The Center of Dance - Bios -
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Published on: 2/20/2009
Last Visited: 2/20/2009
The faculty is Carol Crawford Smith, Ashley Doyle-Lucas, Ann Kilkelly, Melanie Grant, Linda Caudill, Kasey Branch, Leigh Ann Cronin, Christina Parker Barton, Audrey Terrell, Chuck George, Priansu Ghose, Joyce Arditti, Jason Mitchell, Lynn Thorpe, Kusun Ensemble, and invited guest artists.
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Kasey Branch, Instructor
Kasey Branch grew up in Blacksburg, Virginia studying ballet, contemporary, and afrocentric movement with Carol Crawford Smith and The Center of Dance and also studied jazz and tap with The Dance Place in Christiansburg, Virginia.
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Kasey was a member of the Blacksburg High School dance team her junior year and went on to study intensively with Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater for a semester.
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Upon graduation from High School, Kasey attended James Madison University as a Dance Major and then transferred after a year to Virginia Tech.
She is currently a junior at Virginia Tech earning a degree in Interdisciplinary Studies.
Kasey was a member of the Virginia Tech dance team, the HighTechs, and is currently a member of Dance Company of Virginia Tech.
She has been an instructor for The Center of Dance for four years.