| Miss Heather (cont.) Ms. Maloy received the bulk of her training at the North Carolina School of the Arts under the tutelage of such well repsected teachers as Melissa Hayden, Duncan Nobel, Gyula Pandi and Fanchon Cordell among others. She was also greatly inspired by such members of the modern dance faculty as Mabel Robinson and Dianne Markham. While there she was awarded the Reader's Digest Scholarship as an outstanding student who showed promise. Ms. Maloy has been a guest artist with Ballet Metropolitan, Tampa Ballet and the Chautauqua Ballet. The majority of her career, however, has been spent with the North Carolina Dance Theatre where she was an audience favorite, known for her dynamic stage presence and uncanny ability to capture the essence of the role, whether it be comical, dramatic, playful or abstract. Ms. Maloy excelled in works by such renowned choreographers as Salvatore Aiello, Oscar Ariaz, Paul Taylor, David Parsons, Alvin Ailey, Alonzo King and George Balanchine among many others. As an accomplished teacher, Ms. Maloy has taught for Dance Place of the NC Dance Theatre, Bellevue Ballet in Seattle, the Chautauqua Ballet and the Nashville Ballet, as well as creating ballets for students of Dance Place and the Carolina Ballet Theatre in Greenville, SC. |