Jaime Kotrba

Executive Director

Columbus Dance Theatre Inc

Jaime Kotrba (Executive Director/Company Dancer/Instructor) Jaime Kotrba has danced with Columbus Dance Theatre for the past 9 years and has been the company’s Co-Managing Director for the last year and a half.  At CDT, Jaime has enjoyed dancing many works by various choreographers in and around Columbus.  She has also enjoyed debuting her own choreographic works on the company.   Jaime grew up in Northern Michigan and received her primary dance training at Company Dance Traverse in Traverse City, Michigan.  She later graduated from Interlochen Arts Academy where she was a dance major under the direction of Sharon Randolph.  She then attended the Dance Theatre of Harlem School, before joining the professional company.  With DTH she toured nationally and internationally, dancing works by George Balanchine, John Taras, Michael Smuin and Geoffrey Holder. She has had the pleasure of performing in theaters around the world including State Theatre in New York City, Sadler’s Wells Theatre in London, England, in Bermuda’s Art Festival and in 2006, at the White House for President George W. Bush, honoring Dance Theatre of Harlem’s late Artistic Director, Arthur Mitchell.  Jaime also helped found the Janusphere dance Company in New York City, where she choreographed a work that premiered in Santa Barbara, California. In 2007 she joined BalletMet Columbus and enjoyed dancing works by Gerard Charles, David Nixon and many others.  She has been a guest artist with Les Grands Ballet Canadiens' production of The Nutcracker, Viewpoint Dance in New York City, and Collage Dance Collective in Memphis, Tennesee where she had the pleasure of working with choreographers such as Kevin Iega Jeff, Thaddeus Davis and Artistic Director Kevin Thomas.  With Collage, she also had the joy of performing in Port Au Prince, Haiti with Ballet D’Afric Du Haiti.