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Karly BlankenshipKarly Blankenship is an artist and instructor from the Hampton Roads area. This is her first season with Denise Wall’s Dance Energy as an instructor, but she is familiar with the studio as this was her home and training studio from 2006 through 2010. She continued her training and obtained a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Contemporary Dance from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston Salem, North Carolina. She merges her love of technique and concert dancing to build a strong foundation within her students. Through her journey at UNCSA, she was able to study choreography and improvisation which allowed her to dive deeper into her own artistry and grow as a dancer and teacher. She instills these same techniques throughout all of her students to empower them to be both technicians and artists. Karly is excited to share her passion and love of dance with the students at Denise Wall’s Dance Energy.
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Performance Experiences
Throughout her time at DWDE, she performed in the first Capezio ACE Awards, with a piece choreographed by Travis Wall. After leaving DWDE and attending North Carolina School of the Arts under the instruction of Dean Susan Jaffe, she performed in many guest artists pieces, debuting new works by Juel D. Lane, Sean Sullivan, and Maurya Kerr in collaboration with Hubbard Street II. She also danced repertoire like “Rite of Spring” from Shen Wei Dance Arts, “Kingdom” and “Seven” by Larry Keigwin and more. She continued training and performing through both the Hubbard Street summer program and Cedar Lake 360 where she performed her first installation pieces with members of Cedar Lake in New York City. Karly was able to debut two of her own pieces with dancers from North Carolina School of the Arts in collaboration with sound designers. She also performed a self- choreographed solo at the Ailey Citigroup Theater in New York in 2014.
Throughout her time at DWDE, she performed in the first Capezio ACE Awards, with a piece choreographed by Travis Wall. After leaving DWDE and attending North Carolina School of the Arts under the instruction of Dean Susan Jaffe, she performed in many guest artists pieces, debuting new works by Juel D. Lane, Sean Sullivan, and Maurya Kerr in collaboration with Hubbard Street II. She also danced repertoire like “Rite of Spring” from Shen Wei Dance Arts, “Kingdom” and “Seven” by Larry Keigwin and more. She continued training and performing through both the Hubbard Street summer program and Cedar Lake 360 where she performed her first installation pieces with members of Cedar Lake in New York City. Karly was able to debut two of her own pieces with dancers from North Carolina School of the Arts in collaboration with sound designers. She also performed a self- choreographed solo at the Ailey Citigroup Theater in New York in 2014.