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Robert T. Townsend is a professor in the School of Educational Leadership at Indiana Wesleyan University. He is also a musician and composer/arranger. Dr. Townsend’s duties include teaching, mentoring and supervising pre-service teachers in education and graduate students. His teaching credentials are from Western Michigan University where he majored in music and received the Michigan All Grade license in music and all subjects’ endorsement for grades 7 and 8. After moving to the Indianapolis area, he attended Indiana University-Bloomington and completed the Master of Music Education degree.
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Karome Walker began her dance and choreography training at Concord High School, Charleston, SC. Throughout her years of choreographing, traveling, and competing with the dance team association she discovered her passion for dance. Ms. Walker completed her Bachelors of Science degree in Dance Performance and Family Consumer Science. Her high levels of dance training consist of styles in ballet, jazz, modern, tap, hip-hop, liturgical, contemporary and lyrical. During her college years she performed in over 15 Ball State Dance Theatre productions, choreographed over 25 dance masterpieces and created 12 of her own productions and was voted Best Dancer by her peers.
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James J.J. Howard is a saxophonist and music educator from Indianapolis, Indiana. He first started playing saxophone at age 9 in private school. He then transitioned into the Lawrence Township Schools in middle school and started taking lessons from Greg Imboden shortly after. James participated in music ministry at his local churches growing up and attended invaluable music experiences including the Butler Youth Jazz Big Bands, Butler's Summer Jazz Camp, Jamey Aebersold's Jazz Workshop in Louisville, Kentucky and being a soloist for the Indianapolis Philharmonic Orchestra. James was involved in Jazz band and Wind Ensemble while attending Lawrence North, where he also doubled on other woodwind ...
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Caran Harris began her performance career as a child with Iibada Dance Company. Once she went to high school, she joined show choir and drama club where she became a member of the International Thespian’s Society. Never really comfortable with being in the spotlight she finally surrendered to her calling of performance, attending Long Island University for theatre. Ms. Harris completed her Bachelors of Arts degree in Speech and Theatre with a minor in Dance. Caran studied different acting styles that consisted of Stanislavski's method, Method acting and Chekhov. Along with acting Caran was able to study movement and voice which is an integral part of acting. Her dance studies not only include training from LIU’s dance department but also training at the Ailey School. Her dance experience includes ballet, jazz, Afro- Caribbean, modern, hip-hop, liturgical and contemporary.
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