Dance Graduates
Below is a list of where dance students have gone
upon graduating from Belhaven University. While it is not an exhaustive list
of graduates, it shows where students have gone on to gain employment or further
education.
2004
| Shannon Brege |
BFA Ballet |
Storling Dance Theatre Apprentice,
KS |
| Jennifer Businda |
BA Biology, Dance Minor |
Admission
Counselor, Belhaven University, MS |
| Debra Cross |
BFA Ballet |
Polarity Dance
Theatre, MS |
| Megan Hulley |
Dance Minor |
Polarity Dance
Theatre, MS |
| Stephanie Miracle |
BA Dance |
The Living Water Dance Company,
MS, teaches for Mississippi Metropolitan Dance Academy |
| Elizabeth Stratton |
BFA Dance |
Inlet Dance Theatre
Intern, OH |
2003
| Kandia S. Allen |
BA Biblical Studies, Dance Minor |
Youth with a Mission, NY |
| Rebecca A. Burd |
Certificate |
Youth with a Mission, NY |
| Michelle S. Gravlee |
BA Biblical Studies, Dance
Minor |
Mission to the World, Africa |
| Jill S. Kille |
BFA Ballet |
Polarity Dance Theatre, MS |
Valerie Pope Nicholson |
BA Biblical Studies, Dance Minor |
Tulsa Contemporary Dance Theatre,
OK |
| Michele Painter |
BFA Dance |
MFA Program, Florida State
University |
| Cari L. Rittenhouse |
BA Dance, Theatre Minor |
Avenue Performing Arts, WA |
| Vanessa Steverding Van Wormer |
BA Theatre, Dance Minor |
Avenue Performing Arts, WA |
2002
| Andrea Brubaker |
BFA Ballet |
Polarity Dance Theatre, MS |
| Naphtali Gunther |
BA Biblical Studies, Dance Minor |
Dance Ad Deum, Trainee
Program, TX |
| Emily Henderson Wright |
BFA Dance |
MFA Program, Arizona State
University, Adjunct Instructor for Dance for Belhaven University |
| Lauren Morris |
BFA Dance |
The Living Water Dance Company, MS, Admin. Assist. for the Arts,
Belhaven University, MS, KINYTX Dance Ensemble, NC, Primary Teacher for Dancing
Together, NC |
| Tapley Seaford |
BA Dance |
Dance Ad Deum II, TX |
Maranda VanStraten |
BA Dance |
MLVS Photography, Tulsa Contemporary Dance Theatre,
OK |
2001
| Courtney Gurley Hogue |
BA Dance |
Xpress Dance Company,
Ridgeland, MS and Mississippi Ballet Theatre in Clinton, MS. |
| Angela Jones |
BFA Ballet |
Law Student, St Thomas
University in Miami, FL. |
| Katherine Krepper Savage |
BA Dance |
Jeanne Ruddy Dance, PA, At
Marah Dance Theatre, PA |
| Suzanne Niess Sanders |
BA Dance |
Executive Secretary to the
Vice President, Pruet Production Co., MS, teaches for The Dance Program in
Kosciusko, MS, taught for Ballet Mississippi, MS |
| Sarah Niewola |
BFA Ballet |
Dance Ad Deum II, TX |
2000
| Karen Hamm Castleman |
BA Dance |
MOMIX, At Marah Dance
Theatre, PA, Dance Ad Deum, TX |
| Yvette Koonce |
BA Education, Dance Minor |
Polarity Dance Theatre, MS,
Instructor of Dance at Belhaven University, MS, taught for Ballet Magnificat,
MS |
| Susan Olivo |
BA Dance, English Minor |
At Marah Dance Theatre, PA |
| Shawn Sparlin |
BA Psychology, Dance Minor |
At Marah Dance Theatre,
Trainee Program, PA |
1999
| Jill Pelhan |
BA Dance |
Directs The Dance Program in
Kosciusko, MS, Dance Ad Deum, TX |
| Shannon M. Smith |
BA Dance |
Project Dance, NY |
1998
| Rebecca Tripp Ziegler |
BA Mathematics, Dance Minor |
Christ Church Presbyterian,
GA |
1997
| Genevieve Le Gall Fortner |
BA English, Dance Minor |
Operates dance studio, MS,
taught for Ballet Mississippi, Hosanna Sacred Arts, AL |
| Karyn Pence Kipley |
BA Mathematics, Dance Minor |
Operates Fellowship School of Dance in Brentwood, TN, taught for Vanderbilt
University, Hosanna Sacred Arts, AL |
| Rachel Wilson Radbill |
BA English |
Teaches for Boston Ballet,
MA, taught for Briarwood Ballet, AL |
