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About Jason Schadt

Biography

Serving as Visiting Assistant Professor and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the University of Iowa Department of Dance, Jason Schadt taught ballet classes at a wide range of levels, from Beginning Ballet for non-majors to Majors Ballet 1, 2, and 3. He earned his MFA in Dance from the University of Iowa in 2008, and shortly after began working as Artistic Director of the UI Youth Ballet and Community Dance School. Jason teaches concert dance technique with a pedagogical approach rooted in sensory awareness, imagery, anatomy, and rhythm. His research focuses on the mechanics of movement and injury prevention, and these emphases are central to the courses he designs, which have included ballet and modern for adult learners, floor barre, yoga, experiential anatomy, and ballet pedagogy.


In the 13 years since being promoted to the program's artistic coordinator and concert director, Jason has led 17 concerts and choreographed 27 pieces for the University of Iowa Youth Ballet and Community Dance School. There, in addition to teaching upper-level ballet for teens and beginning ballet for adults, he mentors UIYB teachers. 


Just as importantly, Jason seeks out opportunities to connect with mentors of his own. Since shifting his focus from performing to teaching, he has sought out the teachers of his teachers. The last seven years, Jason has studied with Finis Jhung, exploring the moving body's dynamic mechanics, first in his teachers workshops in New York, then in countless classes on Zoom. Stephanie Saland is a close advisor to Jason, and an influence through her inclusive, engaging methods of teaching refined movement. Philip Beamish was another mentor, whose technique Jason studied during graduate school, and with whom Jason later trained in floor barre and ballet techniques at the Northwest Dance Intensive teachers workshops. Willy Burmann regularly welcomed Jason to observe his teaching at Steps on Broadway. 


Jason has also studied curriculum and teaching methods under Marcia Dale Weary and Darla Hoover at the Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet teachers workshop, and completed the 40-hour pedagogy seminar on the Vaganova syllabus with John White, former Soloist and Ballet Master of Ballet Nacional de Cuba. 


Jason was an Instructor in the Department of Kinesiology, Allied Health and Human Services at the University of Northern Iowa 2010-2015, where he taught modern, ballet, floor barre, choreography and dance history. In that role, Jason supervised over 100 student choreography projects at UNI for presentation both locally and at academic conferences, shaping the program by integrating Critical Response Process for sharing supportive feedback. In Cedar Falls he directed seven fully-produced concerts and co-directed five concerts. As the Director of UNI Young People's Dance Theatre from 2011 to 2014 he led three informal children’s concerts. In addition to venues throughout Iowa, Jason has presented his choreography in regional festivals in Minnesota and Utah.

Early in his teaching career, Jason Schadt leads dancers in company class for the UI Youth Ballet.

Early in his teaching career, Jason leads company class for the UI Youth Ballet ensemble.

Get grounded & get moving.

Young Jason Schadt in modern dance performance.

Education

Higher Education

The University of Iowa, 2005-2008
M.F.A., Dance, conferred 2008


明治大学大学院、文学研究科
(Meiji University, Graduate School of Letters), Tokyo, Japan, 2004–2005
Graduate Study Abroad


The University of Iowa, 1998-2004
M.A.T., Secondary Foreign Language Education, transferred
B.A., Asian Language and Literature: Japanese, conferred 2003

Professional Study

Ongoing practice with: 

  • Finis Jhung, ballet 
  • Stephanie Saland, ballet blend 
  • Alexandra Beller, Bartenieff Fundamentals 


2020   Body-Mind Centering Fall Series, Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, November-December


2019   Finis Jhung Teacher Workshop, New York, August


2019   Teaching observations with Willy Burmann, New York, August


2018   Alexander Technique workshop for teachers, Robyn Avalon, Iowa City, November


2018   Finis Jhung Teacher Workshop, New York, August


2018   Teaching observation with Willy Burmann, New York, August


2017   Finis Jhung Teacher Workshop, New York, August


2015   Vaganova Syllabus Seminar with John White, author of the acclaimed Teaching Classical Ballet, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, July


2015   Northwest Dance Intensive Teachers Workshop with Philip Beamish, Olympia, Washington, June-July


2014   Northwest Dance Intensive Teachers Workshop with Philip Beamish, Olympia, Washington, July


2011   Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet Teachers Workshop with Marcia Dale Weary and Darla Hoover, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, August

Integrate relevé & plié.

Teaching Experience

Jason Schadt kneeling down to get to eye level with young ballet students he is teaching.

University of Iowa Youth Ballet and Community Dance School

Artistic Director, 2009-PRESENT

Instructor, Summer Intensives, 2011-2014, 2016-2017

Classes: Dance Appreciation (classroom) and Modern Dance (studio)

Instructor, 2007-2009

Assistant Instructor, 2006

University of Iowa, Department of Dance

Guest Teacher, 2021 

Adjunct Assistant Professor, 2020

Visiting Assistant Professor, 2019

Adjunct Assistant Professor, 2017-2019

Graduate Teaching Assistant, 2007-2008

Graduate Research Assistant: Dance Marketing, 2006-2007 

University of Northern Iowa, School of Kinesiology, Allied Health and Human Services

Instructor, 2010-2015 

Grinnell Area Arts Council

Co-creator (with Monica Chavez-Silva) and Instructor, 2012-2013

Six-week summer outreach programs in dance co sponsored by Grinnell College Office of Community Enhancement & Engagement and The University of Iowa Division of Performing Arts 

Travelers Dance Company

Instructor, 2008-2009 

Weekly company classes in modern dance technique 

The University of Iowa, Upward Bound Project

Instructor, 2002-2004, 2006-2007 

Teaching Japanese to college-bound high school students with a focus on preparing first-generation college students 

The University of Iowa, Department of Asian Language and Literature

Graduate Research Assistant, 2005, Tokyo, Japan

Graduate Teaching Assistant, 2003-2004, Iowa City, Iowa 

Sensory awareness. Imagery. Anatomy. Rhythm.

Concert Direction

The Nightingale, 2019

In the News

UI Youth Ballet presents "The Nightingale"

New dances by UI Youth Ballet faculty, featuring choreographer Kristin Marrs. 


Iowa City Press-Citizen article: 


"The Nightingale" lands at the Space Place Theater.

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