Betty Skeen

• Maintain and perform company repertory
• Participate in the choreographic development and performance of new work
• Teaching artist for college and university residencies and workshops
• Costume design and construction
• Assist with travel logistics for national and international tours
• Video and technical support

• Lead curriculum development, course scheduling, and program assessment of Performing Arts – Dance major
• Teach 8-10 Dance courses per academic year
• Academic advisor for all Dance majors and minors
• Manage program administrative duties, including program purchasing, guest lecturer coordination, costume shop and materials management, development and supervision of community classes and programming, management of student employee duties and payment
• Direct two full-length concerts featuring student and alumnae work
• Supervise the production of evening-length senior concerts (2-5 senior shows per year)
• Choreograph work for seasonal concerts
• Direct Sweet Briar Children's Dance Program
• Served as Conference Coordinator for 2023 50th Anniversary National American College Dance Association Conference, 350-400 guests
• Develop Company-in-Residence program with Orange Grove Dance, including summer and fall campus residency, summer intensive, and programming for Sweet Briar's Summer Arts Retreat
• Supervise the Sweet Briar Dance Scholarship Program
• Assist Admissions with hosting prospective Dance students
• Engage with institutional and Dance program private donors

Create solo work for University of Virginia Senior Dance Concert

Create an original work, "Vanishing and Some Other Seasons Too," performed by UVA Dance students in the University of Virginia 2025 Spring Dance Concert

• Plan and teach 12 courses for the 2020-2021 academic year
• Prepare classroom spaces for Covid-safe dance education, a high-risk activity for airborne virus
• Guide students through creating digital work for two evening-length virtual concerts
• Secure professional dance company to perform a socially-distanced, outdoor concert for student and campus community
• Advise all Dance majors and minors
• Manage program administrative duties, including program purchasing, guest lecturer coordination, costume shop inventory/laundry/repair, student employee payment
• Prepare all materials for Dance program assessment review, strategy and goals for 2021 SACSCOC accreditation

• Instruct dance technique for the Barefoot Dance Center's most advanced and company dancers
• Mentor students for summer intensives and college entrance auditions
• Manage and care for studio spaces, including opening and closing the spaces

• Assist with the production and coordination of the Small Plates Dance Festival in Brooklyn and Newburgh, including technical support and curating submissions for festival
• Instruct free/reduced cost community movement classes for members of the underserved community of Newburgh, NY

• Instruct Advanced Contemporary Technique for the senior dancers and company members
• Create choreography for student performance

• Create original solo work, EndSong, on NYC-based professional dancer
• Design costume and compose original sound score
• Stage finished work to debut at NextNow Festival

• Create syllabi and instruct the six dance courses
• Advise dance majors and minors
• Stage student work for three departmental performances
• Supervise community youth classes taught by undergraduate Dance majors

• Create original and collaborative work with six undergraduate students over a semester
• Collaborate with graduate student designer to create costume and set pieces
• Stage work for performance in UMD Spring Dance Concert

• Plan and instruct Fundamentals of Modern Dance & Fundamentals of Ballet
• Assist in assessment and instruction of Composition II and III as GTA to Professor Meriam Rosen

• Graduate Assistant to Technical Director Paul D. Jackson
• Video, edit, and process all departmental performances
• Assist instructors in recording and processing video for lectures and student assessments
• Assist professors and students in the development of creative video works
• Help with theater setup and strike as needed