Roshanda D. Spears
PERFORMING ARTS RESIDENT ARTIST
Multi-talented, award-wining dance artist, Roshanda Demetric Spears, has been “moving” to her own beat since the age of five when her structured dance career began in West African, Tap, Jazz, Ballet and Modern Dance in Los Angeles, CA. Ms. Spears has performed in various venues, including commercials, plays, musicals and movies. Since migrating to Shreveport, LA. in 2001, Roshanda’s career has stayed on “pointe” working in a host of community venues (Shreveport Regional Arts Council-SRAC), schools, dance studios, and universities teaching dance. She is the owner of Shufflin’ Along, LLC, where she instructs private dance lessons and choreography for churches, weddings, plays, dance lines, dance studios, special events, commercials and movies. Spears served as Dance Professor at Southern University at Shreveport for nine years. Currently, Spears is the resident choreographer for Mahogany Ensemble Theatre, dance instructor and choreographer for Shreveport Little Theatre and Founding Executive Director of the Shufflin’ Along Foundation and Performing Arts Scholarship Fund.