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Jill
A. Brighton, Director
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| Children's Intermediate Tap |
| Adult Beginning Tap |
| Adult Intermediate Tap |
Becky is a freshman in the Schreyer Honors College at Penn State, and intends to major in nutrition and minor in French. She has been dancing at CPDW since she was five and enjoys all styles of dance, particularly tap. Becky has been a long-time member of the Fraser Street Dancers and on the faculty for over a year. In her free time, Becky likes to cook and bake, and read Jane Austen.
| Basic Ballroom |
Alyssia has had seventeen years of classical ballet training, seven years of Ukrainian folk dance, and six years of tap, as well as exposure to hip hop, modern, and ethnic folk dances from around the world. She has been training and competing in Ballroom and Latin dance since the Fall of 2003, and has won numerous awards at both intercollegiate and amateur competitions throughout the Northeastern United States. Alyssia has taught classes in many different styles of dance to varying age groups and levels of experience. In her free time, she likes to make jewelry, cross-stitch, knit, bake, and, of course, DANCE!
| Adult Beginning Ballet |
| Beginning Pointe |
| Intermediate Pointe |
Maria has been trained in a variety of dance styles. She enjoys teaching, choreographing, and performing. Maria has been a student and teaching assistant at CPDW for several years, and is thrilled to have this opportunity to serve in another capacity.
| Basic Ballroom |
Adam has been ballroom dancing since January 2006, and competing in amateur and intercollegiate ballroom dance competitions since March 2006. He has been partnered with Alyssia for over a year and a half, and together they have won ribbons at both the Bronze and Silver levels of competition. In addition, Adam has been teaching ballroom dance with Alyssia for more than a year to a broad spectrum of students. When he is not dancing, Adam enjoys reading and playing sports.
| Children's Irish |
| Irish |
Stacie is an Open Champion dancer, the highest of six levels of Irish dancing. She began her training at age 11, and has competed both nationally (North American Nations) as well as internationally (All Irelands in Killarney, Ireland).
| Children's Advanced Tap |
| Adult Advanced Tap |
Amanda is currently a Senior at State College Area High School, where she is a member of the Girl's Varsity Golf Team. Amanda has studied a variety of dance styles including ballet and pointe, modern, jazz, and tap, as a student of the Central PA Dance Workshop for ten years and an active participant of the Fraser Street Dancers at CPDW for four years. With plans to major in Elementary Education, Amanda currently assists with the younger dancers, and will add several of the children's classes to her teaching repertoire later in the year. In addition to her training at CPDW, Amanda has expanded her technical knowledge through master classes with tap dance legends Lady "Di" Walker, Jason Samuel Smith, Lane Alexander and Samuel Weber.
| First Step |
| Children's Creative Movement |
| Children's Advanced Ballet |
| Pre-Pointe |
| Adult Beginning Ballet |
| Adult Beginning Ballet Workout |
| Beginning Pointe |
| Intermediate Pointe |
Karen studied with the Pennsylvania Ballet, International Ballet Theater, and Hartford Ballet before performing professionally with the Pennsylvania Dance Theatre until 2002. She graduated cum laude from the Hartt School at the University of Hartford with a degree in Children's Dance. While at Hartt, she studied under students of Vagonova, Balanchine, and Martha Graham, and worked with renowned choreographers such as Kathryn Posin and Jean Grand-Maitre. Karen was also selected to perform pieces by Balanchine, Vagonova, Martha Graham, and Pilobolus in venues through New England including the American College Dance Festival (New England Region) and Jacob's Pillow. Karen holds an Intermediate Certification in Labanotation and has taught at the prestigious School of the Hartford Ballet, in the Hartford Public School System, the School of the Pennsylvania Dance Theatre, with Galaxy (CIU 10), and has been teaching at CPDW since 2002. Karen is also a CMT and is the owner of "A Caring Touch: Massage Therapy."
| Salsa |
Nataly hails from the Bronx, NY, where she has studied dance in a variety of styles including salsa, hip hop, jazz, Latin, tap, ballet and African dance. Nataly has been teaching both salsa and hip hop classes to both children and adults since 2003. Nataly is also an accomplished performer and choreographer, and is the co-founder of Dancingz Finest Dance Company.
| Children's Beginning Tap |
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| Adult Beginning/Intermediate Jazz |
| Adult Advanced Jazz |
| Hip Hop |
Amy received her initial dance training in ballet, tap, jazz, hip hop, and lyrical at Accent School of Dance in Allentown, PA, where she was also part of the Accent Dance Ensemble. Throughout her high school career, led practices and choreographed performances as captain of the Emmaus High School dance team. She traveled with both teams to perform at Company Dance, New York City Dance Alliance, Starbound, Six Flags, and TIA, among others. At the University of Notre Dame, she participated in the Dance Company and taught at Debbie Werbrouck's School of Dance. She also taught summer classes and intensive workshops at Dynamix Dance Center in Bethlehem, PA. Amy is the newest addition to the CPDW faculty.
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Central Pennsylvania Dance Workshop 101 South Fraser Street State College, PA 16801 (814) 237-2666
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