|
|
||||||||||||||||||
Dana Shackelford is a dancer, choreographer and educator and is currently an Associate Professor of Dance in the UTPA Dance Program. She holds a Bachelor's of Science degree in Dance from Texas Woman's University and a Master of Fine Arts in Dance from Arizona State University. Her career in teaching dance began in the public high schools of El Paso, Texas where she also was a principal dancer, choreographer and teacher with El Paso Contemporary Dance Theatre. Dancing in EPCDT provided Dana with many opportunities to perform lead roles in the works of such choreographers as Bill Evans, Wade Madsen, Nancy Cranbourne and Joan Laage. She also served as project director and coordinator of the El Paso Dancers Workshop in the summers of 1994 and 1995. Dana's performance experience also includes several summer concerts with Interweave Dance Theatre in Boulder, Colorado, the San Francisco's Women's Work concert in 2000 and roles in works by Wally Cardona and Melissa Rolnick. Dana’s choreographic work has been performed here at UTPA, in three American College Dance Festivals, on students at the Arizona School of Ballet, and in several adjudicated concerts at Arizona State University. Dana enjoys sharing her passion for Dance with students through her teaching of Modern and Ballet technique classes, as well as Dance Science, Dance History, Theory of Dance and Dance Appreciation. Serving as one of the three Co-artistic Directors of the UTPA Dance Ensemble, she continues her creative endeavors by setting new works on the Ensemble dancers. Her work explores and strives to stimulate a deep kinesthetic response in both participant and observer. |
||||||||||||||||||
|
|
||||||||||||||||||
