Heidi Kulas
HEIDI KULAS has grown up dancing with three generations of her family from Greenville, Michigan. She achieved national recognition competing, performing, touring, judging and teaching Clogging, Irish Step Dance (popularized by “Riverdance”), Rhythm Tap, Traditional as well Contemporary forms of Percussive Dance including South African Gumboot and Body Percussion. She received a Michigan Dance Heritage Fellowship moving her to Maryland to join the international touring company, FOOTWORKS Percussive Dance Ensemble as a Principal Dancer and Co-Choreographer. She’s been a featured dancer and choreographer in the production “Solemates” collaborating with Step Afrika! as well as with Tim O’Brien in “The Crossing.” Heidi has toured performing around the world as a Guest Dancer with many professional and GRAMMY winning recording artists including Nickel Creek, Lunasa, Balsam Range, Uncle Earl (for which she stars in their music video for “Streak O’ Lean, Streak O’ Fat”) and Eileen Ivers to name a few. She holds a B.A. in Theatrical Arts from Mars Hill University in North Carolina where she served as the Dance Captain and a Choreographer for the now 31-time National Champions the Bailey Mountain Cloggers. She’s a proud member of the prestigious All-American clogging team. Heidi was a featured soloist, dance captain and entertainer in several shows with the Fee/Hedrick Family Entertainment Company and World Choice Investments (a Dolly Parton Company) in Pigeon Forge, TN including The Comedy Barn, the Smoky Mountain Opry and Hatfield and McCoy Dinner Feud. She continues to perform as a guest artist in Pigeon Forge and around the country. She is a certified NASM personal trainer, nutrition coach, and Yoga Alliance 200 RYT. She’s excited to be using her diverse dance and entertainment background to be able to share unique insights with the dancers as an adjudicator for both regional and national dance competitions for America’s National Dance Championships, Rising Star Talent Productions, Turn It Up Dance Challenge, Star Talent Productions, Starz Dance and Imagine Dance Challenge.
