Carolyn Carter
Carolyn was born with a love of dance and sought out every opportunity to express herself through movement. She enjoyed many opportunities to take classes and perform in her youth from parades to football fields to the stage. She began her college dance training at Ricks College, now known as BYU Idaho, where she received her Associates degree. After taking a break from her training to live and teach English in Moscow, Russia, backpack in Europe and later serve an LDS mission in Moscow, Russia and Minsk Belarus she resumed her dance training. She completed her training within the Department of Modern Dance, where she performed and choreographed regularly, at the University of Utah, receiving her B.F.A in Modern Dance in 2007. After completing her B.F.A. Carolyn Heather Carter moved home to Houston, Texas. There she shared her love of dance with her students and her community through classes and workshops. In Houston she worked with students of all ages and abilities, even establishing Project Motion, a program for those with special needs. Since returning to Salt Lake City in the winter of 2013 she has judged several dance competitions, taught and choreographed within the Salt Lake area. In the spring of 2014 Carolyn taught creative movement and modern dance at Bad Dog Arts, a "non-profit organization dedicated to serving kids, teens, and adults in the creative arts." In October of 2013 she performed a solo choreographed by local dance artist and pilates instructor, Courtney Norris, at the Masonic Temple for the ***LoveDanceMore*** series of Mudson. She performed that same solo the following year in a dance concert featuring the works of Courtney Norris at the Sugar Space in Sugarhouse. Carolyn is moving into her third year as an instructor within the young dancers program with the Performing Dance Center where she teaches creative dance, pre-ballet/tap I & II, and jazz giving her the opportunity to teach those spunky little kiddos how to find self-expression through a knowledge and love of dance. “In order to have self-expression one must first have a self to express.” In addition to teaching dance Carolyn also teaches yoga. She completed her YTT 200 in December of 2014 with Denise Druce and is registered with internationally recognized Yoga Alliance. She teaches @ a variety of locations across the valley including at our very own PDC. And most importantly Carolyn is mother to six year old son, Dominicus Zane. Carolyn is a student of life and finds extreme satisfaction and joy in developing herself as a mother, dance artist, dance instructor, and yoga instructor thrilled with living a LifeConnected (www.facebook.com/LifeConnected) through movement and dance for body, mind, and spirit.
