Kimberly Ciola

Executive Director

BA in dance, Dean School of Dance at Dean College, MA

Kimberly first fell in love with the performing arts at a small playhouse in New Hampshire in 1990, and since then has worked with numerous non-profit arts organizations throughout New England. She has studied dance with such master teachers as Joan Phelps Palladino, Earl Moseley, and various members of Diversity of Dance, Ron K. Brown/Evidence, Urban Bush Women, and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre. She has performed in productions across New England, sharing the
stage with Savion Glover, Eartha Kitt, and Dave Brubeck. Kimberly was the Assistant Dance Director of The Bedford Youth Performing Company in Bedford, New Hampshire from 2002-2006, and then worked in the Education Department at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival for the 2006 festival season. Most recently, she was a faculty member at Kathy Blake Dance Studios in Amherst, New Hampshire. She has also participated in the Dance Teachers Summer Conference in New York City, and the Dance Excellence Convention in Los Angeles, California. This is Kimberly’s second year as Executive Director.

Kimberly volunteers with the non-profit organization “Haiti Plunge” and travels to Haiti to teach dance and art to children.