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Valerie Holgers RAD RTS
Valerie Holgers brings excellence in dance instruction to Central Oregon. Holgers has professional ballet experience, earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Marylhurst College, holds a Pilates certification and a Certification and Registered Teacher Status with the Royal Academy of Dance (RAD). She serves as a mentor in the RAD’s Certificate of Ballet Studies Program. She also holds the Benesh Dance Notation certification, issued by the Benesh Institute, London, UK.
Her personal dance training and teaching training encompasses many notable ballet masters and mistresses throughout the dance world and are too numerous to mention.
At her former school, Multnomah Arts Center Ballet Program in Portland, OR, Holgers’ students achieved much success with their RAD examination scores, and several of those students moved on to enjoy their own professional dance careers. She has taught for Marjorie Soriano, June Taylor, Pacific Ballet Theater, Oregon Ballet Theatre, Marcelle Renoux of the Renoux Dance Theatre, among others. In 1999 she moved to Bend, and in 2006 opened Academie de Ballet Classique in Bend, where she continues to demonstrate a high level of success with her RAD exam scores.
Styles: Ballet, Jazz, Tap, Hip-hop, Pas De Deux, Modern, Pilates, Cultural, Musical Theatre, Stretch & Strengthen, Contemporary
State: Oregon
Location: 162 NW Greenwood Ave, Bend, OR
Contact:
p) 541-382-4055
Miriam Stewart
Styles: Ballet, Jazz, Tap, Pas De Deux, Modern, Ballroom, Yoga, Historical, Stretch & Strengthen, Modeling
State: Wisconsin
Location: Wilton 54670
Contact:
e) wisconsinballet@gmail.com
Merle Sepel
Rosie Radiator
Styles: Tap
State: California
Contact:
p) 4156218277
Lindsey M. Smith
Styles: Ballet, Jazz, Tap, Pas De Deux, Modern, Ballroom, Musical Theatre, Stretch & Strengthen, Contemporary, Worship Dance
State: Missouri
Location: Kansas City
Contact:
e) lindseysmith@vidadancecompany.com
LaTasha Tillman
Styles: Ballet, Jazz, Tap, Hip-hop, Modern, Acrobatics, Ballroom, Salsa, Musical Theatre, Stretch & Strengthen, Modeling, Contemporary
State: Michigan
Location: Wixom
Contact:
e) latashamotion21@yahoo.com
Melanie Buford
Styles: Ballet, Jazz, Hip-hop, Yoga, Musical Theatre, Contemporary
State: Mississippi
Location: Biloxi
Contact:
e) mbuford14@yahoo.com
MBLARA VMS
Styles: Jazz, Modern, Cultural, Historical, Stretch & Strengthen, Contemporary
State: California
Location: Los Angeles
Contact:
e) mb@mblara.com
Marie Chong
Styles: Ballet, Pas De Deux, Stretch & Strengthen
State: Washington
Location: Seattle
Contact:
e) info@arcballet.org
Jaime Shannon
Bobette McCurdy
Styles: Ballet, Jazz, Tap, Hip-hop, Pas De Deux, Acrobatics, Musical Theatre, Stretch & Strengthen, Modeling, Contemporary
State: Florida
Location: Defray Beach
Contact:
e) Jazzdancer95@bellsouth.net
Troy Agresta
Styles: Ballroom, Salsa, Stretch & Strengthen, Modeling
State: Florida
Location: Dance Forever, 29121 US 19 N. Clearwater FL 33761
Contact:
p) 7277233269
Melanie Kirk-Stauffer
Styles: Ballet, Jazz, Tap, Pas De Deux, Musical Theatre, Contemporary
State: Washington
Location: University Place, WA
Contact:
e) dancetnw@gmail.com
Zoya Gaft
Styles: Ballet, Pas De Deux, Ballroom, Cultural, Musical Theatre, Historical, Stretch & Strengthen, Contemporary, Jazz, Modern, Acrobatics, Tango
State: New York
Location: 2 Pearl Lane, New City, NY 10956
Contact:
e) ava@nyballetinstitute.com
Nilanjana Banerjee
Styles: Cultural, Worship Dance
State: California
Location: 3177 Sitio Sendero Carlsbad
Contact:
e) ODISSINILAB@GMAIL.COM
Angela M Gallo
Styles: Ballet, Jazz, Pilates, Yoga, Contemporary
State: South Carolina
Location: Varies
Contact:
e) info@sapphiremoondance.org
Marie Fowler
Styles: Ballet, Jazz, Tap, Hip-hop, Modern, Musical Theatre, Stretch & Strengthen, Modeling, Contemporary
State: North Carolina
Location: Delco/Wilmington
Contact:
p) 9105406599
Jamie Roumayah
Styles: Ballet, Jazz, Tap, Musical Theatre, Stretch & Strengthen, Contemporary
State: North Carolina
Location: Charlotte
Contact:
e) danseelan@yahoo.com
Sydney's Art in Motion Dance Studio
Styles: Ballet, Jazz, Tap, Hip-hop, Break, Modern, Acrobatics, Musical Theatre, Stretch & Strengthen, Contemporary
State: Oklahoma
Location: Norman
Contact:
p) 405-816-7333
Sally Magruder
Styles: Ballet, Stretch & Strengthen
State: California
Location: Southern California
Contact:
e) sallymagruder@gmail.com
Brian Carey Chung
Experience: Brian Carey Chung, artistic director and choreographer of COLLECTIVE BODY | DANCELAB , a creative think tank for new dance, which debuted at Baryshnikov Arts Center in November 2009. He has created works for Ballet Santa Barbara, Cedar Lake Ensemble II, Connecticut Ballet, Reverb Choreographic Competition, Joffrey Ballet School, LINES Ballet School, Aarhus International Choreographic Competition, 92nd Street Y, and Luna Negra Dance Theater, and was assistant choreographer to Karole Armitage on the 2008 Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park production of HAIR. His performance career includes the companies of LINES Contemporary Ballet, Complexions Contemporary Ballet, Ballet Hispanico of New York, and Armitage Gone! Dance where he also served as rehearsal director. Brian has taught master classes internationally and at the University of Hawaii, Stanford University, and New York University, and was on the ballet faculty of Lines Ballet’s San Francisco Dance Center. He holds the MFA in Creative Writing: Poetry (May 2008) from New York University where he also served as an adjunct professor. Brian is an ABT® Certified Teacher who has successfully completed the ABT® Teacher Training Intensive in Primary through Level 3 of the ABT® National Training Curriculum. He has an avid interest in the future of American dance, devoting much of his week to teaching and private coaching at Joffrey Ballet School, Peridance Capezio Center, and Dance New Amsterdam. Further, Brian is a certified Gyrotonic® instructor and teaches privately throughout the city.
Availability: Ongoing Open Classes throughout NYC: Broadway Dance Center: Adv. Beg. Ballet, 6—7:30pm, M/W/F Peridance Capezio Center: Int. Ballet, 4—5:30pm, T/Th Joffrey Ballet School: Beg. Int. Ballet, 6—7:30pm, T Dance New Amsterdam: Gyrokinesis®, 2—3pm, T Private coaching and Gyrotonic® sessions available upon request.
State: New York
Contact:
e) info@collectivebodydancelab.org
Catherine Round
Availability: Teach Internationally. Availability is based on needs. Teach locally in Los Angeles - schedule on website.
Biography with qualifications can be accessed at:
www.croundballetworks.com/C_Round_Ballet_Works
Styles: Ballet
State: California
Contact:
p) 310 560-8964
w) http://www.croundballetworks.com
Sue Kunicka
Styles: Ballet, Jazz, Tap, Modern, Stretch & Strengthen
State: Massachusetts
Location: Brookline
Contact:
e) studiodcfa@gmail.com
Daniel Gwirtzman
Styles: Ballet, Modern, Cultural, Musical Theatre, Contemporary
State: New York
Location: New York
Contact:
e) Daniel@GwirtzmanDance.org
Alicia N. Thompson
Styles: Ballet, Jazz, Hip-hop, Modern, Contemporary
State: Texas
Location: Dallas
Contact:
e) anthompson001@gmail.com
Kari Williams
Styles: Ballet, Jazz, Tap, Hip-hop, Pas De Deux, Modern, Contemporary
State: New York
Location: Staten Island
Contact:
e) mswilliamsdance@yahoo.com
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Dudley Brooks
Michelle LoBrace
Styles: Ballet, Jazz, Modern, Musical Theatre, Contemporary
State: New York
Location: NY/NJ
Contact:
e) mlobrace@yahoo.com
Teresa Hansen
Styles: Jazz, Tap, Hip-hop, Acrobatics, Musical Theatre, Stretch & Strengthen
State: New York
Location: Long Island
Contact:
e) teresalhansen@icloud.com
Kristy Nilsson
Styles: Ballet, Jazz, Pas De Deux, Modern, Contemporary
State: Georgia
Location: Atlanta
Contact:
e) kristynilsson@gmail.com
Alyson Young
Styles: Jazz, Tap, Modern, Stretch & Strengthen, Contemporary
State: New York
Location: New York
Contact:
e) alysony199@gmail.com
Hathaway Academy of Ballet
Styles: Ballet, Jazz, Modern
State: Texas
Location: Plano
Contact:
p) 972-747-0600
Emily K Vanderkley
Styles: Ballet, Jazz, Musical Theatre, Stretch & Strengthen, Contemporary
State: Georgia
Location: Atlanta
Contact:
e) emily_vanderkley@hotmail.com
Errin Cusack
Styles: Ballet, Jazz, Musical Theatre, Contemporary
State: Tennessee
Location: Chattanooga
Contact:
e) errin.cusack@gmail.com
Michael Blevins
Styles: Jazz, Tap, Acrobatics, Musical Theatre
State: New York
Location: New York - Manhattan
Contact:
e) mike@michaelblevins.com
Amanda Myers
Styles: Ballet, Jazz, Tap, Hip-hop, Contemporary
State: Illinois
Location: Chicago
Contact:
e) amanda@thedanceshopinc.com
Sarah Jane Hooks
Experience: BFA Dance Education from Brenau University, Teacher at Gainesville School of Ballet.
Availability: Currently: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Weekends. Willing to teach anywhere.
Styles: Ballet, Contemporary, Hip-hop, Jazz, Modern, Musical Theatre, Tap
State: Georgia
Contact:
e) shooks@tiger.brenau.edu
Angella Foster
Experience: Trained at the Merce Cunningham Dance Studio in New York City. B.A. Dance / English, Hope College. MFA Choreography, University of Maryland-College Park. Adjunct Faculty at Towson University & Director of Studio Dance Program at Greenbelt Community Center. Founding Artistic Director & Resident Choreographer of alight dance theater. Styles: Modern / Contemporary; Ballet; Choreography; Teacher Training
Availability: Currently based in the D.C. metro area. Available to travel for workshops, master classes and choreography intensives throughout the year pending prior engagements.
Contact:
w) http://www.alightdancetheater.org
e) angella@alightdancetheater.org
Dudley Brooks
Experience:
Availability: San Francisco, CA
Teacher: Ballet, Modern, Improvisation, Clowning
Contact:
p) 415 863-6007
w) http://runforyourlife.org/html/resume.html
e) dbrooks@runforyourlife.org
Mike Loewenrosen
Experience: Teach lyrical jazz, Choreographer & Teacher, worked in USA & Europe, Studied dance at the Joffrey Ballet School in New York & at the Martha Graham School. Also with A.C., Suzy Taylor, Mia Michaels and Juan Gautreaux. Founder of the Ballet Vage Company in 2010, Artistic Director at the Sunrise-Studios (Conservatory). Loewenrosen also published a book about what it means to be in relationship with a dancer. Titel: Gebot des Schnees. Until now only available in German. Under the name of blicklicht you find some music by Mike Loewenrosen.
Availability: Currently based in Vienna metro area. Available to travel for workshops, master classes and choreography intensives throughout the year pending prior engagements.
Contact:
p) 00436769012658
e) mike.loewenrosen@gmx.net
Emily Yewell Volin
Experience: MFA in Theatre Arts with a dance emphasis from the University of Arizona. BS in Education from Loyola University Chicago.
Emily currently resides in Atlanta where she is an Instructor in Dance in the Agnes Scott College Dance Studies Program and a Teaching Artist for Young Audiences Woodruff Arts Center. Emily's Spring 2011 projects also included the creation of a choreographic work for the Brenau University Dance Department as well as participation in the Kennedy Center's Artists as Educator's Seminar, Laying a Foundation: Defining Arts Integration and the eight-hour Artists as Educators Seminar, Anatomy of a Lesson: Planning Instruction developed by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Her commissioned K-6 dance assembly program entitled The Everyday Life of Dance was created in collaboration with Young Audiences Woodruff Arts Center with grant funding from MetLife and was added to the YAWAC roster in 2010. In conjunction with this assembly program, and through YAWAC, Emily is currently delivering to Atlanta Public and Fulton County school children multiple dance residencies developed around standards of exploring movement and language arts. Yewell Volin is scheduled as a guest faculty member at the Cangelosi Dance Project's Summer 2011 Intensive in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, is Board Vice President of D'AIR Project, and a Board member of the Jazz Dance World Congress.
Emily served as a faculty member of the USA International Ballet Competitionduring June 2010. She was a Tenure Track Assistant Professor of Dance at the University of Nevada Las Vegas for 3 years and has worked in adjunct dance positions at Emory University, Brenau University, The University of Georgia and the Cobb County Center for Excellence in the Performing Arts at Pebblebrook High School. Yewell Volin spent 3 years teaching at Kennesaw State University; one as an Interim Assistant Professor of Dance and two additional years serving as an adjunct in the program. She was a faculty member at the Giordano Dance Center where she often returns to teach classes and at the Lou Conte Dance Studio; both in Chicago. Emily performed in Chicago with the Gus Giordano Jazz Dance Chicago and River North Dance Company. She went on to become a company member of Sam Watson’s, Wats on Dance!, The University of Arizona Dance Ensemble, and Jazz Dance Theatre South and performed throughout the US. Emily was a faculty member for the International Dance Exchange And Scholarship program (IDEAS).
Contact:
w) www.emilyyewellvolin.com
Robyn Goulette
Experience: Robyn received her BFA from the Boston Conservatory. She was assistant to the director at Franklin School for the performing arts in Franklin MA, and owned and directed Spectrum Dance Theatre in Townsend MA for nine years. Robyn has danced professionally with MJT Dance Company of Boston, Granite State Ballet, Marblehead Ballet, Judah Dancers, Atlantis Contemporary Dance Company and Boston Liturgical Dance Ensemble. She has taught Ballet and Modern in area studios throughout MA and NH. Robyn’s choreography has received critical acclaim throughout the New England area. Robyn is currently a faculty member at Southern New Hampshire Dance Theatre in Bedford, NH. She teaches Ballet and is a guest Modern instructor and choreographer. Robyn’s piece entitled “The Prayer Basket” was recently adjudicated and selected to be performed at The Regional Dance America’s National Festival in April of 2007. Robyn is also artistic director of Saving Grace Dance Ensemble. She has choreographed and produced concerts for inner city outreaches, local churches and has brought the ensemble to Project Dance in New York City. Robyn Goulette brings a message of hope, healing and refreshment in her diverse choreography. She offers artist work that will move your soul and stir your spirit. Robyn has composed contemporary, classical and lyrical works that are consistently threaded with thematic movement and dramatic portrayals. Robyn’s teaching and coaching style is demanding yet encouraging. Her charisma in rehearsals cultivates artistic, personal and spiritual growth. Robyn’s combined personal experience of dancer, teacher, choreographer, friend, mentor, daughter, wife, and mother offers repertoire pertinent to our lives.
Availability: Location: Milford, NH
Styles: Ballet, Modern
Contact:
p) 603 801 1371
w) http://www.robyngoulette.com
e) robyn@robyngoulette.com
Juliette Clark
Experience: Ten years of experience teaching classical ballet to a full range of ages. Equally well prepared to: - Teach beginner through advanced ballet to elementary through college-aged students - Teach beginner through advanced ballet that accomodates the needs of those who begin as teenagers or adults - Teach beginner through advanced pointe, including selecting and assessing students for pointe - Teach classical variations and repertoire to intermediate and advanced students - Coach for general technique or for specific goals like performances, summer intensive auditions and company auditions - Teach creative movement to children under 6 - Substitute teach for beginner through intermediate jazz, tap, lyrical or modern. I teach Ballet, Pre-ballet, Pointe, Variations
Availability: South - New Orleans metro area.
Styles: Ballet
Contact:
w) http://classicalballetteacher.wordpress.com/
e) julietteclark@tulanealumni.net
Kat Wildish
Experience: Kat Wildish is a New York City master ballet and pointe teacher currently on faculty at The Ailey Extension Program. She performed with New York City Ballet, American Ballet Theater, and numerous international companies including Zurich Ballet, Metropolitan Opera Ballet, and The Eglevsky Ballet. She is an ABT® Certified Teacher in Primary through Level 7 of the ABT® National Training Curriculum and has been teaching over 35 years. A Ford Foundation Scholarship winner, Kat is also Artistic Director of the semiannual Performing in NY Showcases & will produce the second annual NYC Festival of Dance Schools June 6 & 7th , 2012.
Availability: New York, NY
Styles: Ballet
Contact:
w) www.katwildish.com
e) kat_wilidsh@yahoo.com
Ballet Teacher Looking to move from Italy to US
Italian experienced dance teacher, gratuated as dance pedagogue at the Hungarian Dance Academy (Vaganova method), willing to move abroad. Searching for a job in the US for one or more years (or summer intensive) in hobby or vocatinal studios with competition teams. Available as maitre de ballet for young or new dance companies. Age 43, very passionate and with choreographic skill.
Styles: Ballet, Contemporary, Jazz, Modern, Pas De Deux
Location: Rome, Italy (Looking to move abroad)
Contact:
e) antonella_pistone@alice.it
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