AYO WALKER PH.D. PERFORMANCE STUDIES PRACTITIONER /CHOREOGRAPHER/DANCE AND AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES EDUCATOR 818.726.2368 / [email protected] / WWW.AYOWALKER.COM CONCERT & STAGE PERFORMANCE Concert Dance Raissa Simpson’s Codelining PUSH Dance Company Bayview Opera House Sebastian Saephanh’s Journey Home PUSH Dance Festival 2017 ODC Theatre Halifu Osumare’s In the Eye of the Storm PUSH Dance Festival 2017 ODC Theatre Kevin Wynn’s Nanigizmo Jean Isaacs San Diego Dance Theatre Studio Theater, SDSU Musical Theatre The WIZ Charlie Smalls & William F. Brown Woodminster Theatre On the Town Leonard Bernstein, Betty Comden & The Western Stage Adolph Green West Side Story Arthur Laurents, Leonard Bernstein & Pacific Repertory Theatre Stephen Sondheim Annie Charles Strouse, Martin Charnin & The Western Stage Thomas Meehan University Raissa Simpson’s Dancing in Sepia PUSH Dance Company Wright Hall Theatre Trisha Brown’s Set & Reset Mills College Faculty Concert Lisser Hall Douglass Dunn’s Pulcinella NYU Steinhardt Faculty Concert Frederick Loewe Theatre Kiesha Clark-Booth’s Ornithology Cypress College Faculty Concert Campus Theater Erin Landry’s Happy Conversations & Soar Cypress College Faculty Concert Campus Theater EDUCATION Ph.D. Performance Studies, Designated Emphasis in African American Studies, University of California Davis, 2016 M.A. Dance in Higher Education and Professions, NYU Steinhardt, New York, NY, 2009 Post Baccalaureate Studies in Choreography and Performance, Mills College, Oakland, CA, 2002 B.A. Theater Arts: Performance Emphasis with a Minor in Dance, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, 2000 ADDITIONAL DANCE TRAINING: WORKSHOPS, INTENSIVES, AND MASTER CLASSES L’Antech Master Class, International Association of Blacks in Dance Conference (IABD), 2019 Talawa Master Class, International Association of Blacks in Dance Conference (IABD), 2019 PUSH LAB Performance Workshop, PUSH Dance Company, Alonzo King LINES Ballet, 2017 Umfundalai Workshop, Collegium for African Diaspora Dance Conference (CADD), Duke University, 2016 Rennie Harris Rhythm House Intensive, Oberlin Dance Collective (ODC), 2016 & 2018 Katherine Dunham Certification Workshop, Laney College, 2013 Lydia Johnson Dance Repertory Workshop, Peridance Capezio Center, 2011 Dance Education Laboratory Foundations Course, 92nd Street Y, 2010-11 Sean Curran Modern Dance Master Class, Peridance Capezio Center, 2009 Shabba-Doo's House of Shway Urban Dance Workshop, Broadway Dance Center, 2008 Mia Michaels Contemporary Dance Workshop, Broadway Dance Center, 2007 Additional Personal Study With: Jody Arnhold, Susan Cable, Patricia Cohen, Mary Cochran, Frederick Curry, Deborah Damast, Douglass Dunn, Molissa Fenley, Jean Issac, Paul Koverman, Erin Landry, Michelle Martin, Kathleen McClintock, Eyla Moore, Melissa Nunn, Dr. Halifu Osumare, Patricia Sandback, Iquail Shaheed, Kimberly Valmore, Caroline Web, and Kevin Wynn Full Academic CV and Choreography Resume available upon request .