Nancy Whyte Bringing  dance to Whatcom County since 1969 Artistic Director of the Mount Baker Ballet

Nancy Whyte is a performing arts educator in Northwest Washington,  Director of the Nancy Whyte School of Ballet in Bellingham, WA and the Artistic Director of Washington's Mount Baker Ballet. She teaches creative dance in Whatcom County Schools through the Allied Arts 'Artists in Community' program, has taught on faculty at Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA and as guest faculty and choreographer for Dance Theatre Northwest in Tacoma, WA.

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Nancy Whyte

Nancy Whyte has performed with various dance companies in New York and on the West Coast. She lived and studied extensively in New York under Nicolas Orloff, Vladimir Dokoudovsky, Kira Guzikova as well as many other internationally renowned teachers.While in New York, she danced with classic ballet and character ballet performing groups. She has also studied classical repertoire with Illaria Ladre, and the Vaganova syllabus under Jurgen Schneider, Janina Cunova and Egon Bishoff.      Nancy Whyte holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Dance from Evergreen State College. In 1984 Nancy Whyte was awarded the Bellingham Arts Commisssion's acclaimed Mayor's Arts Award for

her contribution to the arts and specifically to ballet in Bellingham, WA. In 1991 Nancy Whye was invited to the Soviet Union as a panelist with the Citizen Ambassador's Exchange program's world wide "Late-Twentieth Century Choreographic Trends" Symposium. She is co-author of the book Memoirs of a Child of Theatre Street, published in December 1993. The National Dance Associations awarded Nancy Whyte a 'Plaudit Award' in 2004 for her contributions to dance in education. Nancy Whyte was one of only nine choreographers nationwide to be selected as part of the Glenda Brown Choreography Project in 2004, 2006 and 2007.      Whyte  received her early training in the Willamette Valley area in Oregon under Eloez Walker. She then studied at the American School of Dance in Hollywood, CA under Eugene Loring; with Ruthanna Boris at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA. Previous work of Nancy Whyte in dance education and performance includes directing The Garden Street Dance Players, co-directing the Experimental Performance

Chris Koehl, a dancer from Houston, Texas performing in the debut of one of choreographer Nancy Whyte's new works, "In Country-Between Two Worlds" at the Glenda Brown Choreography Conference in Kansas City, Missouri 2007.

Players, co-directing the Experimental Performance Workshop, Alpha and Omega Worship Dancers, instructing creative dance at St. Paul's Primary School, and having schools in Albany, Hillsboro and Gresham, Oregon.      Ms. Whyte has been teaching and directing dance since 1964. She has been a moving force in dance and ballet for Whatcom County and Northwest Washington since 1969. She is listed in a number of the Marquis directories (Who's Who in the World, Who's Who in American Women, Who's Who in the United States and Who's Who in the West) and has been listed in the Directory of International Biography. Related pages: Dance Instructors: Nancy Whyte School of Ballet Dance Lines: Articles

Entertainment News Northwest April 2007 feature article in pdf Mt. Baker Ballet's "Dance Into Spring" please allow a few moments for download

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