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 an accomplished and diverse body of work, encompassing four original evening-length works, including "CONSequence," "40 Love Letters," "Juxtaposition," and "Re-late." Additionally, her choreography has been showcased at renowned events and festivals such as Nasty Woman|Phoenix Unite, ArtelPHX, Phoenix Center for the Art's Beta Dance Festival, Breaking Ground Dance Festival: 10 Tiny Dances Series, Versatility Dance Festival, and American College Dance Festival. With over a decade of professional dance experience, Grace has earned numerous awards for her choreography, totaling over a dozen accolades. Most notably, she was recently honored with the Emerging Community Engagement Scholarship Award from Colorado State University. Her latest choreographic works are set to be showcased this fall at both the New Century Dance Project Choreography Festival in Santa Fe, NM, and the Detroit Dance City Festival in Detroit, MI.

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.