Born in Detroit, Michigan, Ms. Williams is recognized as one of New York’s highly respected choreographers and dance training principals. She is credited for exposing classical dance to school children in the Harlem area. Performing abroad and throughout the United States, Ms. Williams was a principal dancer with Dancer Theatre of Harlem's Ensemble, Gallman's Dance Theatre, Nanette Bearden's Conte
mporary Dance Theatre, and Ballet Long Island. Her most rewarding performance to date, however, is fulfilling the dreams of young people everyday at the Uptown Dance Academy which she founded in May 1996. Under her guidance, students of the Academy’s Uptown Kids Urban Dance Theatre have been selected for commercials, movies and Broadway Shows. Performing for such notables as Mayor Bloomberg, Gov. Arnold Schwartzennegar, and Gov. Patterson, they have also won beauty pageants and talent contest and have been featured on National television. In 2011 the Academy was awarded a grant in the amount of $250,000 from the artist Prince recommended by ABT African-American soloist Misty Copeland. Her students have been accepted in Alvin Ailey American Dance Center, Laguardia, Professional Performing Arts School, Julliard, American Ballet Theater, Bolshoi Ballet Academy, Dance Theater of Harlem and the Lion King.
