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Description
We're sorry, but this activity is over. The last meeting was Friday, April 1, 2022.
A fun introduction to dance! Designed to help your child explore movement and music, using simplified ballet steps and lots of imagination. Age - 2 1/2 - 3.
Includes primary classical ballet techniques and promotes musicality, grace, poise and posture. Tap dance emphasizes rhythmic and locomotive skills. Ages 3 - 10.Instructor Sandy Griffin has been a dance educator for over 40 years and is beginning her 17th year at CRPD. She has had extensive training as a dancer with many renowned teachers and performers, has judged many dance competitions, professionally danced in ballet and musicals, and has owned her own dance studio in Marietta. She has been educated in the RAD syllabus for teaching beginning-professional levels at the Royal Ballet School in London, England. Instructor Andrea Walker began dancing at the age of three with the CRPD Dance Program. While in the program as a student, she discovered her love for teaching while assisting with various classes. Andrea attended many master classes and intensives at Brenau University, Kennesaw State, and Bandan Koro. She graduated with honors from Tyler College in Texas, where she majored in Dance with a focus in Dance Education. While at school, she taught at a local pre-professional dance school, performed in several of the college's dance shows, choreographed a piece for their annual student-faculty recital, and worked as an assistant to the director of the school's annual Nutcracker production. Instructor Lizzie Baker started dance at the age of 3 with the Dalton School of Ballet. During the course of her training, she studied Ballet, modern Jazz, Pointe, and Hip Hop. In addition to her dance training, Lizzie participated in and choreographed numerous community theater productions as well as choreographing for show choirs in Dalton, Ga, Durham, NC, and Winchester, Va. She graduated from Shenandoah University with a BFA in Dance Performance. Instructor Angelina Pellini has been a teacher for the Cumming Ballet Theatre for the past 7 years. Angelina holds a Bachelor of Arts in Dance from Kennesaw State University. She recently graduated Summa Cum laude and with Honors distinction. During her time at KSU, she performed with the KSU Dance Company as well as at the Alabama Dance Festival and KSU Dance Festival. In addition to teaching, she works as the Resident Stage Manager for Terminus Modern Ballet Theatre, the Emory University Dance Company, and the KSU Marietta Dance Theater. Additionally, Angelina received the Joan Harrell Dance Scholarship for her research in 2017 and her honors thesis on Dance Education in Private Dance Studios was published in the Kennesaw Journal of Undergraduate Research.
Program Category
REC DANCE Fairy Princess Ballet
Location
REC Dance Room 2 at REC Cumming Recreation Office
Prerequisites
REC DANCE TWINKLE TOTS JAN-FEB 2022 within 3 months of activity start
Instructor
Andrea Walker
Map & Direction
REC Cumming Recreation Office
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437 Pilgrim Mill Road
Cumming, GA
30040
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