Seasonal Instructor of Jazz

 

Sheila is the Founder (1981) and Artistic Director of the jazz ballet company Casco Bay Movers. With extensive training in jazz, her studies also have included Tai Chi Chuan, Mime, West African Dance, Ballet and the Alexander Technique with master teachers and choreographers in Europe, Africa, North and South America. Along with directing and teaching at the Casco Bay Movers Dance School, Sheila has taught at the University of Southern Maine, Bates College, Ram Island Dance Center, Universidade Federal Do Rio Grande Do Norte (Brazil), The American College of Greece, and The International Dance Project in Athens. In 1988, she received an Artist in Residence Grant from The National Endowment for the Arts through the Partners of the Americas to teach, choreograph and research dance in Brazil. Sheila also has served on the dance panel of the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Sheila has studied anatomy for dancers with Irene Dowd in NYC and her instruction is based on ballet technique with a wide variety of jazz styles ranging from lyrical and cool to funk and blues.