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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 5^th 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 is 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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