The theater program graduate served as this year’s choreographer for Black Nativity which ran Dec. 5-8 in Harrison Auditorium under the direction of Frankie Day.

“It’s always a pleasure to be on the campus working with the students. You’re looking at them like, I was you once and I know the feeling,” Addington said.

Addington was born into a world of music and entertainment. As a child in Yonkers, N.Y. her parents managed a band. By the age of five Addington was choreographing the bands moves.

Now, Addington shares her passion for theater and dance everyday with students in the Guilford County School system in Greensboro, N.C.

“I work as a full-time middle school theater teacher and I noticed that a lot of the students are underprivileged. Their parents cannot afford dance or acting lessons and I’ve noticed a huge talent amongst the students that I teach.”

When Addington realized that her students talents were not being harnessed she decided create FlowerChild Arts Outreach –a mentoring program under her company FlowerChild Productions. Through FlowerChild Arts Outreach, Addington has mentored youth ages 10-18 who display a passion for the entertainment industry at no cost since 2005.

“I said to myself, what if I take some of those kids who don’t have transportation or the money to pay for (lessons) and spend a couple of hours with them after school? What could that hurt?” she asked.

In 2012 Addington was awarded the Diva Shine Award for her mentorship program by Ujima Flow –a youth and community organization in Greensboro.

In addition to choreographing for her alma mater and working with students, Addington also works with professional theater, artists and entertainers. She has choreographed and or starred in productions at Greensboro’s acclaimed Barn Dinner Theater, Bennett College for Women, with the Richard B. Harrison Players and more. She has also worked with artists such as Grammy award winning song writer, Rasheem Kilo Pugh.

“My professor Miller Lucky once told me, you are a visionary and you are going to be a very successful choreographer,” she said. “It stuck with me my entire life.”

“There is not one day that I go without dancing because I get to tell stories. I get to minister to people through movement. I think movement runs the world. Music is one of the things that can bring people together and something that I love to do is to bring people together and teach through music and dance,” Addington said.