Open Dance Auditions Saturday! All Students Invited!

12/3, 8am Nichols 008, here’s the link to more info and the forms you need to complete:

https://www.k-state.edu/mtd/academics/dance/danceconcertauditions.html

If you tap, PLEASE BRING YOUR TAP SHOES – we have an incredible guest artist joining us to make new work for Spring Dance. Please see below for more information about our guest artist. 

Questions? Please contact Neil Dunn (neildunn@ksu.edu) and Dr. Bryan Pinkall (pinkall@ksu.edu).

Karida Griffith Walker‘s dance career took off when she was cast in the European tour of the Broadway hit Black and Blue, working with the great Henry LeTang, Dianne Walker, Bunny Briggs, Germaine Goodson, Dormeshia and others. After completing her business degree at NYU, Karida became a Radio City Rockette, where she performed in the Radio City Christmas Spectacular, Sinatra, on The Today Show and The Tony Awards. Karida was also a dancer for Cirque du Soleil, and was a featured dancer in multiple episodes of the HBO hit series Boardwalk Empire. In addition to being a founding member of the critically-acclaimed tap dance company Dorrance Dance, Karida was also honored to be a member of select companies including the Cotton Club Sophisticated Ladies with Dormeshia, T.A.D.A.H. with Jared Grimes, Mable Lee’s Ladies, Barbara Duffy & Company, and has also performed with Chloe Arnold’s Syncopated Ladies. Karida has been on the tap dance faculty at the renowned Broadway Dance Center in New York, and a Professor in Pace University’s cutting-edge BFA Commercial Dance program. She has taught at festivals and conventions throughout North America.Now based in Portland, Karida has brought her passion for Tap Dance education to dance teachers around the world with her online training program called The Tap Teachers’ Lounge, a 10-week course designed to give teachers the knowledge, strategy and skills to lead Tap classes that excite their students, foster excellence, and build Tap class enrollments in the dance studio. Karida has continued to work with the The Children’s Theatre Company, a non-profit organization which fosters the belief that, through the arts, children can become agents of positive change and healing in the world. She is also a member of Sebe Kan, the West African dance company founded by her husband, Derrell Sekou Soumah Walker. Most recently, Karida has been offering seminars about Racism & the Dance World, and is now offering a new professional development initiative for dance educators called Roots, Rhythm, Race & Dance.