Studio Stories: Reminiscing on Twin Cities Dance with Derek Phillips Season 2 Episode 31

Derek Phillips is a native of Kansas City, Missouri and a 1977 graduateof Carleton College. He began his dance career with the Nancy HauserDance Company and later toured nationally with the Children’s TheatreCompany. Derek has been a roster artist for the Minnesota State ArtsBoard’s Artists-in-Education Program and conducted annual residenciesfor the Montevideo, Minnesota public schools for over twenty years. Hehas taught as part of the Dance/Math program at Whittier CommunitySchool for the Arts in Minneapolis and instructed and performed for theCity Children’s Nutcracker Project. He has also served as DevelopmentAssistant for Intermedia Arts Minnesota’s capital campaign and AdjunctDance Education Coordinator for the Perpich Center for Arts Education.More recently, he toured internationally with Katha Dance Theatre.Currently, Derek is a teaching artist for the Cowles Center for Dance andthe Performing Arts. He performs English country and sword dances withMinnesota Traditional Morris and Guyz with Tiez, and is a 2016 recipient ofa Minnesota SAGE Award.