Sullivan began teaching classical ballet at The School of Oregon Ballet Theatre in 2005, and has since expanded her teaching practice alongside her artistic development, reaching an international audience and wider range of ages, abilities, genres, and communities. Most recently, she joined the faculty of 92YNY's Center for Arts Learning and Leadership (offering in-school and virtual residencies to schools nationwide) and is co-writing curriculum, helping to guide her colleagues' professional development, and working as a teaching artist. She continues to teach for both Together in Dance, which facilitates creative movement residencies in public schools, and Dance for PD®, which offers free dance classes to people with Parkinson’s Disease. Sullivan shifted her primary teaching focus to these organizations after Dance Heginbotham’s DanceMotion USA tour to Southeast Asia in 2016, before which she taught ballet, tap, and conditioning year-round at competitive dance studios in the tristate area.
Her alma mater, The Juilliard School frequently hosts her as a guest speaker and continues to match her with student mentees through the Juilliard Mentoring Program. Past teaching engagements with New York City Center, The Juilliard-Nord Anglia Performing Arts Program, Cayman Arts Festival’s Education in Motion, New York City Department of Education’s Middle School Boot Camp, and Lincoln Center Kids! have all additionally involved varying degrees of directing, managing, serving as a liaison, and in some cases developing and launching inaugural programs. She is a two-time recipient of the Goldman Arts Enrichment Teaching Fellowship in partnership with Harlem School of the Arts and is grateful to Artists Striving to End Poverty and The New Orleans Project for eye-opening perspectives on how art can initiate change.
Her alma mater, The Juilliard School frequently hosts her as a guest speaker and continues to match her with student mentees through the Juilliard Mentoring Program. Past teaching engagements with New York City Center, The Juilliard-Nord Anglia Performing Arts Program, Cayman Arts Festival’s Education in Motion, New York City Department of Education’s Middle School Boot Camp, and Lincoln Center Kids! have all additionally involved varying degrees of directing, managing, serving as a liaison, and in some cases developing and launching inaugural programs. She is a two-time recipient of the Goldman Arts Enrichment Teaching Fellowship in partnership with Harlem School of the Arts and is grateful to Artists Striving to End Poverty and The New Orleans Project for eye-opening perspectives on how art can initiate change.
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"Her professionalism is of the highest order..."
~Aubrey Lynch, Director-Dance, Harlem School of the Arts |
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Photos courtesy of The Juilliard-Nord Anglia Performing Arts Program: British International School of Chicago-Lincoln Park, College du Leman-Adela Bevan, British International School of Chicago-South Loop
Artwork by students in New York City public schools
Artwork by students in New York City public schools