A child prodigy, Doree Susanne Clark, partnered with her brother Jonathan, became a ballroom champion at age sixteen when the couple won the prestigious Harvest Moon Ball. This led to a guest appearance on the Ed Sullivan show, and quickly after that, Doree had her own television dance series entitled "Watch Your Step."
Doree and her brother toured, opening for blues great Billy Daniel, and starring in Philly's Fever, a salute to Pete Rose. Doree also produced television specials with John Byner for Viacom. In her spare moments, she developed her choreographic and dance skills, training with teachers such as Luigi, Chuck Kelly, Phil Black and Anahid Sofian.
Doree Susanne Clark
In 1987, Doree moved to the west coast. She began by offering a few classes in jazz and ballroom, attracted some wildly dedicated students whose talent ranged from strictly beginner to the professional dancer, and from this motley crew fashioned a dance company, The Don't Quit Your Day Job Dancers. Now entering into the company's eighteenth season, The Don't Quit Your Day Job Dancers are a Bay Area phenomenon. The characteristics of a Doree Clark show are: high energy, fun, sexy, provocative, emotional, beautiful, and entertaining. Doree's ability to choreograph for dancers at every level while simultaneously entertaining and stimulating her audience is a unique, miraculous gift.
Doree is continually evolving as a choreographer and her most recent shows have introduced theatricality into dance. Each act tells a story through a number of different dance. Musical dance theatre may well be evolving and revitalizing itself through Doree's enormous creative vision.
Another new dimension in Doree's career is her rekindled interest in Latin dance. Having learned the two-beat mambo in the Roseland ballroom in New York from the experts who created it, Doree now teaches students salsa, meringue, cha-cha and rumba, imbuing the latest street dances with her incomparable combination of ballroom and jazz structure.
