Years at BADA: 11 Years

Disciplines Taught: Ballet, Modern, Contemporary, Jazz

Virginia Freeman Dupont is a professional dancer, choreographer and teacher from North Carolina. She received a B.F.A. in Dance Performance and Choreography, with a B.A. in English, from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where she also danced with the Greensboro Ballet and the Gamble/Van Dyke Dance Company. Dupont has had the good fortune of participating as a performing artist in works by various choreographers, including Gerri Houlihan, Eluza Santos, Rick McCullough, Pegge Vissicaro, Melissa Hayden, Thom Clower, and Maryhelen Mayfield, and she is currently a member of both the Jan Van Dyke Dance Group and the John Gamble Dance Theatre. In the spring of 2003, she received her M.F.A. in Dance Performance and Choreography from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Dupont currently teaches ballet and modern dance as an adjunct Assistant Professor at Elon University. She began her involvement with Burlington Academy of Dance & Arts as a guest artist in the 1997 productions of “Cinderella” and “Unto Us A Son” and in 1999 joined the teaching staff. While Dupont teaches a variety of disciplines, her focus at BADA has been as Director of the Ballet Program and in 2007 she became Artistic Director of BADA’s performing company, KARIZMA. She continues to explore her crafts; performing, creating and teaching in North Carolina.

Favorite Dance Quote: “Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.” -Havelock Ellis