Choreographer and director Lauren Tait moved to Lititz in 2020 bringing with her a wealth of experience in dance performance, education, choreography, non-profit administration and dance advocacy. She spent much of her career in Maryland as Executive and Artistic Director of Baltimore non-profit Kinetics Dance Theatre, overseeing a resident professional company and an 800+ student school of dance with a focus on artistry, accessibility, equity, and outreach. Early in her career Lauren danced with Baltimore Dance Project and Kinetics Dance Company. As a choreographer, her work has appeared at the Maryland Dance Festival, Baltimore Museum of Art, Merriweather Park’s Chrysalis Kids Series, the Baltimore Dance Invitational, AKIMBO, Howard County Community Dance Festival, and WBAL radio’s Concert for Kids. She was an adjunct instructor at Howard Community College and has conducted workshops and residencies throughout the east coast, notably with John’s Hopkins Peabody Preparatory, Howard County Community Dance Festival, Maryland Dance Education Association, NH-based Axis Dance Company, Franklin & Marshall College, Maryland’s Howard County Arts Council, Head StART in ART, Pennsylvania’s Pathways Institute for Lifelong Learning and various public and private schools. She developed programming through her project CommunityDanceLaboratory dedicated to dance outreach and education. Lauren is the recipient of numerous grants as well as a returning panelist for Howard County Arts Council’s Rising Star Award. She is a former board member at Maryland Dance Education Association and Kinetics Dance Theatre. Lauren’s training began in early childhood and she has studied with a wide variety of dance professionals along her path. She attended high school at the Carver Center for the Arts and Technology and then the University of Maryland, Baltimore County as a Linehan Artist Scholar, where she earned Bachelor’s degrees in Visual and Performing Arts/Dance and Psychology with concentration in development, as well as a minor in writing.