Audrey Hubbard Madison, born, raised, and established in Brooklyn, NY, has been a teacher, dancer, and choreographer since she was a teenager.  Her early dance career began as Audrey absorbed a broad range of movement at Clark Center for the Performing Arts.  She immersed herself in abundant opportunities to study with amazing teachers: Dunham technique with Charles Moore, Tap with Eleanor Harris and Charles Cookie Cook, Authentic Jazz with Pepsi Bethel, Modern Jazz with Fred Benjamin, Ballet with Lucinda Ransom and Ron Alexander, Modern Dance with Jill Abbott and Majorie Perces.  Audrey was an original member of the Charles Moore Dance Theater and has toured the Caribbean as well as the United States.  Performance highlights include Dance Africa, Dance Black America, Jacob’s Pillow, Symphony Space, Lincoln Center Outdoors, and Theater of Riverside Church.

Audrey has taught modern jazz dance classes for adults who “used to dance and those who always wanted to learn,” since 1995.  Her dance company, MoJazz Dance, comprised of women of a certain age, currently 50-75+ years young, has engaged in numerous indoor and outdoor performances around New York State, in collaboration with many arts and cultural organizations that include Women’s Press Collective International Women’s Day Celebration, Collective Thread Dance Festival with ModArts Dance Collective; The Carmen Mathis Show, MNN; Ecumenical Women of the United Nations; ALS Association: Walk to Defeat ALS; Ossining Summer Sundays; Fast Forward Dance Festival at Dixon Place; Making Moves Dance Festival at Jamaica Performing Arts Center.

During her tenure as a school-based educator, Audrey created extensive dance programs for elementary and middle school students and produced talent showcases for school communities.  Audrey retired from New York City Department of Education after thirty-six years of service in both academic teaching and supervisory capacities.  Audrey also works with older adults as a choreographer/ guest artist for Dances for a Variable Population.  “Love and Thanks to my husband Bob and my son Robert. You are MoJazz’ biggest cheerleaders!”