About Us
A Place Where You Curate Your Own Dance Experience
Our Story
Hello Community and Friends of Dance,
The Terrell Davis Academy of Dance was created to be the home of Davis Contemporary Dance Company and Davis Dance Next Generation. It was also created out of a necessity for the Denver Dance Community to connect, collaborate, and thrive. Dance is communal and allows people from many walks of life to share in one of the greatest art forms on the planet. Dance!
Here at TDAD we foster a place for artist to develop and refine their technical and artistic skills, collaborate with other artist, honor their passion for dance, overcome physical and emotional limitations, and dreams.
Dance is not easy, but the rewards from its practices is so rewarding. It's a spiritual enlightenment that you have to experience to truly understand. Come and curate your own experience at TDAD. We have a place for you at the barre and on the marely. Let's Dance!
Meet Terrell Davis :)
Mr. Davis, is also the Founder/Artistic Director of Davis Contemporary Dance Company, and the Artistic Director for Denver School of the Arts Classical and Contemporary Pre-Professional Dance Program. He was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. He has a B.A. in Political Science and a minor in dance from Western Illinois University (WIU). His dance training began at Lincoln Park High school in Chicago with Efe McWorter. He was a full scholarship student at the Joseph Holmes Chicago Dance Theatre. At JHCDT he trained with Rodni Williams who introduced him to the Horton Technique. Mr. Davis was awarded to full six week scholarships to the pretigious American Dance Festival. At WIU he trained with Candice Winters-March, Heidi Clemmons, and Denise Breakfield. Was award Outstanding Student Performer at the American College Dance Association. He also Co-Directed the Gwendolyn Brooks Cultural Center Dance Troupe with Keesha Jackson and was a member of the University Dance Theatre.
He got his professional start with the Dayton Contemporary Dance Company with the blessing of Founder Jeraldyne Blunden, and worked with the legendary artist Sherri "Sparkle" Williams. His journey then brought him to Denver to join Cleo Parker-Robinson Dance Ensemble (CPRD), where he danced for six years. He was a Principal Dancer and also served as Assistant Rehearsal Director for the company. While at CPRD he danced many lead roles and also worked and trained with master teachers and choreographers such as Milton Myers, Donald Mckayle, David Rousseve, Nejla Yatkin, Christopher Huggins, Ronald K Brown, Darrell Grand Moultrie, Kevin Iega Jeff, Gary Abbott, Marceline Freeman, Randy Brooks, Susan Richardson, Miljenko V. Banovic, Jelon Vieira, Kris Kehl, Lizanne McAdams-Graham and Robert Sher-Machherndl just to name a few. He also danced with Moraporvida Contemporary Dance Company with Jacob Mora. As a Royal Caribbean Dancer/Dance Captain it allowed him to dance and travel the world with one of the leading cruise lines with Royal Caribbean Productions. He appeared and was featured in the Starz on Demand "I like the Way You Move" Halloween commercial in 2010. He danced in Kaia Kena’s music video “It’s Right.” He also choreographed the lyric video for Brazilian artist Paolo Meola's "Sweet Lie.”
Mr. Davis’ teaching experience has been at the Cleo Parker Robinson Dance academy, Academy of Colorado Ballet, the Academy of Classical Ballet, Manuel High School, Smoky Hill High School, Hannah Kahn’s Open Studio, Denver Dance Center, Danza Dance Academy, guest lectured at Colorado School of Mines, and many other dance schools in Denver. He currently teaches at Dance Kaleidoscope and is director of the Elite Dance Company. Internationally, he has taught at the Professional Dance Studio in Novi Sad, Serbia. He has also been an international teacher and judge at the Novi Sad Dance Festival.
His musical theatre choreography credits are productions at Wolf Theatre Academy (WTA) of Beauty and the Beast, Seussical the Musical, West Side Story, Wizard of Oz, Les Miserable, Legally Blonde, Man of La Mancha, Annie Get Your Gun, Rent, Grease, Hello Dolly, My Fair Lady, Heathers, and Matilda. Mr. Davis has Co-Directed/Choreographed Thoroughly Modern Millie, Chicago, and Pippin with Reace Daniel at WTA, and choreographed Oklahoma for Golden High School. He has also Co-Directed and Choreographed Chicago at Denver School of the Arts (DSA). He was nominated for a Bobby G Award for Outstanding Achievement in Choreography for A Chorus Line at DSA. He worked with Steve Wilson and Billie McBride at Denver Children's Theatre choreographing Rumpelstiltskin, Androcles and the Lion, ArtDog, and The Jungle Book. He also choreographed Toxic Avenger for Breckenridge Backstage Theatre. Terrell has worked with Ballet Wyoming choreographing "Night Run, and Human: Skin Deep We’re all the Same" in collaboration with Davis Dance. He also performed with Opera Colorado in their production of Aida and choreographed A Promise of Living for the Opera in collaboration with Rocky Mountain PBS. Mr. Davis has also taught and his choreography was presented at the National High School Dance Festival at the University of Madison Wisconsin, Texas A&M University (Regional) and Point Park University (National).
Recently, he directed and choreographed Blues in the Night at the Aurora Fox Arts Center which received an award from OnStage Colorado (OSCA) for Theatrical Excellence for Director of a Musical. He also choreographed Wonderland: Alice’s Rock and Roll Adventure and Hurricane Diane at the Aurora Fox, The Fantasticks at Town Hall Arts Center, taught at the Snowy Range Dance Festival at the University of Wyoming, was a feature alumni Master Teacher at Cleo Parker Robinson's Summer Dance Institute for Legacy Week, and taught masterclasses at the Boulder Jazz Dance Workshop at CU Boulder.