Lynda Plavin Fitzgerald
Coordinator, Performing Arts-Dance and Director of the AACC Dance Company

AACC Accomplishments

• Developed and implemented the dance curriculum and the dance major at AACC. 
• Established the AACC Dance Company
• Established a service learning component enabling the dancers to give mini-performances at multiple Anne Arundel County public schools. 
• Partner in a grant through AACPS allowing accomplished AACC dance students to be compensated by the county for choreographing works on the students at Anne Arundel County public schools for performance.
• Established the Youth Dance Festival through continuing education.
• NISOD recipient

Education

• M.A. from Stanford University in Education with a concentration in dance
• B.A. from Connecticut College in English and Dance

Experience

• Taught master classes and performed throughout the United States. 
• Faculty member and scholarship instructor for the Maryland State Dance Festival.
• Served as President for the Maryland Council for Dance from 2002-2004 and remains active on the board. 
• Performed professionally in California, Utah, Texas, Maine, and Maryland
• Taught dance at Stanford University for the “STARTS” program. 
• Former full-time dance faculty member at West Virginia University where she directed a dance company and choreographed for the Women’s Varsity Gymnastics Team. 
• Commissioned to set her work on several schools and companies in Maryland, Maine, California, and Virginia.