About Cara - Cara's Kids

As Director of Central Oklahoma Dance Center, Cara provides a fine blenf of academic skill and dance experience.

While completing her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Ballet Pedagogy at Oklahoma University, Cara toured with the Oklahoma Festival Ballet Company. Cara's dance training includes ballet in Russia at the Minsk Byelorussian State Academy, the University of Oklahoma, Quartz Moutain Summer Arts Intstitute, and jazz and tap performances in New York, Hollywood, Chicago, and Las Vegas.

Dacing is like dreaming with your feet! -Constanze

Thanks for choosing Central Oklahoma Dance Center!

Education/Training

BFA- University of Oklahoma 1986

Instructed by Miguel Terekhov, Yuvonne Choteau & Margaret Holt Las Vegas, Hollywood, Dallas and New York.

1985-1986 Quartz Mt. Summer Arts Institute (modern Dance)Studied with Nora Gutherie of New York and Ko Yukihiro of Japan.

1985 USSR (Classical Ballet) Minsk, Russia. Studied ballet with Clara Nickolivna. Certificate from Minsk Choreography School.

Guest Teaching and Workshops

1986 - Arkansas Ballet

1988 - Choreographer for ECU performance "Anything Goes". 1995 - Choreographer for ACT II performance"Westside Story" 2000-SummerDanceCamps for Central OK Dance Center Ada High Cougann and Color Guard Choreographer.

2004 - Chickasaw Nation Childrens Choir Dance Camp

Chickasaw Nation production "The Journey Continues" Choreographer & Artistic Consultant

2005 - Chickasaw Art Academy Dance Instructor/Chorepgrapher

Oklahoma Center for Arts Education UCO " Connecting to American Indian Learner's Conference