Noel Powers

Noel Powers, originally from Schaumburg, Illinois, graduated Magna Cum Laude from Western Michigan University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance. While there, she was also awarded The Dalton Exceptional Dance Major Scholarship and the Wendy Cornish Endowed Scholarship. She has performed in such Great Works as George Balanchine’s Who Cares? andSerenade as well as Lou Conte’s The 40s. In 2005, she had the privilege of performing George Faison’s Suite Otis at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. as part of the Masters of African American Choreographers Showcase. She has participated in the River North Chicago Dance Company’s Summer Intensive/Invited Artists Program and was awarded a scholarship to the Thodos Dance Chicago Summer Intensive. In 2008, she was given the opportunity to choreograph an original work for Inaside’s spring concert, In the Painting. Ms. Powers is involved in both choreographing and teaching at studios in the Chicago area.