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Contact Information: I run my life in email, so the best way to reach me is jcwalton (at) gmail.com  I also have a facebook page here

JOAN WALTON - BIOGRAPHY

 Joan Walton’s ability to communicate dance movement concepts and focused teaching style have become well known at universities and in workshops across the country.  She teaches classes in Musical Theatredance, Tap, Social dance, and Historical dance, plus the popular dance lecture courses at San Jose’ State University and the College of San Mateo.  As a teacher of Vintage and Historical dance, she has led workshops in Paris, Prague, and St. Petersburg and Moscow, Russia, as well as across the United States; she currently teaches Vintage dance to voice and opera majors at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

Joan has performed as a guest artist with the Naples Philharmonic and the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, under the direction of Keith Lockhart, dancing Morton Gould’s challenging Tap Dance Concerto.  She earned a Master’s degree in Dance Education from Stanford University’s top-ranked School of Education in 1999.