Meet Our Instructors | Attitudes in Dance, Venice, Florida
Michael Worcel
Michael Worcel, associate teaching professor of dance, retired at the end of the spring semester 2020 from the department of Theatre and Dance at Ball State University. He had been teaching at Ball State for 28 years and was on the faculty of Anderson Young Ballet since 1990. His primary teaching responsibilities were in the areas of jazz, tap, musical theatre dance forms, and dance history. He is an honor graduate from Butler University and former member of the contemporary dance company Dance Kaleidoscope. He also danced for Starlight Musicals, Equity Dinner Theatres and summer stock, NCL cruise lines, and for eighteen months with the original Broadway First National Tour of 42nd Street.
To date he has choreographed over 50 musicals for Ball State University, and 22 musicals for Indianapolis Civic Theatre. Choreography credits also include Beef N Boards Dinner Theatre, Actors Theatre of Indiana, and revues for NCL cruise ships with Jean Ann Ryan Productions. In 1999 he directed/ choreographed the full-length liturgical ballet Le Voyage in live concert with recording artist Sandi Patty.
He has had numerous concert dance pieces chosen for performance at Mid-states Regional Dance Festivals as part of the Regional Dance America Organization. In both 1994 and 1999, he was awarded a certificate of merit for choreography from the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts at the American College Theatre Festival Regional Division. He was the recipient of the Ball State University College of Fine Arts Dean’s Teaching Award in 2002 and in 2017 received an excellence in teaching award from the alumni board of Theatre and Dance.
Addison Kearns
Ballet/tap 4-6 years old
Sydney Kittle
Pre Pointe
Cecchetti Primary I-III 6 to 8 years old
Tap Beginner 7+
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Meet Our Instructors | Attitudes in Dance, Venice, Florida
Michael Worcel
Michael Worcel, associate teaching professor of dance, retired at the end of the spring semester 2020 from the department of Theatre and Dance at Ball State University. He had been teaching at Ball State for 28 years and was on the faculty of Anderson Young Ballet since 1990. His primary teaching responsibilities were in the areas of jazz, tap, musical theatre dance forms, and dance history. He is an honor graduate from Butler University and former member of the contemporary dance company Dance Kaleidoscope. He also danced for Starlight Musicals, Equity Dinner Theatres and summer stock, NCL cruise lines, and for eighteen months with the original Broadway First National Tour of 42nd Street.
To date he has choreographed over 50 musicals for Ball State University, and 22 musicals for Indianapolis Civic Theatre. Choreography credits also include Beef N Boards Dinner Theatre, Actors Theatre of Indiana, and revues for NCL cruise ships with Jean Ann Ryan Productions. In 1999 he directed/ choreographed the full-length liturgical ballet Le Voyage in live concert with recording artist Sandi Patty.
He has had numerous concert dance pieces chosen for performance at Mid-states Regional Dance Festivals as part of the Regional Dance America Organization. In both 1994 and 1999, he was awarded a certificate of merit for choreography from the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts at the American College Theatre Festival Regional Division. He was the recipient of the Ball State University College of Fine Arts Dean’s Teaching Award in 2002 and in 2017 received an excellence in teaching award from the alumni board of Theatre and Dance.
Addison Kearns
Ballet/tap 4-6 years old
Sydney Kittle
Pre Pointe
Cecchetti Primary I-III 6 to 8 years old
Tap Beginner 7+
