(ongoing through spring 2024 see HMD’s mindbody site for specific dates or contact office@metdance.org)
Stacy Skolnik was born in Houston, Texas; began dancing at the age of three at Margo Marshall’s Ballet Studio in Houston. She continued on at the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts where she continued to focus on dance and their different styles. Stacy graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance in May of 2014. She has studied with Lyn Wiltshire, David Justin, Holly Williams, Grace Holmes, Tina Curran, Andrea Beckham and performed works by Yacov Sharir and Charles O. Anderson. She has also performed works by Ohad Naharin, Robert Battle, Mark Morris, Lar Lubovitch, and Andy Noble. Through out the summers, she has also studied at Point Park University’s intensive, Joffrey Contemporary/Jazz intensive in NYC, Joffrey Ballet Intensive in San Antonio, TX and the American Dance Festival. Stacy was a former company member of Gaspard&Dancers in Durham, NC. We showcased a new work at Duke University, which led to being apart of the APAP conference held at the Lincoln Center in NYC. In 2016, Stacy moved back to Houston, TX where she became a founding member of Open Dance Project. She also became Stotts certified Pilates teacher during that time. She has become teaching all forms of group fitness and focused on Pilates training at the Houstonian Club and other places in the greater Houston area. Performing with the company for over 7 years, she decided to pursue a freelance career and recently has choreographed/performed her own work. Her works have been showcased twice through Dance Source Houston’s, Mind the Gap. She continues to teach and share her dance/Pilates knowledge for all ages and is in the midst of creating and new projects to hopefully be performed!