Choreographer's Tea

"An in-studio performance featuring student choreography"

April 17, 2010 - 3:00pm, Saturday

Location: The Dance West Dance Studio

Tickets: $8.00 - includes snacks and beverage

Tiffany Billings - Monday 7:30-8:45pm - Contemporary Dance Technique

Performer/singer/dancer/choreographer/director/professor, and creator of her own clothing line TIF WEAR—has received her MFA in choreography at the University of California, Irvine.  Tiffany is an incredibly gifted all around entertainer, having performed with the San Francisco Ballet Company, Sacramento Ballet, trained with the School of American Ballet in New York, and has received a San Diego Tommy Award for "Best Jazz Dancer".  She has also won a Gold medal in Japan in an international singing competition, was a NFL San Diego Charger Dancer, and also served as the voice of "Lucy" on the animated Peanuts cartoon series.  As well as being an accomplished singer, dancer, performer and choreographer, Tiffany also directs short films, Fallen Star, which screened in Irvine and Hollywood, CA, received rave reviews.  Fallen Star is currently being distributed in Japan and the United States, where it continues to change perceptions of what a ‘dance film’ is, while also leaving audiences with a lasting emotional impact.  She has also instructed and mentored performers who have gone on to appear in major motion pictures, MTV and network television, Julliard and star in international stage shows and Broadway.  Tiffany serves as an instructor and judge for national Dance Masters of America conventions, while also acting as a guest artist, setting and premiering dance pieces at highly renowned universities.  She is also a judge for the American Choreography Awards.  Tiffany has instructed at the Edge in Hollywood, CSU Long Beach, UC Irvine, LBCC and was a Full time Professor at Chapman University, where her choreography was selected to be performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC for ACDFA.  She serves as an honored performer and instructor in various cities across the country for the past 17 years.   www.tiffanybillings.com