Meet Laura Stilwell
Laura has decades of professional experience in off broadway dance, teaching, training, directing and choreography.
You don’t have to travel to New York City to find a top-level teacher, Laura is conveniently located in Portland Oregon and offering jazz and musical theater dance classes live and online. Her style is focused yet fun. Read what her students have to say.
CHOREOGRAPHY & TEACHING BIOGRAPHY
Ballet Training
Trained in ballet with Jacqueline Schumacher, Nanette
Charisse, and Finis Jhung.
Jazz & Modern Dance Training
Trained in jazz and modern dance with Jaime Rogers,
Claude Thompson, Phil Black, Les Watanabe, Jose
Meier, Nat Horne, Denise Jefferson, and Fred
Benjamin at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center.
Leone Dance Theatre Director/Choreographer
Dance Alive!
Owner/Director/Choreographer
Established her own professional dance company at the age of twenty
Dance Company Tenures
Performed in two Northwest dance companies: N.W. Repertory Dance Co. and Joe Orlando Dance Theatre
Commercial Dance Credits
Performed in music videos, and NHK television commercials
Theater Productions
Performed in International tours of “Evita”; Regional productions of “Me and My Girl”, “West Side Story”, “Pirates Of Penzance”, “Pacific Overtures”, and held the lead role of Abuela in, “In The Heights”.
Choreographer
Credits—
Off-Broadway
Theatre 80 at St. Mark’s, Lambs Theatre, The Supper Club/Edison Theater, Blue Angel Theatre, 13th Street Repertory Theatre, St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery.
Director/ Choreographer Credits
The Supper Club/Edison Theater, Blue Angel Theatre, The Ibis Supper Club, The USO of Metropolitan New York.
Additional Choreography
Leone Dance Theatre, Dance Alive!, New Line Cinema, The Rainbow Room – Rockefeller Center, Nu Shooz – Atlantic Records.
Dance Teaching Experience
Jazz and musical theater instructor at Oregon Ballet Theatre (OBT), Jefferson High School of Performing Arts, ‘Stage 7’ – San Diego, Orlando Ballet-New York, Bridge For Dance – NYC, The Dancers Workshop
– Portland, Portland Park Bureau, Portland Community College, Stumptown Stages, Rosemary Anderson High School – dance & theater arts, The Aspire Project, and Polaris Dance Theatre.
