MICHAEL SNIPE

MICHAEL SNIPE JR. received his BFA from The Juilliard School, and graduated with choreographic honors. He has performed with Ailey II, Battleworks, Parsons, and the Irish Modern Dance Theatre. After leaving the concert dance world behind, he performed in Swing! and Movin’ Out on Broadway and their National and International Tours. When his body decided that it had had enough, he found a passion in teaching. He taught at the Joffrey Ballet School in Chicago, the Kirov Academy of Ballet in Washington, D.C., Columbia College in Chicago, and is currently a full-time faculty member at Ballet Tech. In addition to teaching full-time, he is finishing his Master’s in behavioral sciences at Mercy college and is an advanced clinical intern at Equity Therapy. Sometimes it’s not enough to just dance through the hurt and trauma, at some point you have to stop and talk about it.