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Rebecca Tulis began training in ballet, jazz, tap, and gymnastics at the age of 3 in her hometown of Omaha, Nebraska. She graduated from Creighton University with a B.A. in Psychology. She also continued dancing at Creighton, where she trained with Patrick Roddy in jazz and tap, learning the style of Bob Fosse and performing in pieces such as Steam Heat and Bye Bye Blackbird. For six years in Bury St Edmunds, England, she was Principal Dancer and Assistant Ballet Mistress for a local company, Anglian Ballet. She made lasting friends from all over the world while “bringing dance to the villages” under the direction of Neil Runswick and guest choreographer, Dominic Marshall. She later earned a Master’s Degree in Social Work from the University of Texas at Austin and worked as a caseworker in Kansas and Austin for children and refugees. She also completed a German Language and Culture Intensive Integration Program in Duesseldorf, Germany, where she lived for three years.