Patricia has loved dancing all her life; she took her first dance class at the age of three in Hellertown, PA where she carried her tap shoes in a bag.
At the age of five she moved with her family to Jacksonville, FL. There she
studied dance at Village Dance Center and LaVilla School of the Arts. In 2005
she graduated from Douglas Anderson School of Arts where she studied both
ballet and modern dance. At DA she was also a member of the Performance Tap
Ensemble.
In the Fall of 2005 she became a student at Hollins University studying dance
and art history. In addition to presenting her own choreographic work with
the Hollins Repertory Dance Company (HRDC), she performed in work by Jung
eun Kim, Jen McGinn, Ashley Anderson, Lauren Bakst, Susanna Young, and Forsythe
Repertory taught by Douglas Becker.
While at Hollins she studied abroad in London, dancing at the Place contemporary
school of dance. She was elected the HRDC internal chair her junior and senior
year. She was involved in the Spiritual and Religious Life Association (SRLA)
serving as the internal chair and the first 2012 student chaplain. Patricia
was also a member of the Hollins fencing team.
She has been selected to become a Young Adult Volunteer with the PC(USA) 2009-2010.
She will be working in Northern Ireland and hopes to be able to spread her
love of dance while she is there working within different communities.
Patricia Brooks Cope