Courtney Shapley – /Modern/Contemporary/Tap/Jazz/Musical Theatre/
Lyrical/Ballet /

Courtney Shapley has been studying modern dance, tap, jazz and ballet since the tender age of 3. In

1994, she was one of a handful of students selected to attend the Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Arts. After Governor’s school, Courtney attended The University of the Arts in Philadelphia where she was able to train with amazing instructors such as LaVaughn Robinson, Faye Snow, Pat Thomas, Ronen Koresh, and Wayne Saint David as well as being a company member of Tap Team II, an innovative Tap company rooted in the traditional hoofing style and directed by Robert F. Burden Jr. She also trained DeSales University where she had numerous performance opportunities, most notably as the lead dancer in Trisha Pongrancz Zehner’s award winning piece “Tangled Mind.”

Courtney has choreographed numerous plays and musicals for local theatres in Pennsylvania including
The Who's Tommy, A Christmas Carol, Psycho Beach Party, and Everybody's A Somebody, which she also co-directed. No stranger to the stage, Courtney has acted in such productions as The Crucible, Proposals, and Zion, as well as appearing in 3 independent films. She was also the movement instructor at the Civic Theatre School, where she taught musical theatre dance to aspiring actors and dancers age 6 - 18.

Courtney has been teaching professionally since 1997 in the Lehigh Valley, central New Jersey and in the Pacific Northwest. Her choreography has won numerous awards at regional and national competitions across the East and West Coasts.**