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Media Contact:Lindsey Holmes for Sharron Miller’s Academy for The Performing Arts (SMAPA)(973) [email protected]
About Sharron Miller, Founder/Director of SMAPA
Sharron Miller has devoted her life to dance. She attended the Juilliard School and worked with the director of the Garden State Ballet. After completing her training, she danced as a soloist for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and appeared in seven Broadway shows. Sharron also taught at Renaissance Middle School for 13 years, where her dance and drama program for youth was praised by the State of New Jersey. Today, as the founder of Sharron Miller's Academy for the Performing Arts (SMAPA) she shares the skills she acquired throughout a lifetime in the arts with students from all walks of life.
Recently Sharron Miller, sat down with Joanna Gagis, host of NJTV’s Life & Living with Joanna Gagis, to share her experiences as a Juilliard School graduate, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater soloist and Broadway veteran, and discuss how she found her passion for dance, and how she continues to preserve the SMAPA mission. Click here or above to watch the video interview.
About Sharron Miller’s Academy for the Performing Arts (SMAPA)
SMAPA is a not-for-profit organization that provides classes in jazz, ballet, tap, and modern dancing for students of all ages. SMAPA's skilled faculty members teach hundreds of students every year and conduct outreach to the community, engaging youth in the arts through school programs and impromptu performances in the daydreams of teenagers.
SMAPA Donation Opportunities
You too can play a vital role through your generous financial support! In addition to cash contributions, SMAPA welcomes donations of items to the evening’s silent and live auction, and raffle prizes. All cash contributions and auction prize donations are deductible to the extent allowed by law. SMAPA is a charitable organization under IRS regulation 501(c)(3). As a thank you, those providing support will be listed as a SMAPA Donor on our website for six months. Participation in the arts can change a life. Your donations help keep these programs alive!
Donations may be sent to:Sharron Miller’s Academy for the Performing Artsc/o Conny Andres14 South Park Street Montclair, NJ 07042
M E D I A A L E R TMisty Copeland Edition FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | February 10, 2015
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**New Date, New Venue** - Misty Copeland “In Conversation” with Sharron Miller
Join Misty Copeland, Sharron Miller, and Charisse Jones as they discuss Misty Copeland’s ‘Life In Motion.’
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Montclair, NJ - On Monday, April 2, 2015 at 7PM, Sharron Miller, Founder/ Director of Sharron Miller’s Academy for The Performing Arts (SMAPA) and USA Today Journalist Charisse Jones, will host a ‘fireside chat’ interviewing award-winning ballerina Misty Copeland at Mt. Hebron Middle School, 173 Belleville Avenue, Montclair, NJ 07043. Hosted by Watchung Booksellers in partnership with Sharron Miller’s Academy for The Performing Arts (SMAPA) the event will feature a chat, a Q&A and close with a signing of her new book ‘Life In Motion.’
“In Conversation With Misty Copeland” plans to explore Misty’s history-making feat as the only African American soloist with the prestigious American Ballet Theatre, an insider’ s look at the sometimes ‘cutthroat’ world of professional ballet, and collaborations from Prince to Twyla Tharp.
Sharron Miller’s work as a professional dancer, nurturing of so many young dancers, and the creation of a successful business in dance has prompted this opportunity. Sharron Miller and the SMAPA team are proud to host Ms. Copeland for this awe-inspiring event.
“Misty Copeland ‘In Conversation’ with Sharron Miller’April 2, 2015 ·7PM
Mt. Hebron Middle School, 173 Belleville Avenue, Montclair, NJ 07043
This event is open to the public. Invitation is by Reservation Only.Please reserve your seat by calling 973-744-7177 or via email at
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About Misty Copeland
Misty Copeland is a recipient of the Leonore Annenberg Fellowship in the Arts, an inductee into the Boys and Girls Club Alumni Hall of Fame, and the National Youth of the Year Ambassador of the Boys and Girls Clubs of America. Copeland was honored at BET’s 2013 Black Girls Rock! with the Young, Gifted and Black Award, and her many appearances as a spokeswoman for Under Armour and Coach, as a judge on Dancing With The Stars and as the face of ABT’s Project Plie have helped to bring ballet to the masses. Copeland lives in New York City.
About Life In Motion
Life in Motion is an insider's look at the cutthroat world of professional ballet, as well as a moving story of passion and grace for anyone who has dared to dream of a different life. This touching memoir reveals Copeland’s journey to becoming a history-making soloist candidly: from being asked to lighten her features to better blend in with her fellow dancers onstage, to a highly-publicized court case that nearly took her away from ballet for good—a haunting topic that Copeland discussed here for the first time. But Copeland also takes readers backstage at America’s national ballet company, and gives readers a front row seat to her triumphs, her passionate artistic process, and collaborations with luminaries from Prince to Twyla Tharp.
