News & Reviews
9/7/2010
CLICK HERE to see Heidi Dunn featured on the blog 4dancers!
8/12/2010
Ballet Quad Cities School of Dance is offering an Adult Ballet class and an Adult Tap class that will begin the week of September 6th.
8/3/2010
Click above for the performance dates, times and locations for our upcoming season!
4/15/2010
by Jonathan Turner, Dispatch-Argus
4/15/2010
photos by Jeff Cook, Quad-City Times
4/15/2010
by David Burke, Quad-City Times
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Faculty at Ballet Quad Cities School of Dance
Erica Attwood received her early training from Magda Aunon in Fort Lauderdale, FL. She spent two years at the prestigious Harid Conservatory in Boca Raton, FL. She finished her training in Cuba with Laura Alonso, where she was also a member of Ballet Classico de Havana. At Ballet Quad Cities School of Dance, Erica taught all levels of ballet and pointe before returning to Florida for a year. She taught with Magda Aunon, Michael’s School of Performing Arts and choreographed a ballet for Florida’s new professional ballet company, Sondance Ballet Theatre, in 2007. She has since returned to the Quad Cities and is back to teaching ballet for the School.
Kaleb Baker began teaching at the Canton Ballet as a student teacher for Creative Movement. During that time, he found a passion for teaching as he watched his students discover the joy of dance. He continued teaching Creative Movement, Jazz, Ballet and Modern. While continuing his ballet training at Pittsburg Ballet Theatre, he taught a boys' class. His teacher training includes completing a Vaganova Ballet Teaching Seminar taught by Inna Stabrova, a former dancer with The Kirov Ballet.
Margaret Huling has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music where she studied ballet and modern dance from 2000-2004. Along with professional performance experience, she has enjoyed teaching dance at Ballet Quad Cities School of Dance since 2004 and has been co-director of Ballet Quad Cities II since 2008. Ms. Huling teaches ballet and pointe at Ballet Quad Cities School of Dance where she instructs students on ballet technique and the history of dance. Ms. Huling is also a part of Ballet Quad Cities’ Dance for Life outreach program that goes to Quad City schools to introduce dance and healthy living to children of all ages and backgrounds.
Courtney Lyon teaches ballet at Ballet Quad Cities School of Dance. She received her early training from Nathalie LeVine in St. Louis and earned her BFA with Honors in Dance from the University of Iowa before joining Ballet Quad Cities as a professional dancer in 2000. She received additional training from Arleen Sugano, Joffery Ballet School, and the Milwaukee Ballet. Ms. Lyon enjoys teaching a wide range of students from creative movement to advanced students and adults. As a teacher, she focuses on clean classical ballet technique and correct placement while encouraging artistry from even the youngest students. Recently, Ms. Lyon completed two pedagogue courses that involved comprehensive study of the 1st through the 5th years of the Vaganova syllabus. These intensive seminars were given by John White an authority of the Vaganova teaching method and former dancer and Ballet Master of the National Ballet of Cuba. In the summer of 2009, Ms. Lyon participated in the Kennedy Center's Artists as Educators Seminar, Laying a Foundation: Defining Arts Integration.
Jake Lyon started dancing in Redding, CA under the direction of Debra Larson. He continued his dance training at the Burklyn Theatre in Vermont under Arthur Leeth, Amanda McKerrow and David Howard. He has performed as a Guest Artist at UNC Greeley. With Ballet Quad Cities, Mr. Lyon has danced many feature roles. This is his eighth season as a dancer with Ballet Quad Cities. Mr. Lyon will be teaching Conditioning. Light Boot Camp incorporates toning, conditioning and cardio with an emphasis on proper form and technique.
Kelsey Nagel has been tap dancing since she was 5 years old, teaching tap since she was 14 years old and is a 2009 graduate of Oklahoma City University with a B.S. in Dance Management. She chose to study at OCU as it is the only University in the country where you can focus the dance technique portion of your degree almost solely on tap. The Dance Management degree also included a classes focused on arts management including one entirely on Dance Studio Management. While at OCU, she spent over half of her required dance technique hours in tap classes, studying with such renowned instructors as Robert L. Reed (founder of the St. Louis Tap Festival), Jeremy Keisman (former Tap Dog) and Jay Fagan. Kelsey has continued her training since graduation with tap intensives in New York City and Chicago. Kelsey will be teaching all Tap classes and an introductory Jazz class. Her classes will focus on the understanding of basic skills, acquiring good rhythm and the use of proper technique.
Andrea Rehm began training as a teacher while studying at the Hartt School's Dance Program at the University of Hartford. During her internship, she developed ballet classes and semester-long training courses for students in the program. She credits her love for classical ballet teaching and knowledge in training to Susan Brooker, a specialist in Ballet Pedagogy and curriculum development (Member of the National Curriculum Development Committee and the Artistic Board of Examiners and Instructors for American Ballet Theatre). Andrea graduated with a BFA in Ballet Pedagogy. Before joining Ballet Quad Cities, Andrea taught on faculty at the Louisville Ballet School. This season she is teaching Level 6 Ballet, Graham (Modern) and Pilates.
Johanna Welzenbach-Hillard began practicing Hatha Yoga in 2001, and received her 200 hour teacher training certification under the tutelage of Jeani Mackenzie in 2007. Since then she has continued to study under Jeani and has become increasingly attracted to the Vinyasa system of Yoga, which she studies under Evan and Kelly Harris. She reads extensively on all aspects of Yoga and related topics continuing her intellectual studies with Evan Harris.
Johanna teaches All Level Yoga at Ballet Quad Cities School of Dance in Rock Island on Saturday mornings, beginning Hatha Yoga through the Davenport Parks and Recreation, and is a substitute teacher and Happy Hour Yoga teacher for the Davenport School of Yoga. Johanna’s travels have taken her to: Yogaville in Buckingham, VA (an ashram begun by Swami Satchidananda) where she took a workshop with Erich Schiffman; to Maui where she met and studied with Ted Surman, a student of Gary Kraftsow’s Viniyoga Institute, and, most recently to San Francisco for the January Yoga Journal Conference. There she was delighted to take an all-day intensive with Gary Kraftsow & Rod Stryker, and two excellent workshops with partners David Life and Sharon Gannon who founded the Jiva Mukti system of Yoga.
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