Maggie Pelton

Biography

MAGGIE PELTON grew up in the New Jersey Ballet Company. Her studies expanded to other disciplines while receiving her BFA in dance from The Juilliard School and intensive training at the Martha Graham and Jose Limon schools in New York City. After being awarded a scholarship from the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center, she was asked to join Ailey II which performed across the United States and the Caribbean. Ms. Pelton had the great honor of being the last female chosen by Alvin Ailey himself to join his first company, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater which tours internationally. While living in southern California and now Nashville, Maggie has danced in television commercials, music videos and has gone on to teach, choreograph, and act as a consultant for dance and fitness in various projects. After many years of teaching for Nashville Ballet and performing with its resident modern dance company Epiphany, she currently is an adjunct professor of dance at Belmont University and David Lipscomb University, is a founding faculty member of Cookeville Leisure Services School of Dance, is on the dance faculty at Harpeth Hall School for Girls, teaches ballet to figure skaters and continues to serve as a guest artist choreographing, teaching master classes and dance workshops in ballet, modern and jazz disciplines from coast to coast.