Dedrick Anthony Classes: Street Jazz Ensmeble, Modern II 13 yrs & up, Street Jazz 12 yrs & up Dedrick is from Michigan and began his career in regional theaters at a young age. At the age of 15 he began to focus on dance. He went to Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp on a full scholarship under
the direction of Jefferson Baum and was placed into the camp's International Ballet Ensemble,
touring Europe. Next, Dedrick joined the Wealthy Street Theatre Contemporary Ballet Company based in Grand Rapids, MI, under the direction of Patrick Johnson and Tassia Hooks, where he was truly introduced to contemporary ballet and modern dance. Choosing to further his studies, he moved to New York City. He was accepted to The Ailey School, the official school of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, and graduated from the school's Certificate Program. At the Ailey School he worked with noted choreographers Milton Myers, Andre Tyson, Francesa Harper, Nathan Trice and many more. After graduation he was a part of Balance Dance Company with Obediah Wright, and a company member of Genesis Dance Company under the direction of Karen Arceneaux. He worked a Las Vegas styled show at the Caesars Place in Nassau, Bahamas with L.A. choreographer, Michael Schwandt. Most recently, Dedrick worked with choreographers Mark Kanemura and Rob McCune in Hawaii. Dedrick has appeared in Vogue Italia magazine and a nationally syndicated Adidas commercial.
Lisa Bostwick Classes: Ballet IA 10-13 yrs, Ballet IA 10-13 yrs, Ballet IIB 13 yrs & up, Ballet III 13 yrs & up, Intro to Ballet 7-10 yrs Lisa trained at Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, Pittsburgh Ballet Theater and BalletMet. She received a B.S. from Butler University as well as studied at the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory in St. Petersburg Russia. Lisa performed with the Alabama Ballet for seven years and with former MMDG dancer, Teri Weksler, the director of Birmingham’s resident modern dance company Southern Danceworks, for nine years.
Mallory Butcher Classes: Young Movers Ensemble Mallory Butcher is a 2005 graduate of Ohio University where she received her BFA in Dance Performance and Choreography with a minor in Psychology. She is currently a professional dancer for several modern dance companies, including Genesis Dance Company and Naganuma Dance. Mallory has had the opportunity to teach a wide variety of dance techniques including ballet, jazz, hip hop, and modern for all ages and has taught for Berkely Carroll School, Brooklyn Friends School, Logrea Dance Academy, and Reflections Dance Academy. She is currently on faculty for Dancewave in Brooklyn and is very excited to be joining In Motion.
Giada Ferrone Classes: Ballet IV 14 yrs & up Giada Ferrone was born in Florence and is based in New York City. She believes in cultural exchange, artistic expression and in dance as an essential tool in the health of adults and development of children. She is an international Master teacher with an extensive background as Ballet Mistress, choreographer, producer and performer. Ms. Ferrone has invested the past 10 years in creating her own, unique ballet training program, which combines her early European training with her most recent American experiences. This training program is curriculum based and produces dancers with clean, unaffected technique and strong work ethics. Her choreography has been presented at Purchase University, Saint Mark's Church, Hofstra University, Theatre of the Riverside Church, Rose Theatre at Lincoln Center, Peridance and the Construction Company. Ms. Ferrone is an adjunct dance professor at both Tisch School of the Arts in NYC and Hofstra University in Hempstead and guest teaches in Festival and Colleges across Europe.
Juli Greenberg Classes: Sing & Swing with Baby 5-9 mos
Juli Greenberg received a B.F.A in Dance from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, and went on to perform with Risa Jaroslow and Dancers. She has worked with some of this era's greatest choreographers including Susan Marshall and Murray Louis and studied extensively throughout her career at the Paul Taylor School. Juli was a founding member of and choreographer for the Shining Star and Shooting Star Musical Theater children's companies at P.S 87 in Manhattan. She has taught dance and has choreographed for Wingspan Arts' Summer Conservatory, and at Creative Arts Studio in NYC. Juli is the Administrative Director of Group Theatre Too's Performer's Playground program at the P.S. 75 Afterschool and performs with Group Theatre Too's Generation Tap. She is also Administrative Assistant at the 92nd Street Y's Parenting Center. Juli teaches Sing & Swing with Baby and Toddler Time at The Danceave Center on Tuesdays afternoons.
Maria Hanley Classes: Sing & Swing with Baby 5-9 mos, Toddler Time 12-20 mos, Creative Ballet I 3-4 yrs, Creative Ballet II 5-6 yrs Maria Hanley holds a Master's degree in dance education from New York University and a Bachelor's degree in dance performance from Slippery Rock University in Pennsylvania. An advocate for early childhood dance education, Maria is currently a teaching artist in public elementary schools for New York City Ballet, a tap and creative dance teacher at Mark Morris Dance Group, and a movement specialist at York Avenue Preschool. Recently, Maria has designed and now teaches the ballet program for the young families division at the Jewish Community Center in Manhattan.
Jennifer Jones Classes: Open Jazz 10 yrs & up Jennifer Jones is from San Diego, California and a graduate from San Francisco State University with a BFA in Dance Performance Choreography and a minor in Speech Communications. While in the Bay Area Jennifer was apart of City Slam Dance Company, Embaje Dance and Mind Over Matter which afforded her the opportunities to dance professionally as a commercial jazz, contemporary, and hip hop dancer working all over the world performing in industrials, music videos, back-up dancing for artist, and working in television and film. After working, studying and teaching throughout the Bay Area, Jennifer wanted to continue her training and moved to New York to study at The Ailey School for 2 years. It is here where she had the opportunity to be under the direction of some of the best teachers and choreographers in the country. Today Jennifer continues to work professionally as a Dancer/Choreographer and Teacher with hopes of inspiring more people through dance and starting her own company.
Maggie Lloyd has taught for the New York State Summer School for the Arts, BrownUniversity’s Department of Dance, Providence Ballet, California Dance Theater and was most recently the Ballet Mistress for Carolina Youth Ballet. She has danced for Pacific American Ballet Theater, Heidi Henderson’s Elephant Jane Dance and with choreographers such as Kraig Patterson and Brenda Daniels. Maggie received her BFA in Dance from CornishCollege of the Arts and completed her high school diploma with a concentration in ballet from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Maggie teaches Ballet IA, Creative Ballet I & II, and Ballet III for Dancewave.
Meghan McCoy Classes: Intro to Modern & Choreolab I 8-10 yrs, Choreolab II 11 yrs & up Meghan McCoy is a New York City based artist. She grew up in Wisconsin, where she received her BFA in Dance from the University of Wisconsin – Madison and then packed up and moved to NYC. She currently performs with Becky Radway Dance Projects and iN.D.dance/Nicole Durfee and Dancers, and has had the pleasure of performing with Nora Stephens / noranewdance, Jin-Wen Yu Dance, Eva Dean Dance, Esse Aficionado, and Katherine Keifer Stark. She is a founding member of Collective Dance NY, an organization dedicated to creating performance opportunities for independent artists through financial, administrative, and artistic collaboration. CDNY has produced three full-length shows, performing to sold-out audiences in both NY and DC. Her works have been presented at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, WAXworks (Triskelion Arts), and Movement Research Open Performance (DTW). Meghan will graduate in May 2009 with an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. Photo by Paula Court
Catey Ott Classes: Intro to Ballet 7-10 yrs Catey Ott has spent twelve years dancing, teaching, and choreographing in NYC. She has a MFA and BFA in dance from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, a Pilates certification from the Kane School, is a AFAA Personal Trainer, and has practiced yoga for 10 years. She has studied ballet with Christine Wright for 9 years and is the Director and Choreographer for her company Catey Ott Dance Collective. Ott started dancing at the age of 4 and has been teaching a wide variety of dance styles to students of all ages for 21 years.
Pam Pietro
Education
B.F.A. Florida State University M.F.A. University of Washington
Biography
Pamela received an BFA from Florida State University and MFA from University of Washington. She is an Assistant Arts Professor at New York University Tisch School for the Arts. Pamela has performed professionally with Anthony Morgan Dance Company, Michael Foley Dance, RaceDance and bopi’s black sheep/dances. She was a dancer and the rehearsal director for Houlihan and Dancers from 1991–1999, artistic director Gerri Houlihan and rehearsal director for the New World Dance Ensemble Australian Tour in 1994. Pamela served as Mark Haim’s assistant for the Saint Joseph Ballet projects (2002,2004,2007) and part of their summer faculty in 2004. She has been on the faculty at the American Dance Festival since 1997 and a guest teacher with the ADF linkage programs to Guangdong Dance Company in Guangzhou (China) and the Dance Library summer conference in Tel Aviv, Israel. Pamela has been on the faculty at Florida International University, New World School of the Arts, Hollins University, New York University Tisch School for the Arts, Dance New Amsterdam and a guest artist at universities all over the country. Pamela's choreography has been presented by Dancespace in Miami, Booker School for the Arts in Sarasota, Florida, Momentum Danza Company in Panama, Meredith College in Raleigh, NC and presented at the ACM Multimedia Conference in Santa Barbara, CA. She is a certified personal trainer and Pilates instructor as well as the assistant to Irene Dowd in New York City. Pamela received the first place award for academics and performance from the National Society of Arts and Letters in 1985. Her latest research was presented at the Hawaiian Arts and Humanities Conference in Waikiki in 2007.
Christina Noel Reaves Classes: Creative Movement I 18-26 mos, Creative Movement II 27-36 mos, Creative Ballet I 3-4 yrs, Creative Modern I 3-4 yrs, Creative Modern II 5-6yrs, Creative Ballet II 5-6 yrs After a BFA in Music: Voice Performance from Georgia State University, and an MFA in Dance from NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Christina Noel Reaves pursues dance and voice performance and instruction, choreography, and music composition. In addition to singing in Operas and Musicals, she has had the privilege of dancing for David Dorfman, Doug Elkins, Ivy Baldwin, Curt Haworth, Christopher Williams, Gary Abbott, and Candess Giayan and Melanie Lynch-Blanchard of Zoetic Dance Ensemble-Atlanta, with whom Christina Noel was a dance instructor to children and adults.
Mandy Stallings Classes: Performing Arts Workshop 7-10 yrs, Performing Arts Workshop 7-10 yrs
Mandy Stallings, of Brooklyn, NY, is currently performing with the Cleo Mack Dance Project. CMDP has been presented by Mulberry Street Theater, Dance Theater Workshop, Judson Church Movement Research, Mason Gross School of the Arts, PS1, Kennedy Center, Joyce Soho, George Street Playhouse and was selected by Dance Magazine as “25 to watch in 2002”. She has also had the pleasure of performing the works of Larry Keigwin, Nicole Wolcott, Pascal Rekoert, Gerri Houlihan, Neta Pulvermacher, Paul Taylor, Jose Limon, Scott Rink, Brenda Daniels, Sean Sullivan and FARMdance. Mandy's own choreography has been shown in venues such as Dance Forum, Peridance Center, HATCH Performance Series, Cunningham Studio, SWEAT Series, Studio A.I.R, Agnes DeMille Theater and Galapagos Art Space. She is currently directing and choreographing for the Brooklyn Children's Theater and is teaching all around town! Mandy is a certified yoga instructor and a graduate of the North Carolina School of the Arts.
Matthew Westerby Classes: Open Ballet 10 yrs & up, Dancewave Company II Matthew is originally from the UK and trained at Laban, London, graduating in 2000 with a BA (Hons) in Dance Theatre, spending a further year with the Laban graduate performance company, Transitions. Since moving to New York in 2005, Matthew has worked with Nai-Ni Chen, Risa Jaroslow, Dusan Tynek, Covenant Ballet Theatre of Brooklyn and Kenny Larson, and currently dances for Peter Kyle/The Only Tribe. Matthew works as a freelance choreographer, showing work in venues in the UK, in Poland, in Connecticut and in New York at WAXWorks, Dance New Amsterdam, Movement Research (at Dance Theater Workshop), Covenant Ballet Theatre of Brooklyn and at the Gene Frankel Theater. Teaching credits include Laban, the Scottish School of Contemporary Dance, and Silesian Dance Theatre (Poland), as well as working throughout New York City with all ages in public schools, studio, community and professional settings.
