MFA Alumni

Christina Ackley, teacher & Ballet Mistress, North Shore Performing Arts Center; Owner, Soul Movement Pilates; Founder, Bellybeat Dance Company

Carol Anglin, adjudicator, Regional Dance America Southeast

Joshua Barr, Educational Programs Coordinator, Texas Ballet Theater

Nikki Bybee, Director of Elementary PE & Dance, After School Programs, Renaissance Academy; Ballet West Academy faculty; Assistant Professor of Dance, Brenau University

Cheyla Clawson Chandler, Wichita State University dance faculty; Artistic Director & Choreographer, Chandler Dances (formerly Clawson Dances)

Mary Margaret Holt, Dean, Weitzenhoffer Family College of Fine Arts; John W. and Mary D. Nichols Chair of Dance; Regents’ Professor of Dance; Director, OU School of Dance (formerly the Department of Dance); Houston Ballet

Erinn King, Board member, New England Foundation for the Arts, Jose Mateo Ballet Theatre

Tye Love, Assistant Professor of Dance, Oklahoma City University School of Dance & Entertainment; Oklahoma City Ballet

Marilyn Marloff, Chief Departmental Advisor for dance majors and minors & Co-Artistic Director, Old Dominion University Dance Theatre; Dance Director, Old Dominion University

June Morfopoulos, Instructor, Pilates Studio of Pennsylvania Ballet; American College Dance Association member; Associate Professor of Dance, Allentown College; Dance Instructor, Mercyhurst College

Zahira Mous, Founder, Artistic & Executive Director, Project Zahira; Founder, Changing Lives Through Dance

Alexandra Niemeyer, Conservatory Principal & Development Manager, Lead Faculty at Colorado Conservatory of Dance; Continental Ballet Company 

Sara Pecina, Visiting Assistant Professor & Director of Dance, Berry College  

Mary Price Boday, Master Teacher, Revolutionary Principles of Movement; Founder, Artistic Director, and choreographer, Illinois Ballet; Assistant Professor and Director of Dance, Mercyhurst University; Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Illinois; ballet and modern teacher, National Academy of the Arts; Assistant Professor, Cornish College; Assistant Professor, Bradley University; Associate Professor, Ann Lacy School of American Dance and Arts Management at Oklahoma City University; ballet faculty, Oklahoma City Ballet; St. Gallen Stadt Theatre Ballet; Zurich Ballet; faculty, Harkness Ballet; teacher and choreographer, Harkness Ballet Company Number Two; Leonard Fowler Ballet Company; Larry Richardson Dance Company; Pearl Lang Dance Company; Mary Anthony Dance Theatre; Gaku Dance Company

Kathleen Redwine, Lecturer (dance history), OU School of Dance; Middle Eastern Dance Instructor; Ballet and Modern Dance Instructor, Classen School of Advanced Studies; Modern Dance Instructor, University of Leuven (Belgium); Fort Worth Ballet; Oklahoma City Metropolitan Ballet; Ballet Contemporain de Bruxelles (Brussels, Belgium)

Kristi Schaffner, Adjunct Professor & CCBC Dance Company Associate Director, Community College of Baltimore County

Holly Schmidt Waxman, Creative Learning Specialist in Movement, Austin Independent School District's Any Given Child Program (Kennedy Center); Adjunct Instructor (Ballet) Texas State University San Marcos; Movement Teacher, ZACH Theater Performing Arts School; Lecturer (Ballet), OU School of Dance

Melissa Schoenfeld, Executive Artistic Director, Western Arkansas Ballet

Amanda Seamster-Clark, Associate Professor & Dance Program Coordinator, Western Kentucky University (WKU); Artistic Director, WKU Dance Company

Rose Taylor-Spann, Children's Division Coordinator, Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet (CPYB)

Natalie Texada, Chief Academic Officer, Texas Center for Arts + Academics; Principal, Texas School of the Arts; Owner, Academy of Visual and Performing Arts, Inc.

Donna Wilson, Associate Professor of Dance & Program Director for dance minor, Southern Illinois University Carbondale; faculty advisor and artistic director, Southern Illinois Dance Company (SIDC); Martha Kalman Dance Company; dancer, choreographer, and administrator, Splash in the Fan Dance Company; Momentum Dance Company; Margaret Schuette Dance Company; Rudy Perez Dance Company; Margalite Dance Theatre; Richard Oliver & Dancers

Sarah Worden, Dance Center of Oklahoma City Ballet faculty; principal dancer, Osage Ballet; Ballet Idaho; apprentice, Alabama Ballet