Our Faculty

Training: Hilo School of Ballet, Honolulu City Ballet Apprentice, and B.A. at the University of California at Irvine

Dance  Instructor Adjunct: Kingsborough Community College and Manhattan Marymount College

Former New York City Ballet Education Dept. Teaching Artist 

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ABT© Certified Teacher in Primary through Level 3 of the ABT© National Training Curriculum. 

Training: Princeton Ballet School  Scholarship Recipient, San Francisco Ballet School Summer Intensive Scholarship, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre Graduate Program, B.A from Rutgers University

Professional Dance Experience: American Repertory Ballet, New York Theatre Ballet, Dances Patrelle

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ABT© Certified Teacher in Primary through Level 7 of the ABT© National Training Curriculum.

Training: Covenant Ballet Academy, Brooklyn Dance Center

Former Covenant Ballet Theatre dancer

D.O.E. Para-Professional

Training: The École Supérieure de Danse de Cannes Rosella Hightower in France and Goh Ballet Academy in Canada

  Professional Dance Experience: USA Ballet Company,

Connecticut Ballet, Long Island Ballet & Atlantic Ballet 

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ABT© Certified Teacher in Primary through Level 7 of the ABT© National Training Curriculum.

Training: BA in Dance Pedagogy (Cum Laude) at Butler University Indiana , Milwaukee Ballet School, Ailey School, American Ballet Theatre School

Founder and Artistic Director of Neville Dance Theatre

Former Principal Dancer with CBT

 

ABT© Certified Teacher in Primary through Level 7 of the ABT© National Training Curriculum. 

Training: BA in dance from Julliard School, School of American Ballet, the Gallman’s Newark Dance Theater School and the Dance Theater of Harlem

Professional Performance Experience: in Germany and the U.S., Former Principal Dancer with CBT

Training: BA (Honors) Dance Theatre from Laban Centre, London with Graduate Diploma in Advanced Performance (practical credits for MA)

Professional Dance Experience: Europe and the U.S.

Founder and Artistic Director of the Matthew Westerby Company

Training: Covenant Ballet Academy Alumni, Manhattan Youth Ballet, La Guardia High School, Summer Intensives with Peridance, Nutmeg Conservatory, NYSSSA Ballet, and Boston Ballet

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ABT© Certified Teacher in Primary through Level 3 of the ABT© National Training Curriculum. 

Training:  BFA in Fine Arts and BFA in Art History at University of Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia, MA in Dance Education and ABT Ballet Pedagogy at New York University, Certification in Progressing Ballet Technique

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ABT© Certified Teacher in Primary through Level 7 of the ABT© National Training Curriculum.

Training: Covenant Ballet Academy Alumni, Alvin Ailey Certificate of Dance Graduate

Founder and Artistic Director of HopeDanceNYC

Certified Personal Trainer

Training: MFA in Dance from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts (scholarship), BFA in dance (First Class Honors) at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts

Certified Pilates, Yoga instructor, and registered Somatics Movement Therapist

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ABT© Certified Teacher in Primary through Level 3 of the ABT© National Training Curriculum. 

Training: BFA in dance from the Fordham University -

Alvin Ailey Program

Professional Dance Experience: Matthew Westerby Company, Ariel Rivka Dance, Valerie Green Dance Entropy

 

ABT© Certified Teacher in Primary through Level 3 of the ABT© National Training Curriculum. 

Training: David Howard Dance Center, Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance, Ailey School, SUNY Purchase College, Brooklyn Academy for the Performing Arts

Professional Performance Experience: The Andy Williams Show in Branson, MO, Former Principal Dancer with CBT

Training:  School of Hard Knocks, Puppy School and lots of treats

No professional experience.

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