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Whitney is passionate about teaching, and finds true joy in working with students and helping them as they develop their own voice as dancers. She teaches tap technique and historic repertoire, and has organized concert performance, community shows, and workshops to share the art form and history of tap.
Whitney has been an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Performing Arts at Elon University since 2021, working with dance and musical theatre majors on technique, performance, and creative expression through movement. Courses Taught: Tap I, Tap II, Tap III, Music Theatre Ensemble, Somatic Theories I, Yoga
Whitney founded and teaches workshops for the Triangle Tap Collective focusing on tap technique, improvisation, and tap history.
Previously, Whitney taught company classes, choreography, and workshops as a member of Footnotes Tap Ensemble and has extensive experience teaching adult tap dancers at Ninth Street Studio in Durham, NC and The Dance Lab in Charleston, SC.
She offers private instruction for dancers wanting to expand their tap knowledge and skills, and/or who want to learn historic tap choreography.
Student Feedback
“Whitney is not just a kind person, but a magnificent teacher. She is so in tune with the fact that people learn differently, she gears her class to all types of learning. She creates a safe space for people to develop their skills and express themselves through tap. If you have the opportunity to work with Whitney…do it. You will be better for it!” -SF
“What differentiates Whitney... is that her class is truly collaborative, especially towards the higher levels of tap. Though she does emphasize curriculum on the roots of the artform and the variant styles stemming from tap’s blueprint, she also used her classes as a laboratory for creative expression. Her classes also had a heavy emphasis on improv and collaborative activities where we built off of the phrases our peers- developing our vocabulary of movement as well as our own individual style.” -MM
“This class pushed me, challenged me, and gave me room to discover what kind of tap dancer I want to become. I am so grateful to have gotten the opportunity to tap with such an amazing group and get such helpful, individualized feedback from the most INCREDIBLE TEACHER!!” -HP
“I’m truly grateful for the experiences tap class has given me. I find that I am a more self- assured dancer in general. From the technique segments to the improv circles, I was stretched and molded into a stronger and more confident performer. These lessons will be carried on during every dance class, recitals, and audition…” -GW
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