctoral online courses and dance major’s
choreography courses, Texas Woman’s University
Teaching Assistant for the Dance and It’s Audience course, Old Dominion
University under Todd Rosenlieb, artistic director of the Erik Hawkins
Dance CompanyProfessional Teaching
2003-04 Pilates, Core Abs, and Aerobics classes taught at Fitness Time,
Skiatook, OKLA
2004 GCAHA Meeting - Lecture: “Pilates for Equestrians: Exercises
to Improve Your Riding”
2002-02 Crossroads School for the Arts, Herndon, VA
Taught adult and children’s ballet and modern dance classes
Coordinated and produced annual school galas including receptions
Choreographed and performed as a Crossroads Dance Project guest artist
2002 Darryl Green Learning Center, Washington DC
2001 Young Audiences, Norfolk, VA
1999 Larchmont Elementary School: Series of children's discussion sessions
designed to teach kids how to view dance.
Choreographed and designed Dancing Children's Stories: 1999, Portsmouth
Recreational Center. Series of dances inspired by various children's books
presented for discussion to community awareness.
1996 His Company International: toured with Missions International to
Russia; offering seminars, performance, and classes to the people of Moscow,
Nichnez-Novogorad, and St. Petersburg.
2008
Rachel Bruce Johnson, M.F.A.
Prepare the Veil
Oral Roberts University, Tulsa, OK
L. Brooke Schlecte
Shifting Parables
Ad Deum Summer Dance Intensive, Houston, TX
2007
Rachel Bruce Johnson,
M.F.A. & L. Brooke Schlecte, M.F.A.
She Drew a Picture of a Whale
Gala Performance, American College Dance Festival, Ft. Worth, TX
MAMandSCHLECTEdance Concert, Plano Courtyard Theatre, Plano, TX
Dance for Camera version, premiere April 2007
Margo Jones Performance Hall, Texas Woman’s University
L. Brooke Schlecte, M.F.A.
This Tupperware is Microwave Safe
Margo Jones Performance Hall, Denton, TX
Sarah Gamblin, TWU faculty, former dancer with the Bebe Miller Company
If It Had Not Been Sweet
Margo Jones Performance Hall, Denton, TX
The Offering
Dance Studio Theatre, Denton, Texas
MAMandSCHLECTEdance Concert
L. Brooke Schlecte, M.F.A.
Inter…rupted
She Drew a Picture of a Whale
Jeanne S. Mam, M.F.A.
a meal., Bread and Water
Plano Courtyard Theatre, Plano, TX
2006
Sarah Gamblin, TWU faculty, former dancer with the Bebe Miller Company
Dance Lab Fall 2006
Dance Studio Theatre, Denton, Texas
The Marfa Project: Mapping Emptiness in the Landscape
Visual Arts/Dance Interdisciplinary Collaborative Multi Media Performance
and Exhibition,
1-hour group improvisation work directed by Assistant
Professor Sarah Gamblin, Department of Dance,
with Assistant Professor
Tanya Synar, Department of Visual Arts.
Visual Arts East Gallery, Denton, Texas
Kayla Hamilton, B.A.
T TH 8-9:50, SCIENCE BLDG
Green Space, Denton, Texas
Margo Jones Performance Hall, Denton, Texas
Michelle Contrino, M.F.A.
Intersections
Dance Studio Theatre, Denton, Texas
2005
Rosalie Jones/Daystar, guest artist
Wolf, soloist
Arts in Native American Culture Interdisciplinary Seminar, Texas Woman’s
University, Denton, Texas
Doug Elkins, guest artist
Holla Back Girl
Lonely Goat Herd
Margo Jones Performance Hall, Denton, Texas
Hubbard Hall, Denton, Texas
Sarah Gamblin, TWU faculty, former dancer with the Bebe Miller Company
We Are Rockstars: The Aftermath
Margo Jones Performance Hall, Denton, Texas
Stay ‘Til Sleep
American College Dance Festival, Informal
Oklahoma Central University, Edmond, Oklahoma
Terrible Angels (last minute understudy when dancer got sick)
Margo Jones Performance Hall, Denton, TX
2004
Texas
Leadership Conference
Tiffany
Arnold, guest artist
May the Circle be Unbroken: The Family Knot
Hubbard Hall, Denton, Texas
Margo Jones Performance Hall, Denton, TX
Sarah Gamblin, TWU faculty, former dancer with the Bebe Miller Company
Stay ‘Til Sleep
Margo Jones Performance Hall, Denton, Texas
Katie Feiok, freelance artist, Tulsa, OK
Unread Letters, guest performer
Contemporary Dance Theatre of Tulsa
New Genre Festival, Nightengale Theatre, Tulsa, Oklahoma
2003 - 2004
Contemporary Dance Theatre of Tulsa
Jill Priest, artistic director
*company member and contributing choreographer
2004 Gypsy by Rachel Bruce
Thy Neighbor by Rachel Bruce
Out of My Skin by Caren Chillemi
siNOTra by Jill Priest
Unread Letters by Katie Feiok
Solidarity in C Major by Jill Priest
2003 Thy Neighbor by Rachel Bruce
Out of My Skin by Caren Chillemi
2000-2002
Crossroads Dance Project,Washington DC
Kathryn Eurich & Kimberly Tapper, artistic directors
*company member, principle dancer, and contributing choreographer
2002 Crossroads School of the Arts (guest)
Gunston Performing Arts Center, Arlington, Virginia
Baruch Ha’Ba by Kathryn Eurich & Kimberly Tapper
Women of the Well by Rachel Bruce
Breathing by Kimberly Tapper
Cauffee Tawk by Rachel Bruce
2000-01 Thomas Jefferson Theatre, Arlington, Virginia
The Gift of the Nutcracker
Jack Guidone Theatre at Joy of Motion, DC
Requiem – excerpt from Thy Neighbor by Rachel Bruce
Baruch Ha’ba: Promise, Betrayal (solo) by Kathryn Eurich & Kimberly
Tapper
Breathing by Kimberly Tapper
Soledad by Kimberly Tapper
Enseñada by Kathryn Eurich
Witness by Kimberly Tapper
Down at the Crossroads by Kathryn Eurich & Kimberly Tapper
Minor Technicalities by Kathryn Eurich & Kimberly Tapper
Patriot Center, Reston, Virginia
Father Make Us One
Crossroads School of the Arts (guest)
Grace Children’s Center, Karin, Kenya
Lubber Run Amphitheatre, Arlington, Virginia
Gunston Performing Arts Center, Arlington, Virginia
Baruch Ha’Ba by Kathryn Eurich & Kimberly Tapper
Thy Neighbor by Rachel Bruce
Suite Harmony by Kathryn Eurich & Kimberly Tapper
Nowhere to Run, Nowhere to Hide by Kathryn Eurich
Breathing by Kimberly Tapper
Metro by Melissa Wilhoit
1997-1999
1998 Faure Requiem by Melody
Ruffin-Ward, ODU faculty.
Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell: choreographed by Melody Ruffin-Ward, ODU
faculty; Chandler Recital Hall, Norfolk, VA.
Second Wind Dance Company
Community arts festival dance performance , Virginia Beach, VA.
University Dance Theatre, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA
Time Equals… by Todd Rosenleib, former artistic director of the
Erik Hawkins Dance Company, New York, NY
Sacred Fields by Beverly Cordova Duane, artistic director of Second Wind
Dance Company, Virginia Beach, VA
Bounds (soloist) by Marilyn Marloff, Department Chair
The Other Voices by Jane Franklin of Jane Franklin Dance, Washington, DC
Mine, Theirs, Ours by Melody Ruffin-Ward, ODU faculty
Co-directed the first annual Student Choreography Show at ODU where she
performed an original solo with text, The Scarlet Ibis.
1996
His Company International:
toured with Missions International to Russia; offering seminars, performance,
and classes to the people of Moscow,
Nichnez-Novogorad, and St. Petersburg.