Corinne Hart began her dance training in Mundelein, Illinois. Ms. Hart attended summer study programs including North Carolina Dance Theater (Charlotte Ballet), Pittsburgh Ballet Theater, The Rock School for Dance Education, Ruth Page Center for the Arts, and Dance HUB (Toscana Dance HUB). She received her BFA in Dance from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts where she performed works by Stefanie Batten Bland, Ori Flomin, and Cherylyn Lavagnino. Upon graduating, she joined Cherylyn Lavagnino Dance full time, as well as DiLorenzo & Co., WADEensemble, and the RIOULT Dance NY Repertoire Group. Ms. Hart continues to have a diverse performance career including performing in the Florence Dance Festival in Italy and at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater, among various venues around NYC and upstate NY.

She is presently a faculty member at 5678 Dance, Pure Movement Dance Center, and a guest artist at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts Department of Dance. She has previously taught at Southern Methodist University, University of Utah, Gibney Dance, Peridance Center, Ridgefield Conservatory of Dance, RIOULT Dance Center, Dance HUB (Toscana Dance HUB), and Dancenter North.

She utilizes her talents for administration and organization by working extensively in the non-profit dance world. In addition to her performance career, Ms. Hart has worked as Executive Administrator with Cherylyn Lavagnino Dance for five years. In that time, she has assisted in acquiring multiple sizable grants for the company (NYU Dean’s Faculty Grant, Harkness Grant, O’Donnell-Green Foundation, among others). In 2018, she joined the administrative team at WADE (formerly Toscana Dance HUB) under Giada Matteini. She joined as Administrative Assistant for Gwendolyn Gussman’s HOLDTIGHT Company in 2021. Corinne finds that elevating the work of these three incredible women is the most important and rewarding work she has ever had the pleasure of doing.

Subjects of interest: Dance pedagogy • Bass guitar • Nutrition and holistic wellness practices • Swimming • Tennis • Traveling • Sustainable and low-waste living 

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