Tiffanee arnold
artistic director
Tiffanee Arnold, Artistic Director of Full Circle Dance, is a choreographer, educator, performer and dance advocate. Having earned her Master of Fine Arts degree in Choreography and Dance Performance from Texas Woman’s University, Tiffanee’s choreography has been commissioned by various dance companies, universities, and high schools at the local, regional and national level. Tiffanee currently serves as Professor of Dance at Collin College and previously served for over 20 years as the Dance Department Discipline Lead.
As a choreographer, Tiffanee has presented work at the Brazos Contemporary Dance Festival, Barnstorm Dance Festival, and {254} Dancefest. She has been commissioned commissioned for dance residencies at University of North Texas, Illinois State University, New Mexico State University, Western Illinois University, Stephen F. Austin State University, Texas Woman's University, Shepton High School, Newman Smith High School, Creekview High School, and Booker T. Washington High School for the Visual and Performing Arts. In addition to her professional work, Tiffanee’s choreography on students has been honored nine times at the American College Dance Association Regional Conferences. Specifically, Tiffanee's choreography HIVE, Grid, After the Kiss, Beyond Life Support, Cleansing, Momentum, Prisoners, Dunes, and Stood Up and Over It, were selected for the Gala Concert. Tiffanee also worked as a dancer and guest choreographer for Elledanceworks Dance Company for seventeen years.
As an educator, Tiffanee teaches multiple levels of technique, choreography, and dance appreciation courses and directs the college’s student company, Collin Dance Ensemble. Tiffanee received the Outstanding Professor Award (2005) in the Fine Arts Division at Collin College. Her undergraduate institution, Western Illinois University, awarded her its Distinguished Dance Alumni Award in 2007. She has also received numerous "Faculty Recognized Scholarships" on behalf of the Collin College President to honor her service to the college by giving financial assistance to college dance students. In addition, her initiative at Collin College won Tiffanee the Promising Professional Kitty McGee Alumni Award (1998) from Texas Woman's University. Tiffanee currently serves on Collin College’s Strategies on Behavioral Intervention (SOBI) Care Team and as a Title IX Hearing Advisor.
Tiffanee is a strong dance advocate at the national level by currently serving her second term as an elected Regional Director for the South-Central region of the American College Dance Association and previously serving for six years as an elected board member.
Tiffanee begins serving as Artistic Director of Professional Development at Integrity Dance Arts this fall and will be working closely with the youth at that studio for college preparation workshops and technique classes in ballet and modern.
Tiffanee’s inspiration as a choreographer, educator, performer, dance advocate, and now artistic director, have been heavily influenced by her previous mentors, dance artists, and former professors including Camille Chrysler, Candace Winters-March, Gayle Ziaks Halperin, Mary Williford-Shade, Ronelle Eddings, Michele Hanlon, and Darby Wilde.