Today’s guest, Madeline Jazz Harvey, is an Associate Professor at Colorado State University, is a dance educator, choreographer, and performer specializing in classical and contemporary ballet. Her twenty-year performance career includes dancing with Charlotte Ballet, Carolina Ballet Theatre, and Impact Dance Company. She attended summer intensive programs on full scholarship at Chautauqua Institution, Complexions Contemporary Ballet, and The Juilliard School.

Madeline holds a BA and Professional Training Certificate in Dance from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and an MFA in Choreography from Jacksonville University. Human connection and vulnerability drive her practice. Her creative research investigates play as a paradigm for choreographic process. In 2007, she was the youngest recipient of the New York Choreographic Institute Fellowship Award. She has premiered over 50 original works. 

She is credited with the development of ShapeX, a wellness program for children with Type II Diabetes. Currently, she is the Principal Investigator for an ongoing research study, Movement Through Parenthood, examining the efficacy of an original EA based dance intervention for improving emotional availability and wellbeing from pregnancy through postpartum. 

In our conversation Madeline - despite still recovering from the flu - shares the value of collegiate summer dance programs, building creative research, and collaboration as a gateway to learn and opportunity.

Takeaways from our conversation:

-look for dance experiences that help you take creative risk

-collaboration on all levels will strengthen your practice

-bring your artistic self into all areas of your life

Learn more about Madeline at https://madelinejazzharvey.weebly.com/

and CSU’s dance program at: https://dance.colostate.edu/

Check out Dance Lab: https://dance.colostate.edu/dance-lab/

Learn more about dance training and career planning: https://www.theballerinatist.com/