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Heather attended Oakland University before moving to New York City in 2013. She moves and works fluidly across contemporary, partnering, physical theater, commercial dance, and somatic, consciousness-based practices. Interwoven into her movement and teachings, Heather is also a licensed Spinal Therapist, trauma-educated Breathwork Practitioner, and Daoist Bodywork Specialist....Read more
Heather attended Oakland University before moving to New York City in 2013. She moves and works fluidly across contemporary, partnering, physical theater, commercial dance, and somatic, consciousness-based practices. Interwoven into her movement and teachings, Heather is also a licensed Spinal Therapist, trauma-educated Breathwork Practitioner, and Daoist Bodywork Specialist. Her research, teachings, and performance work across the board have taken her throughout Thailand, India, Spain, Greece, France, the UK, and the United States.
Her company work includes ELSCO Dance (NYC), The Grit (NYC/LA), MarInspired (LA/NYC), international collaborations with Moving Parts (India), and workshop time with HUMANHOOD (Spain/UK).
Performance credits include Madison Square Garden, Gibney, APAP, the International Emmy Awards, New York Fashion Week, and the Capezio A.C.E. Awards (2nd Runner-Up in both NYC and LA). She has performed alongside artists including Phish, Miley Cyrus, Kid Rock, Jason Derulo, and Nickelback, and contributed to Broadway pre-productions that later became Tony Award-nominated and winning musicals such as West Side Story, Ragtime, Floyd Collins, and Cats.
Behind the scenes, Heather has worked on filmed productions with The Broadway League for Jeffrey Seller, Nick Scandalios, and Barry Weissler with Full Out Creative, was a lead adjudicator for Star Dance Alliance for half a decade, and later Creative Directed/co-produced Luminous Tour Dance Convention from conception through its inaugural year before exiting as co-founder to pursue new creative ventures.
As an educator and choreographer, Heather has taught for Broadway Dance Center’s Children & Teen Program for over a decade and was a Coordinator for BDC’s Summer Junior Training Program for 3 years. Her choreography has taken her all over the US, where her creations have been recognized with top honors nationally. Most recently, she associate-choreographed and on-site directed for Ellenore Scott on the opening number, Dreamgirls, at MCC Theater’s Annual Broadway Gala. Heather also brings a developing Psychotherapist-backed method, SoulFlow, to sophisticated Teacher Training programs and retreats around the globe, offering nervous system repatterning, emotional processing, and integration through the medicine of art and movement.
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Heather’s classes foster a transcendent experience that begins with the breath, flows into exploration, and evolves into movement, with a focus on energetic flow, musicality, and intention. Her work invites you to let go of control and surrender to the present moment through a somatic, soulful, conscious flow ~ where body, breath, and mind move in balance together. Heather believes it is within this harmony that the heart naturally takes the lead. Come to celebrate the body’s ability to feel, the breath’s ability to move us, and the soul’s desire to express what words cannot. Let’s dance!