Cara Crawford

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As Director of Central Oklahoma Dance Center, 

Cara provides a fine blend of academic skill and dance experience.

While completing her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Ballet Pedagogy at Oklahoma University, Cara toured with the Oklahoma Festival Ballet Company. Cara's dance training includes ballet in Russia at the Minsk Byelorussian State Academy, the University of Oklahoma, Quartz Mountain Summer Arts Institute, and jazz and tap performances in New York, Hollywood, Chicago, and Las Vegas.

Dancing is like dreaming with your feet! - Constanze

Thank you for choosing Central Oklahoma Dance Center!

Education/ Training

• BFA - University of Oklahoma 1986
  • Instructed by Miguel Terekhov, Yuvonne Choteau & Marget Holt
• Las Vegas, Hollywood, New York
• 1985-1986 Quartz Mountain Summer Arts Institute
  • Studied modern dance with Nora Gutherie of New York and Ko Yukihiro of Japan
• 1985 USSR  (Classical Ballet) Minsk, Russia
  • Studied ballet with Clara Nickolivna
  • Certificate from Minsk Choreography School

Guest Teaching and Workshops

• Arkansas Ballet - 1986
• Choreographer for ECU production " Anything Goes" - 1988
• Choreographer for ACT II production "West Side Story" - 1995
• Chickasaw Nation Children's Choir Dance Camp production "The Journey Continues" - Choreographer and Artistic Consultant - 2004
• Chickasaw Nation Summer Arts Academy Dance Instructor/Choreographer - 2005