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Associate Professor
Phone: (585) 395-5304
E-mail: kwarner@brockport.edu
Kevin S. Warner is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Dance at The State University of New York College at Brockport. He earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in Dance from Temple University, and has done post-graduate work in Early Childhood, Elementary and Music Education. Kevin is a NYS certified teacher in both Dance (PreK-12) and Childhood Education (1-6), and has taught in public schools in New York and North Carolina. In addition to engagement as a director and choreographer of both theatre and dance, Kevin maintains an active teaching and scholarship agenda focused on the role of dance in teaching and learning across all disciplines, particularly in public elementary school settings. Kevin serves as the Advocacy Chair of the New York State Dance Education Association, as a Co-director of the Hunter Institute on Young Children at the College at Brockport.
Previously, Kevin was the Program Director for North Carolina’s A+ Schools Program where he designed and implemented teacher training and professional development for a network of over 100 schools nationally. Kevin has also served as project coordinator for the Appalachian Arts in Education Partnership, a federally funded (Arts in Education Model Development and Dissemination grant) consortium of Appalachian State University, local schools and area arts councils in northwestern North Carolina, and as the project director for a Dana Foundation Rural Initiatives Grant to design and implement Teaching Artist training to rural counties in Northwestern and Northeastern North Carolina.
As an artist, Kevin has choreographed and performed for companies including Ann Vachon/Dance Conduit, Shenandoah Summer Music Theatre, Opera House Theatre Company, and Melanie Stewart Dance. Most recently, he directed Nijinsky’s Last Dance for Bread and Water Theatre Company (NY); and choreographed productions of The Rocky Horror Show, The Music Man and The Wizard of Oz in Western NY. As a Teaching Artist, Kevin has worked with public and private school children throughout NC, NY, NJ, DE and PA, presenting creative movement residency programs for PreK-6th grade children on topics including “The Ocean Habitat,” “Forces and Motion,” and “Life Cycles.”
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