Dance College Preparation Intensive

Carla Corrado
Adjunct Faculty

Carla holds a BS in Physical Therapy from the University of Washington (1989) and a BA in English with a minor in Dance from the University of Rochester. In addition to teaching at Cornish, Carla serves as Cornish’s on-site physical therapist in the Dance Department and holds clinic hours at Seattle Orthopedic Sports.

Carla has been a licensed massage practitioner since 1980 and was one of the founding co-op members of New Seattle Massage. She previously worked at Seattle Sports Medicine clinic as well as backstage and on tour as a physical therapist for Pacific Northwest Ballet. A former dancer who studied ballet, modern, low flying trapeze, Skinner Releasing and contact improvisation, Carla has choreographed and performed in Seattle with various independent artists. Carla is a member of the American Physical Therapy Association and the International Association of Dance Medicine and Science and has presented at international conferences. She works with local dancers and dance companies as a PT consultant.

Lodi McClellan
Faculty

Lodi began her ballet training as a child with Loyce Holton at the Minnesota Dance Theatre. During a seventeen-year professional career in modern dance, Lodi was a member of the Chamber Dance Company, the Mark Morris Dance Group, Beth Soll and Company, Llory Wilson and Dancers, and Nina Wiener and Dancers. She has been teaching dance technique for twenty-nine years.

For three years she was an Artist-in-Residence at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology choreographing on and teaching modern dance to engineers. She has also taught Performing Arts Criticism, Integrated Studies, Animal Ethics, and Arts Censorship in the Humanities and Sciences Department. Over one hundred of her dance reviews and articles have been published by the Seattle Weekly, Eastside Week, Dance International, The International Dictionary of Modern Dance, Curve, and DanceNet, for which she also served as Co-Editor. Lodi graduated with honors from Walnut Hill School of Performing Arts and received her BA in Dance, cum laude, from Mount Holyoke College. She earned an MFA in Dance, specializing in dance criticism from the University of Washington. She is currently on dance faculty for Cornish College of the Arts and frequently teaches in the pre-college summer dance program.

Michele Miller
Faculty

After teaching and managing Dance Space Center now (Dance New Amsterdam) in New York, Miller moved to Seattle to join the Pat Graney Company in 1992. With her business partner KT Niehoff, she began Velocity Dance Center in 1996, serving as the Executive Director. She left her position in 2005, but remained on the Board of Directors until 2006. Michele spent a year as the Artist in Residence at the Hong Kong Academy for the Performing Arts where she taught dance and choreographed work on the students.

Michele has spent two summers teaching at Bates Dance Festival in Maine, and has also taught at the Guandong Modern Dance Festival, the University of Washington, the University of Montana - Missoula, Western Washington University - Bellingham and annually at the University of Oregon - Eugene. She has taught locally in summer workshops for Dance This!, Strictly Seattle, Cornish Summer Dance Intensive, SFADI and the Regional Dance America Craft of Choreography workshop. In 2010, she choreographed a piece commissioned by Evoke Productions for their Full Tilt production. She was a founding member of the d9 Dance Collective, an all-women repertory company working with choreographers David Dorfman, Bebe Miller, Lisa Race, Stephanie Skura and others. Michele performed with LeGendre Performance Group from 1999 to 2004. Michele is a certified Pilates instructor and teaches private Pilates sessions at Halfmoon Acupuncture and Pilates, and at her new space, SH/FT Movement and Healing Arts, LLC, the business she runs with her partner. Michele holds a fourth degree black belt in Kajukenbo Kung Fu and teaches Kung Fu and Tai Chi to both dancers and martial artists. At the 2006 Gay Games in Chicago, Michele won two gold medals for forms, and in 2005 was the Women’s Junior Division Grand Champion in Tai Chi at the Hong Kong Martial Arts Association competition. She currently studies Chen Style Tai Chi with Derryll Willis, and Northern Shaolin Kung Fu and Koo Style Tai Chi with Cheung Yui Shing in Hong Kong, returning annually to study with him. Michele teaches Northern Shaolin and Koo’s Tai Chi at SH/FT.

Naomi Glass
Instructor

A native of Mercer Island, Washington, Naomi Glass trained at Cornish College of the Arts, San Francisco Ballet School and Houston Ballet Academy before joining Houston Ballet in 1994. In 1997, she was nominated by Ben Stevenson to represent Houston Ballet for the Princess Grace Award. Her favorite roles include Stanton Welch’s Madame Butterfly and Indigo; Ben Stevenson’s Three Preludes; Dusk; Twilight; Evening Pas de Deux; Five Poems; Nacho Duato’s Without Words; Trey McIntyre’s Second Before the Ground and Wendy in his Peter Pan.

Naomi has danced in the full-length ballets Swan Lake, Giselle, Cinderella, Manon, Sleeping Beauty, Cleopatra, Snow Maiden, Firebird, Don Quixote, Dracula, Romeo and Juliet and Nutcracker. Naomi was featured in neoclassical works by Jiri Kylian, William Forsythe, George Balanchine, Sir Kenneth MacMillan, Lila York, Helgi Tomasson, Glen Tetley, and Dominic Walsh. Following a ten-year performing career, Ms. Glass retired from her soloist position in 2004. Naomi is faculty at the University of Houston and freelance teaches children and adults throughout Houston. Naomi has enjoyed guest teaching engagements at the University of Iowa, Wichita State University and Rice University. Naomi is married to former Houston Ballet dancer Damian Schwiethale and they are the proud parents of two sons.

Paula Peters
Adjunct Faculty

Ms. Peters received her early training in ballet, modern, jazz and tap (Royal Academy of Dancing method) at British Dance Academy in Renton, WA, under the direction of Sandra Baca. In October of 1991, she joined Spectrum Dance Theater (Seattle, WA) as an apprentice and immediately moved on to become a full company member. In addition to performing with Spectrum, she served as the rehearsal director from 1998 to 2005, retiring from the organization in 2005.

With SDT Ms. Peters performed lead roles in works by numerous choreographers, including Ann Reinking, Margo Sappington, Lynne Taylor-Corbett, Claire Bataille, Danny Buracezki, Daniel Ezralow, Trey McIntyre, Donald Byrd, Wade Madsen and Dale A. Merrill, touring throughout the US, Europe and Mexico. In addition to working with Spectrum she performed in local industrials and independent artist productions. She has taught as a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Washington, the Montana Dance Arts Association, and is currently on faculty at Dance Fremont, Cornish College of the Arts and Cornish Preparatory. In addition to teaching, Ms. Peters choreographed the Junior Broadway Production of Once on This Island for Villa Academy, has created several works for Dance Fremont’s Contemporary Dance Company, Fremont DanceWorks, and served as rehearsal assistant to Wade Madsen for Cornish College’s 2008 production of The Pajama Game. Ms. Peters received a BFA in Dance through the Professional Dancers Program at Cornish College of the Arts in 2007.

Shirley Jenkins
Adjunct Faculty

Shirley Jenkins received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Utah, majoring in Modern Dance with an emphasis in Performance, Choreography and Teaching. Immediately following her graduation in 1975 she was asked to be a founding member of the celebrated Bill Evans Dance Company.

She toured nationally with BEDCo as a principal dancer and partner with Bill Evans through the Dance Touring Program via the National Endowment for the Arts. This extensive touring took her to the Kennedy Center, NYC, Spoleto Festival in Charleston, Arco Sante, Chicago, San Francisco, LA, Boston, Baltimore, Phoenix, Las Vegas, San Diego, Bloomington, Ames, Portland, Minneapolis, Anchorage, and others. Jenkins eventually formed her own company, Strong Wind Wild Horses, and collaborated with musicians, including Denny Goodhew, James Knapp, Scott Cossu, Michael Cava, and many others. Ms. Jenkins also founded a nonprofit organization, Dance On Capitol Hill, for the Seattle community. Shirley also established outreach programs by producing summer dance camps for homeless children. Shirley’s choreographic/teaching/performing residencies included the University of Washington, Cornish College of the Arts, American Dance Festival, Bill Evans Summer Institutes of Dance, Penn State, University of Alabama, and many more as well as international festivals in Bonn, Germany and Taipei, Taiwan. During her career as a ‘classical modern’ dancer, Ms. Jenkins performed and continued to hone her tap skills, performing solos of Brenda Bufalino and many duets by and with Bill Evans. She currently teaches a Modern & Rhythm Tap Class for the community and is a well-respected Pilates Instructor specializing in athletic injury.