Meet Our Team
Shannon Quinn
Director of Education
Shannon Quinn earned a Master of Fine Art in Dance from the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee and a Bachelor of Arts in Dance with K-12 certification from Winthrop University. She has taught throughout the DC Metropolitan area in DC public and charter schools as well as Knock on Wood Tap Studio, Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington, Dance Place and City Dance. Shannon served as Dance Place's Education Director for 18 years, overseeing onsite and offsite programming, staff and teaching artists. Under Shannon’s direction, the organization’s Education Department grew exponentially, doubling in size of programming and staff.
Shannon is extremely excited to serve as the new Director of Education at Dumbarton Arts & Education, focusing on early childhood education through the Inspired Child programming. For the past thirteen years, she has served on the faculty at the Catholic University of America as the Dance Coordinator and teaches Modern Dance, Dance Composition, Tumbling for Dancers. Shannon is also a frequent Guest Artist at Montgomery College, Rockville Campus. In 2011 she co-founded ReVision Dance Company, a resident contemporary company at Dance Place, and currently serves as its Artistic Director. In 2014, ReVision was awarded a highly competitive Sister Cities Grant from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities to travel to Pretoria, South Africa for a week-long residency at the Tiqwa School and Tshwane University of Technology.
Since 2014, Shannon has traveled to Pretoria three times, collaborating with South African company, Usuthu Arts Productions and continues to be a guest artist at the Tiqwa School and Tshwane University of Technology. Shannon and ReVision have made a commitment to working with children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities, with teaching residencies at The Arc in many DC and Baltimore locations and is in residence at River Terrace Education Campus in Washington DC. She has led many professional development dance education workshops at various universities and organizations, including Towson University, National Dance Education Organization (NDEO), and many others. In addition, Shannon has been a panelist for many of the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities grants and is a proud recipient of the 2020 Individual Regional Artist Award from the Maryland State Arts Council.