Curriculum Vitae: Fall 2017 Darrell Cleveland 214-986-2406 dcleveland@dcccd.edu Education Master of Fine Arts in Dance, Texas Woman s University, Denton, TX- May 2015 Bachelor s of Arts in Business Administration, Morehouse College, Atlanta, GA- May 1994 Teaching Experience April 2017- June 2017 August 2016- Present Guest Artist Southern Methodist University- Course: Jazz I, II /Site Specific Improvisational Performance Richland College- Richardson, TX Course: Dance Performance August 2016- Present August 2016- Present August 2015- Present September 2015- June 2016 August 2008- Present / Brookhaven College- Farmer s Branch, TX Courses: Ballet and Contemporary Modern Dance Performance / Tarrant Community College- Hurst, TX Courses: Jazz I, II and Contemporary Dance Performance / Mountain View College- Courses: Contemporary Modern I, II, III, IV and Modern Dance Performance I, II, III, IV Ballet Master Grand Prairie Fine Arts Academy- Grand Prairie, TX Classes: Ballet
Contemporary Ballet Dallas- Classes: Jazz; Contemporary and Modern August 2008- Present June 2000- Present January 2014- May 2014 August 2013- December 2013 Mary Louise School of Dance Classes: Ballet; Modern Ballet Academy of Texas- Coppell, TX Classes: Jazz; Hip- Hop; Modern Graduate Teaching Assistant Courses: Body Conditioning; Introduction to Ballet; Urban and Global Dance Practices Graduate Teaching Assistant Course: Modern III Graduate Assistant Course: Movement Analysis August 2012- May 2013 Graduate Assistant Courses: World Dance Forms; Modern I June 2011- December 2013 August 2009- May 2012 August 2008- June 2011 August 2008- May 2010 August 1999- May 2012 Park Cities Conservatory of Dance- Coppell, TX Classes: Jazz; Modern Dance Texas Ballet Theater- Richardson, TX Class: Modern Dallas Summer Musicals- Class: Musical Theater The Hockaday School- Courses: Jazz, Modern
Stage Door Dance- Mesquite, TX Classes: Jazz; Modern; Hip- Hop; Musical Theater January 1999- June 2006 Dallas Black Dance Theater- Classes: Jazz; Modern; Liturgical; Hip- Hop Professional Activities Relevant to Teaching Dance Intensives April 2015 October 2014 Summer 2013- Present Summer 2012- Present Summer 2009, 2013- Present April 2008- June 2011 August 2008 ; Adjudicator Dallas Dance Festival W.T. White High School, Moses E. Molina Modern and Improvisation Day of Dance Intensive Booker T. Washington School of Performing and Performing Arts- Modern and Jazz Summer Dance Program Victoria Ballet Theater- Victoria, TX Modern Dance Summer Dance Intensive Booker T. Washington School of Performing and Visual Arts- Modern Dance Summer Dance Camp Grambling University, Ruston, LA Artistic Director; Inspiring Creative Imaginations Community Outreach Program Big Thought- Classes: Jazz, Modern, Hip- Hop, Ballet and Musical Theater ; Modern Dance Grace Under Fire
Regional Dance America Southwest Conference Emerging August 2006- June 2010 After School Dance Program Classes: Jazz, Modern, Hip- Hop and Ballet Other Professional Activities Dance Companies June 1998- May 2006 May 1997- June 1998 June 1994- May 1996 Principal ; Dallas Black Dance Theater- s and Mentors: Ann Williams, Milton Myers, Donald McKayle, Hope Clark, Ceyhun Orsoy, Donald Byrd, Diane Maroney- Grigsby, Robert Battle and Allyne Gartrell Principal ; Lula Washington Contemporary Dance Theater- Los Angeles, CA s and Mentors: Donald McKayle, Lula Washington Company Harrison Dance Company- Atlanta, GA and Mentor: Gary Harrison Choreography and Performances March 2015 November 2014 Rhapsodies of Reality Adjudicated Concert 3 Program American College Dance Association South- Central Regional Conference, Lubbock, TX Music: Cinematic Orchestra, Skrillex and Eraykah Badu /Cast Texas Woman s University School of the Arts Department of Music and Drama- Denton, TX Celebration by Harvey Schmidt and Tom Jones
November 2014 Culminating Project for Master of Fine Arts Degree Rhapsodies of Reality Music: Cinematic Orchestra, Skrillex and Eraykah Badu March 2014 April 2013 April 2013 Quick selected for Gala Performance 2014 American College Dance Association South- Central Regional Conference, Austin, TX Music: Jill Scott, lyrics from For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Wasn t Enough Heavy Hearts Music: Prince and the Revolution As the Antagonist Exits choreographed by Amanda McCorkle November 2012 Surpassed choreographed by Sarah Gamblin Commercial Performances/Choreography December 2011 February 2011 May 2002 Shop, Eat, Fly Dallas/Fort Worth Airport Commercial $200,000.000 Spectacular Texas Lottery Commercial ; Mega Millions
Texas Lottery Commercial February 2002 July 2001 June 2000 June 1999 December 1995- May 1997 ; The Next Episode commissioned by Brinker Inaugural Foundation ; Cash 5 Texas Lottery Commercial Mary Kay Convention- Sally Beauty Supply Hair Convention-, Atlanta, GA and Chicago IL National Music Award Shows and Concert Tour Recording Artists; Toni Braxton, En Vogue and Monica