Meet Kerri-Noelle
Founder
Kerri-Noelle, our Founding Executive and Artistic Director, is an accomplished arts leader and educator with extensive experience in both teaching and community engagement. Her role extends beyond organizational leadership as she also serves as a Teaching Artist in Huntsville/Madison County and Greater Birmingham schools. In 2024, Kerri-Noelle was selected as a South Arts National Leaders of Color Fellow and became a member of the national Connected Artists Network program.
She is also a 2022 Arts Educator Fellowship recipient from the Alabama State Council on the Arts. Prior to joining us, Kerri-Noelle was the Co-Artistic Director of AAA Dance and was named the 2019-2020 Academy for Academics and Arts Middle School Teacher of the Year. Her current research, Dancing the Diaspora: Discovering the Influence of Traditional and Tribal African Dance in the History of African-American Social and Concert Dance in the Caribbean and the United States, has been featured on DanceMagazine.com and DanceTeacher.com.
Kerri-Noelle holds an Alabama Professional Educator Certificate in Dance (P-12) and has earned a BS in Mathematics from Howard University, an MBA from Barry University, and an MA in Dance Education from the University of Northern Colorado. She received her early dance training at Ann’s Studio of Dance and Community Ballet in Huntsville, AL, and continued her studies at the Howard University School of Fine Arts. While there, she was a member of the Howard University Dance Ensemble and performed as a company member with the Summer Institute of the Dance Institute of Washington under the direction of Fabian Barnes (Dance Theater of Harlem).
She has presented at Foundations of Teaching Artistry, National Dance Education Organization’s annual conference and the Alabama Institute for Education in the Arts.
