Harriet Campbell

Harriet Campbell is a dance performer, choreographer and educator based in the Washington area. Ms. Campbell began her dance training as a teen at the Washington School of Ballet and continued her training at Indiana University in Bloomington where she received a Bachelor of Music with a ballet concentration. Her teachers at IU included such Ballets Russes era luminaries Marina Svetlova, John Kriza and Nicholas Beriosoff. Through the University she danced group and solo roles in Mr. Beriosoff's productions of Rite of Spring, Petrushka, Swan Lake , Cinderella, Giselle and The Nutcracker and while in Bloomington also performed with Windfall Dancers, an independent modern dance group.

Ms. Campbell's professional career began in Germany where she danced at the Staatstheater Kiel and as a member of the ballet company of the Nationaltheater Mannheim. While in Mannheim she danced group and solo roles in original works created for the company by its artistic director, Aachim Gerster. Currently, Ms. Campbell performs with and choreographs for Five Dancing, based in Columbia , Maryland , and teaches ballet, pointe and Pilates to youth and adults at dance studios and athletic clubs in the area. Her students have performed her choreography for events including the Chinese New Year Celebration of the New World Bi-Lingual Institute held annually at George Mason University . Through these performances, a group of her students was invited to perform at various locations in and around Beijing as part of the 2005 Beijing International Youth Festival, including an exciting performance atop the Great Wall of China .

Joy of Motion's philosophy that "Dance is for Everyone" fits perfectly with Ms. Campbell's own. She believes that just as every movement contains the seeds of a dance, every person contains the seeds of a dancer. By studying and teaching dance, we have the pleasure of watching these seeds bloom.