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Tyngsboro, MA 01879

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The Director

Audrey Dascomb RDE, Director


Audrey Dascomb RDE established Dance Expressions Unlimited in 1996 to bring quality dance education to the Greater Lowell area. After learning cutting-edge techniques in college that allow dancers to move more efficiently thereby incurring less injuries, Audrey was excited to pass along the information to others.

Audrey Dascomb graduated Summa Cum Laude in 1990 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance and Arts Management. In 1996, Dascomb was chosen to be a Registered Dance Educator - the ONLY RDE in Massachusetts and New Hampshire and one of only 40 in the country. As a Registered Dance Educator, Audrey belongs to the National Registry of Dance Educators, an elite group of dance teaching professionals with the mission of recognizing other professional dance educators with superior teaching skills with regard to the following:

  • curricula
  • teaching methods
  • style
  • content
  • technique
  • safety
  • aptitude
  • ability

Audrey has Teacher Certification K-12 and has taught dance in the private sector as well as in private and public school systems. She graduated from the Dance Teacher's Club of Boston in 1985 with highest honors and on full scholarship. In addition to teaching for over 25 years, she has written her own curricula to help train future dance educators:

  • Creative Movement for Children - a comprehensive curriculum for ages 3 and up incorporating time, space, energy, locomotion, and body awareness
  • Dance Lessons Made Easy - a curriculum with weekly lessons in the disciplines of ballet, tap, and jazz for ages 4 through 9.
  • Dance Teacher Preparation Course which includes study in curricula, lesson plans, vocabulary, pedagogy, classroom management, child development, anatomy and kinesiology, imagery, technique, dance history, music theory, choreography and composition, dance instruction, and teaching methods.
Audrey continues her dance education by regularly studying with master teachers in all disciplines including ballet, tap, and jazz. She has danced with such luminaries as Savion Glover, Brenda Bufalino, Buster Brown, Jane Goldberg, Linda Sohl-Donnell, Lane Alexander, Josh Hilberman, Julia Boynton, Jeannie Hill, Dianne Walker (Lady Di), Heather Cornell, Mike Minery, New England Civic Ballet Company, Adrienne Hawkins and the Impulse Dance Company, artists from Bring in 'da Noise/Bring in DA Funk, Jennifer Savelli of Fosse and the Pennsylvania Ballet - among many others. She also performs professionally in ballet, tap, and jazz venues and encourages her students to do the same. Many of Audrey’s students have performed in local productions of the Nutcracker, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, and Secret Garden. Audrey has students who are pursuing careers with various dance companies and individuals throughout the U.S. as well as students pursuing dance in college.

Some of Audrey's students have taken advantage of the opportunities to study with master teachers at Dance Expressions Unlimited - ballet & jazz classes with Jennifer Savelli of FOSSE, Pennsylvania Ballet, and the movie CHICAGO;  tap classes with several members of Bring in 'Da Noise, Bring in ;Da Funk and Susie Michaud of Toe Tappers; hip hop classes with Carl Alleyne of Triiiplethreat Entertainment and Fadayz of Losst Unnown; ballet classes with Shawn Mahoney of Boston Ballet and Rebecca Shelton of Orlando Ballet; and jazz classes with Adrienne Hawkins of Impulse Dance Company.

Audrey belongs to many dance organizations including NDEO, AAHPERD, ITDN, ITA and the NRDE. She teaches dance for all ages and levels in the genres of ballet, pointe, tap, jazz, hip hop, modern, contemporary, and creative movement. She trains all of the teachers at Dance Expressions Unlimited so you can be assured that you or your child will have a qualified teacher that has extensive study in dance. Teachers use the Creative Movement for Children curriculum that she created along with Dance Lessons Made Easy curriculum. Student assistants have graduated from the Dance Teacher Preparation Course or are progressing through the course currently. Audrey looks forward to publishing more materials for dance educators to unify dance in the private sector.

 

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73 Progress Ave. #1
Tyngsboro, MA 01879
978-649-2022

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