Tracy Solomon - Founder and Executive Director

Tracy Solomon is a native of Dothan where she began her training at the age of six. In 1976 she bought the Dothan School of Dance and in 1997 the Enterprise School of Dance, which she continues to direct successfully. In 1978 her dream of forming a civic ballet company became a reality. She, along with a group of encouraging supporters, founded the Dothan Ballet and Dance Company, today known as SEADAC.

Tracy received her training under many professional teachers and attended dance teachers’ training school for two years at Kent State University, as well as studying ballet with the Joffrey Ballet School in New York City and jazz with Gus Giordano in Chicago.

Tracy Solomon is known throughout the Southeast Alabama area as a dance educator, choreographer and teacher. She has owned and operated The Dothan School of Dance since 1977 and the Enterprise School of Dance since 1997. She founded and has successfully directed the Southeast Alabama Dance Company (SEADAC) from 1979-2005. She is currently the Executive Director for SEADAC. She devotes most of her time to building her schools with an excellent reputation in all forms of dance with an emphasis on classical ballet. She has a rare gift of inspiring young dancers to make dance an educational part of their lives and prepares them to enter the professional field, if they choose to pursue dance after graduation.

A certified member of Chapter 33 Dance Masters of America, Tracy has served as Alabama Director, Performing Arts Chairperson, Chairperson of the Miss Dance Pageant, 1^st Vice President, President and Past President. She served as chairman of the 1997 and 1998 Teen Miss Dance of Americe competition and is currently president of the Southeast Regional Ballet Association and vice president of Regional Dance America She is the Treasurer of Alabama Dance Council, and board member of The Cultural Arts Center in Dothan, Al.

Her students have been seen on national TV and have also appeared with the Radio City Rockettes, The Lakers Girls, professional ballet companies, in national commercials, dancing in videos and on the Grammy Awards. Some of her former students have received scholarships to the Joffrey Ballet Company, Steps and Broadway Dance Center in New York City, The Edge Studio in Los Angeles, and many other reputable schools.Her students have won numerous regional and national competitions and awards.Some of Tracy’s former students have progressed from her apprentice teacher training program to opening and operating their own successful dance studios.

Although dancing is Tracy’s major accomplishment, she is also very active in supporting other organizations. She is currently an auxiliary member of the Dothan Service League, Mardi Gras Club, Alabama Dance Council, former board member for The Alabama School of Fine Arts Board of Directors. Tracy is married to Arch Solomon, and they have two children, Ashlie and Archie. Tracy also welcomed her first grandchild, Eben Wells IV, in 2008.