Cora D. Mitchell's Page

Favorite Type of Dance:

Ballet

Favorite Dancer:

Mikhail Barishnikov

Favorite Dance Company:

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre
Martha Graham Dance Co.
Momenta Dance Co.

Previous Injuries:

DANCE RELATED:____________
R-knee (arthroscopic surgery) torn ligament
sprained MCL in L knee
broken toe
shoulder surgery L
groin injury R
stress fracture in R foot
bruised ribs


NON DANCE RELATED:
broken wrist (R)

About Me:

Prof. dancer/choreographer/instructor in Chicago, IL.
KNOXVILLE BALLET COMPANY (81-86)
received BFA from University of the Arts/Philadelphia, PA (1990).
JOSEPH HOLMES CHICAGO DANCE THEATER (1991-92) -2nd company.
also, danced w/ Winifred Haun and Dancers, Body Language Dance Co., and have made guest appearance with Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre in 2005.


2001-current
Sr. Company member & choreographer with MOMENTA DANCE COMPANY:Oak Park, IL., Stephanie Clemens, artistic director.

2006-current
LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO, teaching BALLET 1 and JAZZ 2.

also a FREELANCE PHOTOGRAPHER
(website..* coming soon where you can purchase prints)


Married 8 yrs.- Ernest J. Mitchell Jr.
..and has an 8 yr old (full breed/German) Rottweiler, CONAN

Job/School

MOMENTA DANCE CO./Academy of Movement and Music. & LOYOLA UNIVERSITY-THEATER/DANCE DPT.

Who/What inspires you?

my mother, my father, my big brother, my husband, my former teachers growing up.. (ballet) Irma Witt O Fallon and Lillian Coleman (piano)......and many of my students.