Resume
EDUCATION
B.A. in Hispanic Literature, Dance, and Art History, Summa Cum Laude, Saint Mary’s College of California, 2019.
High School Diploma, Valedictorian, Christopher High School, 2015.
AWARDS/SCHOLARSHIPS
Dance Department Scholarship - Saint Mary's College of California September 2015 - May 2019.
C. Sheridan Professional Development Grant - Saint Mary's College of California July 2018.
RELEVANT KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND TRAINING
Written and verbal communication. Public Speaking. Leadership. Organization. Event Planning. Translation (Spanish-English and English-Spanish). CPR & AED.
Technologies: MS Office Suite, Google Suite, Zoom, Salesforce, Jack Rabbit, Asana, MindBody.
WORK/VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
HeART with LINES - Teaching Artist
January 2022-Present
Collaborated with a co-teacher and in-school staff and instructors to create lessons focused on principal elements of dance, choreography and connecting that knowledge to classroom subjects for PreK-8th grade classes.
Delivered bilingual classes (Spanish & English) for emerging bilingual students.
Guided students in experimentation of choreographic tools to foster independence, artistic voice, creativity resulting in a final showing of student work in a school setting and HeART of Market.
Shawl-Anderson Dance Center Youth Program - Youth Instructor
January 2022-Present
Taught Creative Movement and Teen Modern classes with a focus on essential movement principles, somatic awareness, dynamics and qualities, and technique building blocks.
Coached pre-teen and teen students on the expressive aspects of dance and led different exercises to build artistic expression.
Shawl-Anderson Dance Center Adult Program - Adult Sub
March 2022-Present
Subbed Adult Beginning I/II Modern and Adult Beginning/Intermediate Modern on several occasions.
Guided students in somatic based warm up, targeted exercises, and a phrase focusing on transitions and qualities.
ACE Dance Academy - Dance Instructor and Ensemble Choreographer
August 2019-March 2022
Designed individualized lesson plans for 5+ classes centering somatic awareness, improvisation, technical dance skills, and honing performance qualities.
Invited to choreograph for the Ensemble Youth Group, a group of young dancers interested in pursuing dance professionally.
Led 5 camps over 2 summers for early dancers interested in foundational skills and intermediate/advanced dancers looking to expand their technique and choreographic voice.
ODC Dance Commons - Client Relations Associate - Studio Rentals
April 2021-August 2023
Communicated with artists and School departments to determine studio rental availability, scheduled bookings, and processed payments.
Maintained strong relationships with clients, instructors, and staff to support hybrid and online classes for a wide range of dancers and students through sound check, health & safety, and customer service.
AmeriCorps Reading Partners - Distance Tutoring Coordinator
August 2020-June 2021
Coordinated a portfolio of 3 schools with 48 students, 46 tutors to ensure high quality tutoring lessons were delivered consistently.
Assisted with planning and co-delivered Family Literacy workshops in Spanish to San Francisco Bay Area school communities to 18 participants.
Delivered weekly orientations to groups of 5-15 new volunteers focused on technical skill instruction and structure of the curriculum.
Provided and created key translation resources and interpretation services for coworkers and school families to ensure students receive tutoring services.
AmeriCorps Reading Partners - Site Coordinator
August 2019-May 2020
Designed individualized instructional plans for 45 elementary students based on assessment scores and progress monitoring to meet monthly literacy goals.
Coached 33 community volunteers in literacy intervention skills and provided consistent one on one tutoring to 45 elementary school students.
Planned and carried out a Family Literacy Night that gave guardians trainings on how to support their child’s reading progress through four different literacy skills stations.
Co-created a network of community volunteer translators to assist in translating student and family resources into Spanish, Arabic, and Vietnamese, among other languages.
American Alliance of International Arts, Cultures and Education, Suzhou, China - Co-Teacher
July 2019
Taught 20 7-8-year-old students basic modern and jazz dance skills and led them in choreography activities so that they could create their own movement for the musical show.
Choreographed and taught dance and movement sequences for entire class and 5 quartets for a ten-minute musical production.
Collaborated with other instructors and interpreters on multidisciplinary lesson plans that incorporated dance with music, set, and costume design in order for students to co-create the musical show at the end of the program.
East Bay School for Boys, Berkeley, CA - Volunteer Dance Instructor
February 2018-May 2018
Taught 30 middle school boys basic modern dance steps and technique.
Created and taught choreography for the 6th graders’ musical show.
Maintained a fast moving and supportive classroom environment that allowed students to find interest in dance.
Saint Mary’s College of California - Spanish Tutor
February 2018-May 2019
Provided one on one tutoring for 15+ students to improve their oral and written communication skills in Spanish by the end of the semester.
Coached 15+ students in written and oral skills to build a more in depth understanding of Spanish grammatical patterns and rules.
PERFORMING EXPERIENCE
Lenora Lee Dance – Dancer
In Visibility & Convergent Waves: EP
Dance Mission Theater – San Francisco, CA – February 2024
Andrew Merrell Slack Dance – Dancer
Something of Lasting Beauty as part of KQED’s Bay Curious Walking Arts Tour of the Grove
Aids Memorial Grove – San Francisco, CA – November 2023
Liz Duran Boubion/Piñata Dance Collective – Dancer
Cuatro Vientos: Middle of Nowhere
Joe Goode Annex – San Francisco, CA – June 2023
Highways Performance Space – Los Angeles, CA – June 2023
Davalos Dance Company – Dancer
For Gloria Saint Mary’s College of California LeFevre Theater – Moraga, CA – April 2022
Chocolate Saint Mary’s College of California LeFevre Theater – Moraga, CA – November 2021
Borders, Spaces and Brown Eyes Shawl-Anderson Dance Center – Berkeley, CA – October 2019
I am Here Site specific – Panicale, Italy – July 2018
Andrew Merrill & Randee Paufve – Collaborator, Understudy
North - Paufve Dance Four Fridays 2021 Shawl-Anderson Dance Center – Berkeley, CA – August 2021
SMC Dance Company - Member and Scholarship Recipient
Saint Mary’s College of California - September 2015 - May 2019
Performer in undergraduate program in student and faculty work, including Rogelio López, Andrew Merrill, Shaunna Vella, Jia Wu, Dana Lawton, Cathy Davalos, Byb Chanel Bibene.
Choreographed in Limbo the student show of November 2018.
Attended and performed at ACDA in 2016, 2017, and 2019.
Ballet Folklórico Guadalupano - Club Member
Saint Mary’s College of California - September 2016 - May 2019
Trained twice a week in Mexican Folk Dance and performed various pieces from Jalisco, Sinaloa, Nayarit, and Tabasco regions.
Performed in on campus events 2017, 2018, 2019.