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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

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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

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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”

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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”

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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”

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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”

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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”

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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”

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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

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“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

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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.

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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

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