Metro Parks Dance Division | Faculty and Staff
Kathryn Wilkening | Supervisor, Metro Parks Dance Division
Kathryn Wilkening is currently the Dance Division Supervisor for Metro Parks and oversees Centennial Youth Ballet, recreational dance classes for adults and children at community centers throughout Davidson County, and artist residencies. In 2001, she earned a degree in Dance Education from New York University. Before coming home to Nashville in 2013, she performed, choreographed and taught classes in Manhattan and Brooklyn and worked at the 92nd Street Y in New York, where she served as manager of the 92Y Harkness Dance Center and then as assistant director of 92Y’s Dance Education Laboratory, a professional development program for new and experienced dance educators. While working with DEL, she was on the steering committee of the Arts Achieve project, funded by an Investing in Innovation five-year grant, partnering with Carnegie Hall, Cooper-Hewitt, Studio in a School, Arts Connection and the New York City Department of Education to assess and improve arts achievement of students in elementary, middle and high school and measure the impact of higher arts achievement on other subject areas. She currently serves on the editorial board of National Dance Education Organization’s journal, Dance Education in Practice, was recently awarded the Dance Advocate Award by the Tennessee Association of Dance, and keeps up her teaching chops in her Creative Movement class for budding dancers.