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.

Dance Educators In Performance
July 13 at Broadway Performance Hall

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Dance Educators in Performance features a lineup of stellar choreographers from across Washington state. This unique show offers a platform for teaching artists and shines light on the unique intersections of choreography, dance performance and education. All proceeds from the concert support DEAW programming including statewide conferences, workshops, networking events, professional development scholarships, and regional dance advocacy.  

TICKET LINK COMING SOON

Announcing 2019 DEAW Annual Conference!
Every Body is a Dancing Body

October 5-6, 2019
All That Dance
3012 NE Blakeley St, Seattle, WA 98105

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Upcoming Events

Featured
DEAW at the Recycled Arts Festival (Vancouver)
DEAW Seattle Pride Picnic
Dance Educators in Performance
End of Year and GU Dance Intensive Garden Party
Back to School Coffee Hour (Seattle)
Post Showcase Party (Spokane)
DEAW Annual Professional Development Conference

2018 DEAW fall conference

Dance Saves Lives:
Awakening Radical Joy Through Movement

Dance Educator of the Year

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The 2018 Dance Educator of the Year is Shannon Barnes!  Shannon was honored at the 2018 DEAW Conference.

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IT’S @mayasoto22 ‘s BIRTHDAY TODAY!! Go give Maya some love! As DEAW President, Maya is dreaming SO BIG and getting things DONE. We are so honored to have her.
DANCE EDUCATORS IN PERFORMANCE SPOTLIGHT: Jennifer Haywood! 🔥 Jennifer started with movement arts as a teenager and pursued a dance career for many years. She received her BA in dance from WWU, and her MA in Counseling/Psychology from Lesley College. She reconnected with yoga 20 years ago when she was expecting a child and could no longer take a strenuous contemporary dance class. Her dancing and yoga practice perfectly complemented each other and she never looked back. Jennifer has been teaching dance (creative, modern, jazz, ballet) in and around Seattle for 17 years and yoga for 10 years to adults and children. Jennifer enjoys the process of introducing students to new ways of moving and guiding students to become more aware of their connection to their bodies. She was a presenter at Dance Educators Association of WA in 2017, and with Dena Lee in 2013, and 2009. Jennifer and Dena Lee co-directed eNergi!, a youth performance group in 2010 and their last collaboration was Loss in Found in 2015 at Velocity. She danced and performed for one season with Shirley Jenkins. She keeps her performing chops up to speed with MoDanCo, a modern dance choreographic collective. They perform once a year in an open studio showing. 🔥 DON’T MISS IT. July 13, 7:30pm, Broadway Performance Hall. Tickets coming soon.
DANCE EDUCATORS IN PERFORMANCE SPOTLIGHT: @arcdance 🔥 ARC School of Ballet’s mission is to provide high-quality classical ballet training in an encouraging atmosphere, thus promoting personal growth and artistic self–expression. Contributing a wealth of knowledge to the school, the professional faculty at ARC are dedicated to dance education and instilling invaluable qualities in their students that extend beyond their dance training: self–confidence and discipline, respect, work ethic and a sense of tradition. 🔥 ARC School of Ballet shares common goals with its resident professional dance company, ARC Dance, to provide opportunities for the public to explore the joy and beauty of dance. 🔥 DON’T MISS IT. July 13, 7:30pm, Broadway Performance Hall. Tickets coming soon.
DANCE EDUCATORS IN PERFORMANCE SPOTLIGHT: @liz_borromeo_dance 🔥 Liz began her training in ballet with Irina “Era” Wohner in Virginia followed by the Bella Ruska Ballet School in Rota, Spain, where she performed, taught and choreographed. Her dance education continued at Old Dominion University, North Carolina Dance Force and The College of William & Mary. Liz received a degree in Biology with a Dance Minor from William & Mary in 1995 with varied studies in modern dance, ballet, composition, education, dance and music history, Alexander and Graham Techniques, anatomy and kinesiology. She also worked to design outreach programs for local schools in Williamsburg, Virginia with the Multicultural Performing Arts Society. Liz served as the Children's Division Director and Modern Dance and Adult Dance teacher at Columbia Dance in Vancouver from 2003-2015 where she taught, choreographed, and served on the Board of Trustees. Liz was able to build upon her own dance education with varied courses exploring Concept-Based dance curricula taught at the Creative Dance Center in Seattle, WA, including the 2008 Summer Dance Institute for Teachers. From 2008-2015, Liz was a presenter for the SW Washington Early Childhood Education Tapestry Conference. She has choreographed and taught for Vancouver’s Journey Theater Arts Group summer programs and multiple main stage productions. Liz has choreographed for the VSAA Spring Choir Concerts and also taught at the 2011 Summer Dance Intensive at The College of William & Mary. She has been a teaching artist and choreographer with the Vancouver, Camas and Evergreen School Districts, and from 2010-2015, produced the studio-based performance "An Afternoon Of Dance" at Columbia Dance Center. Liz opened her eponymous studio in 2015, and, in 2016, started a children’s dance company, MOTUS. As a member of NDEO and DEAW, she continues to dedicate herself to the advancement and promotion of high quality education in the art of dance. 🔥 DON’T MISS IT. July 13, 7:30pm, Broadway Performance Hall. Tickets coming soon.
DANCE EDUCATORS IN PERFORMANCE SPOTLIGHT: @cnawahi 🔥 Ciara McCormack Greenwalt grew up dancing in Burlington, Vermont and small-town Nebraska. She studied ballet intensively for many years before expanding into everything from Humprey-Weidman to Kabuki, and graduated Summa Cum Laude from Stephens College with a BFA in Dance, where she performed works by Martha Graham, August Bournonville, and Charles Weidman. Since graduation, she has performed with numerous companies across the country. In 2012, she worked with Daniel Kubert and OmniArts Nebraska to originate the title role in Kubert’s ballet the Red Balloon. In Seattle, she has worked with Umami Performance, Amy Johnson, Ashleigh Miller, Collective Sigh Dance, the Gifts of War project, and 127th St. Dance Company. She currently performs with Intrepidus Dance. Ciara owns and directs Moving Minds Dance, a curriculum-integrated dance program offering classes throughout Seattle, and teaches for the Pacific Northwest Ballet’s Community Education department and Evergreen City Ballet. Her continuing education includes the Summer Dance Institute for Teachers at the Creative Dance Center, the annual Creative Advantage Institute, and the 2015 Washington State Teaching Artist Training Lab. She is a member of the National Dance Educators Organization and is honored to serve as Vice President for the Dance Educators Association of Washington. Ciara’s 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. 🔥 DON’T MISS IT. July 13, 7:30pm, Broadway Performance Hall. Tickets coming soon.
DANCE EDUCATORS IN PERFORMANCE SPOTLIGHT: @gabbymcneillie 🔥 Gabrielle McNeillie, originally from Rochester, New York, received her early training at Brockport School of Dance and Performing Arts and the Rochester City Ballet. She graduated cum laude from The University of Akron with a BFA in Dance Performance. After working for almost a decade as a Dancer and Dance Captain for Carnival Cruise Lines Entertainment, Gabrielle earned her MFA in Dance/Choreography from The University of Arizona. As an Assistant Professor in the Dance Program at Central Washington University she teaches a wide variety of technique and theory courses to Dance Majors and Minors. Prior to moving to Ellensburg, WA she taught at private studios in New York, Washington, Ohio, and Arizona, and has set work and been an instructor at The University of Arizona, Pima Community College, and Pacific Lutheran University. Her research has been presented as part of various conferences including; the National Dance Education Organization, the International Association of Dance Medicine and Science, and the Dance Science and Somatics Educators conference. Most recently Gabrielle co-founded Ellensburg Dance Collective with Michael Blue. Their work will be seen in May 2019 at the Converge Dance Festival. 🔥 DON’T MISS IT. July 13, 7:30pm, Broadway Performance Hall. Tickets coming soon.
DANCE EDUCATORS IN PERFORMANCE SPOTLIGHT: @nlobuzz and @emmmastarrr 🔥 Nicole holds a BFA in Modern Dance from Ohio University. After performing and choreographing in Pittsburgh, PA and Tucson, AZ, she transplanted to Seattle, which she has called home for twelve years. She founded The Asterisk Project and co-choreographed and produced work for Manifold Motion, both interdisciplinary, collaborative dance companies that produced multiple evening length works as well as performed in festivals such as Seattle International Dance Festival, Art on the Fly, Arts In Nature, Artopia, and Siteworks. She has been a choreographer in residence for Velocity Dance Center’s Bridge Project, Walrus Performance Productions, and The Cabiri Aerial Dance Group. As a performer, she has danced locally and internationally with Locate Performance Group (Pablo Cornejo), OTO Dance (Annie Bunker), Attack Theater (Michelle de la Reza and Peter Kope) and Junction Dance Theater (Melanie Miller.) Nicole is an instructor and directs the Modern Dance Department at All That Dance in Seattle, teaching contemporary, partnering, improvisation and composition to teenage dancers. She was a presenter at the National Dance Education Organization Conference in October 2018, speaking on Fostering Identity and Artistry Through Improv in the Teenage Dancer. She is also a 200 hour certified yoga instructor currently teaching at Omculture in Seattle. Finally, but often firstly, she is a mom to her three year old daughter, Azalea. 🔥 Emma Klein will be joining Nicole! 🔥 DON’T MISS IT. July 13, 7:30pm, Broadway Performance Hall. Tickets coming soon.
DANCE EDUCATORS IN PERFORMANCE SPOTLIGHT: @hannah_and_moves 🔥 Hannah Andersen, MFA, Certified Pilates Instructor, is Lead Dance Faculty and PE Faculty at Whatcom Community College. She was the recipient of the 2017 “Doug Risner Prize for an Emerging Scholar,” and has presented research intertwining pedagogy, somatics, and dance science at NDEO, IADMS, and DSSE. She received the 2017 Outstanding Graduate Student in Dance, 2016 Dean’s Fellowship, and 2015 NDEO Graduate Student Award while serving as Teaching Fellow from 2014-2017 at University of Oregon. She dances and choreographs for Bellingham Repertory Dance, and is Artistic Director and choreographer of Hannah Andersen Dance providing quarterly workshops for the NW region including "pr(axis): an immersion into contemporary dance practices." Recent guest artist residencies include Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival, North Star Ballet, Gonzaga University, and Allegheny College. 🔥 DON’T MISS IT. July 13, 7:30pm, Broadway Performance Hall. Tickets coming soon.
IT’S NOT TOO LATE TO APPLY TO PRESENT AT OUR FALL CONFERENCE! Deadline Extended to May 31. Get those proposals in! Link in bio. 🔥
DEAW’s fundraiser performance is coming up fast! Watch this space for performer bios and ticket information and save the date for July 13, 7:30pm, Broadway Performance Hall. • Featuring performances by: Nicole Lobuzzetta (pictured) & Emma Klein Hannah Andersen Dance Liz Borromeo Gabrielle McNeillie Colette Tornow & Nichol LeBeau Ciara McCormack Greenwalt Jennifer Haywood Arc Dance Company Arc School of Ballet Kaleidoscope Dance Company
New York City is gaining Nico Tower, which means DEAW will need a new Director of Digital Media come July! • Do you have experience with graphic design/web design? Do you want to be a part of an organization that supports dance educators across the state? Please let us know if you're interested or know someone that you could nominate! Official call for applications coming soon.
THERE’S STILL TIME! Submit your proposal to present at our 2019 conference. • Know someone who would be an awesome presenter? Tag them! They don’t have to be a dance educator in order to share their body knowledge with us. 🙌 Who do you know in your community that we should hear from?
Kaleidoscope Dance Company performs this weekend! This company of dancers aged 7-17 will WOW you. Don’t miss it. • #Repost @creativedancecenterseattle with @get_repost ・・・ Mother’s Day Weekend. Kaleidoscope dancers, ages 7-17, perform with truthfulness and authenticity. Kaleidoscope in Concert provides a space for youth to be heard and seen. #childrendancing #moderndance #collaborativeart #seattledance @mayasoto22 @noelle.price7 @michaelpgalen @melissansanderson @izzi_bean @thatgreatphoto @3lla.sm
Don’t miss @intrepidusdance ! Many dance educators are performing with Intrepidus, including DEAW’s VP @cnawahi ! • #Repost @intrepidusdance with @get_repost ・・・ Intrepidus Dance presents Dénouement May 17th & 18th. Tickets on sale now—link in bio.
WORKSHOP ALERT! This Sunday at the Creative Dance Center in Seattle. Don’t miss Bill Evans’ Somatics-Based Workshop! DM for more info. 🤩
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National Dance Education Organization