Marlo Harris, received her B.A. in Dance from Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia.  She performed with the KDH Dance Company (an Austin based dance company) for 10 years and was one of the last founding members of the company to retire.  Today she is the Assistant to the Director of KDH and also sits on the Board of Directors.  Marlo was nominated by the Austin Critics Table for Best Female Dancer in Austin in 2007.  Her training includes studying at the Alvin Ailey School of Dance in New York and American Dance Festival at Duke University from 1995-1998.  Marlo has performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., PS 122 in New York, The Cunningham Studio in New York, in Las Vegas and Orlando on the Kohler Tour, and has made a television appearance on the Deborah Duncan talk show in Houston.  In conjunction with dancing and performing, Marlo teaches Pilates. She is a certified Pilates instructor through the PhysicalMind Institute based out of NY and has been teaching for 10 years.

Marlo’s teaching career not only encompasses Pilates, but she has also spent time throughout the years in outreach teaching.  She has taught the importance of exercise to children living with cancer at MD Anderson Cancer and Research Hospital in Houston as well as Safe Place, Settlement Home, and Salvation Army in Austin.  After a long career of dancing, performing, and teaching Pilates Marlo also received her certification in Early Childhood and ESL and taught in the Eanes Independent School District before coming to Abercorn.

She is completely in love with Abercorn and all of the children and sees a very long future at this school!