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Springboro dance teacher moving on
For the past eight years, Jeri Combs Dickey has been the driving force behind Step Up 4 A Cure, a fund-raising performance for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. She is the parent of two children with the disease.
The next program, at 8 p.m. Saturday, May 22, in Boll Theatre at the University of Dayton, will be her last in the Dayton area. In August, she will become the head of dance in the musical theater department at Auburn University in Alabama.
“It’s an opportunity to help build the program there. It will be an exciting new chapter in my life,” said the Springboro resident, who was one of the founding instructors in Wright State University’s MAPP (Musical Theater and Acting Preparatory Program).
Step Up 4 A Cure will include dancers from several local and regional companies and several of Combs Dickey’s former students.
“The concert will close with a big swing-style finale with my students, past and present. The number before that will be a quartet with myself and three former students.”
Jeri Combs Dickey (R) and CF walk participants
She and husband Joe Dickey have four children. Jenna, 16, is studying on full scholarship at the School of American Ballet in New York. Combs Dickey taught in Los Angeles before the family moved to Ohio in 1991.
She ran her own studio, Progressive Dance Theatre, for eight years, has taught at the Pontecorvo Ballet Studios since 2002 and done choreography for the University of Dayton Dance Ensemble for more than a decade. Earlier this year, she joined the faculty of the Human Race Theatre Company’s Teen Conservatory.
Tickets will be sold at the door. Prices are $15 for adults, $10 for children 12 and under, $5 for children under 5 and senior citizens. More information is available by email at StepUp4acure@gmail.com.
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