Studio Stories: Reminiscing on Twin Cities Dance with Derek Phillips Season 2 Episode 31

Derek Phillips is a native of Kansas City, Missouri and a 1977
graduate
of Carleton College. He began his dance career with the Nancy
Hauser
Dance Company and later toured nationally with the Children’s
Theatre
Company. Derek has been a roster artist for the Minnesota State
Arts
Board’s Artists-in-Education Program and conducted annual
residencies
for the Montevideo, Minnesota public schools for over twenty
years. He
has taught as part of the Dance/Math program at Whittier
Community
School for the Arts in Minneapolis and instructed and performed
for the
City Children’s Nutcracker Project. He has also served as
Development
Assistant for Intermedia Arts Minnesota’s capital campaign and
Adjunct
Dance Education Coordinator for the Perpich Center for Arts
Education.
More recently, he toured internationally with Katha Dance
Theatre.
Currently, Derek is a teaching artist for the Cowles Center for
Dance and
the Performing Arts. He performs English country and sword dances
with
Minnesota Traditional Morris and Guyz with Tiez, and is a 2016
recipient of
a Minnesota SAGE Award.