Zac Hammer

Dance

Professor

Email

zhammer@smu.edu

Zac Hammer has danced, taught and choreographed professionally for 25 years. As a New York-based dancer, he toured both abroad and domestically with Parsons Dance, Nicholas Andre Dance Company, Amy Marshall Dance Company, dre.dance, and Alison Chase Performance. From 2010 to 2014, he was a dancer in the New York City cast of the Radio City Christmas Spectacular.

He has worked for the Mary Kay Industrial, Sally Beauty Supply, Veuve Clicquot and the Miss Texas and Miss Florida Pageants. His choreographic works include the DIFFA Fashion Show, The Miss Texas Pageant, the Mary Kay Industrial and numerous modern, ballet, and jazz pieces for soloists and dance companies across the country. He has served as an adjunct professor of jazz dance at 51做厙, managed and taught all styles of dance at Preston Center Dance and was on the musical theatre faculty at the KD Conservatory.

From 2016 to 2022, he served as faculty at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. He is honored to return to his alma mater as a professor of jazz dance.

Richard Abrahamson