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.

Alissa Bartozzi (Tap)

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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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