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A Narrative Resume
Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Kathy B. Cheek has excelled as a
dance instructor, dance studio owner, choreographer, college theatre
director, and academic researcher. She studied theatre arts, voice and
dance at the University of Cincinnati, and in New York. Kathy also has an extensive
performing background, with appearances in a musical review at New York's famed
Roosevelt Ballroom, two productions with Gregory Hines, and several musicals
for the Beef 'n' Boards Dinner Theatre chain. She served as a teacher's
assistant and substitute teacher from 1981-1982 in the Caswell
County School
system in North Carolina.
As the owner and operator of Kathy's School of Dance for eighteen years
(1982-2000), which she recently sold to her protégé, Kathy enjoyed working
with children and young adults between the ages of 3-22. Her students
have danced professionally at Opryland and Busch Gardens,
toured the country as Caravan Kids, and won first place in the 1993 National
Stars of Tomorrow
competition.
Kathy functioned as choreographer
for the Rockingham County Theatre Guild in North Carolina from 1989-1999.
From 1998 until May 2000 Kathy served as Theatre Director at Brewton-Parker College in Mount Vernon, Georgia.
In this capacity, she supervised all aspects of the College's theatre
program, including budgetary and promotional concerns, as well as directing
all productions.
Kathy completed the TREES Real
Estate Sales course and received her Affiliate Broker's License. From
October of 2000 until December 2002 she was employed by Coldwell Banker
Hamilton and Associates in Cleveland,
Tennessee. She taught
beginning and intermediate ballet classes at Lee University,
and continues to serve as a choreographer for local and regional productions, and as the Conference Assistant for several
extended programs on the American Founding each year funded by Liberty Fund,
Inc.
In January of 2006 she assumed
ownership of the Savannah Conservatory of Dance in Vidalia, Georgia,
supervising and teaching a wide variety of dance and Kindermusik
classes. Her studio offered a
comprehensive dance program, while stressing classical approaches and
individualized attention. She is also
a student of social and political thought, with a special interest in
Christian social teaching. Along with her husband, Kathy edited Political
Philosophy and Cultural Renewal (Transaction Publishers/Rutgers
University, 2001), and Order
and Legitimacy (Transaction Publishers/Rutgers University,
2004). Kathy is married to Dr. Lee Cheek, who
teaches at the University of North Georgia.
After teaching in the field of
dance for three decades, Kathy became the Executive Director of the Ohoopee Regional Council for the Arts (orcaarts.org) in 2009. She currently is an instructor of Kindermusik and dance.
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