About DeAngelo

DeAngelo Blanchard, from Ohio, is a dance artist and educator and currently serves as an Assistant Professor of Dance & Dance Education at Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. He holds both a MSEd in Educational Leadership & a MA in Dance Education from Hunter College as a Lincoln Center Scholar. He served as a district facilitator for Connected Arts Network, a Teacher Leader with the Office of Teacher Development & Leadership, and was a Master Teacher through the Office of Arts and Special Projects’ Department of Dance and outside of the NYC Department of Education. He trained pre-professionally at BalletMet Dance Academy, with the Thiossane West African Dance Institute and continued his training at The Ohio State University, receiving a BFA in Dance. He also trained at the American Dance Festival, Henny Jurriëns Studios, The Ailey School and ImPulsTanz. Blanchard has performed works by Bill T. Jones, John Jasperse Projects, Larry Keigwin, and with the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Dance Africa, and has toured nationally and internationally.  He continues to fight for equity and access through arts for all children of color!

Photo by Jelle Ijntema