Faculty
Marcia Dysart
Returning to New Brunswick, Marcia Dysart spent the last nine years in Southern Ontario performing and teaching. She has danced with such companies as the Hamilton Dance Company, Parahumans Dance Theatre and Mac Dancers. Performances include original contemporary works in the Guelph and Dundas Contemporary Arts Festivals, Hamilton Art Gallery shows as well as 8:08 Series (an interactive forum for dancers to seek feedback on new works). She has traveled to Oklahoma and Detroit for the American College Dance festivals to perform and study the dance disciplines of contemporary, ballet, jazz, and African dance.
While in Ontario, Marcia developed and taught dance programs to grades one through five, according to the Ontario curriculum, as part of her teaching in the elementary classroom. She also taught ballet for two schools, Steps Performing Arts Centre, Hamilton, and Dynamic Dancers, Ancaster Ontario.
Marcia began her dance career in New Brunswick studying ballet, contemporary and jazz with Dance east, UNB Ballet School, Diana Webster School of Ballet and Dance Fredericton. While in Fredericton, Marcia taught jazz, ballet and creative movement at Dance Fredericton where she was a member of the Dance Fredericton's Performance Ensemble and FORE (a collective of musicians and dancers) directed by Lindsey Sweeney. Marcia choreographed and danced in a documentary produced by the National Film Board of Canada.
Mother of three, Marcia believes that creative dance should be a part of every child's education and continues to find new ways of bringing it into the classroom. She continues to feed her passion for dance in developing new contemporary pieces.