Kristin Marrs is a choreographer, performer, and teacher. As an Associate Professor of Instruction in the Department of Dance, she has also taught for the Youth Ballet and Community Dance School since 2013. Over the years she has taught Level 4/5 Ballet, choreographed for the Performance Ensemble, and she currently teaches adult ballet to an amazing group of dancers. Marrs' research and teaching interests include the integration of healthy somatic practices with ballet pedagogy.

Kristin is a certified Alexander Technique teacher with the American Society for the Alexander Technique and a Functional Awareness® Movement Educator. She is a founding member of Alexander Technique Iowa (www.alexandertechniqueiowa.com).

Prior to finding her home in the liberal arts and community dance education, performed as a company member of Columbus Dance Theatre, Ballet Quad Cities, Northern Ballet Theatre, Arova Contemporary Ballet, Paradise Ballet Theatre, Opera Columbus, and Images of Dance (London). She continues to work as choreographer and performing artist, and is co-founder of Chalk Dance Theater www.chalkdancetheater.com.