Susannah Keita is a versatile dance artist who has paired her energy with dance companies, regional theater companies and public school programs throughout the United States. A MFA graduate of the University of Arizona School of Dance, she was honored with the Graduate Creative Achievement Award in Dance in 2003. Susannah has received grants from the Tucson Pima Arts Council and the Arizona Commission on the Arts as a solo dance artist and choreographer and in 2006 toured Ecuador with O-T-O Dance Theatre for the International Festival for Women in Dance. Further, she has performed with the Grand Rapids Ballet, InSync Dance Theatre, Adrenaline Dance, and Arizona-based companies including New Articulations, Funhouse Movement Theatre, Flam Chen, Thom Lewis Dance, Mamaxé Dancers, and Zuzi Move It! Dance Theatre. In 2012, she became certified to teach the Katherine Dunham Technique, one of twenty certified teachers internationally. Dedicated to passing on her love of dance, Susannah has enjoyed a vibrant career as a K-12 dance educator, serving children, their families and their communities, developing curricula that emphasize self-reliance, creativity, health, intercultural communication and collaboration. Susannah is now the director of the dance education program at Grand Canyon University.
