Shellie Cash | Advisory Board

Shellie Cash, an accomplished dance educator and  Alexander Technique teacher, has been training dancers for over forty years. She shares her deep and thorough understanding of movement principles across all dance genres with compassionate discipline and infectious joie de vivre.  Shellie is certified to teach and was trained (from ages 5 – 17) in what is now called RPM (Revolutionary Principles of Movement), a ballet training program based on anatomy and physiology, developed by her teacher, Ruth Petrinovic and  JoAnna Kneeland at the Academy for the Performing Arts (Ft Lauderdale, FL),  where the curriculum included ballet, pointe, modern, jazz, tap, character dance, and flamenco.  She studied with Denise Jefferson and Honi Coles as a scholarship student at  the  Ailey School and began teaching (jazz technique) at the university level while attending the University of Utah (BFA in Ballet), under the tutelage of Toni Lander. She continued teaching throughout her professional dance career; Ballet West, New Jersey Ballet, Tanz-Forum, Germany (Graham); Ballet Theatre du Silence (Cunningham) and Peter Goss Dance Company, France, among others. After graduating from Wesleyan University (M.A. in Movement Studies and Dance), Ms. Cash taught ballet, pointe and movement courses at Bucknell University for five years before accepting the modern dance position at the College-Conservatory of Music (CCM), University of Cincinnati. Rising to Full Professor of Dance and Division Head, she choreographed two to four ballets annually, directed the Ballet Ensemble, and taught modern dance, ballet, pointe, variations, composition, improvisation, jazz, flamenco, yoga, and the Alexander Technique over the course of eighteen years. Ms. Cash has been on faculty at various Joffrey Ballet School New York summer satellite programs including LA, Dallas and Athens; at Interlochen Arts Summer Camp for twelve years; for South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities in Greenville, South Carolina and New World School of the Arts, U of Florida, Miami, Florida for a number of years, as well as guest teacher for the Guangzhou Ballet Academy in China, the Bartholin International Ballet Seminar at the Royal Danish Ballet in Copenhagen and the Cincinnati Ballet (first and second companies).  Shellie has been the recipient of four NCCI/NEA grants and is an ATI (1600 hr. certified) teacher of the Alexander Technique (AT),  since 1998.  Ms. Cash currently serves as the Dance NOW! Resident AT teacher while maintaining her private practice in the work.