Katie Ginn

Assistant Professor of Dance
Dance Program Coordinator

kginn@wmcarey.edu
(601) 318-6331

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Katie Ginn is the founder and director of dance at William Carey University. She holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in Dance: Creative Practice with a special certificate in lighting design from Saint Mary’s College of California and a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Dance Performance and Choreography from the University of Southern Mississippi. Her career in education spans both the public and private sectors and includes instruction at the professional, university, highs school, and elementary levels. She has produced dance and other creative work across south Mississippi, San Francisco, the California Bay Area, and New Orleans, and she has developed original programming, curriculum, and creative work for both private and non-profit dance and arts initiatives. She is an accomplished performer whose credits include work on stage and in dance film. Her areas of focus for creative work include collaboration between multi-arts disciplines, somatic body-work in dance, movement and choreographic theory, and Christian spirituality and liturgical dance. She is the founder and President of Mississippi Dance Leader Alliance, served on the Advisory Board for the 2017 Revision of MS State Standards in Dance for K-12 Education, and is an active member of Westminster Presbyterian Church of Hattiesburg. In addition to providing instruction in dance technique, choreography, production, and theory, she also provides lighting design, choreography, and direction for Dance, Music Theatre, and Opera productions at WCU.