Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions

Selected Student Bios

Geneva Manley

Geneva Manley received a BA in Science from Depaul University in Chicago where she was passionate about Marketing Research.  Geneva is currently a second-year Dance Education Program Master’s candidate at NYU Steinhardst for Initial Teaching Certification in Pre K–12 Dance.  On entering the Dance Ed program, she joined Kaleidoscope Dancers, where she taught multiple children’s creative movement workshops.  Geneva also participated in the program’s Study Abroad to Uganda, where she studied, taught and performed traditional Ugandan dance and creative movement fusions at the Royal Ballet and Modern Dance Academy, the National Theater, and Makerere University in Kampala. Her earliest dance training began at age 7, learning West African with Muntuu Dance Theatre of Chicago.  She went on to choreograph and teaching many contemporary dances throughout high school and college. Having debuted her most recent choreographic work at Judson Church, Geneva will also present this piece at the Dancing Across Borders Conference in 2011. She is passionate about her voice as an artist, a scholar and an educator.  Integrating her backgrounds in dance and marketing research, Geneva is energized to bring about new understandings of, and higher advocacy for, dance education.

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