Wendy Heagy
(Founder)
Students will learn the biblical principals for dance ministry and be trained and encouraged to use their gifts for the Honor and Glory of the King. They will be given technical training at basic, adv/beginner and intermediate levels. Students will be equipped and discipled with valuable lessons for street outreach/evangelism through the arts and sent out to continue the work of the Lord through the great commission.
The desire of God's heart is, "that none should perish," therefore, these doors will be open to the saved as well as the unsaved, believing that by lifting up the name of Jesus, all men will be drawn unto Him and come to know Him as their personal Lord and Savior. Raise Him Up Ministries is accountable to God and to those whom the Lord has put in place to give wise and godly council.
We Believe
The Lord Jesus Christ
We believe that Jesus Christ is the only begotten Son of God. We believe that He died on the cross for our sins and that he rose again and now sits at the right hand of His Father in Heaven.
Salvation
We believe that all men are born of a sinful nature and that the work on the cross has redeemed us from the power of sin. We believe that salvation is available to all who will receive it.
The Holy Spirit
We believe in the trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. We believe in the baptism of the Holy Spirit with the manifestation of the gifts of the Spirit.
The Holy Scriptures
We believe that the Holy Bible is the inspired Word of God and that it is the complete revelation of God's will for all of mankind.
Evangelism
We believe that evangelism is the obligation of every follower of Jesus Christ. The Lord commands us to go out and make disciples of all the earth. We believe that each person is first responsible to evangelism in their own family as the Holy Spirit leads them and gives them the ability.
Click Link Below:
Raise Him Up Praise Dance School & Ministry(New York City)http://www.praisedance.com/
DR. SANDY A. MITCHELL
(Director)
Dr. Sandy A. Mitchell is a native of Chapel Hill, North Carolina is a graduate of Howard University, with a BA Degree in Communication and a Minor in Drama/Dance. She is also a graduate of The American University with a MA Degree in Performing Arts, a graduate of Friends International Christian University with a Doctorate of Ministry in Religious Dance, a Doctor of Philosophy in Religious Studies and a graduate of Faith Bible College and Seminary with a Degree in Theology.
Dr. Mitchell is a licensed minister, a gifted performer and teacher of the arts. She proclaims the marriage of passionate obedience and excellence in all she does. She is acclaimed nationally and internationally for her gifts and leadership in producing, directing, training artists technically, spiritually & choreographing dramatic productions & pieces for dance soloists.
Dr. Mitchell is the founding artistic director of Spirit Wings Dance Company, with a mission of setting a standard of excellence in the art of dance. Based out of Laurel, Maryland this company ministers with extreme technical proficiency and the anointing of God. Dr. Mitchell is a licensed minister, a gifted performer and teacher of the arts. She proclaims the marriage of passionate obedience and excellence in all she does. She is acclaimed nationally and internationally for her gifts and leadership in producing, directing, training artists technically, spiritually & choreographing dramatic productions & pieces for dance soloists.
Dr. Mitchell has instructed & choreographed for Trinity Assembly of God Christmas Production (Lutherville, Maryland), St. Augustine Roman Catholic Church Liturgical Dance Ministry (Washington, D.C.), The Boden Center for the Performing Arts (Bronx, New York), Clinton Christian School’s Vessels of Praise, (Upper Marlboro, MD), High Point High School’s Concert Choir (Beltsville, MD), Evangel Cathedrals’ Christmas Celebration (Upper Marlboro, MD) and Ron Kenoly’s “The Perfect Gift Tour.” She also has worked as the artistic advisor for Georgetown University's Dance Program (Washington, DC), as an adjunct professor in the Education Department at Bowie State University (Bowie, MD), and as an instructor for the Washington Performing Arts Society’s summer program (Washington, DC). In 1993, Dr. Mitchell began Spirit Wings Dance Studio, a place designed to train dancers to set a standard of excellence academically, artistically, spiritually and in their daily walk before God & man.
Dr. Mitchell takes performance and worship quite seriously and has established and strengthened dancers and dance ministries in Kenya, South Africa, Jamaica, Bermuda, Bahamas, England, Germany, Trinidad, and throughout the United States with the sole purpose of making a celebration of excellent, anointed, glorious praise unto the Lord.
Based out of Hope Christian Church under the leadership of Bishop Harry & Pastor Michele Jackson, Dr. Mitchell brings anointing through her ministry and the ministry of those whom she teaches.
Married for 28 years this year to Chevist L. Mitchell, they reside in Laurel Maryland.
Click Link Below:
Spirit Wings Dance Company & Studio(Laurel, Maryland)
http://www.spirit-wings.com/#!studio/c1rr8
Layesha Walton
(Founder)
Layesha N. Walton (Miami, Fl) graduate of Fort Valley State University (Fort Valley, GA) with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Mass Communications/Public Relations. She is happily married to Mr. Randol L. Walton. They have two beautiful children and they live in Tampa, Florida. The scripture they live by is I Peter 1:16 - “Because it is written, be ye holy for I am holy.”
At age 8, Layesha began studying at Ballet Etude (Miami, FL) and continued her studies at the Inner City Touring Dance Center, Miami Northwestern's Performing and Visual Arts Center and The Alvin Ailey American Dance Center (Summer Intensive Professional Women’s Division) located in New York City. Layesha has had extensive training and a performance career for over 25 years. After receiving Jesus as her Lord and Savior, she gave up dancing for entertainment, only to have Him give it back to her as a tool of ministry and evangelism.
Currently, through Anointed to Dance (A2D), Layesha Walton conducts liturgical (technique-based) and prophetic dance classes/workshops, seminars, choreography, and ministry presentations nationally. Her dance background includes Ballet, Modern, and Jazz. Her dance training has led her to stages with or to open before gospel artists like Crystal Aikin, Karen Clark-Sheard, Kirk Franklin, Damita Haddon, Bishop Paul Morton, Pastor William Murphy, III, Lowell Pye of Men of Standard, Marvin Sapp, Melinda Watts, Marvin Winans, Jr., and Vickie Winans.
Layesha and her husband Randol, are the founders of Music & Dance Unto the Lord, Inc. Layesha is also the founder and director of T.B.M.U. (Tampa Bay Ministries United), Anointed to Dance, L.I.F.T. (Ladies Influencing their Future Today) Mentorship Program, and author of, “Dancing My Testimony: A Daily Devotional Journal for Worshippers.” Jesus Christ is Layesha’s Lord and Saviour. He is the Bishop of her soul, her Deliverer and Master!
Click Link Below:
http://www.anointedtodance.com/A2D_Official_Site/M.D.U.T.L..html
Music & Dance Unto the Lord( Tampa, Fla)
Vicki Wooten Tchanque
(Dance Teacher)
Vicki began her professional performing arts career in her early teens. Along with 59 other students, she became part of the second graduating class of Duke Ellington School of the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. Classical training in ballet (Vagonova, Cechetti), Modern (Graham, Horton), Jazz, traditional West African Dance (Senegalese), some theater, music and voice classes were sure foundations for her beginnings. While still in high school she performed professionally with The African Heritage Dancers and Drumming Co. under the direction of Melvin Deal. After three years of intensive study at Ellington, Vicki attended Philadelphia College of the Performing Arts (now University of the Arts) in the fall of 1981.
During a lengthy interruption in Vicki’s college career from 1982-1993 she performed with various regional dance companies in the Washington, D.C. area: (The Jason Taylor Dance Theater, Adrian Bolton’s Dance Co. and Spirit Wing’s Dance Co.). In 1986 while still performing, Vicki obtained her license in Cosmetology/Management and actively worked in the beauty industry for 15 years in various salons and as a Platform Artist and Trainer. In 1993 she returned to academia at the University of Maryland at College Park as a Creative and Performing Arts Scholar. Upon completing her Bachelor of Arts in dance Vicki was awarded an apprenticeship with the internationally acclaimed and Tony Award winning choreographer of The Lion King, Garth Fagan of Garth Fagan Dance Co. in Rochester, NY. After her work with Garth Fagan Dance, Vicki returned to academia to pursue her Master’s of Fine Arts in choreography and performance and her certificate in teaching K-12. While pursuing her Masters, Vicki owned and managed Jubal Dance Company with a training studio in Rochester, N.Y. In addition to Jubal Dance, she co-founded In The Company Of Women, a dance company comprised of 5 women dedicated to making dance works that speak to social issues. While in Rochester, Vicki rebuilt the ballet program in the Dance Department at The Rochester School of Arts from 2001-2004. After 9 years in Rochester, N.Y. Vicki returned to the Washington, D.C. area in 2005. Vicki is currently in her 11th year of teaching dance in public education.
Click Link Below:
SPIRIT WINGS DANCE COMPANY
http://www.spirit-wings.com/#!instructors/ch2f
During a lengthy interruption in Vicki’s college career from 1982-1993 she performed with various regional dance companies in the Washington, D.C. area: (The Jason Taylor Dance Theater, Adrian Bolton’s Dance Co. and Spirit Wing’s Dance Co.). In 1986 while still performing, Vicki obtained her license in Cosmetology/Management and actively worked in the beauty industry for 15 years in various salons and as a Platform Artist and Trainer. In 1993 she returned to academia at the University of Maryland at College Park as a Creative and Performing Arts Scholar. Upon completing her Bachelor of Arts in dance Vicki was awarded an apprenticeship with the internationally acclaimed and Tony Award winning choreographer of The Lion King, Garth Fagan of Garth Fagan Dance Co. in Rochester, NY. After her work with Garth Fagan Dance, Vicki returned to academia to pursue her Master’s of Fine Arts in choreography and performance and her certificate in teaching K-12. While pursuing her Masters, Vicki owned and managed Jubal Dance Company with a training studio in Rochester, N.Y. In addition to Jubal Dance, she co-founded In The Company Of Women, a dance company comprised of 5 women dedicated to making dance works that speak to social issues. While in Rochester, Vicki rebuilt the ballet program in the Dance Department at The Rochester School of Arts from 2001-2004. After 9 years in Rochester, N.Y. Vicki returned to the Washington, D.C. area in 2005. Vicki is currently in her 11th year of teaching dance in public education.
Click Link Below:
SPIRIT WINGS DANCE COMPANY
http://www.spirit-wings.com/#!instructors/ch2f
Carrie-Lenn Orr
(Dance Teacher)
(Dance Teacher)
Cari-Lenn Orr is a native North Carolinian. She attended The University of North Carolina School of the Arts in Contemporary Studies, and later moved to New York City, New York to study at The Ailey School. In 2001, Ms. Orr graduated from Ailey’s Certificate Program and furthered her affiliation with the institution by assisting the former Director, the late Denise Jefferson. During her career in New York, Ms. Orr had the opportunity to work with notable artists and choreographers such as Matthew Rushing, Earl Mosley, Hope Boykin, Fredrick Moore and other well-known artists in the dance world. She also performed with a variety of dance and theater companies throughout the New York/New Jersey and D.C. area.
Ms. Orr was a guest artist with the Broadway cast of The Lion King for an annual fund-raising performance and held an apprenticeship with Urban Bush Women. Her passion for dance extended from the stage to the studio where she served on faculty for different outreach programs and art conservatories teaching dance to children and adults of all ages. Having returned back to North Carolina, Ms. Orr considers it a privilege to serve the community through instruction by using dance as a mode of communication to impact aspiring young artists in addition to the layperson that has an affinity to dance.
Click Link Below:
SPIRIT WINGS DANCE COMPANY http://www.spirit-wings.com/#!instructors/ch2f
Ms. Orr was a guest artist with the Broadway cast of The Lion King for an annual fund-raising performance and held an apprenticeship with Urban Bush Women. Her passion for dance extended from the stage to the studio where she served on faculty for different outreach programs and art conservatories teaching dance to children and adults of all ages. Having returned back to North Carolina, Ms. Orr considers it a privilege to serve the community through instruction by using dance as a mode of communication to impact aspiring young artists in addition to the layperson that has an affinity to dance.
Click Link Below:
SPIRIT WINGS DANCE COMPANY http://www.spirit-wings.com/#!instructors/ch2f
(Founder)
Alvin Ailey was born on January 5, 1931 in Rogers, Texas. His experiences of life in the rural South would later inspire some of his most memorable works. At age 12, he moved with his mother to Los Angeles, where he was introduced to dance by performances of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo and the Katherine Dunham Dance Company. His formal dance training began with an introduction to Lester Horton’s classes by his friend, Carmen de Lavallade. Horton, the founder of one of the first racially-integrated dance companies in the United States, became a mentor for Mr. Ailey as he embarked on his professional career. After Horton’s death in 1953, Mr. Ailey became director of the Lester Horton Dance Theater and began to choreograph his own works. In the 1950s and 60s, Mr. Ailey performed in four Broadway shows including House of Flowers and Jamaica. Mr. Ailey studied dance with Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, Charles Weidman, Hanya Holm, and Karel Shook and also took acting classes with Stella Adler.
In 1958, he founded Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater to carry out his vision of a company dedicated to enriching the American modern dance heritage and preserving the uniqueness of the African-American cultural experience. He established the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center (now The Ailey School) in 1969 and formed the Alvin Ailey Repertory Ensemble (now Ailey II) in 1974. Mr. Ailey was a pioneer of programs promoting arts in education, particularly those benefiting underserved communities. Throughout his lifetime, he was awarded numerous honorary doctoral degrees, NAACP’s Spingarn Award, the United Nations Peace Medal, the Dance Magazine Award, the Capezio Award, and the Samuel H. Scripps American Dance Festival Award. In 1988, he received the Kennedy Center Honor in recognition of his extraordinary contribution to American culture. When Mr. Ailey died on December 1, 1989, The New York Times said of him, “you didn’t need to have known [him] personally to have been touched by his humanity, enthusiasm and exuberance and his courageous stand for multi-racial brotherhood.”
In 1982, The Ailey School and its programs received accreditation from the National Association of Schools of Dance and continue to flourish under the co-direction of Tracy Inman and Melanie Person. A prestigious faculty of dance professionals trains over 3,500 students annually in our full-time Professional Division and Junior Division Programs for aspiring dance students, and Ailey Extension classes for the general public.
Under the direction of Troy Powell, the School's junior company in residence, Ailey II, serves as a bridge between the School and the professional dance world.
In November 2004, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Ailey II, and The Ailey School moved to their permanent home, the Joan Weill Center for Dance, located in the heart of Manhattan's Theater District. The 77,000sq ft structure houses 12 climate-controlled studios, equipped with sprung floors, pianos, sound systems, and state of the art acoustics. It also is home to the 275-seat Ailey Citigroup Theater, physical therapy facilities, the Ailey Boutique, the library, student and faculty lounges, and administrative offices for the entire Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation.
Click Link Below:
The Ailey School
http://www.alvinailey.org/aileyextension/dance-fitness-classes-adults
Tanika S. Walton
(Artistic Director)
Tanika S. Walton began her dance studies at the age of 9 in
Newark, NJ at Garden State Ballet. She has extensive dance
Newark, NJ at Garden State Ballet. She has extensive dance
training and experience in teaching and performing, and has
been doing so for over 25 years. Tanika, a graduate of the
been doing so for over 25 years. Tanika, a graduate of the
University of South Florida with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in
Fine Arts - Dance, is also the Artistic Director and Co-Owner of Body and Soul Dance Center, where her mission is to strive
for excellence in dance education. Tanika and her husband,
Samuel are also founders of Walton Academy for the
Performing Arts, an A+ charter school of choice, designed to provide exceptional educational and artistic experiences, where she serves as the Director.
Tanika has performed and ministered through music and dance
all her life. Of her many accomplishments, Tanika performed
as a World Dancer at Walt Disney World’s Epcot Center and
the NBA All Star Game. She has been awarded for numerous
talent & scholarship pageants and competitions. Tanika has
taught and choreographed dances at USF, St. Petersburg
Junior College, Tampa Preparatory. and several years at
Judy’s Dance Academy in Brandon, FL.
Tanika has also worked with numerous churches, dance
ministries and youth groups facilitating dance workshops, conferences and choreographing dances for worship. For the
past 7 years, Tanika has been a resident instructor and choreographer for Music & Dance Unto the Lord Conference
and Tampa Bay Ministries United in Tampa, FL. Tanika is a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.
and Tampa Bay Ministries United in Tampa, FL. Tanika is a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.
Click Links Below:
Body & Soul Dance Center (Florida)
http://www.bodyandsouldancecenter.com/BSDC/Home.html
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