Meet our Fall Concert Choreographers! #ICDFALL14 Kirsten Harvey - My Side Kirsten Harvey, Assistant Professor of Jazz and Musical Theatre Dance at Western Michigan University, received her BA and MFA from the University of California, Irvine. Ms. Harvey began her dance career studying with some of the best from the School of American Ballet, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, American Ballet Theatre, The Opera National de Paris, Tremaine Dance Center, and The EDGE Performing Arts Center. She danced with the Marla Bingham Contemporary Ballet Company as a soloist and has performed professionally in numerous commercials, industrials, music videos, and movies in Los Angeles. Ms Harveys concert and commercial choreography has been featured in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Toronto and she has taught master classes around the U.S. in jazz, ballet, hip-hop, and musical theatre. Ms. Harvey has presented her research on jazz dance improvisation and teaching emotional connectivity to dancers in Germany, England, Australia, Dallas at the Jazz Dance Symposium, and at the National Dance Education Organization annual conference in Minneapolis, Los Angeles, and Miami. Most recently, the University of Florida Press in the newest jazz dance textbook titled JAZZ DANCE: A HISTORY OF ROOTS AND BRANCHES published her chapter on Jazz Dance in the Broadway Musical. She is thrilled to have been selected as the winner of the Choreographic Sponsorship Event 2013 and hopes that you enjoy My Side, a new jazz dance work created exclusively for Inaside Chicago Dance
Posted on: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 17:19:29 +0000
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