MOVE EVERY BODY.

Dance Educators Association of Washington envisions equitable access
to quality dance education for all people regardless of
gender, age, race, religion, culture, socio-economic status, or ability.

 

Mission

Dance Educators Association of Washington supports and advocates for the dance community in Washington State.

Announcing our 2018 Conference! 

Dance Saves Lives: Awakening Radical Joy through Movement

September 29-30
Delridge Community Center, Seattle

Member: $35/Sat, $50/Sun, $80/ Full
Non-Member: $45/ Sat, $75/ Sun, $115/ Full
*Prices include catered lunch

NEWS

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DEAW Professional Development Workshop
DEAW 2018 Conference

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Moving Every Body:
Equity in Dance Education

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SOUTHERN WASHINGTON EDUCATORS! Vancouver Public Schools is hiring an elementary creative movement teacher for the 2018-2019 school year. Visit the link below and contact Brienne.Schneider@vansd.org with any additional questions. https://vansd.tedk12.com/hire/ViewJob.aspx?JobID=3944
Here’s our last new board member to introduce! And it just so happens to be the person who makes these posts 😬. New director of social media, here! Pleased to meet you. • Sarah Oakley began dancing in California. She graduated cum laude from the University of California, Irvine with a dual BFA in Dance Choreography and Dance Performance. She performed as a member of Donald McKayle's Etude Ensemble and was awarded excellence in choreography and campus wide honors for her thesis project. Sarah then performed in Houston, Texas with Ad Deum II Dance Company (serving as rehearsal director and choreographer), Revolve Dance Company, and LEON Contemporary Dance Company. She taught for Houston Ballet Academy and Education Outreach and The Alley Theatre Conservatory, among many others. She also trained in the National Dance Institute pedagogy. Sarah spent some time performing and teaching in Seattle before moving to London to study at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, earning her MA in Dance Performance (with Distinction) as a member of Transitions Dance Company. There, Sarah started her research into understanding teaching as a creative process by examining the relationship between professional experience and pedagogical training. She is ecstatic to be in Seattle once again and is honored to be a part of the DEAW board. • Learn more about the board on our website! deawa.org
Warm welcome to our new secretary, Kim Holloway! • Kimberly Holloway is a Seattle dancer, choreographer, and teaching artist. In 2009 she received her BFA from Belhaven University. She has been honored to perform with artists including Michelle Miller/Catapult Dance, Shannon Stewart, Stone Dance Collective, Alana O Rogers, Maya Soto, and Kinesis Project (NYC). Her work has shown at the Fringe Festival (Edinburgh), at the Folly Theater (Kansas City), Waterfire Arts Center (Providence, RI), and in Seattle at Velocity Dance Center, Fremont Abbey, BOOST Dance Festival, and Seattle International Dance Festival. Kimberly is the recipient of the CityArtist Project grant from the Office of Arts & Culture (2017), the Artist Project grant from Artist Life Guild (2017), Cornish Arts Incubator Residency (2017), and is an artist in residence at the Fremont Abbey. In 2015, she co-founded Class Exchange in an effort to provide teaching opportunities for less established artists and create affordable professional level classes. She currently teaches at Velocity Dance Center, Dance Fremont, and Bainbridge Dance Center. kimberlyholloway.com • Learn more about the board on our website deawa.org
Big congratulations to our new President-Elect, Ciara McCormack Greenwalt! She is also organizing our annual conference. 💪🏼 • Originally from Burlington, VT, Ciara McCormack Greenwalt was raised in the Northeast and small-town Nebraska. She began dancing at the age of five and studied strict ballet for many years before expanding into other genres, from modern and jazz to Flamenco and Kabuki. In 2011, she graduated Summa Cum Laude from Stephens College with a BFA in Dance. Since graduation, she has performed with numerous companies across the country, and currently performs with Intrepidus Dance in Seattle. • Ciara has been sharing dance with students of all ages since 2008 and has experience teaching ballet, creative movement, jazz, tap, and tumbling. She owns and directs Moving Minds Dance, teaching and choreographing for numerous studios, schools, and community centers in the Seattle metro area. Additionally, she works for the Pacific Northwest Ballet’s Community Education department, St. Joseph School, and Evergreen City Ballet. Her passion as an educator is to support student’s growth, encourage their sense of joy and wonder, and facilitate their understanding of their world through creative explorations for mind and body. • Learn more about the board on our website! deawa.org
Give some love to our newest President, Maya Soto! • Maya Soto is a choreographer, performer and award-winning arts educator. She is a member of Catapult Dance Company and a successful freelance artist. Her significant contributions to Seattle dance earned her the Velocity Dance Champion Award in 2014. Her work has been supported by 4Culture, Office of Arts & Culture, Allied Arts Foundation and creative residencies at Velocity Dance Center, eXIT SPACE, and 10 degrees. Her vast body of work includes concert performance, movement installations, dance for theater and for film. Athleticism, rhythmic dynamics and ferocity are pillars of her work. She brings together classical dance training with a sense of theatrical play. Over the years, she has worked with many notable artists/companies including Michele Miller, Nico Tower, Amy O’Neal, KT Neihoff, Sandstrommovement, and LeGendre Performance Group. From 2003-2012, she co-directed collaborative dance company, Northwest Dance Syndrome. She has created and produced 7 evening length shows over the last 13 years. Her choreography has been featured in every major dance festival in the Northwest including OTB/Northwest New Works Festival (SEA), BOOST Dance Festival (SEA), Pacific Dance Makers (PDX), Seattle International Dance Festival (SEA), Conduit's Dance+ Festival (PDX), Juan De Fuca Festival of the Arts (Port Angeles), SITEWORKS (Tacoma) and the Arts in Nature Festival (SEA). Truly a Pacific Northwest artist, Maya is originally from the Portland area and has been calling Seattle home since 1999. • To learn more about Maya’s passion for education, view her whole bio on our website. • deawa.org
We have some new board members to introduce! Stay tuned to hear more about these educators and their roles on the DEAW board.
@creativedancecenterseattle in Australia 🇦🇺 with Dance and the Child International 🙌 ・・・ Opening night performance of Young People’s groups. #kaleidoscopedancecompany shared a rehearsal room with Kew School of Dance from Melbourne. Both in white! Each of us shared our dances before the show with each other. #panpapanpalya2018 #dancerlife #childrencreating #danceacrossborders #newfriendships #moderndance #contemporarydance #daci2018
Deadline to apply to present at our annual DEAW Conference extended to this Sunday, July 8! Learn more / apply via link in bio 💫 #deaw #awakeningjoy #joyindance #inclusivedance #danceforeverybody #danceeducation #washingtonstatedance #teachingartists #danceequity
That’s a wrap! Beautiful end to our picnic today! Thankful for all the family and friends who are out celebrating PRIDE today 💕🌈🙏 #DEAW #pride #deawpridepicnic #seattlepride #dancepride
#Repost @mayasoto22 with @get_repost ・・・ DEAW Pride Picnic SO FUN! Celebrating our LGBTQAI+ Community. @deawash #deawpridepicnic @nico_tower @rochelle_rapaszky @her_fitness206 @cnawahi @sarahjoydances @hay_shannon
Thank you to all the beautiful folx who hung out with us today! We love you 💕🌈#happypride #seattlepride #deawpride #lgbtqalove #deaw #dance @scottymou6 @sarahjoydances @cnawahi @rochelle_rapaszky @creative_movement206 @hay_shannon @khollo7 @nico_tower @mayasoto22 @robert_a_moore.dance + more💖🙏🌞
Today’s been so lovely! #Repost @mayasoto22 with @get_repost ・・・ Just getting started! Come visit us today at Cal Anderson. Dance Educators Association of WA. We're here until 3pm. @deawash #deawpridepicnic
#Repost @kriswheelerdance with @get_repost ・・・ Performances are this weekend! FRI + SAT 8pm / SUN 2pm . TICKETS: burienactorstheatre.org . . #herehear #seattledance #danceimprovisation #vocalimprovisation #burienactorstheatre #saveJune22to24
Amazing work @northwesttapconnection and @acttheatre 🙏 #Repost @northwesttapconnection with @get_repost ・・・ NWTC dancers share @mzshakiahmc’s piece: Hell You Talmbout (get it Eyoub and Lacey💥) before Until the Flood, a one-woman show by Gael Orlandersmith focused on the social unrest following Michael Brown’s killing. Thank you @acttheatre for hosting what Shakiah called “uncomfortable but necessary conversations” that help us understand our individual roles in making national change in the way we see and treat each other as humans. #socialjustice #community #hellyoutalmbout #northwesttapconnection #acttheatre
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DEAW is a 

proud affiliate of the 

National Dance Education Organization

Dance Educator of the Year

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The 2017 Dance Educator of the Year is Sheyla Mattos! Learn more about Sheyla here.  Sheyla was honored at the 2017 DEAW Conference.