Marcea Daiter

Marcea T. Daiter is a Research Consultant, Choreographer, Performing Artist, NYS Licensed Dance Educator, Certified Dunham Technique Instructor, Pilates Mat Trainer, a Teacher of the Zena Rommett Floor-Barre®, Capoerista, and Artistic Director of Kaleidoscope of Kultures Dance Theater. She is the recipient of the 2009 Surdna Arts Teachers Fellowship and is an Artist Member at Dance Theater Workshop, Screen Actors Guild, and AFTRA. Marcea received her Pilates training from Kathy Grant, Julie Sorrentino, Dyane Harvey, and was certified as a Pilates Mat Instructor through the Physical Mind Institute. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from Loyola University of Chicago, and a Masters of Fine Arts in Dance Theater from Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. 

Marcea is a native of Chicago where she commenced her studies in ballet, jazz, modern, African dance, dramatic arts, voice and music. She was one of the many dance artists representing the United States in Lagos, Nigeria at the International Arts Festival (FESTAC) in 1977, performing with Darlene Blackburn’s Afro-American Dance Theater on stage with Fela Anikylapo-Kuti at the Afro-Shrine. 

Marcea received scholarships and studied dance at The Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance, Harkness House for Classical Ballet, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center, Clark Center for Dance performed with, and the New York Baroque Dance Company, the Joan Miller Dance Players, the Eleo Pomare Dance Company, Nanette Bearden's Contemporary Dance Theater and Fancy Dancers Inc. 

Her field-study work trips to Africa, Cuba, Mexico, Haiti, and the United States to the Katherine Dunham Institute of Intercultural Studies and Jacob’s Pillow have inspired her instructional teaching in language arts, writing curriculum, dance anthropology, body soma tics, and choreography. Currently she is a full-time Dance Educator in NYC at Wadleigh Secondary School for the Performing and Visual Arts, an Adjunct Professor in  the African American Studies Department at New York City College of Technology in Brooklyn, and occasionally teaches Pilates Mat and Zena Rommett Floor Barre® at StepsOnBroadway Dance Studios.