With over 35yrs of experience in professional instruction for classical ballet, modern, teacher workshops, personal and variations coaching, curriculum development and choreography.

Education/Professional arenas: Houston Ballet Academy; Texas Ballet Theatre; HSPVA; Link School of the Arts; Episcopal High School Dance Ensemble; Houston Community College Dance; University of Houston; Jewish Community Dance Center, Yoshikawa Ballet School, Petit Ballet School,and Maico Ballet School, Japan; University of Oklahoma, Belhaven University among others.Dance Companies:- Hubbard Street 2; Houston Ballet II; Houston Metropolitan Dance Company; Contemporary Dance/Ft. Worth; Chrysalis Repertory Dance Company; Sandra Organ Dance Co.; Pink Ribbons Project, Diverse Works, Houston Dance Coalition, Houston International Festival, Jewish Community Center, 12min Max, Joan Karff, New Dance Group among others.Collaborations:- Commissioned work for the International Art & Sculpture Symposium. Honoree: Mark Di Suvero., a collaborative effort with HSPVA‘s Visual Arts, Dance and Music Departments.- Commissioned work for the Texas Contemporary Dance Festival - a collaborative effort with visual artist Joanne Brigham and composer Joel Orr..- Commissioned work for - Sophia - Sacred Mandala, works, and writings of Hildegard von Bingen. Original score and libretto by Dr. Ann Gebhur with Houston Composers Alliance - Commissioned work for Songs of Experience - a multimedia production conceived by visual artist Charmaine Locke - Commissioned “Evening of multi-media –Dance, Music, and Sculpture” with Visual Artist, James Surls.- Commissioned collaborative work with composer Charles Sepos and visual artist Frank Larkey- Commissioned work by the International Quilters Festival and Houston Community College Theater and Dance Dept. - Multi-discipline workOther entities and Art Organizations:- Houston Grand Opera (9 different operas) - set choreography on internationally renowned principals and chorus members. Pink Ribbons Project, Diverse Works, Houston Dance Coalition, Houston International Festival, Jewish Community Center, 12min Max, Field Works

Modern Dance faculty member. Responsibilities included instruction in modern dance technique to dance majors and minors, rehearsal assistant for the company of the modern dance department, improvisation, and composition class, Assitant in staging choreography for the musical 'Ragtime'

- Oversees the Lower School Division, Open Class Division, Pre-School Division and is Principal instructor in both the classical ballet and modern dance division in both Lower and Upper school divisions. - Directs and instructs the Creative Dance program for the Pre-school division and the Modern dance program for the Pre-Professional and Professional division of the main school program.

Conducted movement classes for the professional singers as part of their training program. Bringing body awareness, projection and use of gestural movement to enhance their projection on stage. Also covered were core building and basic movement patterns and rhythmical styles as in the waltz and more.

- Instructor for classical ballet, modern dance, repertory, improvisation and composition classes and theory research. - Resident choreographer for the dance department. - Duties also included grading of students for progress reports, semester and final grades. Also was involved in faculty meetings and conferences with parents.

- Instructed and collaborated with the teachers on the methods of incorporating the fine arts into the academic curriculum, and implementing it in the classroom for the students. - Executed residencies within the public and private school systems. Where students experienced the relative and creative ways on how arts and academics intertwine and support each other. It promoted ‘thinking out of the box” and encouraged creative exploration – right and left brain integration.