Originally from Sunbury, PA , Jayme is an Assistant Professor of Dance at Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania.  She was on faculty at Goucher College and a magnet performing arts high school in Baltimore, MD for six years.  She performed professionally independently and with companies such as the Tandy Beal Dance Company in Tokyo, Japan.  She also performed with the Pennsylvania Dance Theatre of State College, PA and toured Australia with Salt Lake City's Performing Dance Company.  While performing in Utah, she was commissioned for her choreographic work from Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company, who is performing her work on their national and international tours.  Jayme was selected as a grant recipient by the Maryland State Board of Education for two years to work with their MATI (Maryland Artist/Teacher Institute) program where she trained educators and administrators how to incorporate dance into the everyday curriculums of elementary and middle schools.  She received her B.A. with Honors and Distinction in Dance:  Performance & Choreography and Dance History & Criticism from Goucher College.  She then attended the University of Uath on fellowship, where she earned her M.F.A. in Modern Dance, Phi Kappa Phi.  She has performed the works of Doug Varone, Murray Louis, Dr. Pearl Primus, Leonid Lebedev, Daniel Shapiro and Joan Smith, Colin Connor, JoAnna Mendl Shaw, Joan Woodbury, Art Bridgeman and Myrna Packer, Violette Verdy, Steve Koester, and Todd Rosenlieb.  Her two most recent choreographic commissions include a ten day residency with the Momentum Dance Company of Panama City, Panama and the University of Maryland at College Park, where her dance was selected to be performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C..  Jayme is a member of the Society of Dance History Scholars and the Congress on Research in Dance.