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Tita Boulger, founder and co-director of PSPA, has a well known reputation, having taught in the South Bay area for over 25 years. She has studied tap with Melvin Kaiser, Eddie Gay, Henry Le Tang and Paul Kennedy, ballet with Olga Fricker, Patricia Stander and Jazz with Bill Hyden, Jimmy Mack and Luigi.. She appeared with the Jimmy Mack Performing Troup as a featured Jazz and Tap dancer and is a current member of the Hot Cotton Candies. She has choreographed numerous musicals including, Anything Goes, 42nd Street, The Mikado, and West Side Story. Each summer Ms. Boulger is teacher/choreographer for the Song and Dance Program at Idyllwild Arts Summer Program. Ms Boulger brings her talents for choreography and teaching together to form the Peninsula School of Performing Arts Dyan Lopez Fiamengo has been teaching jazz and tap in the South Bay area for 25 years. She has taught for the Edge, Dupree, and Steven Peck, as well as PSPA. Dyan specializes in competition routines, and prep for song, dance drill, choreo and cheer. At one school she began an all boys dance team that became state champions for two years, with one dancer going on to dance with Brittany Spears, Michael Jackson and Prince. She herself has danced professionally with Cab Calloway, the Four Tops, Steve Allen and Gregory Hines. She has worked on TV, movies and music videos. Dyan has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Physical Education and a minor in Dance from California State University, Long Beach. Currently, she is Co-Choreographer and performer with "The Hot Cotton Candies" and is the director of "Electric Youth ". She is also a free lance choreographer for competitions, fashion shows, half-times and field shows. Ruth Fentroy ,born in British Columbia, Canada has performed nationally and internationally with both local companies as well as renowned companies such as San Francisco Ballet, The Royal Ballet, and Ballet Nacional de Cuba. She is an aspiring teacher and choreographer and has choreographed several classical and neo-classical short works as well as full-length children’s ballets for Regional Ballet companies as well as schools. Many of her students have been accepted to prestigious summer programs such as Ballet Pacifica, San Francisco Ballet, Ballet West, Joffrey Ballet, Nevada Ballet Theatre and American Ballet Theatre
Laura Whitesides
has been teaching dance in the South Bay area for 15 years. She
received her training at Ballet Pacifica with Louis Carver, Jimmie De Fore Dance
Studio with Jimmie De Fore, Dupree Dance Academy and Edge Performing Arts
Center. Liz Cantine is well know as a teacher of ballet, tap, folk and modern, choreographer, performer, PVPUSD dance educator, and consultant. A UCLA grad Liz began her performing career with Burch Mann Folk Ballet and Al Huang Modern Dance Co. Marie Sperber has been dancing for 20 years. She has studied ballet, jazz, lyrical, tap, modern, musical theater and hiphop. At the age of 11 she was chosen to join a modern dance company, A Wing and a Prayer, to tour the western united states. In 2003 she moved to Los Angeles where she has performed at various venues and continues to train at the Edge. Marie has been teaching at many studios throughout the Los Angeles area; as well as choreographing and preparing dancers for competitions. Her dance piece "Tribal Tap" won the 2006 encore choreographers award. Marie is an excellent technician and has the ability to bring the best out of all dancers from young to advanced pre-professionals
Alex Kalinin
was born in Moscow, Russia and began
his dancing career at the age of four with his father. He graduated from the
prestigious Bolshoi Ballet Academy of Moscow. He has performed and toured as
a soloist in over sixty countries with the most prestigious dance companies
in the former Soviet Union. After immigrating to the United States in 1981,
Mr. Kalinin has performed on stages from New York to Las Vegas, Reno,
Australia and throughout Southern California. He has taught dance for over
twenty-five years in US as well as abroad. He is the Founder and Artistic
Director of the Kalinin Dance Company.
Vanja Davidson started dancing at the age of 6, At the age of 10, she was completely astonished by street dance as well. She has been trained in Jazz, Ballet, Hip-Hop, Latin Dance, Contemporary, Lyrical, and Modern Dance. In 2002, Vanja became the Co-Owner/Choreographer for a professional dance company based in Europe where she managed business operations as well as administrative duties. As an instructor she taught children, ages 3 to 25 dance techniques including: Jazz, Hip-Hop, Gymnastics, and Lyrical. At the age of 20, Vanja coached nationally and internationally. She has coached World and European Champions across multiple dance disciplines, and age groups. Vanja complimented her extensive dance background by studying Physical Education while residing in her home country of Yugoslavia. Most recently, Vanja relocated in 2007 to the Los Angeles area in order to purse a degree in Dance Cindy Peroni has been in Dance for many years as a Performer, Costume designer, and Teacher. She has designed and created costumes for Dance Peninsula, PSPA, Dynamic Dance and Electric Youth. She taught Creative Movement and Dance at Peninsula Montessori, and currently Ballet, Acrobatics, and Tap at PSPA. Lindsay Turner Preston Li Chelsea Stager Roberto Almaguer Melissa Matthews Erin McElroy
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