CURRICULUM VITAE Kiera Roshea Amison kieraamison@yahoo.com
817-724-8129
EDUCATION__________________________________________
Master of Fine Arts in Dance May 2013
Sam Houston State University - Huntsville, TX
Courses taken: Ballet, Modern, Jazz, Research Methods, Dance Theory, Dance Production, Dance and Technology, and Contemporary Dance Composition Bachelors of Arts in Dance with Teacher Certification (cum laude) 2003-2006
Texas Woman’s University - Denton, TX
Courses Taken: Ballet, Modern, Jazz, Tap, African, Dance Performance, Dance
Conditioning, History of Women in Dance, Music for Dancers, Improvisation, Bartenieff Fundamentals, Theories of Teaching Dance, History of Dance, Dance Composition, Choreographic Designs, Dance/Music/Theatre Improv, Children’s Dance, Dance Production, Concert Choreography, World Dance Forms, and Contemporary Repertory, and Contact Improvisation
Teacher Certification
2003-2006
Texas Woman’s University - Denton, TX
Courses Taken: Student Teaching, Class Environment Management, Literacy Learning Across Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment, Tech in Instruction and Assessment, Learning and Theory Development, Integrating Technology, and Schools and Society DANCE TRAINING____________________________________
Sam Houston State University - Huntsville, TX 2010-Present
Faculty: Jonathon Charles, Dr. Cindy Gratz, Andy Noble, Dionne Noble, Jennifer Pontius, and Dr. Dan Phillips
Muscle Memory Dance Theatre - Dallas, TX 2007-Present
Directors and company members: Amy Sleigh, Lesley Snelson, Meghan Cardwell-Wilson
Texas Woman’s University - Denton, TX
Tarrant County College - Fort Worth TX 2002-2003
Dr. Linda Quinn and Lacreacia Sanders
Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts - Dallas, TX 1992-1996
Faculty: Judy Schneider ,Lily Weiss, Valeria Williams, Glenda Norcross, Linda James, Ramona Jackson, Kevin Brown, Susan Patak, Patty Delany, Sharon Modaberry
TEACHING EXPERIENCE________________________________________ Dallas County Community College District Eastfield College –Mesquite, TX 2013-Present
Adjunct Instructor of Afro-Modern, Body Conditioning, and Jazz I/II/III
Tarrant County College South Campus –Fort Worth, TX 2013-Present
Dance Program Director/ Instructor of Ballet I/II, Jazz I/II, and Modern I/II, Dance Performance, Dance Practicum, Dance Appreciation & Fine Arts Appreciation Sam Houston State University -Huntsville, TX 2010-2013
Instructor of Hip-Hop and Intro to Modern, Modern I, Graduate Teaching Assistant for Dance History, Choreography II, Career Resources, Dance As Art , and Substituted Ballet I, II, and III, Modern, II, and Jazz III and IV
In-Step Dance and Performance Arts Center - The Woodlands, TX 2011-2012
Ballet, Modern/Contemporary & Hip-Hop
Muscle Memory Dance Theatre - Dallas, TX
2007-Present Modern
Garland Independent School District - Garland, TX 2007-2010
Lakeview Centennial High School College & Career Magnet, Co-Director of the Dance Magnet
Ballet, Modern, Jazz, African, Improv, & Choreography Fort Worth Independent School District - Fort Worth, TX 2007
Student Teaching Arlington Independent School District - Arlington, TX 2006
Sam Houston High School Ballet & Jazz
Footlights Dance Studio - Lewisville, TX
2004-2006
Ballet, Modern & Jazz
PERFORMANCE EXPERIENCE_________________________________
K(New) Order: A Dance-o-rama Movement Scene –Dallas, TX 2013 “Confusion”
Choreographer: Jackie Beth Shilcutt “The Limit”
Choreographer: Kristin Daniels
SPECTRUM- HUNTSVILLE TX 2012
“Social Fabric”
Choreographer: Dana Nicolay
“The Ultimatum” 2012
Choreographer: Khaleah London
ROYGBIV:BOUNDARIES - Huntsville TX 2012
“Restless”
Choreographed and performed by Kiera Amison
Illuminate- Huntsville, TX 2012
“Flirting With Light”,” Chaotic Light Play”,” Accumulate”, & “Luminescent” Choreographer: Crystal Lewis
ROYGBIV - Huntsville, TX 2011
“There are Things We Don’t Know We Share” Choreographer: Erin Reck
Vissi Dance Theater, Spring/Summer - NY, NY 2011
“on becoming”
Choreographer: Lesley Snelson
Meetings &Greetings: A Dance Gathering - Plano, TX 2011 “Leftovers”
Choreographer: Lesley Snelson “on becoming”
daCiusa: Breaking Boundaries Creating Connection – Denton, TX 2011 “on becoming”
Choreographer: Lesley Snelson
Florida Dance Festival - Tampa, FL 2011
“LEFTOVERS”
Choreographer: Lesley Snelson
Connect - Huntsville TX, 2011
“Alone Together”
Choreographer: Amy Llanes
Retrospective - Huntsville, TX 2011
“After Images”
Choreographer: Dr. Cindy Gratz
Spectrum: First - Huntsville, TX 2010
“Wolosodon”
Choreographer: Dr. Mickie Koster
Barefoot Brigade Dance Festival - Dallas, TX 2010
“Abide”
Choreographer: Amy L. Sleigh “Solstice”
Choreographer: Kiera R. Amison “The Rubber Room”
Choreographer: Lesley Snelson “Plasticities”
Choreographer: Amy L. Sleigh
Barefoot Brigade Modern Dance Festival - Dallas, TX 2010 Structured Improv
Out of the Loop Festival - Addison, TX 2010
“The Rubber Room”
Choreographer: Lesley Snelson
Lakewood Arts Faire - Dallas, TX 2010
Structured Improv
Big Range Dance Festival - Austin, TX 2009
“Divide”
Dallas /Fort Worth Fringe Festival Breaking News: Dancing with Media - Dallas, TX 2009
“Divide”
Choreographer: Lesley Snelson “Sounds Bites”
Choreographers: Amy L. Sleigh and Lesley Snelson “Look at Me”
Choreographers: Amy L. Sleigh and Lesley Snelson “B-4 Editorials”
Choreographer: Elisa De La Rosa “Breaking News”
Choreographers: Amy L. Sleigh and Lesley Snelson
Out of the Loop Festival-Breaking News: Dancing with Media - Addison, TX 2009 “Divide”
Choreographer: Lesley Snelson “Editorials”
Choreographer: Elisa De La Rosa “Breaking News”
Choreographers: Amy L. Sleigh and Lesley Snelson
Downtown Dancing - Dallas, TX 2008
“Under the Yellow Sky”
Choreographer: Lesley Snelson “Tread”
Choreographer: Lesley Snelson “Embellish”
Choreographer: Amy L. Sleigh “Current”
Sea Movement: Making Waves with Dance - Dallas, TX 2008 “Under the Yellow Sky”
Choreographer: Lesley Snelson “Tread”
Choreographer: Lesley Snelson “Embellish”
Choreographer: Amy L. Sleigh “Current”
Choreographer: Amy L. Sleigh
Out of the Loop Festival - Sea Movement: Making Waves with Dance - Addison, TX 2008
“Under the Yellow Sky” Choreographer: Lesley Snelson “Tread”
Choreographer: Lesley Snelson “Embellish”
Choreographer: Amy L. Sleigh “Current”
Choreographer: Amy L. Sleigh
The Barefoot Brigade presents: NOTcracker - Dallas, TX 2008
“Embellish”
Choreographer: Amy L. Sleigh
Faculty Dance Concert - Fort Worth, TX 2008
“Current”
Choreographer: Amy L. Sleigh
Dance Fusion Collin County Community College - Plano, TX 2007 “Under the Yellow Sky”
Choreographer: Lesley Snelson
Collage Dance Festival - Denton, TX 2007
“Signature”
Choreographer: Elisa De La Rosa “Exist in Color”
Hype Choreographers’ Showcase - Dallas, TX 2007 “Exist in Color”
Choreographer: Kia Thomas
City Arts Festival - Dallas, TX 2007
“Signature”
Choreographer: Elisa De La Rosa “Taking Toll”
Choreographer: Lesley Snelson “Exist in Color”
Choreographer: Kia Thomas “Embellish”
Choreographer: Amy L. Sleigh
Out of the Loop Festival - Over the Edge: A Landslide of Dance - Addison, TX 2007 “Signature”
Choreographers: Elisa De La Rosa “Taking Toll”
Choreographer: Lesley Snelson “Hollywood”
Choreographer: Amy L. Sleigh
Organic Moves: An Evening of Dinner and Modern Dance - Dallas, TX 2007 Structured Improv
DanceMakers - Denton, TX 2006
“Lamba”
Choreographer: Nycole Ray
Running With Myself - Denton, TX 2006
“Within/Without”
Choreographer: Kayla Hamilton
DanceMakers Too - Denton, TX 2005
“Within/Without”
Choreographer: Kayla Hamilton
DanceMakers - Denton, TX 2005
“Polito”
DanceMakers Too - Denton, TX 2004 “Assata”
Choreographer: Shanequa Estes
Dancing on the Fringe - Denton, TX 2004
“Fainting Belles”
Choreographer: Kylie Gandy
Dancing on the Fringe - Denton, TX
2003 “If Only…”
Choreographer: Jessica Cano
Follow the Dream IV - Fort Worth, TX
2003
“Integration”
Choreographer: Linda Quinn “Rhythm Nation”
Choreographer: Lacreacia Sanders “All That Fosse”
Choreographer: Linda Quinn “Remote Control”
Choreographer: Lacreacia Sanders “Die Another Day”
Avoid It/ Face It/ Cross It
Choreographer: Lacreacia Sanders “I Feel Good!”
Choreographer: Lacreacia Sanders “Celtic Dreams”
American College Dance Festival - Huntsville, TX 2003 “Cry”
Choreographer: Phyllis Franklin “Pockets”
Choreographer: Brandon Mason “Femmedecor”
Corsets and Pockets and Heels, Oh My! - Fort Worth, TX 2002 “Cry”
Choreographer: Phyllis Franklin “Pockets”
Choreographer: Brandon Mason “Femmedecor”
Choreographer: Katrina Moore
CHOREOGRAPHY________________________________________________ K(New) Order: A Dance-o-rama Movement Scene
“Ceremony” (2013); Solo Running Time 2 minutes
Music: The Ceremony by New Order Everyone Has A Story
“Thread” (2013); Group Work Running Time 3 & ½ minutes Music: Giochini by Ezio Bosso
It Begins With A Dream: An American Dream (2013)
“Abolition” Group Work Running Time 7 minutes
Music: Cinque’s Memories of Home and Going Home by The Roy Hamilton Orchestra, If You Only Knew the Rain by Balmorhea, & Going Home by Amistad Players
“Mr. Jim Crow Law” Duet Running Time 3and ½ minutes Music: Jim Crow Blues by Lead Belly
“Climb”
Running Time 7 minutes Music: Bibo No Aozora/Endless Flight and Babel by Everto,
Nelson, Gustavo Santaololla, Jacques Morelenbaum& Ryuich Sakamoto
“Give Us This Day” Solo Running Time 3 minutes
Music: Our Father by The Blind Boys of Alabama
“Ruby” Group Work Running Time 5 and ½ minutes
Music: Dear Prudence by The Beatles & O-o-h Child by LaBelle & Laura Nyro
“We Shall Overcome” Solo Running Time 3 minutes Music: We Shall Overcome, A Negro Spiritual and Protest Song inspired by Charles Albert Tindley’s We Shall Overcome, performed by Live Protest Participants
“Restless” (2012); solo Running Time 5 minutes Music: Mad Rush by Philip Glass
Performed in ROYGBIV: Boundaries Silent Word Spoken” (2012); quintet Running time 7 minutes
Music: Clouds, the Mind on the (Re)wind by Ezio Bosso Performed in ROYGBIV: Reflections
“Tea With Aunt Flo” (2012); solo Running Time 5 minutes
Music: Allegretto Grazioso by Deborah De Graaff Performed in ROYGBIV: Reflections
“Climb” (2011); Group work Running time 7 minutes
Music: Bibo No Aozora/Endless Flight and Babel by Everto, Nelson, Gustavo Santaololla, Jacques Morelenbaum& Ryuich Sakamoto
Performed in ROYGBIV
“After the Night, the Mourning” (2011); Group Work Running time 11 minutes
Music: String Quartet No.15 by Dmitri Shostakovich Performed in ROYGBIV: Let It Go
“Little Girl Blue” (2010); solo Running time 4 minutes
Music: Little Girl Blue by Nina Simone Performed in Dallas City Arts Festival “Solstice” (2010); Quartet
Running time 3 minutes
Music: Mandolin Concerto No.1 Allegro by Antonio Vivaldi
Performed in Stranger Than Fiction: A Series of Rocks and Feathers “Apathy” (2009); Quintet
Music: Concerto No. 21 for Piano and Orchestra by Mozart, and What a Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong
Performed in Breaking News: Dancing with Media “Strange Fruit” (2008); Sextet
Running time 7 minutes
Music: Strange Fruit by Nina Simone & Down to the River to Pray by Alison Krauss Performed in South Dallas Dance Festival 2008
Brazos Contemporary Dance Festival 2008
Out of the Loop Festival: Sea Movement: Making Waves with Dance 2008 “Yea Though I Walk” (2006); Quartet
Running time 7 minutes
Music: String Quartet No. 12 in F major by Antonin Dvorak Performed in DanceMakers TOO
MASTER CLASSES & WORKSHOPS____________________ Sam Houston State University Guest Artist-Huntsville, TX 2010-13
Shelly Bourgeois, Brit Wallis, Courtney Jones, Kiki Lucas, Dorcas Roman, Kyla Barkin, Jane Weiner, Gina Bolles Sorensen, Paola Georgudis, Khaleah London
Florida Dance Festival-Tampa, FL 2011 Andrew Carroll, Jennifer Salk, Carl Rogers Dance New Amsterdam-NY, NY 2011 Alexandra Beller-Modern
Texas Dance Improvisational Festival-Houston, TX 2010
Contact Improvisation-Bethany Nelson, Layers of Logic in Your Dancing Mania- Meg Wolfe, and Juggling the Solo Life- Sara Gamblin
Café Dance-Austin, TX 2009 Cheryl Chaddick
Urban Souls Houston, TX 2010 Harrison Guy
International Associations of Blacks in Dance Conference-NY, NY & Dallas, TX 2005/2008
Tamica Washington-Miller, Camille A. Brown, Christopher Huggins, Theodore Jamison, Hope Boykin, Waverly Lucas and several teachers/performers from Lula Washington Dance Theatre, Philidanco, Cleo Parker-Robinson, Dallas Black Dance Theatre, and the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre.
Catherine Turocy, Nathan Trice, Jean-Claude Lessou, Rosalie Jones/Daystar , Jeanine Durning, Doug Elkins, Allyne Gartrell,and Aysha Upchurch
Dallas Black Dance Theatre Professional Summer Workshop-Dallas, TX 2002/2005 Christopher Huggins, Virginia Johnson
Dallas Black Dance Theatre Summer Intensive-Dallas, TX 1994 & 1995 Darryl Sneed, Hannah Sweets and DBDT company members
Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts-Dallas, TX 1992-1996
Derrick Whithurs, BeBe Miller, Darrel Sneed, Milton Tatum, Manuel and Wally Godinez, Pearl Primus, Baba Chuck Davis and members of the Paul Taylor Dance Company, Bella Lewitzky Dance Company, and Dallas Black Dance Theatre TECHNICAL SUPPORT_______________________________
Master of Ceremony Grand Opening of the James and Nancy Gaertner Performing Arts Center
2011
Box Office Manager 2010
Pilot: Choreographers Taking Flight
Muscle Memory Dance Theatre-Dallas, TX Stage Hand 2010
Muscle Memory Dance Theatre-Dallas, TX
iDance: A Modern Dance Performance in First Person Narrative Box Office Manager 2008
Muscle Memory Dance Theatre- Dallas, TX Pilot: Choreographers Taking Flight
Box Office Assistant 2007
Muscle Memory Dance Theatre- Dallas, TX M2DT Summer Dance Fest
Sound Operator 2005 DanceMakers Concert
Texas Woman’s University- Denton TX Stage Hand 2004
DanceMakers Too