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| 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!
| Children's Beginning Jazz | |
| Children's Intermediate Jazz | |
| Children's Hip Hop | |
| Adult Beginning Ballet | |
| Beginning/Intermediate Pointe | |
| Adult Advanced Jazz |
Nicole is a student at Penn State University working towards her degree in Biobehavioral Health. She has been dancing since the age of three and has trained intensively with New Jersey School of Ballet since she was eight, where she performed in such ballet classics as Giselle, The Nutcracker, Swan Lake, and many more. Nicole has also studied with Princeton Ballet Theatre and the Central PA Youth Ballet. In 2007, Nicole attended the New Jersey Governor's School of the Arts as a dance scholar where she began to broaden her dance styles to include jazz and contemporary among others. She is very excited to be a part of the Central PA Dance Workshop faculty.
| Children's Intermediate Tap | |
| Children's and Adult Advanced Tap | |
| Adult Beginning Tap | |
| Adult Intermediate Tap |
Daria is a Ph.D. Candidate in Kinesiology in Athletic Training and Sports Medicine at Penn State. She began her dance training at age three, and studied tap, jazz and ballet at the Locker School of Dance in northern New Jersey for thirteen years. Additionally she has studied tap dance at Broadway Dance Center in New York City, with instructors such as Jared Grimes, Ray Hesselink, Shea Sullivan, Germaine Salsberg, and Frank Hatchett. Daria works as an athletic trainer with Penn State intramural sports, and is a physical therapist and a certified strength and conditioning specialist. Daria views tap shoes as a musical instrument, and her classes emphasize sound, musicality and rhythm.
| Children's Irish | |
| Irish |
Kristen, from Springfield, PA, is a Kinesiology Major at Penn State. She has been dancing competitively with Irish dance since she was seven years old at the Cara School of Irish Dance. She has competed locally and at regional championships as a solo dancer, and received recall medals at nationals and world championships as a member of a team. Through the McDade-Cara Championship Irish Dancers, she has studied with numerous international instructors from shows such as "Riverdance" and "Lord of the Dance." She also enjoys singing, theatre, fitness, reading, and hanging out with friends.

| First Step | |
| Children's Creative Movement | |
| Children's PreBallet | |
| 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."
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| Children's Beginning Jazz |
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| Children's Intermediate Jazz |
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| Adult Beginning/Intermediate Jazz |
Dana, from Long Island, NY, is a sophomore at Penn State with a Business Management major and a minor in Health Policies Administration. She has been dancing since the age of two at Maple Avenue Dance, studying a broad range of styles including jazz, tap, ballet, pointe, hip hop and contemporary, and has been dancing competitively for seven years. For the past six years, Dana performed in the Maple Avenue Dance's Nutcracker. Dana recently participated in the PULSE dance convention in Atlantic City and NYC where she studied with a variety of renowned choreographers including Mia Michaels, Tyce Diorio, Wade Robson and Desmond Richardson. Dana has been a Teaching Assistant at CPDW, and was quickly promoted to a full instructor. In her free time, Dana enjoys listening to music, going to the gym, watching movies and spending time with friends.
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| Adult Hip Hop |
Taylor is a student at Penn State pursuing a degree in Marketing and Advertising and Integrative Arts with a concentration in Dance. She has been dancing since she was four years old, with experience in ballet and pointe, hip hop, tap, jazz, lyrical and musical theatre at Miss Jeanne's School of Dance Arts in her hometown of Schnecksville, PA. She is currently the Vice President of Tapestry Dance Company and a member of Penn State Dance Alliance. She has worked with a wide age range in a variety of dance styles, and her joy and passion for dance really shows in her dynamic classes.
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Central Pennsylvania Dance Workshop 101 South Fraser Street State College, PA 16801 (814) 237-2666
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