Experts Guide

Carroll has performed nationally and internationally as a soloist with various ballet companies in the United States, South America, China and Europe. He works with Arts4All Florida to teach Parkinson’s in Movement, a hybrid series of classes based on the Dance for Parkinson’s Disease program to help people with limited mobility, Parkinson’s or related conditions stretch and stimulate balance and sensory awareness.

Morris is a dance educator, researcher and choreographer. She has been invested in the field of dance education for more than twenty years and holds two terminal degrees in dance – an MFA degree in Dance Performance and Choreography and a PhD in Dance Studies. She is a regular presenter at regional, national and international dance conferences, a reviewer for multiple key dance journals in the field and has a wide variety of published work.

Nuñez began her professional career in 1978 at Ballet Internacional de Caracas under the direction of Vicente Nebrada and Zhandra Rodriguez. Since then, she has danced as a soloist and principal dancer of Ballet Internacional de Caracas, Ballet Nuevo Mundo, Ballet Teresa Carreño, Cleveland Ballet, and Ballet San Jose Silicon Valley. Zhandra Rodriguez, former principal dancer of American Ballet Theater, was her most influential teacher and coach, together with Lidija Franklin, Jose Pares, Vicente Nebrada, Hector Zaraspe, and Julio Lamas. Throughout her career as a professional ballet dancer, she performed at prestigious theaters around the world, including Spain, Italy, Germany, Greece, France, Russia, Romania, Austria, Hungary, China, Japan, Taiwan, and in North, Central, and South America. She has worked in an ample classical and neo-classical repertoire of renowned choreographers such as Balanchine, Choo San Goh, Alvin Ailey, Agnes de Mille, Terry Orr, Judith Jamison, Jhon Butler, Elisa Monte, Carlos Orta, Dennis Nahat, Ulisses Dove, Vincente Nebrada, Hans Van Mannen, Hector Zaraspe, Flemming Flindt, and Margo Sapington. She has also participated in numerous festivals such as Spolleto in Italy, Cervantino in Mexico, and Edinburgh Festival in Scotland. She has shared the stage with prestigious ballet dancers such as Cynthia Gregory, Rudolf Nureyev, Fernando Bujones, and Julio Boca.