About Darrah Blanton

Darrah Blanton has been teaching children’s dance in the Seattle area since 1999. She specializes in ballet, tap, creative movement, parent-toddler, beginning jazz, and musical theater. Her students have ranged in age from 1 to 18. Darrah has been on faculty at All That Dance, American Dance Institute, Spectrum Dance, Urban Monkeys, Young Child Academy, Interlaken preschool, The Secret Garden preschool, and the Queen Anne & Laurelhurst Community Centers. She created original choreography for Ingraham High School’s productions of Grease, Guys & Dolls, and Seussical: The Musical.

Darrah graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Washington with a double degree in Dance and English. She continues her studies in workshops at the Creative Dance Center - learning the Brain Dance (developed by CDC’s founder, Anne Green Gilbert) and other teaching techniques.

As a child growing up in Bellingham, Washington, Darrah studied with Wendy Setter at the Dance Studio and with Isabel and Teo Morca at the Morca Academy. Since moving to Seattle in 1996, Darrah has performed at the University of Washington, Velocity, Seattle Center, The Chamber Theater, On The Boards, and Freehold Theater. She loves introducing children to the pleasure of dancing.