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Cass Simmons
Cass Simmons (she/they) is a movement artist, dance educator, and arts advocate. After graduating high school from Mississippi School of the Arts, Cass received a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Dance (e. Performance and Choreography) at the University of Southern Miss and acquired her Master of Fine Arts Degree in Dance from Hollins University. During which and since, she studied and performed both nationally and internationally. In 2022, Cass joined the Dance Department at Ida B. Wells APAC. She specializes in teaching modern dance, contemporary floorwork, jazz, ballet and pointe, improvisation and composition, and applied-anatomy and kinesiology for dancers. When teaching and facilitating movement experiences, Cass values self-motivated empowerment and risk-taking in the dance space, as well as acknowledges the mental fortitude and emotional complexities of such a physical, ephemeral artform. In addition to teaching, Cass is a company member with Kinetic Etchings Dance Project, a 501(c)(3) arts organization and professional contemporary dance company in Jackson, MS and Fini Dance New York, an international, collaborative dance company and teaching institution. Cass is a certified Pure Barre Teacher and working towards certification as a Registered Somatic Movement Therapist in Shin Somatics®.