Deborah

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Deborah

A little bit of everything for the student who wants a “leg up” on preparing for the performing arts or just likes variety, Deborah brings her extensive dance and stage performance knowledge to the Dance Evolutions Musical Theatre class. With the foremost goal of instilling and encouraging self esteem, experience, and confidence while performing on stage, the class will become skilled at theatre dance movement, basic music and singing skills, stage dialect, and developing vocal stage presence through varieties of scene presentation, pantomime, improvisation, and children’s theatre games. We will explore exercises for developing acting skills, while learning theatre terms which aid in all aspects of dance and performing on stage.

Deborah has been performing since age 3 and continues to bring her love of dance & musical theatre experience to Dance Evolutions. Originally from the Chicago area, her dance background includes ballet, Pointe, jazz, tap, toe tap en Pointe, hip hop, modern, and lyrical dance. Deborah attended Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, pursuing a Bachelor of Arts degree in Dance and Theatre Performance. She has studied with renowned Jazz greats Gus Giordano, Buster Cooper, & Matt Maddox; Modern artists Alvin Ailey & Erick Hawkins; Ballet legends Alexandra Danilova, Royes Fernandez, David Howard, Doug Wassell, & Starr Danias, Hip Hop choreographers & performers, George Hublela (Geo), & Marty Dew; and American Ballet Theater and Broadway performing artists Ralph & Judy Aldene Linn who danced the original choreography of George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Michael Kidd, and Agnes DeMille.

After moving to Florida to pursue a professional dance career as a headliner in “Hello Vegas” a Cabaret show, Deborah was head dance captain, teacher, and choreographer of the now defunct, Suncoast Ballet Theatre and the New York School of Ballet & Dance Arts from 1984 to 1998located in Pinellas and Pasco Counties.

Deborah began her musical theatre career as choreographer in Midwest community theatres and is currently a guest choreographer and performer at the Richey Suncoast Theatre, New Port Richey. Her recent choreography credits include Fame, Music Man, & multiple Pasco Christmas shows and was bestowed with Richey Suncoast Theatre’s award as Best Choreographer for Fame. Deborah has also performed and held leads in the musicals Chess, Anything Goes, Fiddler on the Roof, Stepping Out, George M, Mame, My Fair Lady, & Plain and Fancy, and the drama, The Bad Seed.

Deborah is the Controller & Accountant at Timber Greens Community Association & Country Club, New Port Richey.

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