A performer, teacher, choreographer, and seasoned adjudicator, Heidi Kulas brings a broad dance background to your panel—with world-class expertise in a range of percussive dance styles, performance energy, and showmanship.
With more than five years judging both regional and national competitions, she is invited back season after season for her insight and encouraging approach.
Based in Sevier County, Tennessee · Available to drive or fly
Competitions Heidi has judged for
Heidi’s experience spans a wide range of styles, including clogging, Irish step dance, rhythm tap, line dancing, and other traditional and contemporary percussive dances. Her world-class dance background adds a distinctive understanding of rhythm, musicality, artistry, and technique.
She toured internationally as a principal dancer and co-choreographer with Footworks Percussive Dance Ensemble and is a proud All-American Clogging Team member.
Her professional credits include work as a featured soloist, dance captain, choreographer, and entertainer in major Pigeon Forge productions, including The Comedy Barn, Smoky Mountain Opry, and Hatfield & McCoy Dinner Feud.
With a B.A. in Theatrical Arts from Mars Hill University, Heidi brings a performer’s eye and a teacher’s care to her critiques—an approach organizers return to year after year. She draws on her expertise in theatrical improvisation and acting to encourage artistic exploration through performance and movement.
A seasoned dance educator, she has performed in many school shows and led arts-in-education residency programs across the U.S.
Based in the Pigeon Forge–Sevierville area, Heidi can drive to competitions across the East and South or fly from Knoxville’s McGhee Tyson Airport (TYS).
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