Ravenna Tucker Wagnon Professor of Dance

Body Arts and Science International (BASI Pilates) Certification; Masters of Creative Industries (Dance Teaching), Queensland University of Technology; Post-Graduate Diploma in Dance Instruction, Queensland University of Technology; Associate of the (ARAD); Diploma School Teachers’ Course for Professional Dancers (TCPD); The Royal Ballet Upper School (dance graduate).

Books/Academic Articles: DANCING ACROSS BORDERS: Perspectives on Dance, Young People and Change, First Edition, Eds. Charlotte Svendler Nielsen and Stephanie Burridge, January 2020

Creative Activity/ Performances Film documentary biography of Belhaven University guest artist Henry Danton, interviewer and partial supervisor; Fleeting Figures choreography for Cecchetti Council of America Summer Intensive, Holland Michigan, 2019; The Least Of These, choreography and solo performance, Community Dance Concert, Belhaven University, September 2018.

Professional Leadership Rehearsal director for various student works (including Frescoes, Les Sylphide, Don Quixote Act II restaged by Henry Danton; Act II and excerpts; Waltz of the Snowflakes, La Bayadere Act II, The Sleeping Beauty and other excerpts, Galanteries by Sir David Bintley, excerpt of Elite Syncopations by Sir Kenneth MacMillan, excerpt of Serenade by George Balanchine, Strings of Grace by Catherine Batcheller) for Belhaven University Dance Ensemble Fall and Spring concerts; guest teaching at various festivals and events (including Mississippi Dance Festival, Alabama Dance Festival, American College Dance Association, Dance Works studio summer intensive, Cecchetti Council of America Summer Intensive, City Dance Audition, Brookhaven School for the Arts in Mississippi).

Talks / Presentations/ Conferences Guest talk on the A History of at Jackson State University. Make up tutorial for the Mississippi Ballet. Dance Anatomy talk for Arkansas Ballet Summer Intensive. Career talk for church group at Redeemer and Alabama book club.

Academic Awards Tenure and promotion to Professor of Dance in July 2019.

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Student Recruitment Young Artist Expo event held at Belhaven University Art Gallery, faculty participant. Majors Fair, Belhaven University. Discover Day class demonstrations. Belhaven University Dance Department Audition instructor. Alabama Dance Festival chaperone and student recruitment.

Cultural Activities Sponsored Nominator of recipient Henry Danton, Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts 2020. Music in the City, The Diamond Piano Trio, Mississippi Art Museum, August 2019. Mississippi Symphony Orchestra featuring William Hagen, Thalia Mara Hall, September 2020. The Fantastix, performance attendee Belhaven University Theatre Department, Fall 2019. Doxa Emerging Choreographer’s Concert, Belhaven University, Nov 2019. The Mysteries, performance attendee Belhaven University Theater Department, Nov 2019. A Christmas Carole by Ballet Magnificat, performance attendee, December 2019. The Women of Lockerbie, performance attendee Belhaven University Theater Department, Spring 2020. Big Mama’s Kitchen by Joe Frost, Hearth & Mantle, performance attendee, March 2020. Belhaven University Collaborative Arts Concert, performance attendee, April 2020.

Dance Department administration, Administration Office and Belhaven University Events Assisted other faculty by teaching as a sub on occasion; facilitated guest talks and guest artist residencies (including Henry Danton, Michael Fothergill, Steve Rooks, Catherine Batcheller, Dr Edward Keazirian); taught in dance festivals hosted by Belhaven Dance Department (including American College Dance Association, Jackson Competition); and participated in various Belhaven events (including ladies Fitness Night, Bring A Friend To Ballet Day, Belhaven University Majors Fair, Belhaven University Chapel, dancer for the Belhaven Singing Christmas Tree) interacted with visiting prospective dance students.

Speaking Engagements CAPE Art & Coffee, The Art of Observation (zoom talk discussing The Little Fourteen Year Old Dancer by Edgar Degas), Mississippi Museum of Art, 2020. Moderator in Senior Concert and Senior Aural presentation events.

Membership in Community Pilates Instructor (part-time) at Pilates LeFleur Delis. Board member of Ballet Hartford and Hearth & Mantel Theatre.

Membership/Involvement in Church Member of Redeemer Presbyterian Church, Jackson, Mississippi: Nursery duty, flower duty (every 5th Sunday only), oversee Redeemer Missions board, supporter of Redeemer Art Community events, Fall Festival (face painting), attendee of Ladies Connect Group, attending Redeemer’s Missions Conference, member of the Memorization Group (summers), and regular Sunday school attendance.

Student Orientation Activities Facilitating Belhaven University dance auditions

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Student Advising

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