Carrie A. Smaczny, Artistic Director & President, received her Master of Fine Arts Degree in Dance and Technology with an emphasis in video choreography from the University of California, Irvine. Her undergraduate degrees are from Texas Christian University where she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Modern Dance, and Bachelor of Science in Radio/Television/Film with an emphasis in production .


Her work in dance for the camera has taken her internationally for both multimedia performance and dance film festivals. She has traveled with Loretta Livingston as a guest and artist to Dance Camera Istanbul in Turkey as well as collaborating with Lisa Naugle & John Crawford for projects in Berlin, Germany and Porto, Portugal.

She has studied dance at the American Dance Festival at Duke University and in New York, Santa Barbara Summer Dance Festival in California, and Bates Dance Festival in Maine where she received a partial Professional Development Grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts.

She was an adjunct faculty member for University of California, Irvine, Mira Costa Community College, and Scottsdale Community College’s Jazz Dance program. Her work with High School and Middle School students includes Orange County High School of the Arts as the Dance History instructor for the Commercial Dance Department, the Dance Director of the Scottsdale Boys & Girls Club, and Dance Director for Fountain Hills Unified School District High School and Middle School.

She is a certified STOTT Pilates Instructor currently teaching at the Spectrum Club in Redondo Beach and an instructor at Hype Studios in Torrance, California.

Photography: Amanda Nora / Lighting: Andrew Hutchinson
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