Dr. Patricia Dye, Ed.D., a native of St. Croix, Virgin Islands, was educated on the Caribbean island of Montserrat and raised in Brownsville, Brooklyn, New York. She was also a dance faculty member at Ballet Hispánico and is now in her 11th year as a dance teacher for the NY Public School Middle School Summer Audition Boot Camp.
Dr. Dye has taught master classes, led workshops, choreographed, and performed in videos, industrial shows, Broadway productions, television commercials, and films across the U.S. and Europe. Her professional affiliations include performing with renowned companies such as Forces of Nature Theater Dance Company, Ballet Schulz Beckman, and P.A.K.A. Theater Dance Foundation™.
She is a featured Master Dance Educator in the NYS Emmy-nominated documentary PS Dance! and earned her Doctorate in Dance Education and Research from Teachers College, Columbia University in 2025. Her academic credentials also include an M.A. in Dance and Dance Education from New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, and a B.F.A. in Dance Performance from Adelphi University.
With over 25 years of service, Dr. Dye is a retired NYC public school dance educator.
Throughout her teaching career, she has received numerous accolades, including the Dance Teacher of the Year Award from Dance Teacher Magazine (2020) and the Outstanding Dance Educator Award from the New York State Dance Education Association (NYSDEA) for Pre-K–12 Dance Educators (2022).
Since 1993, Dr. Dye has served as assistant and dance captain for Dr. Charles “Baba Chuck” Davis. Under his mentorship, she gained firsthand experience with the Dunham technique, which she continues to teach today. Honoring the legacies of both Baba Chuck Davis and Katherine Dunham, she regularly leads Dunham-based technique and cultural heritage workshops at colleges, universities, and cultural institutions.
Dr. Dye is the founder, education director, and archivist of the Passing Ancestral Knowledge Theatre Dance Foundation Inc. (P.A.K.A.)™. She is also an alumna of the 92NY Dance Education Laboratory (DEL) and a member of the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) DanceAfrica Council of Elders for African Cultural Heritage.