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Dance Studio Teaching & Choreography Experience

  • The Dance Effect Performing Arts Center (2022-present)

  • The Conservatory of Music and Dance (2022-present)

  • Synergy Dance Center (2019-2022)

  • Shannon Carney Dance Academy (2019-2021)

  • Community Arts Norristown (2019)

  • Adrenaline Dance Factory (2018-2019)

  • Releve Dance Academy (2017-2018)

  • The Conservatory of Music and Dance (2016-2020)

  • Shannon Plessl School of Dance (2016-2017)

  • Cedar Crest College Private Dance Instructor (2015-2016)

Performance History

  • Anne-Marie Mulgrew and Dancers Co. (Professional Dancer from 2017-2019) 

  • Rock on Pointe Dance Company (Professional Dancer from 2017-2019) 

  • Valley Forge Dance School (Professional Principal Dancer in the Nutcracker from 2016-2019)

  • Blanca Huertas-Agnew MFA Thesis Dance Concert (Professional Dancer in 2019)

  • Guest Performer with Nickerson-Rossi Dance  (2018) 

  • Allegory Dance Theatre (Guest  Performer in 2017)

  • AJ Harper Dance Project (Professional Dancer 2017) 

  • Ujima Dance Theatre (Professional Dancer from 2016-2017) 

  • Beyond Dance Company (Professional Dancer in 2016) 

  • Monarch Dance Company (Professional Dancer from 2015-2016) 

  • Paid Demonstrator for Cedar Crest College Dance Scholarship Audition (2016) 

  • Lehigh Valley Dancers (Professional Dancer from 2014-2015)

  • Flowers and Snow in "The Nutcracker" with The Ballet Guild of the Lehigh Valley (2013)

  • Ballet Solo in Saints Simon and Jude Christmas Pageant (2007-2015)

Education

2012-2016

Cedar Crest College

1997-2012

The Dance Center

Summer Intensives, Awards & Certifications

Graduated in 2016 with a B.A. in Dance and a B.A. in Media Studies

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Alissa was a member of the Cedar Crest College Dance Company, performed and choreographed in student dance concerts, and performed in musicals all four years of attending Cedar Crest College. She has attended ACDA (American College Dance Association) regional conferences in 2015 and 2016. She performed at the informal dance concert at ACDA Brockport with 3 other dancers and had a featured role.

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Leadership Positions:

  • President of Alpha Psi Omega (2015-2016)

  • Vice President of Nu Delta Alpha (2015-2016)

  • Historian of Alpha Psi Omega (2014-2015)

  • Trip Committee Chair for Buskin Society (2014-2016)

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Courses:

  • Dance Pedagogy

  • Dance Composition

  • Dance History

  • Dance as a Medium

  • Jazz I, II, III, IV

  • Modern I, II, III, IV

  • Ballet I, II

  • Ballet II, IV, V (cross registered with Muhlenberg College

  • Pointe and Variations (cross registered with Muhlenberg College

  • Beginner Tap

  • History of Theatre

  • Improvisation

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The Dance Center is committed to excellence.  Whether you are pursuing a professional dance career or wish to study dance at the university level, the entire faculty at The Dance Center provides consistent, individual attention to each student, encouraging achievement and progress toward their goals. We offer each and every dancer careful guidance starting in our Children's Division and Elementary Division training young dancers with caring, age-appropriate lessons through a comprehensive, classical curriculum.  Our Pre-Professional Division is a rigorous, performance-based program backed by daily technique classes in Classical Ballet and Contemporary Dance.

https://www.thedancecenter.org/

Performed with the Brandywine Ballet from 2007-2012

https://www.brandywineballet.org/

 

Certifications:

  • Youth Protection Advoctes in Dance Safety & Wellness Certification (Awarded in 2022)

  • Online CPR/AED and First Aid Combo Course (Awarded in 2020)

 

Awards:

  • Carol Welton Kelly Dance Award for Movement Studies (Awarded in 2016 by Cedar Crest College

  • Promising Artist Award (Awarded as a scholarship from the University of the Arts in 2013

  • Dance Scholarship (Awarded 2012 through 2016 by Cedar Crest College)

  • High School Achievement Scholarship (Awarded  2012 through 2016 by Cedar Crest College)

  • Burklyn Ballet Summer Intensive Scholarship (Awarded in 2011 by the Burklyn Ballet)

  • Bishop Shanahan High School Academic Scholarship (Awarded in 2008 by Bishop Shanahan High School)

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Summer Intensives Attended:

  • American Ballet Theatre Collegiate Dance Intensive (2015)

  • Joffrey Ballet School Summer Intensive (2011)

  • Brandywine Ballet (2007-2010)

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