Lily Cabatu Weiss holds both Bachelor's and Master's degrees in dance from Texas Woman’s University. She has taught on the dance faculties at Southern Methodist University and Houston’s High School for Performing & Visual Arts and joined the faculty at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing & Visual Arts in Dallas, Texas in 1978.  In addition to teaching at BTWHSPVA, she recently served as an adjunct lecturer at Southern Methodist University.  As an independent artist and founding member of The Faculty Dance Ensemble, she has performed works by Andrea Beckham, Michael Kelly Bruce, Martha Curtis, David Hochoy, Heywood “Woody” McGriff, John Mead, Luis Montero, Douglas Nielsen, and Yacov Sharir, among others. She has choreographed extensively throughout Texas, has received the Texas Choreographers Award from the Texas Commission on the Arts, has been guest choreographer for four seasons for Washington Square Repertory Company at New York University, and has had her work toured throughout the United States and Peru with Dallas Black Dance Theatre.  She has performed with artists throughout Texas and the United States and performed with John Mead & Dancers at the Min-On International Choreography Competition in Japan.  In 2000 she performed in New York with John Mead & Dancers where she was reviewed by Jennifer Dunning of The New York Times.  She has served as chair of the Performing Arts Peer Review Panel for the Texas Commission on the Arts, and was awarded the Kitty McGee Distinguished Alumna Award, Outstanding Educator by the Asian Chamber of Commerce and the Rockefeller Foundation, and 1996 Dance Educator.  She has been named Distinguished Teacher by seven Presidential Scholars in the Arts and The White House Commission on Presidential Scholars in the Arts.  She is a 2001 recipient of the SURDNA Arts Teachers Fellowship to study in New York with the American Dance Legacy Institute.  She was named one of two Distinguished Teachers in the Arts by the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts and was honored in January, 2003 during ARTS Week in Miami, Florida.  In 2004, she was a recipient of a faculty fellowship to the Bates Dance Festival.  Mrs. Weiss has trained many students who are performing in dance companies both nationally and internationally and is currently the Dance Coordinator at BTWHSPVA, the Director of Repertory Dance Company, and serves on the Board of TITAS. 

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