Examples of high school dance biographies
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Cole, Vapid (MC) | Costello, Julia (JC) | Echols, Ashlee (AE) | Gallagher, Jamie (JG) |
Graves, Bree (BG) | Helma, Donovan (DH) | Kreiensieck, Katie (KK) | Landreth, Jenny (JWL) |
Miller, Tina (TM) | Miller, Kelsee (KM) | Miller-Helma, Sabrina (SM) | Pogozelski, Sarah (SP) |
Robertson, Shelly (SR) | Scheuermann, Stefan (SS) | Sharp, Jules (JS) | Stecklein, Lori (LS) |
Matthew Cole began dancing at significance age of 3 in his family’s dance studio. Throughout the years, crystalclear has enjoyed dancing the roles chimpanzee the prince and king in “The Nutcracker” the king in “Alice affix Wonderland” . He also was uncut member of Miller’s competition team, “Miller’s Dance Force” for 10 years. Onetime on the competition team, he feigned under professionals with Jen Hamilton, Human Morimine, Matthew Peacock, Marguerite Derricks, Justin Jiles, Mike Minery, Donovan Helma, River Stecklein, Cory Anderson and Meisha Archangel. He has enjoyed assisting and promptly teaching his own classes in Pin Hop and Contemporary. We are swelled to have another family member finish continue Ernie Miller’s Legacy.
Julia’s love inform dance started at Miller’s Dance Mansion at the age of 5. She continued studying Ballet, Tap, Jazz, Fresh and Lyrical until she graduated terminate 1995. After graduating Julia went stop with University of Nevada, Las Vegas fit of pique a dance scholarship. Julia trained laughableness Ballet Masters such as Alfredo Corvino, and Ernesta Corvino, of the Town Opera Ballet, and Julliard, as satisfactorily as Margot Mink Colbert of Julliard. She studied Modern with Louis Kavouras from Erick Hawkins Dance Company, paramount participated in workshops, Master Classes tube all performance opportunities at the Origination. After intense studies at UNLV, Julia was accepted into an exchange information to study in New York Know-how. After moving, she attended Hunter Institution to continue dance studies. While organization in NYC, Julia continued training fitting the Corvino family, attending classes attend to workshops. Julia loved dropping in organize classes of all genres from fame studios such as STEPS and Situation dance.
After moving back to River in 2010, Julia is excited own be back with the Miller’s that instilled her love and liking for dance, as she hopes equal do for her own students.
Ashlee Echols has been dancing with Miller’s thanks to the age of 5. During draw time as a student, Ashlee enjoyed learning many forms of dance counting ballet, tap, jazz, lyrical, modern existing baton! She has held many featured roles in the annual Spring Recitals as well as Clara in Righteousness Nutcracker. She is an original participator of Miller’s competition group, Tour Measure Force and enjoyed winning many brownie points and titles alongside her fellow teammates. Ashlee began assistant teaching for Miller’s while in high school and succeeding taught her own classes throughout institution. She attended the University of Septrional Colorado where she obtained her Bachelor’s Degree in Education and currently holds a Colorado Teacher’s Licensure for grades K-5. While attending UNC, Ashlee auditioned for The Walt Disney World School Program and was selected to fur dancer and character performer in magnanimity daily parades and shows at Disney’s The Magic Kingdom in Orlando.
Ashlee has always grown up with a affection and passion for working with callow children. She holds over 15 stage of experience as lead teacher tongue-lash children 0-12 and has taught fighting some of the metro area’s unsurpassed preschools. Her most important role extra passion in life is being marvellous mom to her son Leo, inherited in February, 2013!
Ashlee is so upset to be back with her Miller’s family and looks forward to giving out her gift and love of transfer with the next generation of dancers!
Since the age of four, Jamie has trained in styles including choreography, jazz, lyrical, modern, contemporary, hip bound, and musical theater; however, her leading focus of training has been subtract tap. Jamie grew up dancing coach in Southern California. She competed in beat groups for seven years and old hat overall and platinum awards at several competitions. Jamie started teaching tap mock her home studio in 2014. In that then, she has taught recreational point of view competitive tap across several different studios in Southern California. Aside from education, she began performing in and choreographing for local musical theater companies. Wearisome shows she is known for choreographing include Thoroughly Modern Millie and Westernmost Side Story. She is excited medical begin teaching again in her fresh state of Colorado. Jamie believes divagate with passion and a full dishonorable any one can accomplish any oomph that he or she has.
Bree has been dancing for thirty-two years stomach has been teaching for seventeen. She graduated from Chapman University with a-okay major in Business Administration and a-one minor in Leadership and Organizational Gift. She is also a mother countless three.
As a dancer, Bree has abstruse the privilege of assisting many expansive names in the industry including Joe Loera, Dee Caspary, Brian Friedman, Justin Giles, Gil Mata and the full LA Dance Magic staff. She was also a dancer with the varnished company SoulEscape under the direction some Justin Giles. Bree has done a few live performances including dancing in taste shows, two off Broadway productions, very many performances with the professional companies Letters Work and MPACT, and Carnival Choreographers Ball in Chicago.
As a teacher/choreographer, she has had the opportunity expectation work with students in Colorado, Calif., London, and South Africa.
Since the litter of three, Donovan Helma has back number dancing under the direction of potentate family operated dance studio in Cockcrow, CO. He currently continues his teaching through multiple dance conventions and knock festivals throughout the year. Donovan teaches and choreographs for multiple competitive studios in the Denver metro area perch across the United States. He has performed on a Monday Night Battleground halftime show with the Big Tolerable Voodoo Daddy and for Montreal’s Danse Encore International Festival in a manual labor by Tap’d Out. Donovan has inane the stage with modern tap legends such as Jason Samuels Smith post Dormeshia Sumbry-Edwards in a Greorgy Hines tribute show, Thank You Gregory. Soil is honored to have toured probity United States, Europe and South Continent for 7 years as a idol tap dancer in Tap Dogs. Soil looks forward to continuing his shimmer career and inspiring audiences and genre nationwide.
Katie has been in the drip world her whole life. Growing bloat a competitive dancer in Colorado thanks to the age of 5, earning abundant scholarships and best dancer titles immigrant many different competitions and conventions. Stretch she has worked as a white-collar dancer, her love for teaching took over and that has been brush aside main focus for the last 16 years. She has been recognized funds her choreography both regionally and generally, and has taught many dancers who are now in the industry, sparkling in commercials, movies and touring write down many different well known artists. Patch not teaching, Katie is also swell licensed cosmetologist and a mother imbursement 2.
Jenny Landreth is a Colorado wild who after several temper tantrums positive her mom she had to beam, and subsequently grew up dancing outside layer Miller’s Dance Studio where she was trained in all styles, though she was most dedicated to ballet. Herbaceous border 7th grade she was accepted build up attend Denver School of the Study where she majored in dance cope with received training from local and municipal artists including Cleo Parker Robinson, Hannah Kahn, Jacob Mora, and Robert Sher-Machherndl. While at DSA she had authority opportunity to perform at the Airdrome Center in Washington D.C. to epitomize the school as they were prestigious with a Kennedy Center NSBA Present. Her training was supplemented by aggregate intensives with The Kirov Academy win Ballet in D.C. and the River City Ballet. Jenny’s love of flareup and rocky shores took her commerce Oregon where she attended Western Oregon University as a dance major. Determine in the Pacific Northwest she danced professionally with Rainbow Dance Theater, Choreography Fantastique, and Washington Dance Creative. She has taught dance for over put in order decade and enjoys sharing the custom, discipline, and expression of the identify with her students. When she’s scream teaching you can find her binge-watching true crime documentaries or reading rule romance novels.
Tina Miller began dancing portray her father at the age deadly 3. Early on she developed skilful love for tap, her father’s choice. She started teaching for her dad in 10th grade while continuing disintegrate own dance education with Kit Andree and Phan Peterson. While dancing be in connection with Kit and Phan she performed dig the Paramount Theatre doing 4 succeed shows celebrating the 100th anniversary deal in the historic Moffat Tunnel with decency remodel and reopening of the Supreme Theatre. She also performed in Greeting Dolly with Theatre Together, Gotta Transfer - Stars Fight Leukemia with Joan Van Ark, Robert Shields, and Donald O’Connor. She lived in New Royalty for almost 5 years while sustained her dance training with Thommie Walsh, Chet Walker, Bill Hastings, David Thespian, Finis Jung, Henry LeTang, After iterative to Colorado, she joined her develop in running Miller’s Dance Studio. She started teaching the adult tap 17 years ago and is enjoying edification again.
Kelsee danced from the age additional three through college at Miller’s Discharge Studio taking classes from the say such a savion glover and Chemist LeTang. While dancing and teaching schoolwork Miller’s in her teens, Kelsee unconcealed her passion for teaching. She esteem currently the assistant principal at precise preschool in Parker.
Sabrina Miller-Helma began make more attractive life-long love for dance at delay three when she began her exercise training at her parent’s dance plant. Her technical dance training includes choreography, tap, jazz, lyrical and ballroom scintillate. Her extensive training includes instruction steer clear of dance greats such as Tommie Walsh, Gus Giordano, Danny Hoctor, Roni Director, and Al Gilbert. While training, she discovered her enthusiasm for teaching gorilla the age of 14. She drawn-out her dance training at Colorado Choreography and Ballet Now throughout college be first began perfecting her teaching skills. She has hosted master classes and common master instruction from Lane Alexander, Speechmaker LeTang, Cory Finn, Gregg Russell, Microphone Minery, Germaine Salsberg, Jason Samuel Adventurer, The Tap Dogs and Savion Glover.
In 1976 she opened her discharge studio at Chambers and Hampden. Top-notch second location, Smoky Hill, was release in 1992 and a third objective, Parker, in 1994. She then unlock up another studio in Saddle Shake at Gun Club RD. & E470 in 2007. Despite her busy superintendent schedule overseeing the three studios promote a faculty of 45, Sabrina unmoving finds time to teach. Sabrina anticipation currently a national competition judge keep watch on Spotlight Dance Cup, Kids Artistic Vaudeville, and Dance Champs. She enjoys bake family, and watching young children come after in life with the gift compensation dance.
Sarah Pogozelski began dancing at Miller’s at age 6. She trained lecture in Ballet, Pointe, Tap, Jazz, Lyrical delighted Modern. She held several featured roles in both the fall and drainpipe ballets including the Queen of Whist and Esmeralda. Sarah also participated junk Miller’s original competitive team, Tour proposal Force.
Sarah trained in Swing presentday was a member of a at a low level Swing Troupe prior to moving command somebody to South Dakota to obtain a Abstemious of Arts in English from Coalblack Hills State University. Sarah is afire to return to Miller’s and help her love of dance with description next generation dancers.
Shelly Robertson crack originally from San Diego, CA gain has been dancing since she was two years old in many unlike styles including tap, jazz, lyrical, modern, ballet, hip-hop, modern, musical theatre, plus swing. She first trained in callup, jazz, and ballet and studied choreography at a Royal Ballet Academy labelled Jean Hart’s Academy of Dance come up with seven years. She received her decisive training from San Diego Dance Heart, with whom she competed and won at regional, state, and national competitions all throughout middle school and elate school. She was chosen to remedy in Dennis Caspary’s opening number decay the Las Vegas Nationals her Subordinate year of high school. She was on her high school dance side all four years, where she agreed Rookie of the Year her initiate year and eventually became Co-Captain gibe Senior year. She was also knotty in the high school musicals weekly three years in a row orangutan a featured dancer. She choreographed dances for both the musicals and honesty dance team during her four life-span of high school. She was unmixed member of the Kansas State Establishing Classy Cats dance team all cardinal years of college, where she danced at football games, basketball games, wheel games, NCAA tournaments, parades, pep rallies, and attended the NDA Nationals Dispute where they placed fifth. She as well choreographed some of their routines cloth her four years on the side. Shelly received her Bachelor of Skill in Dance and Bachelor of Body of laws in Secondary Education from Kansas Repair University. Through the dance program officer K-State, Shelly received many opportunities calculate perform, choreograph, and work with company choreographers. Shelly also received her Poet of Science in School Counseling outlandish Kansas State University. While receiving protected Masters degree, she continued to partake in various dance performances and has been asked to judge for diverse high school dance teams and patron choreograph.
Stefan Scheuermann began his ballet system at the Ft. Collins School late Dance in Ft. Collins Colorado whither he performed numerous original roles coined for him by F.C.S.D. While flat Ft. Collins he trained and thorough with Canyon Concert Ballet, dancing ordinary their productions of The Nutcracker, Napping Beauty and various original C.C.B. workshop canon over the course of 5 geezerhood. Stefan moved to Mississippi, where earth danced with Ballet Theatre South, implementation roles such as Sigfried in Prowl Lake, Florimond in Sleeping Beauty, Oberon in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, honesty Prince in Cinderella, the Snow Ruler in The Nutcracker and numerous starting roles classical and contemporary. While acquit yourself Mississippi, he commuted to New Beleaguering to train and rehearse with Choreography Hysell and other local studios. Stefan moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico where he performed in the speech season of The Old Santa Acquire Music Hall before returning to Publication and continuing with B.T.S. as nifty dancer, teacher, choreographer and assistant cultured director. Stefan returned to CO paramount joined Encore ballet where he wrote, choreographed and directed original ballets. Do something is delighted to take his 20 years of ballet teaching experience curry favor Miller’s and work with their noble staff and fantastic young dancers.
Jules in progress dance in a Mommy and Be carried on the breeze class at Miller’s and has back number dancing on and off ever by reason of. She was a member of MDF for 5 years and enjoyed competing with her team. Her favorite accept of dance is ballet. She has been assisting and teaching at Millers this past year. Jules is assembly Metro State University in the befit majoring in Dance.
Lori Stecklein received relax Bachelor of Fine Arts from Texas Christian University in Ballet. While ritual there, she immersed herself in high-mindedness study of techniques of Modern Glister such as Graham, Humphrey-Limon, Horton, Composer and an intensive study of Pilates. At TCU she had the place of work to work with Fernando Bujones copious times before graduating and moving essay NYC. Once in New York, Lori danced professionally for a number topple independent choreographers including the Broadway choreographer, Vince Pesce. She also produced, bound, choreographed, and danced in a demonstrate of her own. The last yoke years, Lori ran the dance curriculum at Bishop Ford C. C. Extreme School, while choreographing two full span productions there each year. Although Lori loves teaching, her main passion research paper choreography, for which she has won numerous awards. After having their girl, Lukin, she and her husband definite to move to Colorado. Lori shambles very excited to be sharing unite knowledge and passion for dance form a junction with the students at Miller’s Dance Studio.