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Tara Wheatley

Height: 5'5"

Hair: Light Brown
Location: Moreno Valley, CA
Willing to travel

Dance Training

2010-2014 Brockus Conservatory of Dance and Musical Theater - Director: Deborah Brockus

2009-2010 Dance Dimensions Performing Arts Center - Director: Cherie Gomez Boucher

2002-2009 California Dancer - Director: Susanne Lee

Master Classes/Intensives

Hot and Fresh Dance Intensive:

  • March, 2014

  • Took classes from Jesse Abrescy, Chris Dupre, and Eddie Garcia

  • Awarded "Teacher's Choice" by Eddie Garcia

Nuevo Intensive:

  • April, 2014

  • Took master class from Hope Boykin

Hot and Fresh Dance Intensive:

  • February, 2014

  • Took classes from Jesse Abrescy, Chris Dupre, and Cris Judd

American Dance Festival:

  • Six week summer program, 2013

  • Awarded partial scholarship

  • Partook in a multitude of classes instructed by: Michelle Gibson (Afro-modern), Sherone Price (African), T-Lang (Composition), LeeSaar The Company (Master class), Teena Marie Custer (Hip-Hop), Kyle Abraham (Master Class), Elisa Clark (Modern), Elizabeth Corbett (Ballet), Leslie Frye (Modern), Roxanne Lyst (Horton Technique), and Yangkeun Kim (Healing Techniques).

Pasadena Dance Festival:

  • April, 2013

  • Partook in a range of classes instructed by: Molly Mattei (Jazz Fusion), Glyn Gray (Tap), Sangita Shresthova (Bollywood), Linda Yudin (African), Miss Prissy (Krump), Frantick (Popping), and Angie Vaughn (Hip-Hop).

Pasadena Dance Festival:

  • April, 2012

  • Partook in a range of classes instructed by: Catherine Round (Ballet), Mathai (Bollywood), Shannon Rohrer (Core Strengthening), Frit & Frat Fuller (Hip-Hop), Nancy Evans Doede (Dance Composition) Terri Best (Lyrical Jazz), and Angie Vaughn (Hip-Hop).

Brockus Project Studios: Winter Intensive

  • December, 2012

  • Partook in Modern classes instructed by: Shawn Greene, Chad Michael Hall, Deborah Brockus, and Reggie Brown, as well as an aerial class from Ruby Karen.

Laguna Dance Festival:

  • September, 2012

  • Partook in a Ballet master class instructed by Michael Trusnovec.

Martha Graham Dance Company: Master Class

  • March, 2011

  • Took a Modern class from Tadej Brdnik.

Pasadena Dance Festival:

  • February, 2011

  • Partook in a range of classes instructed by: Charles Maple (Ballet), Frit & Frat Fuller (Urban Hip-Hop), Jamie Nichols (Contemporary Modern/Jazz), Michelle Kolb (Pilates Mat), Catherine Round (Ballet), Briseyda Zarate (Flamenco), and Glyn Gray (New School Tap)

Brockus Project Studios: Summer Intensive

  • July, 2010

  • Partook in Modern classes instructed by: Shawn Greene, Chad Michael Hall, Deborah Brockus, and Reggie Brown, as well as an aerial class from Ruby Karen.

Brockus Project Studios: Winter Intensive

  • December, 2009

  • Partook in Modern classes instructed by: Shawn Greene, Chad Michael Hall, Deborah Brockus, and Reggie Brown, as well as an aerial class from Ruby Karen.

 

Choreography

2014   Gonna Get This   Hannah Montana & Iyaz           Hannah Montana Forever                         Funky Jazz

2014   I See Fire              Ed Sheeran                                  The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug    Contemporary

2013   Mrs. Right            Mindless Behavior                      #1 Girl                                                          Hip-hop

2013   The Winner Is     Mychael Danna & DeVotchKa   Little Miss Sunshine                                   Character/Contemporary

2012   Landfill                 Daughter                                      His Young Heart                                         Contemporary

May, 2014   Musical Theater and Student Choreography Concert     Brockus Conservatory of Dance and Musical Theater

Apr, 2014    Edge San Diego Art Walk                                                      Brockus Conservatory of Dance and Musical Theater

Apr, 2014    Student Concert                                                                     Pasadena Dance Festival

Mar, 2014   Spring Concert                                                                        Brockus Conservatory of Dance and Musical Theater

Nov, 2014   Fall Dance Concert                                                                 Brockus Conservatory of Dance and Musical Theater

Jul, 2014      T- Lang's Composition Showing                                          American Dance Festival

Jul, 2014      Sherone Price's African Showing                                        American Dance Festival

May, 2013   Musical Theater and Student Choreography Concert    Brockus Conservatory of Dance and Musical Theater

May, 2013   Redlands Gala Fundraiser                                                   Brockus Conservatory of Dance and Musical Theater

Apr, 2013    Edge San Diego Art Walk                                                     Brockus Conservatory of Dance and Musical Theater

Apr, 2013    Student Concert                                                                    Pasadena Dance Festival

Mar, 2013   Spring Concert                                                                       Brockus Conservatory of Dance and Musical Theater

Nov, 2013   Dance Concert                                                                       Brockus Conservatory of Dance and Musical Theater

Apr, 2012    Edge San Diego Art Walk                                                     Brockus Conservatory of Dance and Musical Theater

Apr, 2012    Student Concert                                                                    Pasadena Dance Festival

Mar, 2012   Spring Concert                                                                      Brockus Conservatory of Dance and Musical Theater

Nov, 2012   Fall Concert                                                                            Brockus Conservatory of Dance and Musical Theater

Dance Performances
 
Acting Training
 

Jr. Theatre Workshop   GATE at MVUSD   Rodney A. Anderson
Introduction to Acting  Studio                    Loren E. Chadima
Beginning Acting           Studio                    Addison Witt
Commercial Acting       Gray Studios         Chris Apodaca

Theatrical Technique   Gray Studios         Danny Mitan

Audition Technique      Gray Studios         Danny Mitan

Norbit                Park Visitor   Dreamworks

Santa Claus 3   North Pole     Tourist Santa Frost Productions

 

Film
 
Television
 

Invasion                  Child in Street                  WBTV

In Justice                 Girl Swinging in Rain      Touchstone

Medium                  Child in Doctor Office     Paramount

Without a Trace     De'Angelo's Daughter    CBS

 

Print Work
 

Fuji Digital Camera     Walking with Mom     Spotty Dog

 

Theater

Dancing Dolls                                   Elf 2                 Charon Aldredge – Charon Tap Star Productions

West Side Story                               Consuela         Debbie Wolgemuth – Riverside Youth Theatre
Blood Wedding                                Party Guest    Abby Bosworth – Brockus Conservatory of Dance and Musical Theater

Innovator: Merce Cunningham     John Cage       Susan Young– Vista Heights Middle School

Attack of the PomPom Zombies   Cheerleader   Autumn Earle-Rodriguez – Vista Heights Middle School

Birthday Disaster                             Samantha       Autumn Earle-Rodriguez -Vista Heights Middle School

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