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The Creative Director
Reina Faith
Artistic Director / Choreographer
Reina received her early dance training from Irene Fokine where she was a jazz
scholarship recipient and a member of Ms. Fokine's company. Her background was
furthered with concentrated study in Boston at Emerson College where she was a
member of the contemporary dance company Off-Balance and Moving West. She then
moved to New York City where she was a graduate from the American Academy of
Dramatic Arts. She is an Equity performer whose many credits include the Off-Broadway
production and national tour of The Secret Garden, as well as regional, dance
and television work. She has been on faculty at Interlochen Center for the Arts, Summer 2000,
where she also choreographed the main stage production of Kiss Me Kate. Her
contemporary piece "A Cello Romp" (created for the International Ballet Competition
in Jackson, MS) was performed at the Palm Desert Choreography Festival Under the Stars.
Reina was the choreographer and director of the full length dance theatre piece called
Fortune Cookie Fortunes based on the book by author Grace Lin for the non profit
organization Families With Children From China. She was also proud to have her
piece "Kindertransport" based on the Kindertransport of World War II
commissioned by the Kindertransport Survivor Society and shown at their annual conference
in New Jersey; it was a recipient of a Pennsylvania Humanities Grant through the Children's
Cultural Center. Reina is currently the Associate Director of Dance at Moravian College
in Bethlehem, PA where she was one of the choreographers involved in Collaboration,
the premiere of a new Jazz Ballet produced by Moravian College at Foy Hall.
She is the Artistic Director and owner of
Dance Arts Collaborative,
a performing arts school in Bucks County.
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