Kyle Garrison Shawell
Is a multi-talented performer, choreographer, and educator, who received his training at the University of the Arts, Theatre West Virginia, Winthrop University and the Philadelphia School of Dance Arts. His training includes the dance styles of Lester Horton, Martha Graham, Paul Taylor and jazz taught by renowned teachers such as Ruth Adrien, Ronen Koresh, Pat Thomas and Milt
on Myers. He brings together a wide breadth of knowledge, expertise, and experience in a diverse style of movement for the community. Shawell has been a teaching artist for Charlotte Ballet (formerly North Carolina Dance Theatre) and North Carolina Blumenthal Performing Arts Center, and a dance educator for the Governor's Award-winning Janice Wyatt Summer Arts Institute at Delta State University in Cleveland, MS. His choreography has been seen at Gaston Dance Theatre, Girl Talk Foundation of Charlotte, NC, KAOS Dance Company, SCDA, SCAHPERD, Winthrop Dance Theatre, and Valley Forge Dance Theatre. In Musical Theater he has choreographed musicals for “Once on this Island", "Wonka", "Black Nativity", and "The Wiz. His choreography in collaboration with Treshawn Brown for “Speaking in Tongues” received the Ensemble Artistry award for the top score in Choreographic Skills and Technical Skills of dancers, at Charlotte Dance Festival's (CDF) Charlotte Emerging Dance Awards (CEDA) and presently at Charlotte Ballet Academy.
