MacKenzie L.

Strom
CONTACT: mack.strom@yahoo.com (248) 508-8034
6040 Turnberry Drive Commerce Township, MI 48382
HEIGHT: 55 AGE: 21
Education:
Grand Valley State University- Allendale, MI (2012-present) BS in Exercise Science and Dance,
Dance Degree recipient in May 2016. GPA 3.45
Walled Lake Northern High School- Commerce Township, MI (2008-2012)
Scholarships & Awards:
Choreography chosen to be adjudicated at 2016 East-Central Region American College Dance Association
Music and Dance Scholarship recipient: Grand Valley State University (2012-present)
Gala Performance at East-Central Region American College Dance Association (2015)
Thodos Dance Chicago Summer Intensive Scholarship (2014)
Member of Michigan Dance Project (summer 2014)
Miss Oakland County- Local Representative of the Miss America Organization (2014)

Dance Training:
Grand Valley State University- (2012-present)
Modern with Lara Tinari, Carrie Brueck Morris, Amy Wilson, and Hannah Seidel. Ballet with Calin
Radulescu, Mary Lohman, Samantha Shelton, Stephen Sanford, and Lara Faucher. Jazz with Sarah Magoon.
Dance on Camera with Shawn Bible. Choreography with Lara Tinari and Carrie Brueck Morris. Dance
History with Carrie Brueck Morris and Amy Wilson. Enrolled in Dance Pedagogy with Hannah Seidel.
Sheryls School of Dance- (1997-2012)
Ballet and Pointe with Peggy Wright and Kori Snow. Jazz, Lyrical, Contemporary, Tap, and Hip Hop with
Julie Hughes and Jackie Sulek-Parsons.

Dance Intensives:
Edge Performing Arts Center (one week study, 2015)
Thodos Dance Chicago Summer Intensive- (2014)
Brighton Dance Festival (one week study, 2014)
Thodos Dance Chicago Winter Intensive- (2012, 2013, 2014)
Edge Performing Arts Center (two week study, 2013)

Performance Experience:
Present- the (impossible/important) task of remembering how you and me became we by Mina Estrada,
Comme il faut by Alissa Tollefson, Mars, Goddess of War by Carrie Brueck Morris
2015- 69 Love Jigs (-63) Love, Death & Motown by Lara Tinari, Monster by Bryn Cohn, A Dance for
Tommyrot by Ann Sophie Clemmensen, Near Light by Kelly Kerastas. Performed at Grand Valley State
University, Allendale, MI.
2014- Retrouvaille by Rebecca Lemme, Door: Open: Enter by Mike Esperanza, SALARYMAN (excerpts) by
Take Ueyama, Dans le Cle Francais by Marlayna Locklear, of the [i] by Carrie Brueck Morris, Lean in,
Open Your Palm by Shawn Bible. Performed at Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI.
Brighton Dance Festival Kick-off Performance. Performed at Brighton High School, Brighton MI
2013- LODESSTAR/unruddered by Eddie Ocampo, All I Am Is This Sound by Amy ONeal, agape by
Lauren Blane Bogren, Solidarity Prevails by Sarah Magoon. Performed at Grand Valley State University,
Allendale, MI.
2012- Back-up dancer at Weird Al Yankovic Concert (Nirvana). Performed at The Fox Theatre, Detroit, MI

References:
Carrie Brueck Morris: morrcarr @gvsu.edu (616) 331-8184
Julie Hughes: julie5761@sbcglobal.net (517) 375-3403