Kim Stroud 

Kim Stroud danced with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet, Martha Graham Company and with Katherine Dunham. Her Broadway credits include “The Wiz” and “Your Arms Too Short to Box with God." She has lead the Center for Creative Youth at Wesleyan University, the Dance Program for City Youth at Hartford Ballet, the Diversity Committee for the International NETWORK of Performing and Visual Arts Schools. 

Ms. Stroud has been on faculty at the Martha Graham School, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center, SUNY Purchase and the University of Hartford, and has been guest faculty for University of California at Santa Barbara, University of Southern California at Los Angeles, University of Connecticut, Eastern Connecticut State University, Randolf-Macon Women’s College in Virginia, and the Duke Ellington School of the Arts in Washington D.C. 

Ms. Stroud has been recognized by the state of Connecticut and nationally for teaching and setting the works of Martha Graham.  She has received recognition for her teaching and leadership from the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, the International Arts Schools Network, Dance Teacher Magazine, CT State Department of Education, The National Dance Education Organization and the State of Connecticut and was the Director of Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts for over thirty years and is again on faculty at the Dance Division at The Hartt School, University of Hartford.