Kara O'Toole has replaced Velocity Dance Center founders Michele Miller and KT Niehoff as executive director of the popular contemporary dance studio in Seattle.
* Kara Kara (kär`ə), river, c.140 mi (230 km) long, NE European and NW Siberian Russia. It flows N from the N Urals into the Kara Sea, forming part of the traditional border between European and Asian Russia. It is navigable in its lower course. O'Toole has replaced Velocity Dance Center founders Michele Miller and KT Niehoff as executive director of the popular contemporary dance studio in Seattle. O'Toole comes to Velocity from the faculty of Cornish College of the Arts . Cornish College of the Arts is a fully accredited institution in the Denny Triangle and Capitol Hill neighborhoods of Seattle, Washington, USA that offers the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Dance, Theater, Performance Production, Design, and Fine Art, as well as the Bachelor of dance department. She has performed professionally with the Pat Graney Company, the Chamber Dance Company, and is a founding member of Seattle's d9Dance Collective and Kick. Her teaching tenure includes George Mason University Named after American revolutionary, patriot and founding father George Mason, the university was founded as a branch of the University of Virginia in 1957 and became an independent institution in 1972. , the University of Memphis The University of Memphis is a public research university located in Memphis, Tennessee, United States, and is a flagship public research university of the Tennessee Board of Regents system. , and 10 years in the University of Washington dance program. Miller and Niehoff will remain active as teachers and mentors, www.velocitydancecenter.org.
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