 |
|
| Susan Chambers
Artistic Director: Susan Chambers has been at the forefront of dance instruction in Gwinnett County, Georgia for a generation of students. After training in Miami Beach during her childhood years, Ms. Chambers continued her training in New York, Chicago, Atlanta and San Francisco. She has studied tap and jazz with such notables as Henry LeTang of New York City and Broadway; Tony Coppola, Hollywood; Tommy Sutton, Chicago and Atlanta; and Daryl Retter, Hollywood. Ms. Chambers has taken master classes with Brenda Buffalino, Barbara Duffy, Mike Minery, Lisa Hopkins in NYC and has studied with Robert Reed and Acai Grey at Southeastern Tap Festival. She continues her training in the summer at Steps and Broadway Dance Center. She has also studied in Chicago with Lane Alexander, among others, at the annual JUBA Festival. While Ms. Chambers is trained to teach ballet as well as tap and jazz, her passion is musical theatre and tap. She also is avid about introducing the world of acting to students of all levels and enjoys writing the libretto to the annual concerts year after year. Whether it be rhythm tap or Broadway, she has developed her own technique for tap and tap choreography. Many of her pieces have won competitions at regional and national levels. She has taught workshops across the southeast and abroad, and has taught tap in Munich, Germany, while her daughter, Jennifer Paige Chambers, was touring in "42nd Street".
Her students have won scholarships to The Joffrey Ballet, Paula Abdul Co. Dance, the Professional Dance Teachers Association conventions, LA Dance Magic, NYC Dance Alliance, and Access Broadway, along with dance scholarships at major universities, such as the University of Georgia and Florida State University. Several students have gone on to work on Broadway, with national Broadway tours, regional theater, and The Radio City Rockettes. In addition to teaching jazz, tap, musical theatre, acting, and children's classes, and has developed her own program specifically designed for 3 and 4 year olds. She is Artistic Director of the Susan Chambers Dance Company, a non-profit pre-professional student performing arts organization dedicated to presenting the universal language of dance through concerts and community activities. She adapted the fairy tale "Thumbelina" into a production that was attended for seven seasons by thousands of greater Atlanta school children . In 2003, Ms. Chambers' adaptation of the all-new family production, "The Trial of Mother Goose" won rave reviews from students and teachers alike. |
|
Copyright © 2009 Susan Chambers School of Theatre Dance Ltd. All rights reserved. Page design by Onionhead Productions |