Maria broom biography

So I went to Germany, I studied there for a year in the dance academy in Berlin. So many opportunities came my way because I was there and I just said yes. A chance to perform in Hair, a chance to perform as a dancer in a performance about Patrice Lumumba, they needed an African dancer. So a lot of opportunities. And they could speak several languages and they were stewardesses.

At least you could travel and do things. Can we interview you? They interviewed me, they liked my voice, they took the piece back to the studio, they wanted me to come in for an audition to be a news reporter. I said OK. I needed a job, so I wound up going to WJZ. And I did that for about four or five years, but then I had to get back to dancing.

I had to get back to what I really wanted to do. But WJZ here in Baltimore. So that was back in the 70s. I left television and I started a dance studio in the basement of Mondawmin Mall. It was brand new back then. And then I had another studio, and then I had a company called the Dance Bringers of Baltimore, which featured a lot of different women, mostly women, shapes and sizes.

And we performed at Artscape and all these things. I mean, I know you worked with Oprah for some time. After I did all the dancing and the performing, then I went to study dance at UCLA for a while, I studied dance from different cultures. And then I came back to Baltimore and I really got into what is dance really for? And then I thought about its healing qualities.

And so, at that time, they had just started graduate programs in expressive arts, and one of them was dance therapy. And I worked with men who were incarcerated, I worked with children who were too emotionally unbalanced to be in regular schools, I worked with women who were in locked wards, using just dance, just dance to help heal from the inside, which informed what I do now as one of my things other than just teaching, I offer something called Dance Medicine, which is trying to get people to dance from the inside.

I bring the music, I bring the prompts and the meditation to get people to dance, and using dance as a healing tool, or survival art, I call it. Broom is also much requested as a speaker and presenter. With a background in yoga, meditation, Homa therapy, and dance therapy, she conducts staff retreats, workshops, and weekly classes that help people to release stress and feel at peace.

She also received an Open Society Institute community fellowship grant to establish a unique mentoring program in City Schools and beyond, called the Dance Girls of Baltimore. It is with deep sadness that the Baltimore School for the Arts shares the news of the passing of Founding Board Chair, It beautifully captures the Over the past 19 months, our incredible students at BSA have poured their hearts into creating a docuseries that offers Baltimore School for the Arts has announced one of its largest partnerships to date with the Baltimore Symphony The arts school held onto its On January 5, Thurgood Marshall's beautiful portrait as young lawyer painted by Ernest Shaw '87 was unveiled at the Senior Ebban Dorsey '22 knows her way around the music world, but even for her, playing and meeting the jazz legend was Rosiland Cauthen as its Interim Paige Hernandez '98 joined Everyman Theatre as the new associate artistic director in July Look for her We said goodbye to our school building last March thinking we would be back at it in a few weeks.

Maria broom biography

As we quickly Christopher Ford has announced he will To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Baltimore School for the Arts, its theatre experimental lab presents a new Tyler Perry is teaming up with Netflix for a new thriller, Fall from Grace, about a woman whose world is shattered Maria enthusiastically recalled her early education and the educators who encouraged her life path.

She was the one who told me, after she saw me do a solo, that if I wanted to be a professional dancer, I could. Despite not knowing the role—the choreography nor the lines in German—she agreed to cover for the night. As fate would have it, the original dancer never recovered, and soon Maria took over the role full-time. Her ability to be at the right place at the right time persisted.

They liked my voice, and they had just lost their Black female reporter, [and asked] would I be interested in the job. She worked in Miami at the ABC affiliate as a reporter for a year. But the urge to dance overshadowed her desire for the camera, and she soon returned to Baltimore. She interviewed at WJZ and was hired on the spot.

During that second year working as a reporter, she was asked to train a new hire—a young girl from Nashville, Tennessee. As fate would have it, the new hire happened to be none other than Oprah Winfrey. Maria said the two formed a friendship. She quit her job. She stopped eating meat. She stopped drinking alcohol. Mondawmin Mall had just opened, so she rented a space in the basement and opened up her own dance studio.

There she began living out her deepest dream: dance education. She fell into difficult financial times for several years.