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, Director, School of Performing Arts, Wichita State University, Artistic Director/Choreographer, Clawson Dances

Charlotte Hart, Louisville Ballet; Ballet Nouveau Colorado (now Wonderbound); Ballet Faculty Lead, All That Dance, Seattle

Meegan Hertensteiner, Co-Founder & Co-Artistic Director, Human Creature Dance Theatre; Co-Director and RACE Dance Collective, Company Member; ODC (Oberlin Dance Collective) Youth & Teen program faculty; punkkiCo; Deborah Slater Dance Theater; Ziru Dance; Number 9 Dance Company; Cali & Co; SoulForce Dance Company; Ballet New England

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, Artistic Director Rockport Ballet Theatre; Founding Ballet Instructor, Rockport Center for the Arts, Rockport, Texas; Ballet for Texas ACE Program (Afterschool Centers on Education); Any Given Child Program (Kennedy Center) Austin, Texas; Artist in Residence Texas A&M University-College Station Dance Department; Adjunct in Ballet, Texas State University Theatre & Dance; ZACH Theatre Performing Arts School (Austin); Lecturer (Ballet) OU School of Dance, company member Ballet West

Melissa Schoenfeld, Retired Executive Director Western Arkansas Ballet; Current Outreach Programs at Arkansas Colleges of Health Education Research Center Health and Wellness Center

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

Maria Solera, MFA Dance

Christa St. John, Associate Professor of Ballet, Ballet Program Coordinator, and Artist Director of Repertory Ballet Ensemble at Utah Valley University

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