EXPERIENCE
Performance, Teaching & Directorship
COMPANY MEMBER, SHAUN KEYLOCK COMPANY
September 2022 - Present
DANCE INSTRUCTOR, FRED ASTAIRE DANCE STUDIOS
January 2022 - Present
DANCE INSTRUCTOR, HILLSBORO DANCE CENTER
September 2021Â - Present
FITNESS INSTRUCTOR AND DANCE TEACHER, CAL POLY REC CENTER
Oct 2017 - March 2020
INTERN AND COMPANYÂ MEMBER, ORCHESIS DANCE COMPANY
Sept 2016 - Jan 2020
COMPANYÂ MEMBER, INTERWEAVE DANCE THEATRE
July 2019
DIRECTOR, SYNTHESIS
Feb 2019 - May 2019
TRAINING
My passion for dance first developed while studying and performing with Santa Cruz Ballet Theater. I supplemented my yearly classical training by attending summer intensives at Ballet West in Salt Lake City, UT and Alonzo King LINES Ballet in San Francisco, CA. My family moved to Portland, Oregon before my junior year of highschool where I trained and performed with Oregon Ballet Theater before graduating.
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I received my B.S. in Biochemistry and a Dance Studies minor from California Polytechnic, SLO in 2019. There I joined Orchesis Dance Co. from 2016-2020 as a company member and intern. I performed, choreographed and directed for shows in San Luis Obispo. Throughout college I taught both dance and fitness classes.
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Since graduating, I have had the opportunity to continue to diversify my training and artistry through dancing with the American College Dance Association, Boulder Jazz Dance Workshop, Interweave Dance Theater, Durante Lambert Mentorship Programs and Shaun Keylock Company.
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I am currently training, teaching and performing in Portland, OR.
ACCOLADES
SERVICE TO THE ARTS: EXCELLENCE IN AN ORIGINAL ADAPTATION
College of Liberal Arts, Cal Poly SLO -Â March 2019
SONIA SANDOVAL MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP
Theatre and Dance Department, Cal Poly SLO - January 2019
TOMCZAC-CARTER AWARD
Theatre and Dance Department, Cal Poly SLO - January 2019
FOUNDERS APPRECIATION AWARD
Theatre and Dance Department, Cal Poly SLO - January 2018
"There is a deep dancer inside of [her] that shows because [she] takes risks."
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- Wade Madsen, Professor of Dance at Cornish College of the Arts
"She executes choreography in a way that is specific, full of momentum and nuanced. Even in a group piece one would have difficulty watching anyone but Maile when she was on stage...she truly embodied all that the choreographer presented to the dancers."
- Matthew Henly, Associate Professor of Dance Education at Columbia University
CHOREOGRAPHY
SEA TO SEE
Premiered Jan 2019
This work was co-created with fellow company member Simone Bernsten as an exploration of eb and flow between 9 artists. This piece of choreography was performed at the annual Orchesis Dance Co. concert "Tabula Rasa."
NOREPINEPHRINE
Premeired June 2019
Norepinephrine is a stress hormone that is released by the brain to increase blood pressure. This piece, that was created alongside company member Erica David, explores the connection of stress between our minds and bodies when we are unconscious of the event.