Biography: Kimberley Rampersad

Trained under Barbara Daurie, Ms. Rampersad is establishing herself as a sought after dance educator and choreographer.

As well as being a member of Canadian Actors' Equity Association and the Alliance of Canadian Cinema Television and Radio Artist, she holds her jazz and tap teaching certificates in the ADAPT Syllabus as well as standings with CDAT (Sask. Brabch) and the Royal Academy of Dancing.

She has been the receipient of numerous awards and scholarchips including several Manitoba Dance Festival Scholarships, an LADF Scholarship to train at the Edge Performing Arts Centre in Los Angeles, and a prestigious Maude Whitmore Scholarship from the Charlottetown Festival.

Ms. Rampersad has taught at several institutions including Sisler High School, the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, The Charlottetown Festival's Young Company and the Canadian College of Performing Arts. She is a popular clinician and adjudicator, teaching workshops and adjudicating dance competitions in Manitoba, Ontario, Saskatchewan, British Columbia, and the United States.

In October of 2002, Kimberley was honoured to choreograph a piece for HRH Queen Elizabeth II's Royal Jubilee where her student opened the show.

Ms. Rampersad has appeared in various roles on stage including Little Red Riding Hood in Into the Woods with Dry Cold Productions, eight Rainbow Stage productions including June in Chicago, and shows with Manitoba Theatre Centre, Manitoba Opera, Winnipeg Jewish Theatre and the Charlottetown Festival. This winter she will be choreographing Rainbow Stage's production of Miss Saigon in Winnipeg.

Her television credits include Travel Manitoba and Manitoba Liquor Commission commercials, and a dancer for CBC's Grey Cup Awards and film credits include the re-occurring role of Jan in Go For It! and Scaling the Pyramid with the Roning Group, Suzy in The Outside Chance of Maxinilliam Glick for CBC Productions and The Sargeant's Wife in The Roswell Project for the UPN Network. She has also done voice over work for the CBC, was a featured artist on the K-Tel album, Mini Stars, and appears as a vocalist on Rainbow Stage's Special Performances CD. She is also a featured dancer in the Miramax movie, Shall We Dance? starring Richard Gere.

Currently, she is the head of the dance program in the performing arts department at Grant Park High School.