Dawn DiPasquale

Dawn DiPasquale (MA Dance Education, NYU, BFA Wichita State University, UCLA Dance – World Arts & Cultures) is a PreK-5 Dance Teaching Artist in NYC public schools for NY City Center Theater and 92NY School Engagement in the Arts. For the Dance Education Laboratory (DEL) at 92NY, she is a facilitator, curriculum writer, mentor, video liaison, and project manager for several programs including Tracing Footsteps, DEL Dance and Literacy, DEL Institute, Summer Intensive, Asynchronous Courses, and the Create Professional Learning Series for 3K and Pre-K NYC DOE educators. She has presented at NDEO, Arts in Education Roundtable’s Face to Face, and Empire State Partnerships. She is a former Visiting Assistant Professor of Dance and Musical Theater at Wichita State University, teaching modern, musical theater and tap dance. Dawn co-produced the 2025 documentary film Through Memory for 92NY, which celebrates 92NY’s 150th Anniversary and the development of a new Aszure Barton commission for the Limón Dance Company.

As a choreographer for Musical Theater, Dawn worked with composer/lyricist Stephen Schwartz on productions of Children of Eden at Paper Mill Playhouse (Recording, RCA Victor) and North Shore Music Theatre, as well as a revival of Working at the Long Wharf Theatre directed by Christopher Ashley. Other choreographic venues include Santa Barbara Civic Light Opera, Folly Theatre of Kansas City, Music Theatre of Wichita, Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma, and the College of Charleston, Music Theatre West and The University of Michigan Department of Musical Theatre. As a dancer, she has performed at DTW, PS 122, Circum-Arts, Riverside Church, Gowanus, Green Space, Manhattan Movement and Arts Center, NYC Fringe Festival and at the Strada Facendo in Pisa, Italy. She is a grant recipient from The Kansas Cultural Trust and is a proud member of SDC (Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers).