Meg Paul’s illustrious career, spanning over four decades, is a testament to her broad range of contributions. Her extensive experience in performance, choreography, curating, directing, teaching, program development, community engagement, and arts management further underscores her unique trajectory.
Paul has worked closely with renowned dance pioneers and performed masterworks 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, Complexions Contemporary Ballet, and Ron De Jesus Dance and has extensive national and international touring credits. Paul was Dance Captain and full swing for Twyla Tharp’s Tony award-winning Broadway musical Movin’ Out and performed both leading roles throughout the show’s Broadway run. 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.
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 was 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 various leadership 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). Her nine seasons of curating and directing the Complexions Detroit Summer Intensive at Wayne State University are a testament to her leadership and commitment to nurturing the next generation of dancers.
Paul was Associate Artistic Director and Rehearsal Director with Complexions Contemporary Ballet and Academy Director for Complexions Contemporary Ballet Academy. She is a faculty member with Adrenaline, Revive, and National Dance Honors Conventions and is the Artistic Director of the Joffrey Midwest summer intensive. Paul is a master teacher and adjudicator for the Universal Ballet Competition, a faculty member with Spotlight Dance Works and Noretta Dunworth’s School of Dance, and a choreographer and teacher worldwide.
She is certified in Vinyasa Yoga, Progressing Ballet Technique, Youth Protection Advocates in Dance, and Dance Education Equity Association. 2024 highlights include contributing content to Relative Motion’s innovative platform, PerformPlus, being an Industry Dance Awards Nominee for Favorite Convention Teacher 2024, and joining the Board of The Arpino Foundation.
