Kimmary Williams

Kimmary Williams

Advisory Board

Kimmary Williams received her early training in Washington D.C. with Helen Moore and Pamela Moore. She continued her studies under scholarship at the Joffrey Ballet School and with notable teachers Patricia Wilde, Richard Thomas and Finis Jhung. She has toured extensively throughout the United States, Puerto Rico and Bermuda with Twyla Tharp, Connecticut Ballet and American Contemporary Ballet. Ms. Williams also appeared as a dancer in the feature film "Hair", choreographed by Twyla Tharp. As a teacher she has attained the Maestro Enrico Cecchetti Diploma and has taught frequently at the Cecchetti International Summer School. Her teaching credits include Connecticut Ballet as a faculty member and company ballet mistress (1979-1984), Pacific Northwest Ballet (1984-1990), Princeton Ballet (1990-1991), Miami City Ballet as Faculty Principal and Nutcracker children’s ballet mistress (1991-1996), Pittsburgh Youth Ballet (1997-1999) and School Principal at Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre (1997-2002). The Edinburg International Festival brought Ms. Williams and her husband, Jacob Rice, to Scotland for two summers (1996/97) to create a youth dance choreography workshop. In 2002 Ms Williams and her husband were appointed co-artistic directors of Southold Dance Theater, a professional school and youth company in South Bend, Indiana. During their three seasons with SDT they choreographed a new "Nutcracker", "Graduation Ball" and a "Midsummer Night’s Dream". In the summer of 2006 Ms. Williams was a guest teacher for Ballet Spartanburgs' Summer Intensive. Most recently she was a guest faculty member for the "2007 Cecchetti International Summer Camp".She is currently on the faculty of Ballet Austin. In 2005 she and her husband founded Central Maryland Youth Ballet in Columbia, Maryland.

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