Ms. Sherese Campbell This is Me

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1. 1. Houston City Dance Company

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   Published on: 7/5/2008   Last Visited: 7/5/2008

   We recently celebrated Faith's birthday at City Dance, and the owner, Sherese, and her staff was outstanding.
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   In 1994, Sherese Campbell established City Dance Studio, her non-profit dance school and performing arts organization as a way to reflect the ethnic diversity of the Houston Metropolitan area.Since then, Ms. Campbell has been the driving force in teaching the school's over 200 dance students, some 20% of whom receive scholarships.The school features a culturally and internationally diverse student body, with dancers hailing from Russia, China, Japan, Hungary, India, Nigeria, Mexico, Germany, and Italy, as well as various Houston neighborhoods.Ms. Campbell's commitment to dance education and instruction shows itself in City Dance's comprehensive class schedule, featuring an array of ballet, jazz, modern, tap, break-dancing, and hip-hop offerings that cater to students of all ages and ability levels.The Company's students are given the opportunity to perform in a variety of settings.Our students are also expected to routinely give their time and talent to the community by performing for Houston area retirement communities, hospitals, and homeless shelters.City Dance's touring company performs their vibrant mix of jazz, hip-hop, and classical styles in theaters and at cultural events throughout Houston, and has performed internationally in Spain, Switzerland, and Monaco.The Company's performers are young adults of diverse ethnic, social, and cultural backgrounds, some of whom were at one time at-risk students or high school dropouts from troubled or broken homes and many of the performers are products of Ms. Campbell's classes themselves, and now teach master classes of their own.
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   Under the guidance of founder and artistic director Sherese Campbell, City Dance's dynamic first company uses dance as an artistic medium through which to engage its audiences in a dialogue exploring both the dark and light sides of the human experience, both the struggles and the triumphs.
   
   The Professional Company's members include:
   
   Sherese CampbellTen years ago, Sherese Campbell set out to create a dance company capable of embodying her ambitious and eclectic artistic vision.Committed to forming a dance company that would reflect her own experiences, as well as the diverse lives of its dancers, Ms. Campbell combined the principles of her artistic training with a personal goal to positively affect social change.In 1994, Ms. Campbell established City Dance, Inc. bringing together dancers from a myriad of ethnic and cultural backgrounds from all parts of the city of Houston.At this point, Ms. Campbell's dream of a multi-ethnic, socially conscious and artistically vibrant company became a reality.

2. 2. City Dance Company

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   Published on: 7/5/2008   Last Visited: 7/5/2008

   Sherese CampbellCity Dance Company
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   "Sherese, Every time I think about your dance company I smile, feel the tingles, and get inspired.
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   Sherese Campbell: The Great Motivator
   
   Ten years ago, Sherese Campbell set out to create a dance company capable of embodying her ambitious and eclectic artistic vision.Committed to forming a dance company that would reflect her own experiences, as well as the diverse lives of its dancers, Ms. Campbell combined the principles of her artistic training with a personal goal to positively affect social change.In 1994, Ms. Campbell established City Dance, Inc. bringing together dancers from a myriad of ethnic and cultural backgrounds from all parts of the city of Houston.At this point, Ms. Campbell's dream of a multi-ethnic, socially conscious and artistically vibrant company became a reality.
   
   Now, having long established City Dance Studio on a foundation of passion, integrity, and technical precision, City Dance works every day to expand and enrich the boundaries of contemporary dance.Utilizing the medium of dance, which can be at once graceful and volcanic, ethereal and dramatic, City Dance repeatedly invents and reinvents itself artistically on the stage and with their high level of public service in the community.
   
   Ms. Campbell has watched her company grow constantly teaching students and dancers to find their own voices along the way.The Company maintains an "Artist-in-Residence" status with Rice University and has performed extensively in Houston, other area venues and abroad, including Spain, France, Switzerland, and Monaco.Ms. Campbell's work with the company led the Houston press to describe City Dance as "urban, edgy, explosive, and very sexy.
   
   Sherese Campbell is a graduate of Southern Illinois University in Carbondale.She trained under masters Larry Long, Lou Conte, and Maria Tallchieff and studied with the Ruth Page Foundation of Dance in Chicago Illinois.Later, she worked as a scholarship student with the Dance Theater of Harlem in the 1970s before touring Europe and the United States as a professional dancer and teacher with one of Finland's premiere dancing institution in the 1980s.Prior to founding City Dance, Inc., Ms. Campbell chaired the dance department at Episcopal High School in Houston, and taught dance at Prairie View A & M University.Sherese Campbell has just received an individual artist fellowship grant for her edgy and beautiful choreography from the Cultural Arts Council of Houston and Harris County.Ms. Campbell is regarded by many in the dance community as one of the most inspiring and motivational dance teachers in Houston today.
   
   The company is a flowing tapestry of visual and aural experience, and to watch City Dance perform is to see the pulsing synthesis of cultures, languages, neighborhoods, and lives.The company's practice studio shakes with the beating rhythms of innovation and tradition, the near-primordial screams and echoes of the mind working with and against the body, gathering a verve that spills into the performance halls and out onto the city's streets.These soulful emanations, dance and music and all that follows, are the sewn-together strands of diverse pieces of experience, and are in fact dialects in the language of the children of urban American life.
   
   City Dance is a place where voices are given life, where feelings are provided structure and focus, and where dancers can do what they love.Always working towards this goal, Ms. Campbell has watched her company grow constantly teaching students and dancers to find their own voices along the way.As well as its "Artist-in-Residence" status with Rice University, City Dance has performed extensively in Houston and abroad, in Spain, France, Switzerland, and Monaco, and Ms. Campbell's work with the company led the Houston press to describe City Dance as "urban, edgy, explosive, and very sexy.The men and women perform awe-inspiring combinations, twisting, leaping, spinning, jumping and jiving with ease."
   
   Always engaging and compelling, City Dance confronts the complicated social and cultural issues that shape our communities.With a fresh and invigorating fusion of styles, from ballet and classical to jazz and hip-hop, Ms. Campbell and her company use dance to explore the deep valleys and the soaring mountaintops of their vast urban landscape.

3. 3. Bios of Peer Review Panelists

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   Published on: 7/23/2001   Last Visited: 8/12/2002

   Sherese Campbell (Dance Panel)(new)
   
   Ms. Campbell is the Artist Director and Founder of City Dance, in operation since 1994.Formerly the Head of the Dance Department and Director of Impact Dance Company at Episcopal High School she studied dance with the Ruth Page Foundation of Dance, Lou Conte Dance Studio, Dance Theater of Harlem, Jamaica National School of Dance and City Ballet of Houston.Ms. Campbell is the recipient of a 2002 CACHH Individual Artist Grant Fellowship in Choreography.