Rosie Dater-Merton is a dancer and teaching artist based in the Bay Area. She grew up in Vermont where she danced at her local dance studio. During the summers she attended many dance programs including The Ailey Summer Intensive, The Rock Summer Intensive, Orlando Ballet Summer Intensive, Walnut Hill Summer Intensive. She then moved to Michigan to attend Interlochen Arts Academy and studied classical ballet, pointe, pas de deux, under the artistic direction of Joseph Morrissey and Cameron Basden. Rosie then moved to California to attend the LINES/Dominican University program where she earned her BFA in Dance and a minor in Arts Management. During her time in the LINES BFA program she had the honor to study with many artists including Gregory Dawson, Maurya Kerr, Kara Davis, Robert Moses, and FLOCK Works Dance.
This past summer Rosie had the opportunity to attend the Hubbard Street Dance Create Intensive, as well as the NW Dance Project Summer Intensive. In addition to being a freelance artist, she currently works as an instructor/event coordinator at a rock climbing gym; she does event performances in collaboration with Barclay Broadway Dance Company; and is thrilled to be interning for the LINES community programs as well as being a teaching artist for the HeART with LINES program. In the future she hopes to become more involved in the Bay Area dance community, and eventually find a path in dance therapy/outreach where she can help bring dance to communities with limited arts access.
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