Josh Nixon began dancing at the Centreville Dance Academy in Virginia. As a well-rounded student of dance, Josh trained in ballet, lyrical, jazz. Mr. Nixon’s professional choice was the art of Tap Dance, encouraged by his trainers Pam McCormick and Heidi Stafford. Josh joined MYTE (Metropolitan Youth Tap Ensemble), a semi-professional company, based in Virginia under the direction of Katie Padgett and Jason Holley where he was exposed to performing opportunities throughout Virginia, Maryland and Washington, DC. Performing live, Corporate events and television commercial choreographic works, by Broadway veteran Joseph Webb and Crishon Jerome.

Mr. Nixon has become a well-respected Tap Dance Instructor, with the privilege of participating in residencies, workshops and festivals in over 30 states in America and 20 countries throughout the world. His professional career has evolved to also afford him the opportunity to serve as the Assistant Artistic Director to Joseph Webb’s youth company, House of Tap. His continually evolving career has brought him to be seen in Dance Teacher and Dance Magazine features, production and performance opportunities alongside his mentors Chloe and Maud Arnold, Derick Grant, and Ted Louis Levy. Josh has performed with Chloe Arnold’s Apartment 33, Ryan Johnson’s SOLE Defined and Heidi Stafford’s Sundays on Tap, and has recently assisted Tap faculty at Break the Floor events. Recent Credits include the Root 100 Awards, Lincoln Center, The Smithsonian Institution, MS Europa 2 cruise ship, and choreography for the national Miss America Pageant.

When not traveling, Josh is pursuing his Bachelor’s Degree from Arizona State University and running his own video production company. Josh passes on his love, respect and knowledge for tap dance as a guest instructor at a handful of Universities and studios throughout the VA/DC Metro Area, as well as heading his new pre-professional tap company, SYTE & Sound.

DNSD 2022 Convention Faculty
🕺 JARROD PAULSON

Jarrod is a dancer, instructor, and choreographer based out of Minneapolis, Minnesota.

He has been dancing since he was 10 years old, beginning his training at Larkin Dance Studio. After high school Jarrod lived in Los Angeles for 5 years pursuing a professional dance career, partaking in many dance related projects including working with the production ’Glee’, touring across the world with the circus, and being featured on ’So You Think You Can Dance’ season 16.

Crash Dance Productions, a professional, contemporary dance company based in the Twin Cities, has been a part of Jarrod’s life for the past 7 years.

He has also been teaching at Larkin Dance Studio as a full time staff member for the past 6 years.

Jarrod enjoys traveling across the U.S. teaching and choreographing for other competitive studios.

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– GUEST FACULTY –
MARY CARPENTER – Mary studied at CCM, the Cincinnati
Ballet Company school; scholarship at the David Howard Dance
Center, and holds a BA with high honors in dance from Butler
University. She danced for The Metropolitan Opera Ballet at
Lincoln Center; performed as a principal guest artist for Ohio
Dance Theatre and Granite State Ballet, and as a soloist with
Ballet Artists of Cincinnati, Maryland Ballet, Lexington Ballet, and
Charleston Ballet. Mary was previously on faculty for Broadway
Dance Center, The Ballet Hispanico School, Barnard College,
and The New School University. She currently teaches at Ballet
Academy East and the world-famous Steps on Broadway. She
directed nine ballet classroom music recordings with Roper
Records from creative movement through advanced ballet and is
a featured teacher in two DVDs for RizBiz Productions, “Budding
Ballerinas” and “From Tights to Tutus.” Mary created “The Magical
World of Ballet,” with Roper, a DVD designed for young dancers,
teachers, and parents. She holds certifications in Pilates mat and
Progressing Ballet Technique and you can take her ballet class on
the Dancio.com website, where she is a featured master teacher
for adult beginners. Ms. Carpenter’s latest project is a classroom
recording collaboration with Metropolitan Opera Ballet pianist
Steven Mitchell for his music app Balletrax. Mary is a master
pointe shoe fitter with over thirty years of experience working
with dancers in ABT, The Royal Ballet, and NYCB – to name a
few. She has given pointe shoe lectures at prestigious summer
programs for ABT/JKO, Dance Theatre of Harlem, NYSSA, and
Oklahoma Summer Arts in Quartz. She has served as a panelist
on pointe shoes alongside Misty Copeland, coached Julia Styles
for her role in the movie “Save the Last Dance”, and assisted
NYCB principal dancer Jenifer Ringer with pointe shoes for Oprah
Winfrey for TV. Mary is the featured pointe shoe expert for the
last video project by the late master teacher David Howard “I’ll
Be Seeing You” on Vimeo. In 2015 she launched her Youtube
channel “Dancewithmary NYC” where she shares her pointe
shoe expertise in monthly segments.
JOSH NIXON – Josh Nixon began dancing at the Centreville
Dance Academy in Virginia. As a well-rounded student of dance,
Josh trained in ballet, lyrical, jazz. Mr. Nixon’s professional
choice was the art of Tap Dance, encouraged by his trainers Pam
McCormick and Heidi Stafford. Josh joined MYTE (Metropolitan
Youth Tap Ensemble), a semi-professional company, based in
Virginia under the direction of Katie Padgett and Jason Holley
where he was exposed to performing opportunities throughout
Virginia, Maryland and Washington, DC. Performing live,
Corporate events and television commercial choreographic
works, by Broadway veteran Joseph Webb and Crishon Jerome.
Mr. Nixon has become a well-respected Tap Dance Instructor,
with the privilege of participating in residencies,
workshops and festivals in over 30 states in America
and 20 countries throughout the world. His professional
career has evolved to also afford him the opportunity
to serve as the Assistant Artistic Director to Joseph
Webb’s youth company, House of Tap. His continually
evolving career has brought him to be seen in Dance
Teacher and Dance Magazine features, production and
performance opportunities alongside his mentors Chloe
and Maud Arnold, Derick Grant, and Ted Louis Levy. Josh
has performed with Chloe Arnold’s Apartment 33, Ryan
Johnson’s SOLE Defined and Heidi Stafford’s Sundays on
Tap, and has recently assisted Tap faculty at Break the
Floor events. Recent Credits include the Root 100 Awards,
Lincoln Center, The Smithsonian Institution, MS Europa
2 cruise ship, and choreography for the national Miss
America Pageant. When not traveling, Josh is pursuing
his Bachelor’s Degree from Arizona State University and
running his own video production company. Josh passes
on his love, respect and knowledge for tap dance as a
guest instructor at a handful of Universities and studios
throughout the VA/DC Metro Area as well as heading
his new pre-professional tap company, SYTE & Sound.
As a dance therapist, Jeff has worked in psychiatric units,
halfway houses, and homeless shelters.
He is the founder of House of Roses, a volunteer
organization, helping to build self-esteem and self
confidence through dance with young people living in
homeless shelters around the city.
PLUS
Madison Jordan and Jarrod Tyler Paulson
from So You Think You Can Dance!!