About

Grace is an educator, dancer, and creator. Her creative research and engaged scholarship focus on inclusivity, access, and the power of community, specifically related to Dance Education. Grace has taught Modern, Ballet, Pedagogy, Repertory and Ensemble, Repertory and Community Engagement, History of Western Dance Forms, Dances of the African Diaspora, among others. She has taught at Arizona State University, Front Range Community College, and now is an Assistant Professor of Dance at Colorado State University. 

Additionally, Grace has extensive experience as a guest teaching artist and choreographer in numerous contexts including guest teaching at public and private universities, community colleges, and high schools, teaching at hundreds of studios nationwide, hosting professional master classes and workshops, serving as a faculty member on a national convention, and working for two separate non-profit programs that utilize dance as an emotional outlet for underserved youth.                                                 

Grace has developed a dynamic and diverse body of work, including five original evening-length productions: There Is No Planet B, Re Late, Juxtaposition, 40 Love Letters, and CONSequence. Her choreography has been presented at a range of notable festivals and events, including the Detroit Dance City Festival (Detroit, MI), the New Century Dance Project Choreography Festival (Santa Fe, NM), and festivals across Arizona, Colorado, and Utah, including the Beta Dance Festival (Phoenix, AZ), ArtelPHX, Breaking Ground Dance Festival: 10 Tiny Dances Series (AZ), Versatility Dance Festival (CO), and the American College Dance Festival (Salt Lake City, UT).

In addition to her stage work, her dance films have been featured in the Austin Dance Film Festival and the Charlotte International Dance Film Festival, where her work received the award for Best Short Film. With over a decade of professional experience, Grace has earned more than a dozen choreographic awards. Most recently, she was honored with Colorado State University’s Emerging Community Engagement Scholarship Award and selected as one of three recipients of The Sharon Prize Colorado in 2025.

Grace holds a BFA in Dance, MFA in Dance, Graduate Certificate in Dance Teaching Artist Praxis, and a PreK-12 Dance Teaching Certification from the Arizona Department of Education. Additionally, Grace interned at Broadway Dance Center in New York City and was an Edge Performing Arts Scholar in Los Angeles.