Faculty
Full Time Faculty
Catherine Solaas
Department Chair, Dance Faculty, Production Manager
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Catherine Solaas has celebrated 35 years as a dancer, choreographer, educator, and arts administrator. A University of Oregon Distinguished Alumna (2023), Solaas joined the dance faculty at Austin Community College in 2011 and has served as department chair since 2014. Solaas led ACC through the process of earning accreditation with the National Association of Schools of Dance (2024) and currently serves as Faculty Lead for ACC’s Department Chair Academy, directs ACC Dance’s paid internship program, produces the annual season of ACC Dance events, and teaches dance courses at ACC.
Solaas choreographs for faculty and student productions as well as local and regional dance festivals and conferences. Locally, her work has been performed at the Austin Dance Festival, Texas State University, and events produced by the American College Dance Association and National Dance Education Organization. Solaas has received grants and commissions for the creation of new work, including awards from Arts Council Norway, Nordic Culture Point, Freedom of Expression Foundation, Sound and Picture Fund, the Norwegian Wind Ensemble, the Austrian Embassy, and the Center for the Study of Women in Society. She has presented research at The League for Innovation in the Community College, National Dance Education Organization, and Texas Dance Improvisation Festival. Solaas earned her bachelor’s (1993) and master’s (1996) degrees in dance from the University of Oregon. She is happy to have danced in the US and internationally with Jill Sigman, Tiffany Mills Company, Susan Hadley, Claire Porter, Margo Van Ummersen, Alito Alessi and others, including extensive seasons at New York venues such as Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors, Joyce Soho, Merce Cunningham Studio, Dumbo Dance Festival and the Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church.
Solaas is a member of the National Association of Schools of Dance, the National Dance Education Organization, and the League for Innovation in the Community College.
Melissa Sanderson
Dance Faculty
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Melissa Sanderson (she/her) joined the dance faculty at Austin Community College as an Associate Professor in 2021. She brings a commitment to guiding students through embodied learning experiences to find presence in their bodies and help them hone their unique creative voices. Melissa holds an MFA in Dance from Texas Woman’s University and a BFA in Dance from San Diego State University. Since 2022, she has served on the advisory board of the Texas Dance Improvisation Festival.
Her artistic work spans choreography, performance, and dance film. She is a founding collaborator with Allysen Hooks Projects, and her recent collaborations include work with Alexa Capareda, Cora Laszlo, BLiPSWiTCH, Brandon Gonzalez, POINT A, and Jordan Fuchs. Her choreography has been presented at venues and festivals such as 12 Minutes Max in Seattle, the World Dance Alliance Global Summit in St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada, WDA’s International Young Choreographers Project in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Austin Dance Festival, Texas Dance Improvisation Festival, Dance Carousel, and BOOST Dance Festival.
Melissa’s dance films have been featured in festivals including Agite y Sirva in Mexico, Seyr Festival in Iran, São Carlos Videodance Festival in Brazil, Utah Dance Film Festival, Dans Kamera Istanbul in Turkey, and Festival International de Vidéo Danse de Bourgogne in France. Previously based in Seattle, she performed in collaborative projects with Coriolis Dance, The Gray, Kinesis Project Dance Theatre, and Jessica Jobaris & General Magic, with performances at venues including On the Boards and Velocity Dance Center. www.melissasandersondance.com
Adjunct Faculty
Caroline Clark, PhD, MFA
Adjunct Faculty, Dance
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Caroline Sutton Clark comes from a wide range of experience in ballet, modern dance, butoh, and other diverse forms of dance. She has danced with many companies including Atlanta Historic Dance, Mazury International Folk Dance of Atlanta, Iona Dance Theatre, MAD/CO, Ann Arbor Dance Theatre, and Ballet Austin in addition to directing her own company, Wicked Cricket Dance Theatre of Austin, TX. Clark’s Ph.D. dissertation used oral history methods to investigate the performances of Austin Ballet Theatre at the Armadillo World Headquarters. Her academic honors include the 2017 Caroline Plummer Research Fellowship in Community Dance in Dunedin, New Zealand, the 2015 Texas Woman’s University Graduate Award for Excellence and Creativity in Research, NDEO’s Top Paper Citation for the 2018 and 2015 conferences, and a 2015 “Favorite Professor” award. Recent publications include Dance Research Journal and chapters in Handbook of Dance Education Research, The Bloomsbury Handbook of Dance and Philosophy, and The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Ballet. Clark has taught dance technique, history, and theory courses at the University of Georgia, Kennesaw State University, Austin Community College, Texas State University, and the University of Hawai’i.
Joseph Cox, MFA
Adjunct Faculty, Dance
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Joseph Cox holds an M.F.A. in Dance from The University of Iowa. He teaches Dance Appreciation for Austin Community College, offering a perspective informed by both scholarship and an extensive performance background.
Joseph and his wife currently serve as directors of the Slavin Nadal School of Ballet. His dance career began with Eugene Slavin and Alexandra Nadal at Ballet Austin, and continued with Cincinnati Ballet, Dayton Ballet, and most notably as a principal dancer with the Louisville Ballet. Over his twenty-five year performing career, he learned much of the classical ballet canon and numerous masterworks of the 20th century, working closely with dance icons, such as Sir Frederic Franklin, Suzanne Farrell, and Nicholas “Papa” Beriosoff.
Joseph previously taught ballet technique and dance history as Assistant Professor of Dance at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. He has also served in various teaching and staging capacities with Ballet Arkansas, Cincinnati Ballet, Kentucky Governor’s School for the Arts, Cincinnati Opera, and The Carnegie Theatre of Northern Kentucky. Joseph and his wife were the founding directors of the Crossing Lines Project, a team of professional performers dedicated to sharing dance with student artists throughout Kentucky.
Joseph’s choreography has been performed with Louisville Ballet, Cincinnati Ballet, Dayton Ballet, Louisville’s Moving Collective, Austin Contemporary Ballet, and in other venues. His honors include the 2009 Kentucky Arts Council “Al Smith” Fellowship for Choreography, the 2011 Iowa Arts Fellowship, and a Governor’s commission as a Kentucky Colonel.
Jessica Coxe, MFA
Adjunct Faculty, Dance
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Jessica Lindberg Coxe is an Adjunct Professor of Dance at Austin Community College (ACC), an instructor of Ballet technique at Greater Austin Dance Academy, is actively involved in teaching the dance students at various schools in the Round Rock and Austin Independent School Districts, and presents, performs, and stages her reconstructions of Loie Fuller’s masterworks. Coxe holds a BFA in Dance Performance from Southern Methodist University, an MFA in Dance Reconstruction / Directing from Score from The Ohio State University, and she is certified in Labanotation and Language of Dance®. Coxe has been teaching History and Appreciation of Dance, later Dance Appreciation, with ACC since 2010 and in 2018 she created the World Dance course in which ACC students learn about various cultures and interact with dance practitioners from around the world.
Coxe used historical accounts, reviews, photographs, lithographs, and other artwork of the 1890s, to reconstruct Night, Fire Dance, Lily of the Nile, and La Mer, master works by the dancer, choreographer, and theatrical lighting pioneer Loie Fuller. She has performed these works across the United States and locally with Dancestry at the Long Center. She has staged and presented her research internationally including the Art Institute of Chicago, Maryhill Museum, the University of Washington, Gonzaga University, Texas State University, Western Michigan University, MOMENTA Dance Company in Chicago, among others. Coxe is currently in talks to present La Mer at the Battery Dance Festival in New York City with the Lori Belilove Dance Company in August, 2023.
Erin Ellis, MFA
Adjunct Faculty, Dance
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Erin Ellis, M.F.A., is a dance artist, educator, and founding collaborator with Allysen Hooks Projects, an Austin-based dance company committed to innovative and gripping performance. Based in Austin, TX, Erin creates work that blends archetypal symbolism with bold, theatrical movement to unearth the hidden significance of stories stored within the body. Her performances invite audiences into a space of discovery, somatic embodiment, and transformation.
Erin’s choreographic and performance career includes appearances at the Austin Dance Festival, Barnstorm Dance Festival, COCO Dance Festival in Trinidad and Tobago, and Westfest Dance in New York City. She has toured Francisco Graciano’s solo The Spinner and performed in notable works by Brian Brooks (Wave Theory at The American Dance Festival’s Footprints program), Chelsea Ainsworth and Jessica Smith (Duel Rivet), Andy and Dionne Noble (NobleMotion), Erica “EG” Gionfriddo, Adele Nickel, and Christa Oliver, among others. Her training includes work with The American Dance Festival, Beaverdam Dance Company in Switzerland, and several internationally recognized choreographers and pedagogues.
Erin holds a Master of Fine Arts in Dance from Sam Houston State University, where her research focused on the uncovering and embodiment of personal myth. She is a certified practitioner of the Nervous System module of Body-Mind Centering, which supports her trauma-aware, somatically informed teaching practice. She also holds a Bachelor’s degree in Dance Education from Texas State University and is an alumna of Kilgore College, where she performed with the Rangerettes and the modern company Industry.
Dedicated to community wellness and equitable access to the arts, Erin teaches inclusive dance classes for elderly adults and adults with disabilities through Dance Waterloo, an Austin-based dance nonprofit. She has also worked with organizations such as The Salvation Army and MINDPOP to create and implement socially responsive curricula. Her teaching career began with Marching Auxiliaries Dance Camps, and she continues to direct clinics, choreograph, and adjudicate dance competitions across the country.
Whether in performance or in the classroom, Erin’s work is grounded in curiosity, connection, and the transformative power of movement.
Roxanne Gage, BA
Adjunct Faculty, Dance
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Roxanne Gage is an experienced performer, choreographer, educator, and adjudicator who enjoys sharing her love for dance. She holds a BA in Dance from the University of Texas at Austin and an Associate of Fine Arts from Kilgore College, where she was a proud Rangerette Lieutenant and Swingster. Roxanne has taught at all levels and served as the dance director at Austin High School. She now teaches as part of the dance faculty at Austin Community College and Texas State University in San Marcos.
Roxanne has presented at conferences like the American College Dance Association and the Texas Dance Educators Association. She serves as an adjudicator with the Texas Dance Education Assessment and Learning staff. She is an MA Staff Member who has taught dance extensively throughout the U.S., and she is also a dance competition judge for high school dancers. She’s also an active board member with the Kathy Dunn Hamrick Dance Company, part of the Austin Dance Festival Committee, and on the Kilgore Rangerette Forever Foundation Board.
When she’s not in the classroom, you can find her performing with Blue Lapis Light, an aerial dance company known for its site-specific works. Roxanne’s choreography has been featured at events like the Blanton Museum of Art’s Warhol opening, the JW Marriott grand opening, and national conventions for Rodan+Fields, Essential Oils, and Texas CASA. She even worked as an assistant choreographer on Miss Congeniality and recently choreographed a full dance scene for the HBO series Love and Death.
As a former performer and rehearsal director with the Kathy Dunn Hamrick Dance Company, Roxanne spent over 15 years in collaboration and performance. She’s also danced with Sharir Dance Company, Jose Bustamante Dance Company, and Andrea Beckham Collaborative Dance, performing works by major choreographers like Yacov Sharir, Heywood “Woody” McGriff, Jose Bustamante, Ohad Naharin, David Dorfman, Doug Varone, Kathy Dunn Hamrick, Sally Jacques, and many more.
Roxanne’s heart is in teaching. She’s dedicated to creating a high-energy, supportive space where dancers and educators can grow, take risks, and reach new heights, both in the studio and beyond.
Gabrielle (Aufiero) Gucciardi
Adjunct Faculty, Dance
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Gabrielle (Aufiero) Gucciardi is an educator, choreographer, and dancer based in Austin,
TX. She is currently an Adjunct Professor in the Dance Department at Austin Community
College and serves as the Director of Round Rock High School’s Dragon Pride Dance
Company where she also founded and teaches the Modern/Contemporary dance
academy course. Gabrielle holds an MFA in Dance from Texas Woman’s University and a B.A. in American Studies with a minor in Dance from Franklin Pierce University—where she graduated Valedictorian of her class. She was also selected as one of 7,980 individuals selected out of 57,000 applicants to serve as a 2013 corps member for Teach For America. As a choreographer, educator, performer, and scholar Gabrielle has made appearances both nationally (Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Texas, Virginia) and internationally (Lyon, France). Her choreography has been selected for regional and national performance debuts for the American College Dance Festival in New England and SHAPE America’s National Convention and Exposition. She has presented professional development workshops and lecture demonstrations at the Texas Dance Educators’ Association’s annual convention. She also enjoys teaching master classes, serving as a guest artist/lecturer, and setting freelance choreography.
As an educator, Gabrielle recognizes that there is just as much responsibility in sharing the art of dance as there is in mentoring the future of the dance field and the members of our greater community. By sharing her passion for dance, creating a space that holds students to high expectations, and teaching students the tools they need to be successful in their lives beyond the classroom, Gabrielle hopes to enrich each student’s understanding of their individual potential and empower them to create significant contributions to their chosen career fields and beyond.
Darla Johnson
Adjunct Faculty, Faculty Advisor for Students, Dance
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Darla Johnson is a choreographer, teacher, and author living in Austin, Texas. She is the author of The Art of Listening: Intuition and Improvisation in Choreography (2012) and a contributor to Experiments in a Jazz Aesthetic: Art, Activism, Academia, and the Austin Project (2010). She is also a published poet.
From 1990 to 2005, Johnson was the co-artistic director of Johnson/Long Dance.
J/LDC received numerous awards and grants from the City of Austin, the State of Texas, and the National Performance Network. The Austin Symphony, the University of Texas, Dance on Tulsa, and Winona State University commissioned dance/theatre works from J/LDC. The company performed nationally and internationally in such cities as Los Angeles, Honolulu, Little Rock, Albuquerque, and Hamburg, Germany, and taught residencies throughout the United States while touring.
Johnson founded the dance department at Austin Community College. She has received the ACC Teacher’s Excellence award twice. In 2009, she received the National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development Award for Teaching Excellence and Service. She was invited to be a Visiting Scholar, with a focus on globalizing curriculum, at the University of Texas for the 2016-2017 academic year.
Recently, Johnson’s work has been produced and performed at the Austin Dance Festival, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Black Arts Movement Festival, Texas State University, Spelman College, Georgian Court University, with the Shay Ishii Dance Company and in a project with other Austin choreographers entitled 11:11.
The JUSTICE Project is Johnson’s recent work and research project. The project is a collaboration with Nicole Wesley. Spelman College (Atlanta, Georgia), Northumbria University and The Contemporary School of Dance (United Kingdom), Austin Community College (Austin, Texas) and the University of Trinidad and Tobago (Trinidad) the University of Bedfordshire, (United Kingdom), Texas State University (San Marcos, Texas) and McCallum Fine Arts Academy (Austin, Texas) have all commissioned The JUSTICE Project. In June of 2016, a chapter co-authored by Johnson and Wesley on the McCallum Fine Arts project was published in The Young Are Making Their World, Essays on the Power of Youth Culture.
Dawn Davis Loring
Adjunct Faculty, Dance
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Dawn Davis Loring is delighted to be teaching Dance Appreciation and World Dance at ACC. She recently published her first book, Dance Appreciation, in January 2021 (Human Kinetics), co-written with Julie L. Pentz, and maintains the Today in Dance resource and podcast on her website. Dawn has been writing about dance since 1998 and has published articles and reviews in The Boston Globe, The Dancing Times magazine (UK), the Austin Chronicle, and the Journal of Dance Education (JODE). She directed the dance/theatre company, Mosaic Dance Body (MDB), for over 10 years and her choreography has been described as “goofy, pointed political theatre” by the Boston Globe, and by the Austin American-Statesman as “fresh and clever with a sarcastic wit,” and MDB is described as a company that is “not afraid to take themselves a little less seriously to achieve some big laughs”. She has taught dance for over 20 years to adults, youth, and children in situations ranging from universities to K-12 public and private schools and studio classes. As an administrator, she served as the San Antonio organizer for the first IAHPEDS World Conference in July 2022, and she has worked with the Royal Academy of Dance in London and the San Antonio Dance Umbrella.
Jessica MacFarlane, MA
Adjunct Faculty, Dance
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Sanchita is a performing artist, choreographer, and a dance scholar from New Delhi, India. She recently 
earned her Doctorate from UCLA’s Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance, where she taught courses ranging from arts activism to community engagement. She holds a Masters in Performance Studies from Ambedkar University, Delhi, and Bachelors in Psychology from Delhi University. As the Chair for Dance Studies Association’s (DSA) working group, Practice-as-Research, she intends to bridge the gap between dance theory and practice, looking towards a more interdisciplinary approach to dance scholarship. Sanchita makes dances that are experimental and derives their movement vocabulary from her lived experiences as well as from her training in jazz, modern, and contemporary dance styles.
Her choreographies have been presented at ACC’s 7th Annual Faculty and Guest Artist Dance Concert and First Street Studio (Austin), The Broad Art Center (UCLA), Lost and Found Festival: Invisible Cities, Some Bodies of Dance, Contemporary Arts week, and Inside/Outside festival (India), and “Release 4.0” at Maya Dance Theatre (Singapore). Her dance film, Engage, was awarded the “Best Dance Film” in Seoul International Short Film Festival (2021) and was officially selected at several festivals across New York, Austin, and Germany. As a dancer, she has performed extensively across India, China, Scotland, and the United States. Her recent collaborations include performances with Early Era Collective and choreographer Jahna Bobolia (Austin), interdisciplinary artist Julie Tolentino, choreographers Milka Djordjevich, Ligia Lewis, and Emily Barasch (Los Angeles), Mandeep Raikhy (New Delhi), Preethi Athreya (Chennai), and Parijat Desai (New York). She has been an artist-in-residence at Crashbox, Rude Mechs (Austin) and at Gati Summer Dance Residency (New Delhi).
In her scholarly work, Sanchita analyzes the politics of corporeal dissent and liberation in Indian contemporary dance and brings fields like Critical Dance Studies, Performance Studies, Cultural Studies, and South Asian Studies into conversation. She has presented her research at American Society for Theatre Research, DSA, and Fourth Annual Graduate Interdisciplinary Conference on South Asia at UCLA, among others, and has been awarded the UCLA International Institute Fieldwork Fellowship (2022), Dance Studies Association Pre-Conference Scholarship from American Society of Aesthetics (2021), UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture’s Oxman Fellowship (2020), Sandra Zell Kaufman Memorial Scholarship (2019), and Dean’s General Award (2019), and American Alumni Association Grant (2018) to support her research endeavors. In 2023, she served as the first Editorial Fellow for the DSA’s journal, Conversations Across the field of Dance Studies, and contributed to the journal’s mission to promote decolonial and anti-racist frameworks and methodologies in dance research..
Jun Shen, MFA
Adjunct Faculty, Dance
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Jun Shen is the founder and artistic director of Shen Jun Movement Effect based in the Austin area. Shen, born in Mainland China, began dancing in high school. He earned his bachelor degree in dance at Beijing Capital Normal University and then attended Beijing Dance/LDTX as a dancer and choreographer. In the past several years, he has performed and choreographed many dance works for many worldwide dance festivals and events including Dance Salad Festival, Beijing Dance Festival, Fall For Dance Festival, and Busan International Dance Festival, among others. He has collaborated with many different artists from various fields, as well. Shen has also taught in many educational institutions and dance studios, both nationally and internationally, such as Virginia Common University, Shanghai Drama Academy, Lines Ballet Training Program, and the University of Texas at Austin. He was invited to join the graduate dance program at UT Austin in 2013 and earned his MFA in May of 2016. He currently teaches movement and Tai-Chi at Sansori High School and is the modern dance instructor and guest artist for Blue Lapis Light.
Staff
Mike Fonseca
Dance Accompanist
Mike Fonseca received his bachelor’s degree in Jazz Studies from North Texas in 1999 and his Master’s in Jazz performance from UT in 2016. Since his move to Austin in 2000, Mike has played and toured with various Indie-Rock and Jazz groups. With over 10 years of teaching experience at ACC he has taught Music Appreciation, Small Commercial Music Ensemble, American Music, Percussion ensemble and private percussion lessons. While his main focus is on drumset, he also teaches hand drums and the accompanying percussion for the Afro-Cuban and Brazilian rhythmic universes. When Mike is not teaching or performing, you can find him composing music for his solo Avant-Garde-Metal project Huelga. He is now reinvigorated and eager to teach everything he learned in the Study Abroad trips to Cuba that he led in the summer of 2023 and 2024! Mike has been an accompanist for the ACC Dance department since 2019.
Stevie Hawes
Dance Accompanist
Stevie Hawes is an agender multi-instrumentalist from Austin, Texas. Music has always been one of Stevie’s main passions since they learned to play the piano at a young age. They thrived as a flautist in the Cedar Park High School marching band which won 10th place at the BOA Grand Nationals during Stevie’s senior year. They received their Bachelor of Arts in Music with a minor in Creative Writing from Knox College in 2015, where they were also the saxophone section leader in the Knox Jazz Ensemble. After graduating Stevie returned to Knox as a Post-Baccalaureate for the Music Department and helped the KJE raise over $12,000 for a cultural exchange trip to China.
Upon returning to Texas, Stevie worked various jobs in the music industry before becoming a full-time piano accompanist at the beginning of 2021. Outside of playing for classes at both ACC and Ballet Austin, Stevie performs in two different local bands, Sheilava and Oh Antonio & His Imaginary Friends. Stevie also creates music under their own brand, SymphonicElectric. They have a passion for making music covers and writing original music for various projects including YouTube videos, livestreams on Twitch, and video game and film scores. Stevie’s other large passion is video games, which is reflected in a lot of their work. Visit their website to learn more: https://symphonicelectric.wordpress.com/
Channing Schreyer
Theater Productions Coordinator
Channing Schreyer is a full-time staff member in the Dance Department. Channing received their BA in Production Design and Studio Art from Pepperdine University and is an ACC alumnus. Before joining ACC, Channing gained extensive experience working for Pepperdine University’s Center for the Arts, Baylor University’s Theatre Department, and the Rudder Theater Complex at Texas A&M University.
Channing’s love for Dance Lighting Design began as a student at Pepperdine University, where they were introduced to the art through the yearly student production Dance in Flight under the instruction of resident Lighting Designer, David Barber. While at Pepperdine and Texas A&M, Channing was also fortunate to witness how lighting enhanced the beauty of touring dance troupes like Momix and Pilobolus, which further fueled their passion for lighting in dance.
At Austin Community College, one of Channing’s favorite responsibilities is designing lights for both the fall and spring Choreographer’s Showcase each year, where she works closely with dance students studying Production and Choreography. Additionally, she designs lights for the Faculty and Guest Concert, Dance Informance, and the pieces that ACC Dance sends to ACDA each spring.
Channing currently manages the electrics shop for both the Dance and Drama departments, ensuring that all productions are lit and technically sound. While Channing primarily serves as the lighting designer for the Dance Department and as a Theatre Master Electrician for Drama, she also occasionally designs lights for the Drama Department. Notable lighting designs for the Drama Department include The Snow, Iphigenia at Aulis, and Batboy the Musical. In addition to their work in lighting design, Channing has recently expanded their role to include teaching as an adjunct instructor in the Drama Department, where they share their expertise in Production Design and Scenic Painting.
Giovanni Voltaggio
Dance Accompanist
Giovanni Voltaggio studied piano performance at the Univ of Minnesota and Theory & Composition at UT. He’s been an accompanist with Ballet Austin, ACC, ABT, UT, and the Univ of Minnesota dance programs. He’s also a piano technician and member of the Piano Technicians Guild.
Philip David Weaver
Dance Department Technician
Philip David Weaver has lived, studied, worked, volunteered, and performed in Austin since 2008. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Liberal Arts with majors in Classics, Latin, French, and Linguistics and a certificate in Paralegal Studies from the University of Texas, as well as an Associate’s of Arts in Dance and an Associate’s of Science in Computer Information Technology from Austin Community College. He is a mid-career paraprofessional in the legal services field. He has credits as Actor, Dancer, Instrumentalist, Assistant Director, Stage Manager, Choreographer, Writer, and Makeup Artist. His drag character Sister Serena, a fixture of the local activist community, has appeared across the United States. A proud graduate of ACC Dance, he is thrilled to join the staff as Department Assistant in 2024.
FOR MORE INFO CONTACT: CATHERINE SOLAAS AT (512) 223-7198 OR [email protected]