Marissa Nesbit
BA in Psychobiology, Pitzer College
MFA in Dance and Related Arts, Texas Woman's University
Marissa joined SCEA as the director of dance education in 2006. She has presented at local and national conferences, including the National Dance Education Organization, and has published in the Teaching Artist Journal. Her interests include teacher professional development in arts integration, holistic dance education curriculum, and dance notation as a vehicle for learning. She was previously the director of education and outreach for the North Carolina Dance Theatre in Charlotte, where she created curriculum materials, presented workshops, and supervised a team of teaching artists and professional dancers presenting arts integration residencies. She has worked with Verb Ballets and Dancing Wheels (Cleveland, OH) and TWU Dance Works (Denton, TX). Marissa has experience with special needs children at the Brighton School (San Antonio) and Teach for America (New Orleans). As a dancer and choreographer, she has presented works at numerous local and regional venues, and has been a choreographer-in-residence for high school and college dance programs.
