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Sheryl Pollard-Thomas
Dance Teacher
Sheryl Pollard-Thomas is a graduate of Purchase College where she received a B.F.A. in Dance. She was also trained at the Alvin Ailey Dance School and she is a high school graduate from the North Carolina School of the Arts. She has performed with modern dance companies and also musical theatre. She was a principle dancer with the Forces of Nature Dance Theatre Company for ten years. While performing in various musical productions she was afforded the opportunity to work with such notable choreographers as George Faison, Graciella Danielle, Judith Jamison and Gene Anthony Ray, as a dancer and/or assistant choreographer. Ms. Pollard-Thomas has conducted master classes in the Horton technique in Italy, Germany, Detroit and Boston.
During her performing career she has also taught modern and jazz dance at various NYC public school after-school programs and was an adjunct dance teacher at the Borough of Manhattan Community College. After relocating to Boston to teach at the Arts Academy, Ms. Pollard-Thomas has been on the faculty of The Boston Conservatory, the Jeannette Neil Dance School, and is currently on the faculty of Origination Cultural Arts Center. She is also a guest teacher for Boston University's dance ensemble. For six years Sheryl Thomas has also taught for AileyCamp Boston and during the summer of ’06 she was co-artistic director.
Ms. Pollard-Thomas teaches modern, ballet, jazz, and West African dance techniques and she choreographs for main stage and in studio productions at BAA and outside of school. While teaching at BAA she has conducted presentations with her colleagues at the Model Schools Conference and the Coalition of Essential Schools for Arts High Schools; material about assessment in the arts and "best practice" in making the "arts/academic" connection for students. Ms. Pollard-Thomas has been a group leader and presenter for various workshops for the Summer Institute which is held at Boston Arts Academy.
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