Executive and Artistic Director
Micha Scott
Micha Scott, Santa Cruz County’s 2026 Artist of the Year, began her dance training at the age of 3, and her professional career began when she joined the renowned Garth Fagan Dance company at the age of 18. She toured and performed as a senior member with the Company worldwide for 13 years, taught at the Garth Fagan Dance School in Rochester, NY, and has led master classes and workshops for the company. She has been featured in Essence, Time Magazine, and Dance Magazine, and as a soloist in the PBS televised series Dance In America. In the fall of 2024 she returned to the Fagan stage as a guest soloist during their NYC season at the Joyce Theater. Over the past 14 years she has brought teen dancers from Santa Cruz to New York to train during summers with the Fagan company. In 2023 she traveled to Brazzaville, Congo to perform a solo and train youth at the Tokomi Festival.
Micha is deeply involved in the Santa Cruz dance community. She is Executive (since 2021) and Artistic (since 2011) Director at TWDCC, and was a dance instructor at Dancenter for 20 years. She was the resident choreographer for 15 years at Mountain Elementary School, and has taught at Motion Pacific, Steps, No Limits, International Academy of Dance, Kirby School, Mount Madonna, Monterey High School, Seaside High School, Cabrillo College, and throughout Santa Cruz and Monterey Counties as lead teacher with the Tandy Beal Dance Around the World Program. Micha has held the position of lecturer in dance at Santa Clara University (2009–2015), the University of California at Santa Cruz (2012), and at the State University of New York at Brockport (2000). Ms. Scott serves on the Black Health Matters Initiative Advisory Board, and on the Grant Committees for the Arts Council Santa Cruz County and the California Arts Council. She frequently volunteers as a career panelist with the local nonprofit Your Future Is Our Business.
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