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Diana Dart Harris (Ballet Principal of
Guilford Studio) Diana Dart Harris
(Ballet 2-6, Principal of Guilford Studio) -Diana studied ballet, tap and
jazz for 15 years under Linda & Sandee Juliano and at Connecticut Ballet.
She earned her BA in Dance Education from Goucher College where she studied
under John-Pierre Bonnefoux, Violette Verdy and Gary Masters. While at
Goucher she performed with Goucher’s company, Dancers In Action, and with
Choreographie Antique. She choreographed several pieces for department
performances and served as editor of Goucher’s Dance Newsletter. She
returned to Connecticut in 1991 and performed with New Haven Ballet in
pieces choreographed by Noble Barker and Jeremy Lindberg. She directed her
own program, Dance Arts, in Clinton for ten years, has been a faculty member
at Dance Academy of Connecticut and Dance Unlimited and has been a guest
teacher for Dance Educators of America and at Smith College. She is
resident choreographer for The Morgan School and has also choreographed for
Clinton Family Theater, Nutmeg Players, Westbrook High School and Walsh
Intermediate School. She has acted as both a judge and coordinator for the
Shoreline Arts Alliance Dance Scholarship auditions and has been a member of
the International Association of Dance Medicine and Science. Currently, she
is the movement teacher at the Montessori School of Madison. She is
completing her thesis work on Bone Density in Adolescent Ballet Dancers for
her Masters Degree in Exercise Physiology and resides in Guilford with her
husband, Mark and their two children, Rachael and Caleb.
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Ruth Barker (Ballet/Open Division Ballet) |
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Alissa Bartozzi (Tap)
Alissa’s dance and
performance experience dates back twenty-four years. She has studied
under such dance legends as Savion Glover, Frank Hatchett and Brenda
Buffalino just to name a few. She has trained at the Educational Center
for the Arts and Gloria Jean’s Studio of Dance. Alissa has been the
recipient of many dance, vocal and modeling awards over the years. She
attended Hofstra University in New York where she choreographed and
performed in many student productions. She is a past member of the
United States Tap Dance Team and holds two World Champion titles. Most
recently, Alissa has been adjudicating for local and national dance
competitions along the east coast and conducting master classes at some
of these venues. Alissa has been acting and modeling professionally
since she was a young child. Current acting credits include Mona Lisa
Smile starring Julia Robert, Little Shop of Horrors and the Sopranos.
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| Shannon Bogucki (Ballet) |
| Emily Coates (Ballet)
Emily Coates received her
dance training at the Pittsburgh Ballet Theater School, the School of
American Ballet, and the Merce Cunningham Studio. After receiving the
School of American Ballet’s Mae L. Wien Award for Outstanding Promise, she
was asked to join New York City Ballet, where she danced featured roles in
works by George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Peter Martins, and Angelin
Preljocaj. In 1998, she joined Mikhail Baryshnikov’s White Oak Dance
Project, where she danced for four years. Repertory highlights there
include works by Trisha Brown, Lucinda Childs, John Jasperse, and Yvonne
Rainer, as well as three duets with Mr. Baryshnikov: Karole Armitage’s
The Last Lap, in Erick Hawkins’s Early Floating, and Mark
Morris’s The Argument. From 2002-2003, she was a proud member of
Twyla Tharp Dance. Ms. Coates appears in The New York City Ballet
Workout Book and Baryshnikov in Black and White. She is
currently a student at Yale, class of ‘05 |
| Judie Clark (Modern/ Jazz- Guilford)
Judie Clark
has been
teaching dance to children and adults for twenty years. She has worked as a
free-lance choreographer for the last 10 years and launched her own
performance group, Clark Dance Theatre, in 2006 (http://www.clarkdancetheatre.org
) Ms. Clark's choreography is a fusion of classical modern elements and
traditional forms of world dance creating a cutting edge movement style. She
has recently continued her dance studies with Bill Evans, Don Halquist,
Kitty Daniels and Debra Knapp and will be pursuing her certificate in
movement analysis. Ms. Clark has a certificate in Dance from the University
of the Arts in Philadelphia, a Bachelors of Science in Dance from SUNY
Brockport. Currently, she is also on faculty at Central CT State University
and at the University of New Haven. |
| Stephanie Clark (Ballet/Open Division Ballet) |
| Michele Conklin (Ballet) |
| Gail Corbin (Children’s Modern) |
| Laura D’Amato-Russo (Ballet) |
| Melissa Daniele (Open Division Pilates) Melissa
Daniele graduated form Dean College majoring in Dance, A.A. She performed
with the Dean Dance Company and studied Tap, Jazz, Ballet, Lyrical and
Modern Dance. Prior to college, she studied with Gloria Jean Cuming, and
also with Robert Vickrey and Robin Welch at the Connecticut School of
Ballet. Her teaching experience includes Dance Director at the Jewish
Community Center. She also instructed dance at Dance Theatre Productions and
Gloria Jean Dance Studio. Presently, she is a Certified Aerobic Instructor,
Personal Trainer, and Pilates Instructor, as well as dance instructor. |
Stacy Eagan
(Tap)
Stacy’s dance and
performance experience dates back over forty years. She began teaching
dance classes at the age of twelve and has continued ever since. Stacy
has trained with the Educational Center for the Arts, and has studied
under such dance legends as Savion Glover, Mia Michaels, Frank Hatchett,
Brenda Buffalino and Charles Kelley to name a few. Through her
competitive years, she was the recipient of many dance and modeling
titles locally and nationally. Stacy has performed professionally in
Dinner Theater productions and has staged hip-hop shows and music
videos. Stacy is certified by Dance Masters of America New York and
Connecticut Chapters and the Dance Educators of America New England
Chapter. She has had the honor of judging dance competitions and
pageants and conducting Master Classes throughout the United States and
Canada. Her competitive choreography and costume designs have won her
many awards throughout the competition circuit. Stacy has also traveled
twice to Germany with the united States Tap Dance Team. She is currently
on staff with New Haven Ballet and is a freelance choreographer for
studios in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New York.
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| Torrie Hanley (Ballet/Open Division Ballet)
Torrance (Torrie) Hanley trained at Dance Circle in Ithaca,
NY with Naomi Strichartz, at the Ithaca Community School of Music and Arts (CSMA)
with Naomi Strichartz and Miranda Strichartz, at Ithaca College with Eugenia
Wacker-Hoeflin, and at Cornell University with Byron Suber. She performed
at CSMA and Cornell University, and taught ballet at CSMA for six years.
Torrie received two B.A. degrees, one in Biology and one in English, from
Cornell University. She is currently working on her Ph.D. in Ecology and
Evolutionary Biology at Yale University. |
| Gail Hartnett (Ballet/Open Division Ballet) |
| Penny Hill, Open Division (Ballet/Modern
Workout) |
| Sarah Kennedy (Ballet) |
| Bronwen MacArthur (Ballet/Open Division Ballet)
Bronwen MacArthur has performed in New York, throughout the
U.S., Europe and South America. Since 2000, her choreography has been shown
in Russia, New York and around New England. MacArthur co-directs, with
Emily Coates, the dance theater lab Motion In Dialogue (MIND) and directs
MacArthur Dance Project which made its debut in May, 2007. MacArthur
teaches ballet and contemporary dance in various contexts and recently
participated in the first New England Dance Lab, an initiative of the New
England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project. |
| Charley McAfee (Open Division Ballroom) |
| Michelle Rivers (Ballet) |
Lisa Sanborn (Open Division Ballet)
Lisa Sanborn received her early dance training in Chicago, Illinois from
Larry Long, Dolores Lipinski and Warren Conover. Ms. Sanborn danced as a
member of the Clinton Contemporary Ballet and Quad Cities Civic Ballet
companies in Iowa, performed for several years in the Chicago Tribune
Charities production of The Nutcracker, and appeared with the Royal Danish
Ballet in Napoli. As a child, Ms. Sanborn also worked as a model, appeared
in television commercials and performed in numerous musical and other
theatrical productions. Ms. Sanborn received her Bachelor of Arts degree in
mathematics from Skidmore College and juris doctorate from Albany Law School
of Union University. In addition to providing ballet instruction at New
Haven Ballet, Ms. Sanborn currently serves as in house counsel for The
Southern Connecticut Gas Company and Connecticut Natural Gas Corporation. |
| Emily Sasson (Hip Hop) |
| Apollo Smile-Dailey (Jazz) |
| Caroline Lucy Smith (Ballet/Open Division
Ballet) |
| Suzanne Stack (Ballet) |
| Nancy Terry (Ballet)
Nancy Terry (Ballet, Tap, Jazz) – Nancy began studying dance with Jeanette
Thibideau in Maine and spent summers dancing at Jacobs Pillow in
Massachusetts. She continued her studies at Brigham Young University in
Utah where she was a member of the Corps de Ballet and the International
Folk Dancers. Nancy was a co-owner of Dance Academy of Connecticut for
seven years and was the former manager of the Dancer’s Closet.
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| James Teti
James Teti received his B.A. from Charter Oak College and is an
accomplished pianist and organist. Mr. Teti has been with the New Haven
Ballet since its inception. He is also on the faculty at the Educational
Center for the Arts.
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| Leslie Kearney |
| May Yeung
May attended graduate school at the Yale School of Music.
She has received diplomas in piano and theory from Royal Schools of Music in
Hong Kong. She is a state nationally certified piano teacher in the United
States. May has been playing piano for the New Haven Ballet school since
September, 1977. |
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