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Dance Minor & Certificate Program

Dance Faculty

 

Professor Victorian holds a BFA in Theater Arts and Dance from Howard University, a certificate in Shakespeare from the British Academy of Dramatic Arts at Oxford University in Oxford, England, and a Masters of Arts in Dance Education from Texas Woman's University. She is currently completing her Ph.D. in Dance Studies at TWU with a focus on Black Girlhood Studies and African Diasporic Dance Traditions. 

Trained at the International School of Ballet in Cannes, France, the Academy of Theatrical Arts, and the Jones Haywood School of Ballet, she was a selected member of the Juilliard Experience at the Juilliard School and a scholarship recipient at the Alvin Ailey School in New York City. She has served as resident choreographer and assistant director at the Folger Shakespeare Theater (Washington, DC), company instructor, soloist, choreographer for Of Moving Colors Modern Dance Company (Baton Rouge), and founding member of the Dance Collective Baton Rouge. She is the former dance director at Episcopal High School of Baton Rouge and McKinley Middle Magnet Academic and Performing Arts School and is the founder of the first two chapters of the National Honor Society for Dance Arts in the state of Louisiana. She has served as an adjunct professor of jazz dance, ballet instructor, and ensemble choreographer at Louisiana State University and most recently held the position of Dance Instructional Specialist for East Baton Rouge Parish Schools. For a complete bio and information on her current work and research, visit her website at www.roxivictoriandance.com.

 

Adjunct Faculty

 

Kelly White, M.A. 

Professor of African Diasporic Dance

Kelly White was born and raised in New Orleans. She is a second-generation educator, performer, choreographer, and researcher with a BFA in Dance Performance and Choreography from the University of Southern Mississippi and an MA in Dance Education from New York University. She is also the mother to a bright and beautiful daughter named Morgan. 

She has studied with a variety of esteemed teachers, including Jean Leon Destine and Aussettua Amor Amenkum, as well as trained and performed at Plaza Cuba, New Waves Trinidad, and Jacob’s Pillow, and with such groups as Ase Dance Theater Collective, Kumbuka African Drum and Dance Collective, and Nia Love’s Blacksmith’s Daughter. 

Her choreography has been performed in venues and productions such as Dance Africa, Feast: A Yoruba Project, and Voices of Congo Square New Orleans, where she also served as the associate director. Kelly co-founded and is the Director of EVOLVE Diaspora, where she creates weekend intensives, cultural immersion trips, and community classes for professional dancers, researchers, scholars, and educators to intensely study dances of the African diaspora.