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Marsha Tardy received her BFA in Dance (Magna Cum Laude) from Arizona State University and her MFA in Performance and Choreography with an emphasis in Somatics from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Marsha has performed with the Desert Dance Theatre in Tempe, Arizona and Shelter Repertory Dance Theatre in Nashville, Tennessee. She has also performed in works by several nationally recognized artists, which include Gabriel Masson, Sean Curran, Pat Graney, Bill Evans, Ana Baer, Scott Kunce, Ivan Pulinkala, Stacie Flood-Pop and Kim Neal Nofsinger. Her choreography has been presented at various venues throughout the US, and she has collaborated with New York based percussion ensemble SoPercussion. As an educator, she has taught dance at Vanderbilt University, Middle Tennessee State University, Western Kentucky University, the University of Colorado, Fairview High School in Boulder, CO, St. Mary's High School in Phoenix, AZ, the Harpeth Hall School in Nashville, TN, and the Tennessee Governor's School for the Arts. As a certified yoga instructor, she has taught yoga at Eldorado Mountain Yoga Ashram in Eldorado Springs, CO, and 12south Yoga in Nashville, TN. 

Currently she serves as the Director for the Vanderbilt Dance Program where she divides her time between administration, teaching, choreography, and service. At Vanderbilt, Marsha designed and implemented the Vanderbilt Summer Dance Festival, the FreeDance Friday Series, and a guest artist residency program which has included many noteworthy artist including; Gabriel Mason, Ivan Pulinkala, Kim Neal Nofsinger and the Jose Limon Company. Additionally, she has collaborated with  Vanderbilt in France to  developed a program that provides students with cultural exchanges in French and dance with the Ballet Preljocaj at the Pavillon Noir in Aix-en-Provence.  Furthermore, Marsha is an adjunct instructor at Middle Tennessee State University where she teaches courses in Modern, Ballet, Dance Appreciation, Dance History and Theory and Practice.

This fall she will be teaching History of Dance, DANC 111 through the Blair School of Music, Vanderbilt University.