Judith Hatcher
PMB 514, 5300-126 Kemps River Drive, Va. Beach, VA 23464, 1-757-822-1791
[email protected]/www.danswerks.com
EDUCATION:
University of California, Los Angeles - MA  in  Dance, 1975 (Dance Kinesiology emphasis. Thesis: Principles of  Alignment and Their Application to Dance.)(Thesis work is quoted in Dance Kinesiology by Dr. Sally Fitt).
Recipient of Clifton Webb Fine Arts Fellowship for thesis.
Texas Christian University - BFA in Ballet, technical theater minor, 1973.
Old Dominion University - completed all academic requirements for an MA in English, Creative Writing non-fiction emphasis, 1992. 
Tidewater Community College - Nature/35 mm photography, 1985.
National Dance Institute -  recipient of a full scholarship from Jacques d'Amboise for his teacher-training program.          
CURRENT EMPLOYMENT: Member of the New York City Ballet Workout Alliance (the first in Virginia to be certified to teach the New York City Ballet Workout)
Associate Professor of Dance and PE - Tidewater Community College - Aug 2005
Dance/arts writer for PortFolio
Staff writer and columnist (Footnotes to Dance History, Teaching Tips) for the national publication Dancer .
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Ballet, character, Celtic dance, mime, beginning modern, musical theatre, dance history, dance kinesiology, ballet and theatre make-up, sacred dance, choreography, stage movement for actors, dance critiques and costuming, beginning stage combat and acting.
PAST EMPLOYMENT: (Writing)
contributor to Dance Magazine (Hotline News; "The Victorian Ballet Girls" was a feature story January 1999).
Writer, photographer and reviewer for OnStage  Magazine, writer for Journal of New Thought, Woman toWoman, PortFolio (columnist and back-up photographer), Ghent Magazine, Senior Times, Prime, Virginia Home and Garden, Virginia Living and Norfolk Community News, Hampton Roads Monthly.
Fashion coordinator for PortFolio, coordinator of the PortFolio Awards for Theatrical Achievement for three years, reorganizing the look of these awards to emulate the Tonys.
Photographer?s assistant to Martin Tickner Photography (make-up and dance poses).
PAST EMPLOYMENT: (Dance/theatre) Taught ballet warm-up and conditioning (The Reel Thing School of Irish Step Dancing), acting, improv and stage combat  (Hurrah Players), acting and dance in the public schools (Movin? On and Acting Up ? Community Conservatory Of the Arts, Portsmouth), Celtic dance (Chamber Ballet of Williamsburg).
Director of Dance for the Visual and Performing Arts program at Churchland High School in Portsmouth, VA. - Sept 2002
On the founding board of the Governor's Magnet School for the Arts to develop the dance criteria.
One of the five founders of the Tidewater Scottish Festival, now the Hampton Roads Highland Games .
Taught  master ballet classes in Holland.  Taught sacred dance seminars at the Pacific School of Religion (Berkeley, CA.) and Mary Washington College in Fredericksburg, VA. for the Sacred Dance Guild.
Conducted a dance  kinesiology seminar at Old Dominion University (Norfolk, VA).
Created, narrated and toured with the "Afro-American Suite" for Black History Month for the Virginia Beach City Schools. Taught in the Title III program for Norfolk City Schools, and the at-risk program for the Portsmouth City Schools .
Taught warm-up and conditioning classes, lectured on dance injuries, conditioning and somatotypes  June 2000-2003 at Boston College's Gaelic Roots.
Taught ballet, beginning modern, mime, character, and theater to children at Virginia Beach Ballet Academy, Norfolk Academy, Cape Henry Collegiate, Tidewater Ballet, Contemporary Ballet Theatre, The Ballet Studio, Chamber Ballet of  Williamsburg, Gallilee Episcopal
Church (taught dance to the mentally challenged, Toured Va and NC with "Ancient Scottish Dances."
Appeared in PBS children's special "Raisin Up" (mime).
Choreographed and performed with the Little Theatres of Norfolk and Virginia Beach, Tidewater Dinner Theater, Stage Door Dinner Theater, Actor's Theatre, Stage DownUnder (Oklahoma, Brigadoon,  One Touch of Venus, Damn Yankees, Milk and Honey, Kiss Me Kate, The King and I, How to Succeed in Business, Funny Girl, Mame, Fiddler On the Roof ), Tidewater Dance Guild, Inc., Virginia Beach Ballet, Virginia Beach Highlanders, Contemporary Ballet Theatre.     
Artistic Director of the Children's Dance Theatre, Inc. (1979-1986). Owner and teacher at King's Grant Academy of Dance (1979-1986). Wrote grants, kept the books and records, planned tours and performances, created costumes and sets, taught classes and choreographed for both organizations, Artistic director: Children's Performing Co (1988-92).
(Students have been accepted into schools and companies with the North Carolina School of the Arts, National Ballet of Canada, San Francisco Ballet, Canton Ballet, SUNY-Purchase, Juilliard, Trisha Brown The David Parsons Dance Company, Broadway national touring companies).
TRAINING:
Ballet and Adagio - Fernando and Nancy Schaffenburg, Maggi  Moar, Victor Moreno, Barbara Copeland, Wayne Soulant, Irina Vassilieva Wohner, Mia Slavenska, Don Hewitt, Ralph and Jane Faulkner (Falcon Studio of Theatre Arts in Hollywood), the Atlanta Ballet School (Robert Barnett, Merrilee Smith, Dorothy Alexander, Duane Dishon), Barbara Thuesen, Co Harrison.
Modern - Carl Ratcliff, Vija Cunningham, Jerry Bywaters Cochran, Stella Matsuda, Carol Warner, Marion Scott.
Character - Era Wohner, Wayne Soulant, Frederick Franklin, Barbara Thuesen, Victor Moreno.
Mime/Stage Movement for Actors - Martha Tickner, Barbara  Copeland, Erika Indorff.
Choreography - Fernando Schaffenburg, Marion Scott.
Dance Kinesiology - Dr. Sally Sevey Fitt, Dr. Val Hunt, Dr, L. Moorehouse
Creative movement and pre-ballet - Dorothy Alexander, Merrilee Smith, Sue Stinson.
Dance History/Research - Barbara Copeland (TCU), Allegra Fuller Snyder, Dr. E.L. Thomas (UCLA) .
Theatre Make-up -National Ballet of Washington, Atlanta School of Ballet, Bob Kelly, Christina of Beverly Hills, Johnny Jones (UCLA).  
Scottish Highland - Eleanor Unger.
Irish Step Dancing -  Heather Mailey Esposito, Debbie Souza. Master classes with Deirdre Goulding, Danny Doherty, Sharon O'Brien, Michael Smith, Olive Burns, Brida O'Brien and Dan Armstrong.
Spanish/Flamenco - Teresa Martinez.
Musical comedy, jazz, tap - Barbara Thuesen, Jean Wallace, Matt Mattox.
Kinetography Laban - Martin Tracy.
Technical Theatre, Design and Lighting - Maynard Allen, Robert Teitelbaum, James C.P.L. Monroe.
Voice - (Lyric Soprano) - Frau Janie Shook Zerger, Mary Grover, Sallie Suter.
HOBBIES:
Herb growing,  Sumi-E (Oriental brush) painting, sketching, bobbin lace, French hand-sewing, beading, needlecrafts, basketry. 
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS:
Chi Tau Epsilon (The National Dance Honor Society), Childreach, The New York City Ballet Workout Alliance, AAHPERD
Tidewater Basketry Guild.
Helped establish a parish in Hinche, Maissade, Haiti
(reviews, clips and tearsheets available on request)
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