Local resident, Tiffany Ehredt will be performing at Slippery Rock University’s Swope Recital Hall, tomorrow for the Senior Synthesis Concert, entitled, “Final Draft”. Performances are scheduled to begin at 5:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. Tickets can be purchased at the door for $3.
Each year many seniors culminate their studies in a final dance performance in Swope Recital Hall or the McKay Dance Studio. This concert is completely produced, choreographed, and performed by students. Works are based on a variety of research topics and include a work created for the seniors by professional choreographers from Pittsburgh\’s Attack Theatre. Ehredt will participate in a hip-hop piece, choreographed by Jessica Pasquini.
Anyone with questions about the show can call 724-738-2645.
Ehredt is a 2004 graduate of Bellwood-Antis High School. She began her dance training in Altoona at the age of three at Miss Pauline Baker Roger’s School of Dance.
At the age of 16, Ehredt continued training at the Blair Dance Academy, also located in Altoona.
She is currently a sophomore at Slippery Rock University, working on a Bachelors of Arts degree in dance.
Her training at Slippery Rock has included a wide variety of classes including modern dance and Pilates – based conditioning with Professor Jennifer Keller; modern dance with Professor Melissa Teodoro; jazz dance with Professor Thom Cobb and Bharta Natyam (classical Indian dance) with Professor Jaya Mani.
At this time, she is studying ballet and dance production with Professor Nola Nolen Holland, along with modern, jazz and Laban Movement Analysis with Professor Ursula Payne.
Ehredt has completed sixty crew hours as an additional requirement in the dance major and was a backstage crew member for the 2005 adjudicated and winter concerts.
She has also volunteered for the Grove City High School Dance Days where she helped to teach high school students dances that corresponded with the time period they were studying in history class.
Upon graduation Tiffany plans to audition for modern dance companies and to have a long career in dance performance.
