Interview and Notes
Q: From your experience what do you think is the hardest and easiest thing about choreography in general?
A: The hardest part of choreography is trying to get your idea across and knowing when you achieved that. The easiest part would be the actual creation of steps. That can come out of improvisation.
Q: What is one of your favorite things about choreography?
A: One of my favorite things about choreography is being able to explore new ideas through tap dance.
Q: What styles of dance do you choreograph?
A: I choreograph many styles from ballet, hip hop, and modern dance to musical theater and tap dance. Professionally though, I choreograph tap dance.
Q: What is your favorite style of dance to choreograph and why?
A: My favorite style to choreograph is tap dance. I think in rhythms.
Q: What is one of your favorite things about teaching dance?
A: I love going on the journey along with my students. Getting to know them and learn how to relate the art form to them is a wonderful, rewarding process.
Q: What styles of dance do you teach?
A: I teach ballet, hip hop, jazz, lyrical, modern dance and tap dance. I specialize in tap dance though.
Q: What is your favorite style of dance to teach and why?
A: Tap dance would be my favorite style to teach. There is so much history in the art form and I find great joy in finding different ways for my students to connect to the history, the movement and the rhythm.
Q: What do you think is one of the most important things about teaching dance, and what do you think makes a good dance teacher?
A: The most important thing about teaching dance and what also makes a good dance teacher is getting to know your students and understanding how they should be taught. I'm also a big advocate for teachers knowing their craft inside and out so that they can pass it on enthusiastically!
Q: Every choreographer is unique in their own way. When people see a dance presentation, what unique thing(s) will they notice that will let them know that you were the choreographer?
A: One unique thing people will notice in my choreography is that it is rhythmically very closely connected to the music and that it is very interactive between the dancers. |