Suzi Myers Tipa

A native New Yorker, Suzi began her dance career with the Windemere Ballet Theatre in Queens. Her passion for dance lead her to study many international folk dance styles, including Irish Step, Scottish Highland, Middle Eastern, and African. An actor as well, she studied drama at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute and improvisational comedy at Chicago City Limits in New York City. As a member of AllNations Dance Company, she traveled to such exotic locations as Central and South America, Eastern Europe, China and Brooklyn sharing a message of global understanding through the arts. She has performed in many regional musicals and plays, including Brigadoon, Damn Yankees, Over the River and Through the Woods (at the Emelin Theatre and Queens Theatre in the Park), and Children Of... the first full-length production to beperformed at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. You may also catch her on Law and Order, Sex and the City, Ed, and numerous other films and television shows. At present she is joyfully conducting movement and music workshops for Hospital Audiences, Inc., bringing the arts to adults with mental illness. She teaches acting and improv for the SUNY Purchase Youth Theatre Program,and has stage managed and worked backstage at such Off-Broadway theatres as the Ensemble Studio Theatre and Manhattan Theatre Club. She has choreographed a number of regional theatre productions, and has been a guest teacher for companies throughout New York City. She has written, produced and performed sketch comedy, and currently dances with Pat Cannon's Foot and Fiddle Dance Company.

Theatrical Performances Dances from seemingly dissimilar cultures are woven together in a glorious tapestry. Read more...

Assembly ProgramsWorld Dance Theatre offers assembly programs to fit every budget. Read more...

Arts-in-Education Students of all ages gain a familiarity with and appreciation of foreign traditions and cultural diversity through our performances and residencies. Read more...

For more information on World Dance Theatre's programs and perfomances, please contact Suzi Myers Tipa