Meet Our Executive Director

Jaime Kotrba has served Columbus Dance Theatre in many different roles for the past 16 years as a dancer, faculty member and as the company’s Co-Managing director. She was appointed the Executive Director alongside Seth Wilson in 2018 and has helped moved the organization forward into its new generation of leadership.

She continues to teach in the Intensive Training Program as she serves as the ITP Director and creates original choreographic works on both the company and school helping to direct and produce works alongside Artistic Director, Seth Wilson. In 2011 she had the honor of recieving the Greater Columbus Arts Council’s Choreography Fellowship.

Jaime grew up in Northern Michigan and received her primary dance training at Dance Arts Academy in Traverse City, Michigan. She later graduated from Interlochen Arts Academy where she was a dance major under the direction of Sharon Randolph and moved to New York where she attended the Dance Theatre of Harlem School, before joining the Dancing Through Barriers Ensemble and then 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.

In 2006, Jaime 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.

Jaime has taught dance in the P.A.L Athletic League in New York City, at It’s Dance in New York City, other various studios in New York and at Dance Arts Academy in Traverse City Michigan. Jaime has also enjoyed guest teaching in and around Columbus and served as the Ballet Coordinator and faculty member at Dublin Dance Center and Gymnastics and currently is an adjunct faculty member at Otterbein University where she teaches Ballet and Tap.