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Carol Zee, Artistic Director of everybody
dance! since its
inception in 2000, is a dancer, teacher and choreographer
who has been a featured member of Especially Tap Chicago
and the Jazz Tap Ensemble of Los Angeles. She danced
with Gregory Hines at the Ford Theater in Los Angeles,
Harold Nicholas of the Nicholas Brothers in New York and
was Halle Berry's tap teacher for the HBO film Introducing
Dorothy Dandridge. Her teaching experience includes
master classes, conventions, college residencies,
workshops and dance festivals. In addition to her role as
Artistic Director, Carol also teaches tap for everybody
dance!
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Chippy Zuniga, Assistant Artistic Director and Dance
Education Coordinator, comes to
everybody dance! with a strong background in dance education and a commitment to
the
integration of dance instruction throughout the academic curriculum. She served as the
Childhood Dance Director and dance instructor at the Harvey Cavalier Camp, Park Pre-School
and the River School in New York and taught dance at the Westwood Charter School and the
Faith Intercommunity Church in Whittier, California. She earned an MA from New York University
with concentration in Dance Education K-12 and has danced with the Kaleidoscope Dance
Company, the Pasadena Civic Ballet Company and the UCLA Undergraduate Dance
Company. Chippy co-wrote the dance curriculum for the ABC School District and currently
teaches at Hollywood School House. In addition to her role as Dance Education Coordinator,
Chippy also teaches integrative movement and choreography for everybody dance!
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Vera Ninkovic was born in Perth, Australia. She
studied
classical ballet at some of the most prestigious ballet
schools in the world on scholarship including: The National
Ballet School in Sofia, Bulgaria and the State Ballet School
in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. Vera also studied with the London
Studio Center in London where she was voted Dancer of
the Year in 1991 and performed in the presence of HRH
Prince Edward. She completed her training at the Royal
Ballet School in London where she received the R.A.D. Solo
Seal Award. Vera was a semi-finalist in the 1991 Prix de
Lausanne international ballet competition in Switzerland.
She went on to dance professionally with the Basel Ballet
in Switzerland, touring internationally. She also performed
as a soloist with the Perth City Ballet in Australia as well as
the Los Angeles Classical Ballet at the Shrine Auditorium in
Los Angeles. Vera has taught ballet for The Performing Arts
Center in Northridge, The Ana Cheselka Dance Center and
The Marat Daukayev School of Ballet. In addition, Vera has
produced and choreographed a number of fashion shows
and dance productions, including the 2007 spring
production of Alice in Wonderland by the Los Angeles
County High School for the Arts (LACHSA), where she
currently serves as Artistic Director of the dance
department. In addition to her work with LACHSA, Vera
teaches ballet for everybody dance!
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Marta Santamaria is a dancer, singer and choreographer
whose training began in her hometown of Seville, Spain at
the Conservatory of Ballet and Classical Spanish Dance.
She extended her training in flamenco and Afro- Caribbean
Dance in Puerto Rico and Los Angeles. Marta teaches
creative movement classes for everybody dance!
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Meredith Huddleston holds a BA in Ballet Pedagogy
from Brenau University in Gainesville,
Georgia and a MFA from New York University's prestigious Tisch School of the Arts where she
was a scholarship student. She began her ballet training at the age of ten with Emily Caruso
and has received additional training from Tom Pazik, Diane Callahan, Jackie Villamil, Jolinda
Menendez, Douglas Becker and Cassandra Pfifer. In New York, she studied extensively with and
danced in original works by Milton Myers, Sean Curran, David Dorfman and Doug Varonne.
Meredith performed in New York at the Downtown Arts Festival and DANCENOW, at the Joyce
SoHo, the 92nd Street YMCA, St. Mark's Church and P.S.122. Meredith taught ballet, jazz and
modern dance for 15 years throughout the Southeast and New York City and currently teaches
ballet for everybody dance!
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Joe Schenck graduated from Northwestern University’s
Theatre and Music Theatre programs
and also trained at the Actors Gymnasium, Midnight Circus and the Acting Studio Chicago. As
an actor and dancer, he most recently performed with the LA Opera (Fidelio), Pasadena
Playhouse (Can-Can) and Civic Light Opera South Bay Cities (Oliver!). Joe’s
Chicago
performance credits include performances with Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Marriott Theatre
in Lincolnshire, Apple Tree Theatre, Lookingglass Theatre Co., Porchlight Music Theatre and
Light Opera Works. He has performed across the country with his Chicago-based sketch
comedy group GayCo. The son of a 4th grade elementary school teacher (mother) and a high
school Health/P.E. teacher (father), Joe has taught a variety of disciplines. At the Actors
Gymnasium in Chicago, he taught tumbling, circus arts and physical theatre. Joe currently
conducts private lessons (jazz, tap, modern and music theater) and also teaches Theatre
Movement classes at the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts and tap classes for
everybody dance!
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Kathleen Mangan was born in New York and raised
in Los Angeles. She has danced
professionally from coast to coast and internationally, performing in industrials and musical
theatre such as Cabaret, Oliver! and A Chorus Line. After graduating from UCLA
in 2002, she
danced in Saipan for a year and then moved to the east coast to work as a dancer for the
NBA’s New Jersey Nets. Kathleen teaches ballet for everybody dance!
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Shannon Harris holds a Political and Social Thought
degree from the University of Virginia,
where she was the school's Dance Team Captain and a principle performer with the Virginia
Dance Company. She is a member of Pennington Dance Group and PTERO Dance Theatre and is
on faculty at the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts. She has also choreographed for
the Hobart Shakespeareans, an internationally renowned public elementary school class that
performs musical versions of Shakespeare’s plays. Shannon teaches modern dance and Reading-
In-Motion for everybody dance!
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Leslie Geldbach has been dancing for 25 years and
has done musicals, videos, movies,
concerts, industrials, television and choreography. Leslie’s dance credits include working with
Reba McEntire, LL. Cool J., Jim Carrey, Kirsten Dunst and The Rock. She was assistant
choreographer for Reba McEntire’s “Girls Night Out” Tour, Latin Singer Chayanne’s
1997- 1998
Tours and Leanne Rhymes tours and live performances. She has done videos for Smash Mouth,
Elton John and Garth Brooks. Her musicals credits include Sisterella and The Fab Four;
her
movie credits include The Majestic and Scorpion King; and her television credits include The
Hughley’s, Hit me Baby One More Time, and Time of Your Life with Jennifer Love
Hewitt. Leslie
has recently choreographed for Alex Borstein from the Family Guy, Andy Dick as Daphnie
Agulara and Will Wheaton. Leslie continues to train in the art of dance and give back to her
community by teaching for the scholarship program at the Performing Arts Center, Encore
Dance Studio and master classes in the United States and Canada. Leslie teaches jazz for
everybody dance!
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Katie Grubiak has performed and collaborated with
the Liam Harney Irish Dance Company, the
Afro-Cuban and Afro- Brazilian company Soul Beat, the Irish rock band Young Dubliners, Irish
percussionist David Page and Irish musician Mick Moloney. She has toured across the U.S. and
Europe. Her dance background encompasses classical as well as cultural dance forms and her
mission has been in rediscovering their connection. Katie is most known for her fusion style of
Irish dance, both dancing and choreographing for stage and TV. She has also worked with the
Los Angeles Opera in its sold out performances of Manon. Most recently, Katie danced for Sue
Wong’s Spring 2008 Mercedes-Benz fashion show alongside fellow colleagues Shannon Harris
and Chippy Zuniga. In addition to her career as a dance teacher, Katie works as a public health
Registered Dietitian. Katie teaches ballet for everybody dance!
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Christie Rios is the Assistant Director of Danza
Floricanto/USA, the oldest existing professional
Mexican folk dance troupe in Los Angeles. She has danced for Floricanto since 1980 and has
toured with the company throughout the American Southwest and Mexico. In addition, Christie
serves as coordinator of the Floricanto Institute, the teaching arm of the company which
serves over 100 students in the Los Angeles area, now in its seventh year. Christie teaches
world dance for everybody dance!
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Sarah Reich dances with Chloe Arnold’s Syncopated
Ladies, Jason Samuels Smith’s tap group
Anybody Can Get It and Steve Zee’s LA Ironworks. She is a former member of the Jazz Tap
Ensemble’s Caravan Project for gifted teenage tap dancers. Sarah has worked with Harold
“Stumpy” Cromer since 2004, assisting him at the St. Louis, Chicago and LA tap festivals,
teaching his famous “Opus One,” and taught in New York City at the Tap City and at a
Traditions In Tap workshop honoring Cromer. Sarah was chosen by Warner Brothers to dance
at the previews and world premiere of Happy Feet at Mann’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood,
where she came in first at the Happy Feet Tap Dancing Contest, winning a trip for four to the
Baltimore Zoo. Sarah received an award for Performing Artist of the Year at the 2005 OMNI
Awards, was featured in Dance Spirit magazine’s article “20 Hot Tappers Under 20”
and Dancer
magazine describes how: "A small package of dynamite talent, explodes where ever she
dances." Sarah can be seen performing in two new tap DVDs: The World Is My Drum, volumes
1 and 2. Sarah teaches tap for everybody dance!
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Aaron Porter has worked with Academy Award winner
Ron
Howard in The Grinch, Academy nominated director
Christian Taylor in Showboy (Best Film Milan Film Festival
2002) and Hinton Battle (The Wiz, Dreamgirls). Aaron has
done numerous commercials including spots for
McDonald’s, CBS, and Pepsi. His television credits include
Disney’s Phil of the Future, Disney’s in Concert Series with
B*Witched and Fame LA. Aaron has choreographed for
Jason Alexander (Seinfield, The Producers) and has
professionally trained dancers who have gone on to work
with Britney Spears, Debbie Allen, Cirque du Soleil, winners
on the television series Fame and Star Search. He has
been teaching at the EDGE and Millennium Dance Complex
for the past seven years. His students have included Jenna
Elfman (EdTV), Katie Holmes (Batman Begins) and Lauren
Ambrose (Six Feet Under). Aaron choreographed industrials
for software giant Cisco Systems, the historic “It’s Magic”
50th Anniversary Show at the Kodak Theatre. His
choreography can also be seen in the MGM feature film
Sleepover. Aaron has taught master classes and workshops
throughout the US and currently teaches hip-hop and jazz
for everybody dance!
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Kristen Schifferli received her Masters Degree in
Dance Education from New York University
and currently holds a Simonson Technique teaching Certification from Dance New Amsterdam,
NYC. She has instructed dance for the past eight years in over 30 educational institutions
including elementary, professional and studio, university, and community programs. Kristen has
written numerous articles for Dance Teacher magazine and she recently co-wrote the ABC
Unified VAPA Dance 07-08 curriculum. Her performance credits include television appearances
and professional work on stages in Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York City. Kristen
teaches pre-ballet for everybody dance!
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