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Paulette
Brockington
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Dance as if no one is watching.
Sing as if no one is listening.
Love as if you have never been hurt.
--Mark
Twain
Paulette with Jon Ross, her teaching partner in her Lindy Hop, An Open Class instructional video.
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Partnering
Swingtrottin’
Syncopations and Breaks
Dancing Lindy to Contemporary Music
Salsa Step By Step
Salsa Meets Swing
West Coast Swing
African Rhythms Meet Swing
East Meets West
Ballroom
Concert dance styles
Tap
Jazz
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Paulette Brockington, winner of the 2004 World Swing Dance Championships West Coast Swing Jack and Jill, 2000 World Fast Dance Championships and 2000 Virginia State Open Swing Dance Championships Open Hustle Jack and Jill competitions to name a few, is a director/choreographer, dancer and actress who has had roles in feature and industrial films, television and radio commercials, and many stage productions.
Paulette was a Fulbright Award nominee by the Council for the International Exchange of Scholars to Kenya in Theater. She has been a member of and/or guest artist with modern dance companies, ballet companies, acting companies and opera companies. She is a versatile performer able to perform in modern dance, ballet, jazz, tap, ballroom, ethnic dance and swing. An active artist-in-residence and workshop teacher, she has choreographed and performed receiving honors/awards and grants for her work.
A commission to choreograph a dance work set in the Swing Era ultimately led her to Frankie Manning, an original member of Whitey's Lindy Hoppers who were based at Harlem's Savoy Ballroom, for private study in the Lindy Hop and other dances of the period. This led to an introduction to the world of competitive ballroom dance. She is well-versed in a variety of swing dance styles and is an active swing dance competitor, coach and judge.
In addition to training with artists like Uta Hagen, Mikell Pinckney, Judith Jamison, Bella Lewitzky, Joel Hall, Frankie Manning and Skippy Blair in theater, concert dance and ballroom and swing.
She has been a leading force in the
development of swing dance in the Great Lakes area as a teacher, dancer and
competitor. She has had the honor of partnering Frankie Manning on several
occasions. He says she is "One of America's premiere dancers." Chazz Young
says she puts the "F" in funk.
In 2008 Paulette was the ArtServe Michigan's K-12 Arts Educator nominated as
a finalist for the Governor's Award
for Arts and Culture as Arts
Educator of the Year (a run-off between a K-12, a college and a community
educator).
Paulette has adapted a number of works for
the stage including
Shakespeare: A Tragedy
on Thursday, A Comedy Tonight, A Thousand Cranes, American Beauty,
Puberty: The Game Show
and others too numerous to mention. She is the
author of and teaches in the video
Lindy Hop, An Open
Class and writer of a number of
articles and guides.
She maintains a freelance career doing workshops, judging, coaching, staging
and directing all kinds of productions.
Far better it is, To dare mighty things, To win glorious
triumphs, Even though checkered with failure. then to live in that grey
twilight, that knows neither victory nor defeat. - (apply to dance contests)
Theodore Roosevelt
Article for the
U.S. Open website
I think anybody, anybody that wants to join our military right now
and abide by that code of conduct should be kissed on the mouth and
thanked, including convicts. I say put psychopaths in. Who wouldn't
want Hannibal Lector. I'd take 50,000. Say 'Look over there. That's a
buffet. Have all you can eat....'
- Jason Alexander, actor
Give me a bucket of Chicken and a Count Basie
record and I can solve the Palestinian problem.
-
Norma Miller, dancer
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth. - FDR
Take the first step in faith. You don't have
to see the whole
staircase, just take the first step.
~
Dr. Martin Luther King
You will find Paulette
teaching:
Springtime
is for choreographing all those musicals!
Want more? Buy Paulette's instructional DVD.
Paulette with Frankie Manning at 1999's March Madness
Hiphoplindy.com
interview
Great dancers are not great because of their technique; they are great
because of their passion.
- Martha Graham
Zumba business card
Read Strutters Quarterly 1
Read Strutters Quarterly 2
I believe in censorship. After all, I made a
fortune out of it.
- Mae West
Read Swing Dancer magazine article
To thy own self be true and it shall follow as
the night the day that thou canst not then be false to any man.
-
Shakespeare
Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. - Will Rogers
ArtServe Michigan's mission is to cultivate the creative potential of Michigan's arts and cultural sector to enhance the health and well-being of Michigan, its people and community. The Governor's Awards for Arts & culture are Michigan's premiere statewide celebration and one way in which it contributes to and recognizes the vitality, diversity and depth of the sector with its awards for arts, culture and creativity. I had the opportunity to be the nominee for this year's Arts Educator of the Year representing arts educators in the K-12 sector.