HILARY MCALISTER

Hilary McAlister was born and raised in Oklahoma City where she fell in love with dance and knew from an early age she was created to move. She began teaching and choreographing at the young age of 14 under the guidance of CeCe Farha who was able to pin point Hilary’s gifting early on. She attended the University of Central Oklahoma as a dance major on scholarship and continued her training at a summer intensive at Broadway Dance Center and Steps on Broadway.

Hilary is the COO and Co Founder of Soul de Soul Dance Convention where she also teaches on Faculty. She currently resides in Edmond, Oklahoma and teaches full time at Studio J School of Dance where she is the artistic directory of the Studio J Company. She has been teaching, choreographing, and performing for over 15 years. Hilary’s ability to create a safe and honest learning environment along with her gift to tell a clear story through movement has her master classes and choreography highly sought after throughout the Mid-West, NYC, and Boston. Hilary’s unique choreography has been recognized countless times both regionally and nationally. You can see some of Hilary’s work featured on the Hall of Fame Dance Challenge website.

Hilary’s work was recently featured in Los Angeles at the annual Dancescape Showcase.  She has also been featured in PURE Magazine and Mommy’s New Stage about her influence in the dance community. As well as back up dancing for ChurchBoy, a featured dancer in numerous musical theater productions in the Oklahoma area, and assisting for OKLA Dance Convention. Tearstained Dance Company which Hilary created and directed was the featured guest performer for PURE magazine’s launch party.

Hilary knows that dance is the rhythm every person is born with; therefore, people dance alone, dance with, and or dance for something. The experience, feel, and emotion of dance, is what drives Hilary to express her heart through dance. With this understanding, Hilary hopes to touch, inspire, move, and encourage not only the dancers but the audience as well. She believes dance is the language of the soul, which can move us to feel and experience something greater than ourselves and she feels blessed to be able to contribute to our world with something as beautiful as dance.