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Nikki Tresoor

Nikki Tresoor

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    post-secondary educator; freelance dance educator, certified Early Years teacher, artistic director & choreographer at Amar Egyptian Dance

  • Education

    • University of Manitoba

      1999 - 2001
      B.Ed. Early Years

      -part of the first cohort group of the new, alternative Early Years after-degree B.Ed. program, based on the University of Calgary's Master's program

    • University of Alberta

      1994 - 1998
      Ph.d. (unfinished) Anthropology

      Activities and Societies: Association of Graduate Anthropology Students; teaching assistant 1994-1996 under Dr. Eric Higgs first-ever anthropology graduate student to be granted entrance, by invite, into the M.A. by-pass program

    • Hadia Teacher Training Level 3

      2007 - 2011
      Dance education completed certification level

    • The University of Winnipeg

      1989 - 1993
      B.A.H. Anthropology, minor in History Honours Anthropology Gold Medal, Arts Honours Silver Medal

      Activities and Societies: UWSAFE (U of W Students Acting for the Environment), teacher assistant, lab assistant, museum volunteer

  • Experience

    • University of Winnipeg, Department of Anthropology (Dr. William Morgan)

      Sept 1992 - May 1994
      Marker/Demonstrator

      assisting professors with lab sessions, marking exams and assignments, cleaning cultural artifacts, setting up museum displays for anthropology museum exhibits, cataloguing artifacts

    • University of Alberta, Department of Anthropology (Dr. Eric Higgs)

      Sept 1994 - Apr 1996
      Undergraduate Teaching Assistant

      assisted with undergraduate course teaching and marking of assignments and exams; assisted with grant applications

    • University of Winnipeg, Writing Program (Janice Freeman)

      Sept 1996 - May 1997
      Undergraduate Marker/Demonstrator

      assisting professor with marking of writing assignments and exams

    • Ahlan Dance Co., Gamaal Rawhany Dance

      Jan 1999 - Jan 2006
      Co-director and rehearsal coach

      These amateur troupes performed dances of the Middle East and appeared at shows across the Prairies.

    • Nicola & Amar Egyptian Dance

      Sept 1999 - now
      Artistic Director

    • Norquay School, Winnipeg School Division

      Sept 2002 - Jun 2004
      Classroom teacher, science and social studies committee member

      Classroom teacher to grades 2 and 3 in the inner city. Active and meaningful inquiry-based teaching involving healthy doses of arts and sport. Worked on coordinating curricular revisions of science and social studies with teacher resources and teaching practices in the school. Dedicated co-teaching efforts with the music program, special needs adaptations. Participated in Arts on the Avenue, creating brain-based learning kits for mathematics, and school safety and discipline strategies. Assisted with school events such as Make and Take craft nights, clothing and homeware drives, food hamper drives, winter concert and art installation. Graduate of the WSD Inner CIty Arts training program. Show less

    • Spice Road Belly Dance

      Aug 2008 - Sept 2011
      Artistic director and choreographer

      Spice Road Bellydance performed at shows in a variety of venues, exhibiting Egyptian dances of both Orientale and folkloric styles as well as interpretive and American bellydance. SR members are now enjoying an extended sabbatical.

    • Amar Egyptian Dance Theatre

      Jan 2012 - Nov 2019
      Instructor, performer, choreographer, event organizer

      Amar Egyptian Dance Theatre is dedicated to presenting theatre-based shows, featuring Egyptian folkloric, raks sharqi, raks beledi, raks shaabi, and contemporary interpretive and fusion dances.I have created and taught educational outreach, including programs for dance schools, community centres, schools, daycares, physical education programs, and arts programs. This includes: curricula-connected lessons; learning extensions; instructional units in Egyptian dance, culture and history, world dance; preschool and school age developmentally- appropriate dance and movement education; and the creation, teaching, and adapting of cooperative and cross-cultural games.Since 2007, I have been organizing professional development workshops with master teachers and showcases of Middle Eastern dance performances which have provided meaningful and valuable opportunity to dancers across the Prairies and Midwest. Show less

    • Red River College Polytechnic

      Jan 2022 - now
      Instructor, EA Certificate Program, Continuing Education--Community Services

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Middle Eastern Dance Teacher

      Hadia of Canada
      Oct 2011

  • Volunteer Experience

    • classroom volunteer, parent council member and Exec (Secretary 2014-2016), committee member

      Issued by Winnipeg School Division on Sept 2011
      Winnipeg School DivisionAssociated with Nikki Tresoor