Faculty Biographies
Department Chair
Professor Kathryn "Kitty" Daniels
Ballet, Contemporary Issues in Dance
Kitty began her professional career as a ballet dancer, performing with companies in the United States and Europe. She continued her performing career in modern dance, performing with the Bill Evans Dance Company, Concert Dance Company of Boston, and Beth Soll and Dancers as well as numerous Seattle independent choreographers, including Pat Graney, Long Nguyen, Erin Matthiessen, and Wade Madsen. Nationally known as a teacher of ballet, modern dance, and kinesiology, she has taught at the Bill Evans Summer Institutes of Dance and Teachers Intensives, California State University Summer Arts Programs, London Contemporary Dance School, University of Washington, Boston University, Mount Holyoke College, and Walnut Hill School for the Performing Arts and has been guest company teacher to the Mark Morris Dance Group. She has been an invited presenter at conferences of the International Association for Dance Medicine and Science, the National Dance Education Organization, the National Dance Association, Not Just Any Body and Soul, Dance USA, National Association of Schools of Dance, Performing Artists Medical Association and CORPS De Ballet among others. Her articles have been published in the Journal of Dance Medicine and Science, Journal of Dance Education and Dance Teacher. Kitty has worked clinically as assistant to dance kinesiologist Karen Clippinger. She holds a BA from Goddard College and an MA in Dance Kinesiology from Lesley College. She is a member of the Council of Dance Administrators, the National Association of Schools of Dance, the National Dance Education Organization and the International Association for Dance Medicine and Science.
Core Faculty
Professor Patricia Hon (on leave Fall 2008)
Ballet, Pointe, Modern, Spanish
Pat performed extensively for 10 years with ballet companies in France, Austria, Spain, and Germany. In 1983 she received the National Endowment for the Arts' Choreographic Fellowship and since then has choreographed for the Atlanta Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet's Summer Inventions, Singapore Ballet, Ballet Concerto of Miami, Goh Ballet in Canada, Federal Ballet Company of Malaysia, Ballet Petit, and for dancers competing in the International Ballet Competitions in Jackson, Mississippi. Before coming to Cornish in 1978, she taught at the Morelli Studios in New York and in Florence, Italy. Pat began studying ballet at the age of 10 in her native Singapore and continued her studies at Rosella Hightower's Centre de Danse Classique in France. She also studied Flamenco and Classical Spanish dance in Madrid, Spain, and performed with the foremost Spanish dance company, Antonio and his Ballets of Madrid, before coming to New York to attend the Joffrey School and the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance. She has been teaching for 28 years as Professor in the Dance department at Cornish College of the Arts.
Professor Wade Madsen (on leave Fall 2008)
Modern, Composition/Improvisation, Choreography
Professor Wade Madsen has been teaching at Cornish college of the Arts for over 22 years and has premiered nearly 23 dances for the college dance company. He continues his growth as a teacher with various workshops and performances throughout the country. Wade has been producing and performing his own work with his company Wade Madsen and Dancers in Seattle since 1977. A former member of the Bill Evans Dance Company and Tandy Beal & Company, Wade has received choreographic grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts; Washington State, King County, and Seattle Arts Commissions; Artist's Trust; and Allied Arts. His work has been produced in Seattle by the Allegro! Dance Festival, On the Boards, Bumbershoot, Rockhopper Dance, and Composer/Choreographer . He has also performed with various dance groups in Seattle, including Spectrum Dance Theater, d-9 Dance Collective, DanceWorks Northwest, and Co-Motion Dance. Wade has performed, choreographed, and taught for various companies and colleges throughout the country. Wade also continues to choreograph for A Contemporary Theater (ACT), Seattle Rep, Seattle Opera and Seattle Shakespear Ensemble. His acting credits include "The Notebooks of Leonardo," co-produced with the Seattle Repertory Theatre and Chicago's Goodman Theater, as well as the films "Threshold" and "Crocodile Tears." He earned his BA from the University of New Mexico.
Associate Professor Lodi McClellan
Ballet, Dance History, Theory and Practice of Performing Arts Criticism, Teaching Methods
Lodi began her ballet training as a child with Loyce Holton at the Minnesota Dance Theatre and continued with Sydelle Gomberg, Samuel Kurkjian, Hannah Wiley, Marjorie Mussman, Jocelyn Lorenz, Flemming Halby, Kitty Daniels, and Yasuko and Emi Tokunaga. During a seventeen-year professional career in modern dance Lodi was a member of the Chamber Dance Company, the Mark Morris Dance Group, Beth Soll and Company, Llory Wilson and Dancers, and Nina Wiener and Dancers, among many other freelance artists. She has been teaching dance technique for twenty-eight years. Her teaching credits include the University of Washington, American Dance Institute, Strictly Seattle, Dance Fremont, Harvard University, Boston University, the Boston Conservatory, Emerson College, and at many private studios on both coasts. As a member of Beth Soll and Company, for three years she and other company members were Artists-in-Residence at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology choreographing on and teaching modern dance to engineers. In addition to teaching in the Cornish Dance Department for the past twelve years she has also taught Performing Arts Criticism, Integrated Studies, Animal Ethics, and Arts Censorship in the Humanities and Sciences Department. Over one hundred of her dance reviews and articles have been published by the Seattle Weekly, Eastside Week, Dance International, The International Dictionary of Modern Dance, Curve, and DanceNet, for which she also served as Co-Editor. She has researched and presented pre-performance lectures for the Chamber Dance Company, Seattle Theater Group, The Orcas Center and Cornish College of the Arts. Lodi graduated with honors from Walnut Hill School of Performing Arts and received her BA in Dance from Mount Holyoke College. She earned an MFA in Dance, specializing in dance criticism, from the University of Washington. Her professional membership includes The Dance Critics Association and The Society of Dance History Scholars.
Assistant Professor Michele Miller
Modern, Modern Partnering, Teaching Methods
After teaching at and managing Dance Space Center, (now Dance New Amsterdam) in New York, Miller moved to Seattle to join the Pat Graney Company. With her business partner KT Niehoff she began Velocity Dance Center in 1996 where she remained on the Board of Directors until 2006. She teaches all levels of modern dance at Velocity and at Cornish College of the Arts. She spent a year as the Artist In Residence at the Hong Kong Academy for the Performing Arts where she taught dance and choreographed work on the students. Michele has spent two summers teaching at Bates Dance Festival in Maine, and has also taught at the University of Washington, the University of Montana - Missoula, the University of Oregon - Eugene, and Western Washington University - Bellingham. Michele holds a third degree black belt in Kajukenbo Kung Fu and teaches Kung Fu and Tai Chi to both dancers and martial artists. At the 2006 Gay Games in Chicago, Michele won two gold medals for forms, and in 2005 was the Women's Junior Division Grand Champion in Tai Chi at the Hong Kong Martial Arts Association competition. She is a founding member of the d9 Dance Collective, an all-women repertory company working with choreographers David Dorfman, Bebe Miller, Lisa Race, Stephanie Skura and others. Michele performed with LeGendre Performance Group from 1999 to 2004.
Professor Gérard Thêorét (on leave Fall 2008)
Ballet, Ballet Partnering, Male Technique, Jazz
Gérard is equally at home with classical and contemporary styles and has been performing, teaching, choreographing and directing theatre and dance for over 25 years. He has worked for stage, film and television and has had the pleasure of working with and learning from such world renowned directors and choreographers as Hal Prince, Agnes de Mille, Hans van Manen, John Neville, Ann Reinking, and Gillian Lynne. Career highlights include tours to Europe and the U.K. dancing Principal roles with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, acting on such stages as London's Young Vic Theatre and Canada's Stratford Festival, serving as Ballet Master for the International Opera Federation in Japan and serving as Associate Resident Director for The Phantom of the Opera for six years. He is on faculty and has been Associate Director on productions of The Banff Centre's Opera As Theatre Program. In Seattle, he has choreographed for Spectrum Dance Theatre, ARC Dance Productions and the Festival of Men In Dance of which he is also a founding member and co-producer. He directs and choreographs for Cornish Dance Theater and is an active recruiter for the Dance Department.
Professor Deborah Wolf
Modern, Composition/Improvisation, Choreography, Dance History
Deborah began her professional career performing with the State University of NewYork/Brockport professional Company in Residence. She then joined Concert Dance Company of Boston, New England's premiere modern repertory company, performing works by over 50 choreographers including Merce Cunningham, Laura Dean, Bebe Miller, and Mark Morris. In 1979 she became CDC's Resident Choreographer, creating 14 works for the repertoire, and in 1983 added the Artistic Directorship to her duties as dancer and choreographer. A recipient of a Massachusetts Artist Foundation Fellowship and seven Finalist Awards in choreography, she has also received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, several Boston arts councils and Artist Trust. She has choreographed for the Boston Ballet, the Boston Symphony Youth Concert Series, and numerous other companies. Producer and performer of her own choreography through WolfWorks, she has also been produced by Boston's Dance Umbrella, Jacob's Pillow Inside/Out Series, Choreofest, Intimate Works, Velocity's Strictly Seattle and Under Construction, Composer/Choreographer, Rockhopper Dance, the Festival of Men Dancing, On the Boards' 12 Minutes Max Mainstage and Northwest New Works Festival. Most recently she created a work for Full Tilt 2008, Evoke Productions. Other recent commissions include Lehua Dance Theater and Bellingham Repertory Dance Company. Deborah has served on the Board of Directors of d9 Dance Collective, and Velocity Dance Center. Deborah received a BA in Dance from State University of New York at Brockport. She has been on the Cornish faculty since 1992.
Adjunct Faculty
Adjunct Instructor Amma Anang
African Dance
Amma is co-founder of Ocheami, a West African Music and Dance Ensemble. She has studied in Ghana and performed throughout the US and Canada. She has spent the last six years as a Student Programs Supervisor at Edmonds Community College, along with her work at Cornish. Amma holds a BA in Drama/Dance and Black Studies and an MFA in Dance from Mills College.
Adjunct Instructor Byron Au Yong
Music for Dancers
Byron Au Yong creates ceremonial musical events scored for Asian, European, and hand-made instruments. His multidisciplinary projects have been featured in concert, festival, and site-specific locations as diverse as the Hochschule fur Musik und Theater Hamburg, Tokyo Art Museum, and Jeonju Sanjo Festival. Byron has collaborated with six taiko (Japanese drum) groups and has taught music to performers in Los Angeles, New York, Penang, Seattle, and Tokyo. He holds an MFA from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, an MA from the Department of World Arts and Cultures at UCLA, and a BA/BM from the University of Washington. Visit HearByron.com to learn more about his music.
Adjunct Instructor Steve Casteel
Men's Technique
Steve Casteel was born in Tacoma, WA and received his early training from Jan Column School of Classic Ballet. At age sixteen Steve joined Boston Ballet II. In 1987, Steve became a member of Houston Ballet where he was promoted to soloist and performed many of the great classical works such as Swan Lake, Don Quixote, Coppélia, and Cinderella. With Houston Ballet, he performed works by such renowned choreographers as Christopher Bruce, Jirí Kylián, Sir Kenneth McMillan, Ben Stevenson, and Paul Taylor. In addition, he has performed with Diablo Ballet, Oregon Ballet Theatre, Next Stage Dance Theatre, and Spectrum Dance Theatre. Locally, Steve has danced in works by Kay Englert, Dominique Gabella, Amii LeGendre, Wade Madsen, Dale Merrill, Crispen Spaeth and Deborah Wolf. From 1997 to 1999 he worked for Washington Contemporary Ballet in Tacoma as Assistant to the Director. In 2001, Steve received his Bachelors of Fine Arts degree in dance from Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle WA. In 2004, he received his Masters of Fine Arts from the University of Arizona in Tucson AZ. From 2004 to 2006 Steve was the Public Relations Coordinator for Next Stage Dance Theatre. Steve has taught at Bainbridge Dance Center (Bainbridge Island), Berkeley Ballet Theater (Berkeley CA), Cornish Preparatory Dance Program (Seattle), Dance Fremont (Seattle), Spectrum Dance Theater (Seattle), and The University of Washington (Seattle).
Adjunct Instructor Carla Corrado
Kinesiology, Movement Foundations, Conditioning
Carla holds a BS in Physical Therapy from the University of Washington (1989) and a BA in English with a minor in Dance from the University of Rochester. In addition to teaching at Cornish, Carla serves as Cornish's on-site physical therapist in the dance department. Carla has been a licensed massage practitioner since 1980 and was one of the founding coop members of New Seattle Massage. She previously worked at Seattle Sports Medicine clinic as well as backstage and on tour as a physical therapist for Pacific Northwest Ballet. A former dancer who studied ballet, modern, low flying trapeze, Skinner Releasing and contact improvisation, Carla has choreographed and performed in Seattle with various independent artists. Carla is a member of the American Physical Therapy Association and the International Association of Dance Medicine and Science.
Adjunct Instructor John Dixon
Creative Foundations, Composition/Improvisation
John Dixon has been engaged in somatic research via improvisation, choreography, teaching and performance since 1985. His choreography and collaborative projects have been presented at numerous venues locally as well as in Texas, New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C. John has performed nationally and internationally with Kei Takei's Moving Earth, Stephanie Skura's Cranky Destroyers, and the Seattle based dance-theater company 33 Fainting Spells, and locally with the collaborative improvisation ensemble ROOM. He has taught creative process and modern and improvisational technique classes in residencies at Temple University, Texas Women's University, Naropa Institute/Halifax, The University of Washington and Luther College as well as at The Seattle Festival of Alternative Dance and Improvisation and Velocity Dance Center/Seattle. John is a licensed massage practitioner and received his MFA in Dance, specializing in Experiential Anatomy, from the University of Washington in 2002.
Adjunct Instructor Meg Fox
Lighting Design for Dance, Technical Production for Dance
Meg has been designing lights for dance and theatre for over 20 years. In Seattle, she has worked with every major modern choreographer and company. Although her first love is dance based work, she has also designed lights for many of the major houses in Seattle along with many new performance works. She has toured nationally and abroad with Urban Bush Women, and The Pat Graney Company, among others. Her work has also been commissioned by the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. She is currently working with Sonia Dawkins on a piece for Pacific Northwest Ballet that will premiere in Seattle in the spring of 2007.
Shirley Jenkins
Tap
Shirley Jenkins received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Utah, majoring in Modern Dance with an emphasis in Performance, Choreography and Teaching. Immediately following her graduation in 1975 she was asked to be a founding member of the celebrated Bill Evans Dance Company. She toured nationally with BEDCo as a principal dancer and partner with Bill Evans an average of 42 weeks a year through the Dance Touring Program via the National Endowment for the Arts. This extensive touring took her to the Kennedy Center, NYC, Spoleto Festival in Charleston, Arco Sante, Chicago, San Francisco, LA, Boston, Baltimore, Phoenix, Las Vegas, San Diego, Bloomington, Ames, Portland, Minneapolis, Anchorage, and many and rural communities throughout the entire US, including Alaska and Hawaii. Jenkins eventually formed her own company, Strong Wind Wild Horses, and her choreography collaborated with many musicians, including Denny Goodhew, James Knapp, Scott Cossu, Michael Cava, Mark Seals, Steve Kim, Tom Bergersen, Fred West, the Kinetics and many others. Ms. Jenkins also founded a nonprofit organization, Dance On Capitol Hill, for the Seattle community. As Artistic Director, she developed dance education programs for the novice to the professional, a performance venue featuring local and international choreographers and a home for her dance company. Ms. Jenkins also established outreach programs by producing summer dance camps for homeless children. Shirley was an Artist-In-Residence at scores of universities and dance communities throughout the U.S., as well as internationally. Her choreographic/teaching/performing residencies included the University of Washington, Cornish College of the Arts, American Dance Festival, Bill Evans Summer Institutes of Dance, Penn State, University of Alabama, Middlebury College, Tennessee Arts Council, Columbia College, Kentucky Out-Reach Programs and international festivals in Bonn, Germany and Taipei, Taiwan. During her career as primarily a 'classical modern' dancer, Ms. Jenkins performed and continued to hone her tap skills. Performing solos of Brenda Bufalino and many duets by and with Bill Evans. Ms. Jenkins continues to choreograph for local Washington companies and soloists. She currently teaches a Modern & Rhythm Tap Class for the community and is a well-respected Pilates Instructor specializing in athletic injury.
Adjunct Instructor Vivian Little
Ballet
Vivian Little was an original member of Pacific Northwest Ballet and performed as a principal at the company under the direction of Melissa Hayden, Janet Reed and Todd Bolender from 1974-1977. She performed as a soloist with San Francisco Ballet under the direction of Lew Christensen and Michael Smuin from 1977-81. After her performing career she taught ballet classes, worked as the ballet mistress and choreographed for El Ballet Municipal de Lima, Peru. Vivian has taught ballet classes for over twenty years at Walnut Hill Performing Art School in Natick, Massachussetts; Pacific Northwest Ballet School and as a Guest Lecturer in the University of Washington Dance Department. She founded Dance Fremont! in September 1996 and currently co-directs and choreographs for the Dance Fremont! based performing company, Fremont Danceworks.
Adjunct Instructor Tonya Lockyer
Choreography, Movement Analysis
Tonya began her professional career as a performer with Contemporary Dancers Canada, then danced in New York and Boston performing the work of Donald Byrd, Merce Cunningham, Charles Moulton, Joanna Mendl Shaw, and numerous independent choreographers. She also worked as a Principal Dancer and Rehearsal Director for Paula Josa-Jones. In 1999 she founded VIA, a Dance/Theater company dedicated to collaborating with artists from diverse cultural and artistic backgrounds. She has performed her work at venues and festivals in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Russia and received numerous awards including two residencies at Banff Centre for The Arts, and grants from Arts International, The Canada Council, and The Seattle Arts Commission among others. She has choreographed for dance and opera companies and colleges here and abroad. She has taught modern technique, improvisation and movement analysis at Emerson College, The University of Washington, The Bates Dance Festival, Strictly Seattle, and The Seattle Festival of Alternative Dance and Improvisation. She has been an Artist-in-Residence at The University of Maryland and The University of Calgary and has taught master classes locally, nationally and internationally. Tonya is a graduate of The School of The Toronto Dance Theater and studied at the studios of Merce Cunningham, Martha Graham, Limon, and Movement Research. She is a Certified Laban Movement Analyst. Her articles have been published in Contact Quarterly and Nouvelles de Danse (Brussels).
Adjunct Instructor Tim Lynch
Ballet
Tim Lynch is from Long Island, New York. Trained on full scholarship at The School of American Ballet, Mr. Lynch joined PNB as an apprentice in 1993 and was promoted to full company member in 1994, retiring at the end of the 2002-03 season. Mr. Lynch began working with PNB's Education and Outreach program in 2001, teaching and choreographing for the REACH Student Performance Group and joined the faculty in 2003. Mr. Lynch holds a BFA in Dance from Cornish College of the Arts.
Adjunct Instructor Christina McNeil
Ballet, Jazz
Christy holds a BFA in Dance from Cornish where she was the recipient of a Kreielsheimer Scholarship. Her performance credits include Interweave Dance Theatre (Boulder, CO), Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines (Dance Captain/Company Manager), and many guest spots for colleges and other shows. She has held faculty or guest teaching positions at Cornish, Community Colleges (Shoreline, Bellevue, Riverside), Interlochen High School for the Performing Arts, Sammamish High School, and many schools and studios around the northwest. Dance choreography credits include: Cornish Dance Theater, Riverside Community College, Interweave Dance Theatre, ARC Dance, En L'air Dance, Full Tilt and Westlake Dance Center. Theater choreography credits include: several Cornish Theater department productions, Taproot Theatre, Theater Schmeater and Strike Anywhere Productions.
Adjunct Instructor KT Niehoff
Choreography
KT Niehoff is the recipient of three Seattle Arts Commission Individual Artist awards, a 2001 Seattle Artist Trust Fellow and a 2006 Choreographic Fellow at the Maggie Allessee National Center for Choreography at Florida State University. She holds a BFA from New York University. Since 1998, the major platform for her work has been with her company of collaborating artists, Lingo, with which she has created five full-length dance theater works and numerous short works. As of late, her curiosities surround shifting the entry point of how the public interfaces with dance. She is interested in environments outside the limitations of proscenium-based performance, such as art "events" including food, drink, gathering and dancing, museum installations, film work and one on one encounters in urban, public settings. Lingo has been presented internationally in Canada, Japan, Ecuador and Cuba and nationally by venues including On the Boards, Joyce SoHo, Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Inside/Out, The Southern Theater in Minneapolis, SUSHI performance gallery in San Diego, and Vanderbilt University, among others. The company's artistic integrity has been recognized by such institutions as The National Endowment for the Arts, The National Dance Project, The National Performance Network, Meet the Composer and Arts International. As a teacher, Niehoff has taught contemporary technique and composition world wide at institutions including The SNDO (Amsterdam), Oberlin College (Ohio), Estudio 3 (Madrid), The Hong Kong Academy of the Performing Arts and New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. From 1996-2006 Niehoff was the co-founder and director of Velocity Dance Center in Seattle.
Adjunct Instructor Jason Ohlberg
Modern
Originally from Fresno, CA, Jason received his formal dance training at the State University of New York at Purchase. Professionally, Jason has danced with Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Dance Kaleidoscope, Jan Erkert and Dancers, and Wade Madsen and Dancers. In 1997, Jason founded Same Planet Different World Dance Theater in Chicago where he acted as artistic director and head choreographer for four years. Jason's choreography has been seen throughout the country and locally on the apprentice company of Spectrum Dance Theater, Men in Dance, Lehua Dance Theater, Cornish Dance Theater, The Seattle Children's Theater and Arc Dance Productions. Jason has been on faculty at Barat College, Jordan Academy, the school of Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, the University of Washington, Spectrum Dance Theater, Arc Dance Productions, Dance Fremont and the Y.A.I. program of the Seattle Children's Theater. Jason is a certified authentic Pilates instructor with Metropolitan Pilates in Seattle.
Adjunct Instructor Becci Parsons
Feldenkrais, Movement Foundations
Becci Parsons is a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitionercm and dancer with over 35 years experience in the movement arts. She holds a BA in Dance from the University of Washington and has performed locally with Llory Wilson, Pat Graney, Jeff Bickford and a host of gifted independent choreographers. Her inspiring teachers include Bill Evans, Kitty Daniels, Mark Morris, Sharon Kinney, Peggy Hackney and Stewart Dempster. In addition to a part-time faculty position in the Dance Department at Cornish, Becci teaches community Awareness Through Movement® classes, BackSense workshops and maintains a private practice in Seattle. A former regional representative for the Feldenkrais Guild of North America, Becci facilitates study groups and mentoring programs for local practitioners and students in training programs. Her work is dedicated to the mindful exploration of human vitality, grace and elegance through the study of "self in motion."
Adjunct Instructor Paula J. Peters
Ballet
Ms. Peters received her early training in ballet, modern, jazz and tap (Royal Academy of Dancing method) at British Dance Academy in Renton, WA under the direction of Sandra Baca. In October of 1991 she joined Spectrum Dance Theater (Seattle, WA) as an apprentice and immediately moved on to become a full company member. In addition to performing with Spectrum, she served as the rehearsal director from 1998 to 2005, retiring from the organization in 2005. With SDT Ms. Peters performed lead roles in works by numerous choreographers, including Ann Reinking, Margo Sappington, Lynne Taylor-Corbett, Claire Bataille, Danny Buracezki, Daniel Ezralow, Trey McIntylre, Donald Byrd, Wade Madsen and Dale A. Merrill, touring throughout the US, Europe and Mexico. In addition to working with Spectrum she performed in local industrials and independent artist productions. She has taught as a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Washington, the Montana Dance Arts Association, and is currently on faculty at Dance Fremont, Cornish College of the Arts and Villa Academy. In addition to teaching, Ms. Peters choreographed the Junior Broadway Production of Once on This Island for Villa Academy, has created several works for Dance Fremont's Junior Company, DanceWorks, and served as rehearsal assistant to Wade Madsen for Cornish College's 2008 production of The Pajama Game. Ms. Peters received a BFA in Dance through the Professional Dancers Program at Cornish College of the Arts in 2007.
Adjunct Instructor Shelagh Regan
Pointe
Shelagh began her formal training with the Royal Ballet School in London, England. Upon returning to the United States, she danced professionally with the Houston Ballet, Pennsylvania Ballet, Virginia Beach Ballet and the Los Angeles Ballet. She toured throughout the U.S. as a Visiting Artist performing master workshops and lecture-demonstrations. Her teaching credentials include working at studios and colleges on both the east and west coasts. Shelagh directed the Preparatory Dance Program at Cornish for the past five years and has taught and choreographed in the Preparatory Program for over 20 years.