The DancEast Board
Tracee Perrin
Amia Butler
Johanna Young, Board Treasurer
Chelsea Norman, Board Chair
Sara Pruneski
Curtis Thomas is a performer, educator, and creative consultant originally from New Orleans with deep heart strings in Nashville. With a performing career that has spanned both concert dance and theater, he has worked with artists such as Camille A. Brown, Banning Bouldin, David Dorfman, Kayla Farrish, and Margot Gelber as well as in the cast and creative team of the hit musical Waitress. Most recently Curtis has danced in the Metropolitan Opera’s productions of Carmen and Fire Shut Up In My Bones co-directed and choreographed by Camille A. Brown. Curtis is also a creative and curricular consultant working with data scientists, choreographers, and young learners to merge the worlds of computer programming, education, and dance.
Tony Perrin, a Los Angeles native, started his dance training at age seven. After working in the television industry during his formative years, Tony headed East to New York where he earned a BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. After graduation, Tony worked with Michael Mao Dance Company, North Eastern Ballet Company and as an Artist-In-Residence at The Yard on Martha’s Vineyard. Tony enjoys opportunities to bring his energy, creativity and insights to dancers of all ages!
Lindsay Fine Smith has been choreographing and teaching dance for 20 years. She has a BFA in Theatre Arts with an emphasis in Dance from the University of Mississippi. She lived in Los Angeles for several years, where she furthered her dance training and teaching skills. She later returned to Oxford, MS where she taught at the University of Mississippi and co-founded Hinge Dance Company. After years of dedication to the dance community in North Mississippi, Lindsay moved to Nashville in 2015, where she is an instructor for DancEast School and choreographer for DancEast Company.
Emily Masters, DancEast Executive Director