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Artistic Director and founder
Michael Tomlin III
About My Career
Michael Tomlin III is the founder and artistic director of the Tomlin Dance Academy and ReVrbT3, a contemporary based dance company in Los Angeles, CA.
Michael started his career at Amazing Grace Conservatory under the leadership of Wendy Raquel Robinson and then trained at the Debbie Allen Dance Academy as a scholarship student. After high school he joined the Lula Washington Dance Theater first as a company member then assistant of Mrs. Washington. Later he pursued his education and earned a BFA in Dance at the California Institute of the Art, where he was the first African male to receive a full scholarship. Michael has traveled internationally performing and teaching in countries like Japan, Thailand, Italy and Tel Aviv, Israel. Tomlin has taught dance at Cal State LA, the Los Angeles School District for over 10 years and Compton Unified School District. Tomlin has appeared on TV, commercials, music videos and Broadway Productions and choreographed a few shows ‘The Duat’ premiered at the Kirk Douglas Theater written by Roger Mason, ‘Blood’ premiered at Highways Performance Space written by Shaina Simmons and ‘Love Changes Everything’ premiered at the Pasadena City College. With all the training, performing, teaching, and traveling experiences, he wants to pour that knowledge right back into the future generations of artists.
Modern Teacher
Tyeri Morrison
About My Career
Ty (he/him) is from the greater Boston area where he trained in dance for 13 years at The Gold School under the direction of Rennie Gold. Ty graduated early summa cum laude receiving a BFA from The Boston Conservatory as a student on full scholarship. He has featured as a guest artist with the Limón Dance Company and remains an active performer with Little House Dance Company of Maine and BODYTRAFFIC Los Angeles. Ty continues to expand his portfolio by collaborating with freelance artists nationwide engaging in artistic community outreach programs to expand diversity awareness within the industry.
As a choreographer himself, Ty’s work has been performed in collaboration with Cartier Williams at the Kennedy Center DC, at the Young Choreographers Commencement in Albany, NY, and The Cape Dance Festival. Ty humbly acknowledges that he is a proud recipient of the YoungArts Scholarship and a Mark Boucher Scholarship Recipient from.
“My art is a culmination of the ontological epistemological knowledge of my own personal life portrayed through expressive artistic exploration.”
