Faculty and Staff - Young Arts
Danielle Fitzpatrick
Artistic Director of Young Arts & CupCAKE, Creative Dance Instructor, Director – Storytime Theatre, CupCAKE Camp Director, Vacation Camp Director, One Day Camp Director
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Carin Torp
Adult/Toddler Dance, Assistant Director – Storytime Theatre
Carin Torp has a master’s degree in Dance/Movement Therapy from Antioch University New England and has been working with children and their families in care and/or movement capacities ever since her first babysitting jobs as a teen and also at that time doing ballet with a young child with cerebral palsy. She has a private practice as a dance and movement/mental health therapist, she teaches in the Moco Young Arts program leading a Toddler/Adult dance class and working at vacation camps and CupCAKE.
She also plays the piano for the middle-grade choirs of the Grand Monadnock Youth Choirs. She has specialties in attachment and developmental issues and loves to use dance and movement and other expressive arts to deepen connections people have with themselves, their families, and the community as a whole. Carin believes that everybody is uniquely beautiful and strives to help everyone she works with to feel at home in their body; to find the joy we were all born to feel.
Danielle Fitzpatrick
Artistic Director of Young Arts & CupCAKE, Creative Dance Instructor, Director – Storytime Theatre, CupCAKE Camp Director, Vacation Camp Director, One Day Camp Director
Danielle Fitzpatrick, MA BC-DMT has been teaching dance and theatre to people of all ages throughout the tri-state area for more than two decades. She moved to Keene so that she could pursue a Master’s degree in Dance/Movement Therapy at Antioch University, where she is now adjunct faculty in their graduate program. She has taught creative dance, children’s theatre, ballet, adaptive dance technique, and dance/movement therapy courses in studio settings, classrooms, preschools, workshops, and at the undergraduate and graduate level. In addition to teaching dance, Danielle is a Board-Certified dance/movement therapist specializing in using dance with elders with neurocognitive disease. Danielle serves as a Chair on the Board of the American Dance Therapy Association. At MoCo Arts, Danielle is the Director of Young Arts, where she uses her extensive knowledge of child development to support our youngest artists in dance, theatre, and camps. Danielle enjoys writing original plays to be performed by the students at MoCo Arts. When she is not sharing her love of dancing with others, Danielle enjoys raising her two daughters.