Faculty Bio - June Mapp
June Mapp (she/her)
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June Mapp (Adjunct Lecturer) teaches Latin Dance, Afro and Afro-Caribbean Dance and Jazz Dance. She was born on the Caribbean island of Barbados where she attended the Ballet Academy in Barbados. She immigrated to the United States where she attended Queensborough Community College and received trained at the Ailey School. She holds a BA from Hunter College in Dance with a minor in Early Childhood Education and a Master’s in Special Education from Brooklyn College.
Mapp is a New York State Licensed Teacher of Performing Arts and Modern Dance and a Special Education teacher. She has worked in several High Schools and has been an Adjunct Lecturer at QCC since 1993, teaching Modern, Jazz, Latin, and Afro-Caribbean.
Mapp has choreographed for the QCC Dance Company, Bushwick High School and YECA Dance Groups, the St. Augustine’s Episcopal Church ‘Vessels of Praise’ (McDonald’s Gospel Fest winners 2011). She co-founded Afro-Brazil Arts, an Afro/Brazilian/Caribbean arts company that has performed all over the tri- state area in schools, colleges and nursing homes.
June has worked with many groups, most notably Dance Brazil and O’Samba and has performed in England, Canada and Brazil. In the United States she has performed at venues such as Jacob’s Pillow, Radio City Music Hall, Lincoln Center, Madison Square Garden and Symphony Space. June has done lecture demonstrations at Yale, Princeton and Dartmouth Colleges as well as various CUNY and SUNY campuses.
