Melanie Shaye Calhoun

311 Center Street, Slippery Rock, PA 16057 Phone: 540-424-9189 E-Mail: msc0518@sru.edu Height: 52 Weight: 150 Hair Color; Red Eye Color: Brown

Performance Experience Featured dancer for Enrique Inglesias and Ciara, Pro Bowl Halftime Performance (Hawaii, 2009) Featured dancer for music band Lifehouse, Pro Bowl Halftime Performance (Hawaii, 2008) Slippery Rock University Performance Experience Faculty and Guest Artist Concert (2012, 2011) Slippery Rock University Dance Theatre Fall Concert (2012, 2011, 2010, 2009) Slippery Rock University Dance Theatre Winter Concert (2013, 2012, 2011) Residencies: 2012-2013: SRU Guest Artist Tara Madsen Robbins Breaking Ground SRU Professor Melissa Teodoros Columbian piece, Pilanderas 2011-2012: Billy Siegenfeld with Jump Rhythm Jazz Projects Getting There SRU Professor Melissa Teodoros Columbian piece, Fandango Guest Instructor Kristin Hapkes improvisational pieces, she flew at dawn and before dawn 2010-2011: Doug Varone and Dancers Of the Earth Fall Below Employment Experience Jump Rhythm Jazz Project Summer Intern Summer 2012 Worked in the office digitally archiving records and completing other tasks, rehearsed with the company three times a week
Dance Teacher Fall 2012-present Teach Jazz. Tap. Ballet for all ages, as well as Toddler Movement classes at Crossroads Dance Academy Senior Dance Instructor and Staff Member May 2008-present Teach dance teams across the East coast for Eastern Cheer and Dance Association

Choreographic Experience Solo Work Error! Bookmark not defined. but only to be broken (2011), modern paint me purple (2010), modern Group Work Passing (2013), 35 minute concert work set on 8 dancers Until now, we knew what the bad kids looked like (2012), modern dance set on 12 dancers through subtle means (2011), modern dance set on 9 dancers Awards, Conferences, and Intensives Awards Lucy Isacco Sack Academic Year Scholarship Recipient, $750 (2012-2013) SRU Grant for Student Scholarly, Creative, Entrepreneurial, Civic or Research Projects Program, $500 Outstanding Performer Award Conferences Attended American College Dance Festival Association (2013, 2012) Pennsylvania State Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (2013, 2012) National Dance Education Organization (Fall 2012) Summer Intensives Full Scholarship Recipient for Jump Rhythm Jazz Project Summer Intensive (2013, 2012), Chicago Full Scholarship Recipient for Jones Summer Dance Intensive (2011, 2010), Pittsburgh Dance Training, Leadership, and Education Slippery Rock University Department of Dance (2009-2013) Trained in Modern; Jazz; Contemporary; Hip-Hop; Tap; Ballet; Improvisation; Choreography; African; and Bharata Natym by Ursula Payne, Teena Custer, Nola Nolen-Holland, Thom Cobb, Melissa Teodoro, and Nora Ambrosio Leadership SRU Dance Theatre Student Director (2012-2013); SRU Dance Theatre Assistant Student Director (2011-2012) Dance Express dance team Student Director (2011-2013) Sigma Rho Delta member and Pledge Trainer (2011-2013) Education Expected B.A. in Dance from Slippery Rock University, May 2013 Expected B.A. in Psychology from Slippery Rock University, May 2013