Lindsay Tilley Email and Phone Number

I began dancing locally at the age of nine. During my local studio training, I was a member of the Durham Children’s Ballet Company as well as Alyanfe, the African American Dance Ensemble’s Children’s Company directed by Dr. Chuck Davis.I performed and competed on local and national levels, being crowned Jr. Miss Dance of the United States at thirteen. At fourteen, I left home to attend the University of the North Carolina School of the Arts as a high school ballet major. While there, I performed in many roles from classical ballet to jazz. During my high school years, I attended dance programs with Pacific Northwest Ballet, Hungarian National Ballet, Joffrey Ballet, and Pennsylvania Ballet, as well as professionally guest-performing with the New Jersey Coastal Ballet. Upon graduation, I returned to the triangle to pursue professional dancing and teaching. I danced with the Duke University Dance Program, Chapel Hill Dance Theatre, and the 15-501 Ballet while teaching in the Durham Chapel Hill area.Later I went on to join the Carolina Ballet as their first paid professional dancer. After enjoying three years with Carolina Ballet, I decided to start a family and return to teaching, becoming a certified member of Dance Masters of America, Dance Educators of America, Acrobatic Arts, Alixa Flexibility, Progressing Ballet Technique, National Dance Education Organization, and Dancing Memories.While owning and teaching at Encore Academy of Dance I also teach at many workshops and community events around the state, as well as masterclasses for other studios in North Carolina. I spent 15 years teaching preschool, first at St. Luke’s Preschool and Kindergarten then at Grey Stone Preschool and Kindergarten before becoming a teaching assistant for Kindergarten. I then went on to create the dance program at Excelsior Classical Academy, a local charter school. Teaching students in Kindergarten through ninth grade. Lindsay is also a board member for Carolina Dance Masters, her local Dance Masters of America chapter. My goal as an educator is to bring the joy of dance to as many people as possible.