Sarita Smith Childs
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Sarita Smith Childs

Balance is her life!  

A classically trained dancer, choreographer, educator, entrepreneur, and investment
professional with twelve years of investment sales experience from the institutional trading
floor and private client groups of  global institutions, she merges the creative with the analytic
in all her endeavours.

Sarita's professional performance experiences span the genres of modern, jazz , ballet &
contemporary dance.  As a choreographer, master class instructor and choreographic
assistant for international choreographer Randy Duncan (www.duncandance.com),  she  
conducts guest residencies at the high school and university levels, for professional
companies, and private studios. An avid supporter of the arts, her arts management
experience comes from five years as a Board Member for the Oak Park Area Arts Council in
Illinois and as a former Vice President of the Board of Directors for Thodos Dance Chicago.

A dance and fitness educator with twenty plus years of teaching experience, she has taught
company classes for Gus Giordano Jazz Dance Chicago, Thodos Dance Chicago, Joel Hall
Dancers, and the Momenta Performing Arts Company.  She was on the faculty of the Dance
Conservatory of Barat College of DePaul University,  the Lou Conte Dance Studio (home of
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago), Gus Giordano Dance Center, the Academy of Movement
and Music,  and directed the dance department of Whitney Young Magnet High School in
Chicago.  She has taught multiple forms of group fitness and Pilates at clubs in Chicago
and Virginia including the East Bank Club of Chicago,  Norfolk Yacht & Country Club, Inlet
Fitness South and Loyola University Hospital Center for Fitness.

Sarita's choreography can be seen on  the fashion, commercial and concert dance stages.
TV, theatre and film credits include being a featured choreographer and performer in the
2006 Emmy Award Winning PBS Special "The Chicago Dance Project",  choreography  for
The Congo Square Theatre Company's, "King of Coons" directed by Harry Lennix (Matrix
Reloaded, Matrix Revolution, Barber Shop 2) and as a Principal Ballet Dancer for  
Paramount Pictures, Save the Last Dance , in which she was cast as one the six principal
ballet dancers / stunt artists alongside Joffrey Ballet  principal dancers.

Sarita is a winner of the Ruth Page Award for Dance Achievement (Chicago's highest dance
honor) and a six time nominee and the 2001 winner of the Black Theatre Alliance Award for
Best Performance in a Music/Dance Program for Randy Duncan's "Shanequa's World".
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