05/01/2019
Team, we are a mere 2 days away from our 9th Season in Orlando and DELIGHTED to formerly introduce our Guest Artist for this year: Ann Sterling Dale.
Ann Sterling, we welcome you to Florida and look forward to sitting under your leadership and artistry.
Ms Dale will be directing our Group Dance on Friday, performing with us on Saturday, and teaching 2 Master Classes on Sunday. Please take a moment to read a little about her journey below.
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Ann Sterling Dale is from Statesville, NC and graduated from Elon University with a B.F.A. in Dance Performance and Choreography. Ann Sterling has performed professionally with the Winston-Salem Festival Ballet, and in New York City with The Next Stage Project and BalaSole Dance Company. She has also presented and performed her work A Battle Waged in the 2012 Young Choreographer’s Festival. Ann Sterling has performed as a company member with Ad Deum Dance Company in Houston, Texas from 2012-2015. While in Houston, she taught for Houston Academy of Dance, West University Dance Center, METdance, and the Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center. Ann Sterling has choreographed HFCC Performing Arts Company’s summer productions of Annie, Fiddler on the Roof, and Beauty and the Beast in Oscoda, Michigan. Ann Sterling studied further at The Ailey School in the Professional Division Scholarship Program and performed in Matthew Rushing’s work for The Ailey School’s 2015 Winter Concert as well as his work for the Hudson Yards Alvin Ailey Project in September of 2016. Ann Sterling has performed as a member of the Tabernacle Dance Company at the 2016 Feast of Tabernacles in Jerusalem. She has also performed and taught for Project Dance in New York City, Costa Rica, Oklahoma City, and Houston. She has her Pilates Mat 1 Certification and has taught as Faculty for the Ballet Hispánico Tap Program, The School at Steps, and City Moves Dance Studio in New York City. She is currently dancing with Zion Dance Project and is on Faculty for Epicenter for the Arts and Ingredients Dance Company and is excited about joining our Orlando event for the first time!