With more than 20 years experience in dance, Janice has studied with
Rose Lorenz, Bonnie Mathias, Mary Joyce Lind, Valerie Williams, Sherri
Saterstrom, Stephens Laurent, Gus Giordano, Constantine Uralsky, Irina
Uralsky, Pasha Romaniouk, and Linda Sabo. Currently teaching at Iowa State
University, her teaching expertise spans all forms of dance. Ms. Baker
has worked in the musical theater medium for the last 20 years and has
staged over 50 works, including Show Boat, Oklahoma, and
the Music Man. Each year, she remounts the party scene and the fight
scene for the annual production of The Nutcracker at C.Y Stephens
Auditorium at Iowa State University. Ms. Baker is the creator of a participatory
production of the classic story entitled Nutcraker, the Adventure.
Original works directed and choreographed by Ms. Baker include Nick
and the Hot Angel Chorus and Home for the Holidays. She also
rewrote the format for Red Garter Revue.
