SHAWN SHORT (Seansls@yahoo.com) Shawn is the Founder, Producing Artistic Director and Principal Choreographer of Dissonance Dance Theatre. Shawn has studied with nationally and internationally acclaimed artists including faculty and dancers from Alvin Ailey American Dance Center, Lines Ballet, Washington Ballet, Dance Theatre of Harlem, Philadanco, and Baltimore and Duke Ellington School of Performing Arts. As a student of ballet pedagogy, Shawn studied with master teachers John White, Margarita De Saa of Pennsylvania Academy of Ballet, and the Washington School of Ballet Director Kee Juan Han. Shawn holds a BFA in Musical Theatre with a minor in Theatre Management from Howard University and a MFA in Dance at University of Wisconsin-Milwuakee. His performance credits include work with K2 Dance, Adrian Bolton Dance, El Tearto de Danza Contemporeanea El Salvador, and Bolton/Smith Dance. He has also served as a guest artist with Dance Alloy. As a choreographer, teacher, and coach, Short fosters a love of the classical ballet lexicon. Shawn is a Pointe Magazine’s Video of the Month Editors’ Choice award recipient (2013) for his contemporary ballet work “Caught” in 2013. Also, Short is a nominee of several DC Dance Awards. A professor of Classical Ballet at Catholic University of America. Shawn is a former fiscally sponsored artist through the New York Foundation for the Arts. He is a commissioned artist who has choreographed for The Dance Institute of Washington and The Washington School of Ballet at THEARC. Shawn’s choreographic works have been presented in WDC, NYC, OH, and MKE. In addition, he has presented works at the Capital Fringe Festival, Greater Washington Urban League National Conference, Southeastern University, Artists’ Bloc 12X6 Series, Harke Theatre, Jack Guidone Theatre Space, Lang Theatre, Atlas Theatre Complex Lab II Theatre, THEARC Theatre, Joe’s Movement Emporium, DC Parks and Recreation, Sidney Harman Hall, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, PBS Broadcasting, VelocityDC, and Brooklyn Arts Exchange. Shawn is former Resident Choreograher for the Kelsey Collie C hildren’s Theatre.
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