MEG PAUL

Meg Paul brings a wealth of significant professional experience in classical and contemporary ballet, Broadway performance, choreography, and teaching artistry. Her career spans four decades and encompasses a wide range of national and international experience in performance, choreography, curating, directing, teaching, program development, community engagement, and arts management.
 Paul has worked closely with renowned dance pioneers and has performed master works from the repertoire and artistic direction of Gerald Arpino, Robert Joffrey, Twyla Tharp and Dwight Rhoden, to works by Petipa, Ashton, Nijinsky, Massine, Balanchine, Forsythe, and Alonzo King. She was a principal dancer with The Joffrey Ballet/NYC and has extensive national and international touring credits. Paul was part of the creative team and dance captain for Twyla Tharp’s Tony award-winning Broadway musical, Movin’ Out. She performed both leading roles in Movin’ Out and was a full swing. Paul’s awards include The Princess Grace Award, winner of The International Dance Competition of the Americas, Detroit Renaissance Hero Award, Sue Nine Endowment for Faculty Achievement Award, Wayne State University’s College of Fine, Performing, and Communication Arts Teaching Award, and the Copperfoot Award.
As Co-founder of World Arts Inc., Paul’s New York City-based performing arts agency
celebrated a decade of representing and producing tours for national and international
companies including Nacho Duato’s Compania Nacional De Danza, Les Ballets De Monte
Carlo, Complexions Contemporary Ballet, Les Grand Ballets Canadian, Dance Cuba, Les
Ballets Africains, Washington Ballet, The Joffrey Ballet, and more.
 Paul was Director of Dance at the Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts, curating and
directing Music Hall’s annual fundraiser for dance, National City Stars of Ballet and Broadway.
National City Stars of Ballet and Broadway engaged hundreds of local performers and pre-
professionals to train and perform with ballet and Broadway professionals. For her work on
National City Stars of Ballet and Broadway, Paul was honored as a recipient of the Detroit
Renaissance Hero Award by the Detroit Free Press. During her tenure, she curated, directed, and produced Music Hall’s annual 313 Choreography Expo highlighting Detroit’s creative impact with other major cities. 313 Choreography Expo served as an incubator and career launchpad for many local Detroit artists and companies while fostering artistic collaborations, dance education, and community engagement.
From 2010-2022, Paul served in many roles at Wayne State University’s Maggie Allesee
Department of Theatre and Dance, including Associate Professor of Teaching, Recruitment
Coordinator for Dance, and Director of Dance (2017-2022). Paul curated and directed the
Complexions Detroit Summer Intensive at Wayne State University for nine seasons.
Paul served as Associate Artistic Director and Rehearsal Director with Complexions
Contemporary Ballet and Academy Director for Complexions Contemporary Ballet Academy.
She is a faculty member, adjudicator, and member of the Advisory Board for Adrenaline,
Revive, and National Dance Honors Conventions. Paul is also a masterclass teacher and
adjudicator for Universal Ballet Competition.
Paul is certified in Vinyasa Yoga, Progressing Ballet Technique, Youth Protection Advocates in Dance, and Dance Education Equity Association.