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Featured Alumni
Cole Medley
Cole Medley graduated May 2019. Professional credits include Hershey Park, Texas! The Musical Drama, Six Flags Over Texas, Dancer, Dance Captain, and Wardrobe Manager with Azamara Cruises.
Mateus Barbosa de Silva
Mateus Barbosa de Silva graduated May of 2017. Professional credits include Broadway national tour of Fiddler on the Roof, Tony Award Winning Guthrie Theatre’s West Side Story.
Johanna Seidel
Mateus Barbosa de Silva graduated May of 2017. Professional credits include Broadway national tour of Fiddler on the Roof, Tony Award Winning Guthrie Theatre’s West Side Story.
Photo credit: Kate Scott & Sarah Hess for RAW Artists Chicago
Jana Matthews
Jana Matthews graduated May 2016. Professional credits include Sea World, Six Flags Fiesta Texas, Nannette Brodie Dance Theatre, Tap Overload, MagicIAN Tour, and Charles Bach Wonders Theatre. She now owns Inspire Dance Studio in Vancouver WA.
Jake Godek
Jake Godek graduated May 2015. Professional credits include Ballet Nebraska, Ballet Vero Beach, Opera Omaha, and principal guest artist with Birmingham Ballet.
Cindy Marquez
Cindy Marquez graduated Dec 2014. Professional credits include ZEROGravity Aerial & Dance Company, Layla and Company, Disney Cruise Line, and appeared on Television in Sweat Inc with Jillian Michaels. Film credits include The Loner and First Girl I Loved.
Ashley Rose Williams
Ashley Rose Williams graduated December 2013. Professional credits include NYC 5th Digit Dance company, NYC based Reaction Dance Company, Lemi Dance Collective, and the Guilty Pleasures Cabaret. Film projects include Hula Hoop, Hair, Calm Down, and NO. Williams was featured on TV in the Rosebowl Parade Opening Ceremonies 2016.
Britney M. Rush
Britney M. Rush graduated in 2009. Professional credits include Dallas Black Dance Theatre, Urban Souls, Alter’d Ego/Hip Hop Heels, 8&1 Dance Company, Psophonia Dance Company, and 6 o'clock Dance Theatre (6DT).
Kaylee Anne Keith
Kaylee Anne Keith graduated in May 2012. Featured dancer with the San Antonio Spurs dance team. Founded the dance program at Palo Duro High School and now directs the dance program at Amarillo High School.
Travis Prokop
Travis Prokop graduated in December 2011. Professional credits include NobleMotion Dance, Hope Stone Dance, and LEON Contemporary Dance. Television credits include American Crime and So You Think You Can Dance. Currently Assistant Professor of Dance University of Houston and director of Prokop_Theory Dance Collective.
Tarrell Ervin
Tarrell Ervin graduated in 2003. Professional credits include Walt Disney World Tokyo, Holland America Cruise Lines, Show in the Sky (Las Vegas), and featured dancer in Le Reve - The Dream (Las Vegas).
Shell Stachowicz
Shell Stachowicz graduated in 2004. Professional credits include Ohio Dance Theatre, Alaska Dance Theatre, Indiana Ballet Theatre, and Ballethnic Dance Company. Performed at Teatro del Lago, Argentina, the Venetian in Las Vegas, at Harrah’s in Reno. Cruise Lines include Silhouette, Summit, and Equinox. Film and Television include: 'Forsaken' (film), Tengo Talento Mucho Talento (TV), Microsoft (commercial).
Mike Marriot
Mike Marriott graduated with his Masters in Marketing, Management, & Dance in 2006. Professional administrative credits include Former Executive Director of New York based company Davalois Fearon Dance, former Studio Company Manager & Marketing Director for the Gelsey Kirkland Ballet in New York City, former Regional Director/Office Manager for Legacy Dance Championships, the Founder/Owner/Director of Start Up & Dance, and the Founder/Owner/Director of Opportunity Arts.
Kyla Olson
Kyla Olsen graduated May 2005. Executive Director, choreographer, and performer - Flatlands Dance Theatre, and has many choreography credits for Lubbock Moonlight Musicals and Moonlight Dinner Theatre. Currently Head of Dance at Texas Tech University.
Professional Careers of WTAMU Dance Alumni
Ballet companies: Eglevsky Ballet, North Carolina Dance Theatre, Nevada Ballet Theatre, Hartford Ballet, London City Ballet, Ballet Austin, Ballet Nebraska, Ballet Mississippi, Fort Worth/Dallas Ballet, Columbia City Ballet, City Dance Ensemble, Metropolitan Ballet Theatre, Ballet Theatre of Maryland, and Dance Smith, Dallas Metropolitan Ballet, El Paso Ballet, Chamberlain Ballet, North Texas Dance Theatre, Salt Lake City Dance Theatre, Ballet Memphis.
Modern Companies: Silesian Dance Theatre (Poland), Clancyworks, the Peter Sparling Dance Company, Dallas Black Dance Theatre, Urban Souls, 8&1 Dance Company, 5th Digit Dance company, NobleMotion Dance, Hope Stone Dance, Nannette Brodie Dance Theatre, and Psophonia Dance Company.
Entertainment Field:
National Tours: Oklahoma, Showboat, Fiddler on the Roof.
International/European Tours: West Side Story, Andrew Lloyd Weber Revue, Phantom of the Opera.
Cruise Lines: Celebrity Cruise Lines. Jean Ann Ryan Productions, Norwegian Cruises, Holland America Cruise Lines, Silhouette, Summit, Equinox, Azamara Cruises, and Disney Cruise Lines.
Radio City Music Hall’s “Christmas Spectacular,” in New York City, Branson, Missouri and Chicago. Opryland, Disneyland, Disney World, Walt Disney World Tokyo, "La Reve" (Las Vegas), and "Show in the Sky" Las Vegas.
"Texas" Musical Drama and "Lost Colony" outdoor drama, Sea World and Six Flags Fiesta Texas.
Independent film in New York City and LA
Music Videos, Television, and Performing in Las Vegas, the Virgin Islands and the Bahamas.
Alumni are also in MFA programs and teaching in various companies, universities, and schools across the country.