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Learn More About Katherine's Experience:

ballroom dancing Ballroom dancing is a hobby of mine, and I have trained in the international standard and latin styles for two years, one year in Houston and the next while I was a student in Moscow, Russia. I can reliably teach the basic men's and women's steps of the waltz and foxtrot, as well as the cha-cha, rumba, and jive. Russian I am a Russian/Theatre double major at Middlebury College in Vermont. I have extensive coursework in both written and spoken Russian, and last year I spent ten months living in Moscow, Russia. While abroad, I studied at the Pushkin Institute, a Russian university with a faculty specifically dedicated to helping foreigners improve their Russian. At the Institute, I took classes in phonetics, grammar, reading, Russian history, and practical conversation. I also lived with a Russian host family, who helped me immerse myself even more fully in the Russian language and culture. I speak and write fluently in Russian, and am perfectly qualified to teach beginning/intermediate students of Russian. theatre I am a Theatre/Russian double major with an acting emphasis at Middlebury College in Vermont. I have a long background and good understanding of Theatre, both the technical and artistic aspects. I am trained in the Stanislavskian method of acting, and have had extensive acting coursework, on both the high school and college levels. I have also taken part in several productions over the last six years, everything from starring in A Midsummer Night's Dream and the School of Wives, to stage-managing a production of Lysistrata. I am very qualified to teach basic modern approaches to monologue and scene work.