Charlie Maybee

Adjunct Lecturer

Charlie Maybee (he/him) is a choreographer, dancer, musician, educator, and writer currently based in Charleston, South Carolina where he is on faculty with the Dance program and the Arts Management program at the College of Charleston (CofC). He holds an MFA in Dance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a certificate in Criticism and Interpretive Theory, a BFA in Dance and Choreography from Virginia Commonwealth University and is an alumnus of the Metropolitan Youth Tap Ensemble. His teaching spans across the fields of dance and music covering modern dance, tap dance, creative process, improvisation, audio production, and music history.

As a performer, he currently works with Doris Duke Artist, Rosy Simas Danse. In 2026, he performed in her original works “A:gajë:gwah dësa'nigöëwë:nye:' (i hope it will stir your mind)” and “Bare Hill”. Charlie also creates interdisciplinary performances of his own using experimental approaches to tap dance choreography under the name Polymath Performance Project. In 2022, he was selected as a NextLOOK 2.0 residency fellow at the University of Maryland-College Park and as a featured artist for the 2022 BlackLight Summit at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. His most recent work “Noise Source”, made collaboratively with Charleston-based, electronic music artist, CONCEPT RXCH, premiered in CofC Theatre and Dance’s 2026 Stella di Domani summer series as part of the Piccolo Spoleto Festival.

Additionally, Charlie also works as an independent scholar crafting papers and presentations on tap dance aesthetics, while also acting as a research assistant for additional projects including genealogy research for Rosy Simas and data set analysis with Suzanne Callahan. He has presented his research nationally at the Dance Studies Association Conference, the American Society of Aesthetics Conference for which he was awarded the Irene H. Chayes New Voices Award, and the American College Dance Association Conference.