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President
Denise Rapp
Arcadia High School
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Secretary
Lynn Monson
Carmel Community High School
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Treasurer
Kelli Abramovich
Washington High School
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Member at Large
April Leher
Ironwood High School
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Denise
studied with Virginia Tanner at the “Children’s Dance Theater” in Salt
Lake City, Utah from the age of 7. She earned her BA in Modern Dance
from the University of Utah and an M.Ed in Dance Education from ASU. She
has taught dance at the high school level and as a guest artist at the
elementary level for over 20 years. She is currently in her 5th
year teaching dance at Arcadia High School and is director of the
Arcadia Dance Company. Denise is the President of the Arizona Dance
Education Organization and serves on the Board of the National Dance
Education Organization as the State Affiliate Representative and as
southwest representative on the Board of Dance and the Child
International. In addition, Denise was selected as a member of the
planning/writing team that revised the Arizona Dance Standards in
2005-06. A lifelong student she recently completed a second summer with
Anne Green Gilbert in Seattle Washington at the Teachers Intensive
Workshop which focuses on “Brain Compatible Dance Education”. In the
future, she hopes to share her love and knowledge of integrating dance
into language arts, science, social studies and math curriculums with
elementary classroom teachers. |
| Lynn
completed Hartford Ballet’s Teacher Training Certificate Program in
1975, and began her teaching career co-directing a branch school for
Hartford Ballet. Over the years, she has taught dance to all ages at a
variety of organizations. She studied Labanotation at the Dance Notation
Bureau and is a certified Labanotation teacher. She completed a BA in
Dance at ASU and performed with the Thursday in the Dark Dance Co.
At Carmel Community Arts & Technology Charter school, Lynn worked as the
Director of Arts Education and Community Performance, Operations Manager
and Executive Director. At Carmel, Lynn was able to connect and expand
her dance expertise to the other arts and K-12 education. Lynn was a
member of the team that wrote the Performance Objectives for the Arizona
Dance Standards in 1997 and a member of the planning/writing team to
revise the Arizona Dance Standards in 2005-06. She is a member of the
Dance Notation Bureau, International Council of Kinetography Laban,
National Dance Education Organization, a board member of the Arizona
Alliance for Arts Education and served on the board of the Arizona Dance
Arts Alliance. Lynn was instrumental in the formation of the Arizona
Dance Education Organization (AzDEO), and serves as secretary on the
charter board. |
| Kelli
is currently a member of the board and the
treasurer for the Arizona Dance Education Organization. Kelli received
a BA in Secondary Education with an emphasis in Mathematics and Dance
from the College of Santa Fe, and a MA in Secondary Education with an
emphasis in Counseling from Northern Arizona University. She has been a
high school teacher at Washington High School in Phoenix for the past 11
years. She is going on her 8th year as the dance teacher. Kelli has
been involved in both cheer and dance for over 20 years. She has taught
dance at the community college level as well as high school. She has
attended numerous workshops and conferences both in Phoenix and New York
and is attending this year's NDEO conference in Long Beach, California.
Kelli is very excited about being on the board and learning more about
dance and all the great dance teachers in Arizona. |
| April
earned a BFA in Dance from Arizona State University in
1991, and went on to earn a MEd in Educational Leadership from
Northern Arizona University. April performed with Movement Source Dance
Company for 9 years, and was a dance instructor for 4 years at Peoria
High School before moving to Ironwood High School where she has taught
for 10 years. She is currently the Performing Arts chair at Ironwood.
April's accomplishments include serving as a mentor, director, program
coordinator, website designer, spokesperson and dance educator. April
has designed innovative curriculum focusing on self-examination, peer
assessment and group/class inquiry strategies in the choreographic
process. In addition to writing curriculum for her school district and
the state, extracurricular work has included serving as a member of the
team that revised the Arizona's Department of Education K-12 Dance
Standards in 2005-06. April's passion and commitment are clear in her
philosophical statement. "I believe my purpose is not necessarily to
create great technicians but to give students the amazing experience of
dance - movement, expression, exploration of self, team work and
creativity. I love watching students discover their own voice through
movement and choreography. I love discovering my own creativity as I
observe my students and get fabulous new ideas from them." April serves
as a member at large representative on the AzDEO charter board. |
| Karen Schupp
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a performer, choreographer and educator in a variety of dance
forms. Karen is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Department of
Dance at Arizona State University where she teaches technique
and theory courses in both the MFA and BFA programs. She has
performed and toured with Victoria Marks, Mary Fitzgerald, A
Ludwig Dance Theatre and Fred Darsow; choreographs and performs
her own work in festivals such as the Cool New York Dance
Festival, the d.u.m.b.o. dance festival and the Arizona Dance
Festival; and has worked with international digital artist
Christian Zeigler in the development of Dance Dance Revolution,
which premiered at the Zentrum fur Kunst un Mediatechnologies in
Karlsruhe, Germany. Her scholarly research has been presented at
both the National Dance Education Organization's and the
Congress on Research in Dance's annual conferences. Karen has
received a Lester Horton Small Ensemble Performance Award for
her dancing in Victoria Marks' Against Ending, a Devil's
Advocate Award for outstanding contribution to the ASU community
and is a 2006 ASU Wakonse Teaching Fellow. For more information
please go to
www.karenschupp.org. |
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