Hettie Barnhill is a dancer, actress, songstress and choreographer. A 2006 honors graduate of Columbia College, Chicago and twice honored in "Who’s Who of American Colleges and Universities". Hettie has worked in film, television, and performed in top venues all over the world including The Muny, Alvin Ailey Theater, Radio City Music Hall, The Kennedy Center, Second City and on Broadway in The Production FELA! a Tony Award Winning & Grammy nominated play. She received the "Young Artist Scholarship (American Dance Festival)", "The Weisman Grant" for her choreography and the 2011 NAACP "Top 12 leaders 40 and Under Award in the field of Arts and Culture"
CREDITS
Broadway: FELA!
Companies: The Just Movement Collective, Balance Dance Theater,
Choreography: (selected few) NBC, MTV, VH1, BET, International Wow Theater, 60x60, Solar One, The Lincoln Center Out of Doors Festival, The Ailey School and Dance Chicago. Being immersed in a jazz/blues influenced area, Hettie translates her environment and up-bringing into her movement almost flawlessly. Her creative movement is a vision that everyone should experience.
Regional: (selected few) Hairspray (Lorraine) The St. Louis Muny Opera, Surrender-Off Broadway (Drama Desk 2009 Nominee)The Ohio Theater NY, LaCage Aux Folles (Bitelle, Colette) The Arvada Center in Arvada CO and The Riverside Theater in Vera Beach FL, Guys&Dolls (Mimi) St Louis Black Rep, Aida , Meet Me in St. Louis, My Fair Lady, and Camelot, St. Louis Muny Opera.
TV/Film and Other: BET HONORS, PBS Josephine Baker, Fashion Rocks NBC, Second City-Chicago IL, Black Label Movement-Minnesota MN, Arroja-Lisbon Portugal, The Kennedy Center-Washington DC and Amici-Roma Italy.
Hettie began dancing at Pelagie Green Wren Dance Academy when she was 3 years old and later at the Katherine Dunham Center of Performing Arts School. She is a graduate of COCA Pre-Professional Program & COCAdance and a 2002 graduate of Central Visual Performing Arts High School of St. Louis, Missouri. During high shool she spent her summers as a student at The Alvin Ailey Theater.
Today, Hettie is performing and recording her debut album Title "STORIES OF VY DIXON" set to release 2012. She is Dance Coordinator for the 60x60 Festival and a member of "A Long Walk Home, Inc.", a non-profit organization that uses art therapy and the visual and performance arts to document, to educate and to bring about social change. Providing safe and entertaining forums through which the public learns about healing from trauma. (Rape and Violence) Hettie shares with them what has been given to her - - a passion for the arts, a love for dance and a listening ear.
