Selected Alumni Bios

• Elizabeth McPherson

  Elizabeth McPherson,Ph.D. 2006, Assistant Professor and Coordinator of the BA in Dance Education at Montclair State University, received a BFA from Juilliard, followed by an MA from The City College of New York, and a Ph.D. from New York University. She has been a faculty member of Long Island University-Brooklyn campus, Fieldston Lower of The Ethical Culture Fieldston School, The City College of New York and NYU. Dr. McPherson has written the book The Contributions of Martha Hill to American Dance and Dance Education, 1900-1995 as well as articles and reviews for various publications including  Dance Teacher Magazine, Ballet-Dance Magazine, and Ballet Review.
  
  She enjoys staging historical dance works such as Helen Tamiris' Negro Spirituals and Yvonne Rainer's "Chair Pillow Dance" from Continuous Project Altered Daily. In the 1990s, Dr. McPherson performed across the country with Avodah Dance Ensemble, was also a member of Ernesta Corvino's Dance Circle Company, and appeared with The Louis Johnson Dance Theatre. She is currently working on a new book with the working title: Personal Reflections on the Bennington School of the Dance.

• Clarence McDorman
  Clarence McDorman is a 2010 graduate of the ABT Ballet Pedagogy concentration.  Upon graduation, he assumed the Ballet Director position for the private studio Dance Vision in Des Moines, Iowa, where he successfully presented intermediate-level ballet students for ABT Examinations.  In August 2010, he joined Ballet Academy of Texas as a full-time faculty member teaching intermediate and advanced ballet technique, men's ballet, pointe, and pas de deux.  In September 2010, in collaboration with Ballet Academy of Texas director Lisa Slagle, he launched a daytime training program for home-schooled students residing in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex who aspire toward careers as professional ballet dancers.  He is Ballet Master for the Ballet Ensemble of Texas and is performing character roles in Nutcracker and Swan Lake Act II for their 2010/2011 season.  Clarence also serves as an adjunct ballet teacher for The School for Classical and Contemporary Dance at Texas Christian University for the 2010/2011 school year.  In January 2011, he will be instructing the Dallas/Fort Worth audition classes for the ABT National Audition Tour.   While attending NYU Steinhardt, Clarence discovered an interest in ballet history and hopes to teach it someday
• Stephanie Milling
  Stephanie Milling, M.A. 2002, completed a Ph.D. in Dance and an M.A. in Women's Studies from Texas Woman's University in 2007. While completing her graduate work at TWU, she designed and taught face-to-face and online courses in the Department of Dance and Women's Studies Program. Stephanie also worked as a part-time lecturer at Texas Christian University, as an adjunct at University of North Texas, and as a company teacher for Dallas Black Dance Theatre I and II. Stephanie is currently an Assistant Professor of Dance Education at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, South Carolina.  She has served on several boards for professional organizations including the South Carolina Dance Association (current president), The South Carolina Dance Education Organization, and the Charlotte Dance Festival.
• Andrea Seidel
  Andrea Mantell Seidel, Doctorate of Art, Dance Education, 1985, recepient of the National Dance Education Organization 2007 Visionary Award, is the founding director of the Intercultural Dance and Music Institute housed in the Latin American and Caribbean Center at Florida International University, and a tenured associate professor of dance in the Department of Dance. Additionally, she serves as executive director of DanceArts Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization supporting historic dance preservation; trustee of pioneer modern dance choreographer Eleanor King's choreographic legacy; and as artistic director of the critically acclaimed Isadora Duncan Dance Ensemble. Dr. Seidel has lectured, presented papers, and performed as a soloist in the work of King and Duncan at prestigious national and international conferences and festivals throughout the US, Canada, Latin America, Russia, Europe, and Asia, including the Internationales Tanzfestival in Germany; the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington; Hong Kong International Conference and Festival; NYC Lincoln Center Festival Out-of-Doors; International Festival de las Mujeres en la Danza, Ecuador; and the International Goethe Festival in St. Petersburg, Russia, among numerous other venues. She holds a doctorate in dance from NYU Steinhardt's Program in Dance Education and has published numerous articles on the indigenous cultures and rituals of the Americas; historic roots of early modern dance; and intercultural, interdisciplinary issues in the arts in higher education.
  
  Dr. Seidel is the recipient of over 70 national, state, and local grants, including a US Department of Education's Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education, three-year grant ($225,000) for Dancing Across Disciplines: A 21st Model for Educational Reform in the Academy. She has served as a founding member of the World Dance Alliance; on the national board of directors of Society of Dance History Scholars; the Congress on Research in Dance (CORD); conference and Program Chair for CORD's 30th International Conference, "Dance, Myth, and Ritual in the Americas;" a member of the International Dance Council, based in Athens, Greece; National Dance Education Organization, and Cross Cultural Dance Resources, Inc.