Our Teachers

Carmen Butler

CARMEN BUTLER- dancer, performing artist and teacher, she began her formal dance training under the direction of the late John Hines and Ione Nash. Later Ms. Butler attended the Model Cities Program including The Philadelphia School of Dance and Arts, also the Ile Ife Museum- home of the Arthur Afro-American Dance Ensemble. Carmen attended the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center as a scholarship student. She also studied the Katherine Dunham Technique at the Performing Arts Training Center in St. Louis. On the international scale, Ms Butler has been a guest artist and lecturer in Northern Italy, Liberia, and West Africa.