College of Visual and Performing Arts

Ifill joins the Theatre & Dance Department in Spring 2011 as an adjunct professor to teach African dance. She comes to the Charlotte area from Philadelphia, Pa., where she danced with Rain Ross Dance and worked with the Philadelphia Public School System as a teaching artist. Her dance studies include undergraduate work at Kent State University, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s Independent Studies Program, and graduate work at the University of Oregon. Ifill was awarded scholarships from the University of Oregon’s School of Music and Dance for her pedagogical, choreographic, and historical research on the Horton Technique. A teaching fellowship at the University of Oregon also allowed Ifill to teach improvisation, modern, jazz, African, and hip hop dance. 

She is deeply involved with TransForm, a collective of artists that extends across cultural and geographic boundaries to open contemporary discourse on and through the art of dance. Her current research involves uncovering common language within interdisciplinary collaborations. Ifill’s choreographic work has been seen at Youngstown State University in Ohio, The Hult Center in Oregon, Conduit in Oregon, and with the Barefoot Dance Collective in Washington. Ifill also is teaching African dance at Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte, N.C.