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RAVEN VINE SCHAD - raven@ravenvinedance.com

DANCE EDUCATION
* Bachelor of Fine Art in Dance - Southeast Missouri State University, December 2022

Ballet – 20 years, 2005-2025
Musical Theater Dance – 12 years, 2013-2025
Pointe – 6 years, 2012-2020
Tap – 13 years, 2005-2018
Modern/Contemporary – 12 years, 2013-2025
Jumps/Stretch/Leaps/Turns – 7 years, 2011-2018
Lyrical – 7 years, 2011-2018
ACRO/Tumbling – 10 years, 2006-2016
Jazz/Jazz Funk – 20 years, 2005-2025
Character – 1 year, 2015-2016
Hip Hop – 18 years, 2007-2025
POMS – 1 year, 2015-2016
Aerial – 2 years, 2021-2023
Ballroom Smooth/Latin/Rhythm – 2 years, 2023-2025

PROFESSIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE
Walt Disney World - April 2023 to Present – Orlando, FL
- Entertainment to include dancing, acting, stage shows, and appearances at four theme parks and resort areas

Top of the World, cover band – Appearances in 2021 and 2022 – Missouri and Iowa
- Dancer appearing in three nightly sets, choreographed to cover all genres from 1980-present

DANCE TITLES AND AWARDS
- United States Dance Championship – Showdance Vice Champion, Closed Rhythm
Champion, Closed Smooth Vice Champion, and Closed Latin Vice Champion, 2025
- Millennium Dance Sport Championship – Best of the Best Bronze Champion and Silver Champion, 2025
- Fred Astaire Dance Studios (National Dance Championship) – Closed Bronze Rhythm Champion, Closed Bronze Latin Champion and Open Latin Champion, 2025
- Ohio Start Ball – Best of the Best Showdance Finale Bronze Champion and Best of the Best Grand Champion, 2025
- Fred Astaire Dance Studios (National Dance Championship) – Closed/Open Rhythm Champion, 2024
- United States Dance Championship - Mambo Vice Champion, 2024
- Dance Saint Louis – Career Award 2016-2017

DANCE TEAMS AND COMPANIES
COCA Dance/Hip-hop Crew, St. Louis, MO – Pre-professional modern dance and hip-hop dance companies (Trained Under - Antonio Douthit-Boyd, Kirven Douthit-Boyd, Lee Nolting, Kameron Saunders, Lara Teeter, Norma Gabriel, Katie Croghan, Redd Williams)

Grand Center Arts Academy, St. Louis, MO – Performing arts high school 2016-2019
(Trained Under - Ashley Tate, Keith Williams, Thomas Proctor, Stephanie Beier, Brandon Riley, Redd Williams)

DANCE PERFORMANCES
Fred Astaire Dance Studios - Ballroom Competitions 2024-2025 (Latin, Smooth, Rhythm, Argentine Tango) – FL (Trained Under - Tetyana Makarenko, Igor Kocharov, Vitaliy Perezhogin, Varvara Zhigulskaya, Dmytro Semenyuk, Val Golubev Anastasia Sukmanova, Bruno Collins Trillieci, David Hamilton, Babette Brown)

Fall For Dance 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, Southeast Missouri State University – Group Dancer/Aerialist/Soloist (Trained Under - Lauren Jones (Aerial Silks “Coffee: Nutcracker,” Arianna Russ, Emily Haussler, , Brenna Monroe-Cook "Missa Brevis," Hadley Scarbrough, Jennifer Archibald, Kristopher Estes Brown, Rachel Christophe)

Spring Into Dance 2019, 2021, 2022, Southeast Missouri State University – Group Dancer
(Trained Under - Hilary Peterson, Emma Knowlton, Philip Edgecombe, Joshua Blake Carte, Jennifer Archibald)

Fox Teen Talent Competition, 2016, 2017, The Fabulous Fox Theater – Modern soloist (semi-finalist)

MUSICAL THEATER
- Trained Under – Robert Hartwell, Ben Wolfe, Tim Early, Sam Kunzman (Big Muddy Dance Company), Ashley Tate

- Shrek: The Musical - Dance Captain/Blind Mouse/Ensemble, Grand Center Arts Academy
- Little Shop of Horrors - Character “Chiffon”/Dance Captain, Grand Center Arts Academy
- Young Frankenstein - Captain/Ensemble, Southeastern Summer Theatre Institute
- Chicago - Character “Go to Hell Kitty”/Ensemble, Performing Arts Institute of Wyoming
Annual Showcase - Small group dance/Ensemble, Gathered NYC
Annual Showcase - Small group dancer/Ensemble, Ruth Page Center for the Arts