Danielle Quisenberry

Ms. Quisenberry is delighted to return to Sandra Cameron’s Dance Center teaching privates in the Ballroom Department and performing with Sherman Hope. A specialist in dance for young people, her work with pre-professional performers has been recognized with a Helen Hayes nomination for best overall production of a musical and with a Papermill Playhouse nomination for choreography. She uses those skills at the dance center teaching youth ballroom, creating wedding dances and helping advanced dancers hone their performance skills when dancing the smooth and standard ballroom syllabi. She is a proud graduate of The University of Michigan where she studied theatre and movement. She has a background in multiple dance forms with additional dance training at Indiana University, The Butler Ballet, The Indianapolis Ballet Theater Company, Steps on Broadway and the Broadway Dance Center. She continues to train and study ballroom pedagogy and performance with ballroom champions Sandra Cameron, Bill Davies and Michael Kerry Richardson.

Ms. Cameron gave Danielle her first job in NYC just a week after she moved here 10 years ago. Since then, she has made a career acting, dancing and choreographing Off-Broadway and in regional theatre productions as well as becoming an experienced presenter of theatre and dance education techniques. She spent five years as the Director of Professional Development for The American Ballroom Theater Company’s Dancing Classroom’s Program where she developed curriculum models and trained teaching artists. Look for her as herself in the award-winning documentary Mad Hot Ballroom. Partnering with ballroom champion Michael Kerry Richardson she has recently danced on PBS and in The Next Wave Series at BAM. Her current projects include choreographing a production of Disney’s High School Musical for Broadway Producer Yeesahi Gross, acting as a movement consultant on The Caucasian Chalk Circle at LaGuardia High School for Music Arts and the Performing Arts and dancing the original choreography from Top Hat at The Rainbow Room with partner Sherman Hope. Look for her on the boards this summer as Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing. Ms. Quisenberry is a 2006 New York Innovative Theatre Award nominee.