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  Lauri Worrill-Biggs  

Lauri Worrill-Biggs began her studies at the Ruth Mitchell Dance Studio in Atlanta. She also studied at the North Carolina School of the Arts and the Joffrey School in New York. She danced with the Joffrey II Dancers, then joined the North Carolina Dance Theater (Winston-Salem, North Carolina), extensively touring the United States, Canada, and Europe; following NCDT she joined the Atlanta Ballet.

Upon retiring from the Atlanta Ballet, Mrs. Worrill-Biggs taught at Dance South in Macon, and was approved by the Board of Regents of the State of Georgia for an adjunct faculty position, teaching beginning ballet technique classes in the Arts Department at Gordon Junior College in Barnesville, Georgia. She also she taught unique dance and movement classes to blind children at the Georgia Academy for the Blind in Macon.

Mrs. Worrill-Biggs has also taught at the Ruth Mitchell Dance Studio and the Whitworth Center for the Performing Arts. In 1992 Mrs. Worrill-Biggs was invited by Ballet Magnificat! director Kathy Thibodeaux to join the Ballet Magnificat! teaching staff. She eventually became director of the Professional Training Division, where she developed a four-year training course. Mrs. Worrill-Biggs co-wrote and formatted the Ballet Magnificat! School of the Arts Student Handbook and instituted in-studio recitals. She introduced the conditioning classes into the course offering for the Summer Dance Intensive and was a faculty member for that international workshop until 1998.

In 1998, assumed a full-time faculty position with the Belhaven College Department of Dance. Mrs. Worrill-Biggs instructed classes for the Dance Minor, BA and BFA in Ballet, as well as various levels of Pilates. As Ballet Mistress for the Belhaven College Dance Ensemble, she had the opportunity to create her own works and restage numerous choreographic works from the classical repertoire for local, national, and international performances.

In the spring of 2005, Mrs. Worrill-Biggs left her position at the college to return to Georgia. She is currently residing in Marietta with her husband Mark.