BAILEY McFADEN recently graduated with her Masters in International Arts Management through a program in collaboration with SMU Dallas, HEC Montréal, and Bocconi University. She has since accepted the role of School Programs Coordinator at Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival in March of this year and continues to assist the infamous Programming department as the interim Company Manager for artists such as Sonya Tayeh, Mythili Prakash, Faye Driscoll, Jennifer Archibald, Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, Studio Wayne McGregor, Jeffrey Page, Courtney Ross, Jill M. Vallery, Rena Butler, Maria Torres, Sidra Bell, Gilbert Bolden II, and many others. 

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She also received  her B.A. in Arts Management and Dance with a minor in Spanish from the College of Charleston. Bailey was born in Rockville, Maryland and moved with her family to Columbia, South Carolina in 2008. She danced with Columbia Music Festival Association (CMFA) with Mimi Worrell and John Whitehead and also studied with Regina Willoughby who is a recently retired principal ballerina with Columbia City Ballet. From 2011-2014, Bailey completed pre-professional training in classical ballet and traditional modern at the South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities under the instruction of Stanislav Issaev, Irina Ushakova, Sandra Neels, Josee Garant, Miriam Gonzalez and Tracy Vogt.

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In 2014, Bailey enrolled and performed with the College of Charleston Dance Department under the instruction of Gretchen McLaine, Kristin Alexander, Erin Leigh, Pamela O'Briant, Leslie Jones as well as guest artists Ashlee Ratigan, Tara Madsen Robbins, John Zullo and Michael Nickerson-Rossi. Through this program Bailey has had many opportunities such as performing in Veremonda l'amazzone di aragona in the 2015 Spoleto Arts Festival and eight of the College's productions including Trojan Women under the instruction of Evan Parry. The College of Charleston has also provided endless experiences to study and dance in London, Paris, Amsterdam, Italy, Spain and Cuba. Through her arts management major she worked with the Charleston Symphony Orchestra and The Gaillard Center. She recently worked with Charleston Stage Theatre's box office, College of Charleston's Emmett Robinson Theatre as a carpenter under Christian Crum as well as Stage Managed the 2018 Chapel Moves dance concert.

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Since her undergraduate graduation, Bailey has worked for the American Dance Festival as the Special Project and Administration department in 2018. Intermittently, from August 2018 until February of 2022, Bailey worked for the College of Charleston’s iCharleston program as the Site Director for Dublin, Ireland from 2018-2019 and facilitated the creation of the program in Rome, Italy from 2019-2022. In the little spare time she has had, she assisted and worked with Annex Dance Company as the Company Administrator, wrote grants for Hughes & Vecchione Dance Projects, as well as a House Managed for the Gaillard Performing Arts Center.