Kim Shipp

Kim holds a M.F.A. from the California Institute of the Arts and a B.F.A. from the University of Utah, both in dance. In 1996, she became certified as a Laban Movement Analyst (CMA) and a Bartenieff Fundamentals Practitioner. From 1998-2002, Kim directed Shipp Dance Theatre, a non-profit, modern dance company dedicated to bringing dance classes and performances to the everyday public. Her work was presented by The California Choreographers Dance Festival, Danceworks, Pasadena Arts Council, Pasadena Symphony, among others. Kim was also a guest faculty member at San Jose State University and Cabrillo College. She has worked in the Northern California schools for the past 8 years teaching classes, residencies and assemblies with Young Audiences of the Bay Area, Yes! Express Afterschool Adventures, Santa Clara and San Jose Parks and Recreation and now Starting Arts. In 2000, Kim was named one of Dance Magazines’s “25 To Watch” for her pioneering of a new form of dance performance she calls Retail Dance and she produced the Retail Dance Festival in 2001, 2003 and 2005. During the festival, Kim selected dance artists and companies to perform in store front windows at Union Square in San Francisco, all free to the public.