Maureen Mansfield Kaddar

Teaching Associate Professor | Dance

School of Theatre and Dance

(304) 293-8623 Maureen.Kaddar@mail.wvu.edu 210 Elizabeth Moore Hall, Downtown Campus

MFA – University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
BFA – Adelphi University
RYT– Registered Yoga Teacher
SMTT – Certified Instructor (Simonson Method of Teacher Training)

Maureen Mansfield Kaddar is a dancer, choreographer, and educator whose work bridges performance, pedagogy, and creative collaboration. Originally from East Rockaway, New York, she holds a BFA in Dance from Adelphi University and an MFA in Dance and Choreography from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. A former member of the Paul Taylor Dance Company, she appears as a featured performer in Dancemaker, the Oscar-nominated documentary chronicling Mr. Taylor’s life and work and has since staged his repertory for professional companies and university programs, including for West Virginia University.

Maureen’s choreographic and teaching work has taken her across the United States and abroad as a guest artist and mentor in higher education. Rooted in the belief of the connective power of movement, she has used dance as a catalyst for interdisciplinary learning through Arts Integration programs.

As a Teaching Associate Professor in West Virginia University’s School of Theatre and Dance, Maureen teaches the dance techniques of ballet, modern, and jazz, as well as choreography, repertory, partnering, yoga for dancers, and dance history. Her choreography has been featured in WVU’s annual Dance Now! concert, WVU’s theatre and musical theatre productions, as well as the West Virginia Dance Company’s educational performance series.

Maureen is certified as a teacher in the Simonson Technique®, and as a Yoga and Anti-Gravity Yoga® instructor. She presents nationally at American College Dance Association (ACDA) and National Dance Education Organization conferences, serves on ACDA’s Executive Committee, and has received WVU’s College of Creative Arts’ Outstanding Teaching Award (2021) and Outstanding Service Award (2022). She feels fortunate to work alongside young, creative thinkers whose curiosity and insight continually enrich her teaching practice.