Under the guidance of COCA's Artistic Director of Dance Antonio Douthit-Boyd and Associate Director of Dance Production Kirven Douthit-Boyd, Ryadah Heiskell (LA '13) showcases her original choreography and shares the details of her experience working with COCA’s Pre-Professional Division Dance Program students.  

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Heiskell, has been choreographing since 2012 for recreational, competition, and concert dance. Heiskell’s choreography combines jazz, modern, contemporary, and hip-hop dance styles to create unique, entertaining works. Her approach to choreography involves exploring time/space dynamics based in musicality, specifically polyrhythms, and the manipulation of traditional technique to create unique steps & moments throughout the piece. While Heiskell is inspired directly by the music, her goal is always to highlight the skills of the dancers. Most of Heiskell’s concert dance work explores abstract concepts in the human experience.

Heiskell is the Administrative Coordinator in The Performing Arts Department and has serves as assistant director and choreographer for WU Dance Collective, the Performing Arts Department’s resident dance company. 

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Thank you to COCA for the information provided.