Mrs. Carla Wattley-Bradley, a Dallas native, is a former principal dancer with the Dallas Black Dance Theatre where she also served as a teacher and choreographer for the Dallas Black Academy.  Her professional experience includes dancing, singing, and choreography for industrial shows such as Mary Kay Cosmetics, Dr. Pepper/Seven-Up Company, Sally Beauty Supply, International Beauty Show, Southwestern Bell Annual Conventions, and Southland Corporation video promoting

7-Eleven stores.  She also choreographed for the Dallas Children’s Theater production Glory Over Everything.

 

She has taught at W. E. Greiner Arts Academy in Dallas, Texas; Inner City Dance Institute of Oklahoma; Creative Arts Program in Ft. Worth, Texas; Martin Luther King Center in Corsicana, Texas; Spring Valley ISD in Houston, Texas; Stephenson High in Stone Mountain, GA and many other dance institutes.  

 

She is a member of the International Association of Blacks in Dance (IABD).  She served on the Board of the Dallas Dance Council and was on the dance faculty at BTWHSPVA were she directed the nationally known African Dance Ensemble (ADE).  The company was an artist-in-residence group with Young Audience of Greater Dallas now known Arts for Learning.

 

Her honors include Teacher Recognition through NFAA, Founder’s Dance Award for the Dallas Black Dance Theatre, Outstanding Community Service Award through KRLD News Radio 1080, Award of Merit for the Annual Talent Hunt Program for the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc., and the Outstanding Women in the Community Award for the Delta Sigma Theta, Dallas Alumnae.

 

She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Southern Methodist University where she was a recipient of the Meadows School of the Arts scholarship. She is currently on faculty at Maynard Holbrook Jackson, Jr. High School in Atlanta, GA serving as the Director of Dance Studies and Fine Arts Department Chair.

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