Who We Are
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Executive Directors
Cleo Mack
Co-Owner
Cleo Mack is an award winning choreographer and educator who is actively pursuing her Masters of Interdisciplinary Art with a focus on choreography and visual arts. Her work has been described as “a collision of quirky sophistication and unmeasured recklessness.” She has been commissioned by the Outlet Dance Project at Grounds for Sculpture, 10 Hairy Legs, Perpich School of the Arts, and Quad City Ballet. Ms. Mack has been honored to receive an Individual Artists Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, in recognition of her high artistic merit and was selected by Dance Magazine as one of the “25 to Watch.” Cleo has enjoyed support from the Middlesex County Cultural and Heritage Commission, Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation and has also received space grants from The Field, DTW, and Lincoln Center.
Ms. Mack’s performance work has been presented at Joyce Soho, Dance Theater Workshop’s Fresh Tracks, the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., WAX, P.S. 1 Moma, the Hungarian American Dance Festival in Hungary, and at NJPAC as part of Jersey Moves. 2016 marks the inception of Mack's newest project, Rock Dance Collective (RDC) is focused on creating interdisciplinary work in traditional and non-traditional environments.
Ms. Mack is the Director of Dance at the Middlesex County School of Performing Arts and co-owner of Washington Rock Dance. She has been a part-time lecturer at Rutgers University Mason Gross School of the Arts and a teaching artist for the American Repertory Ballet Institute, DeSales University, Muhlenberg University and the University of Iowa. She was the recipient of the 2017 Hollins University Teaching Award.
Cleo is a professional costume designer and has created costumes for Alexandra Bellar, Pam Tanowitz, Meghan Frederick, Chein-Ying Wang, Randy James, Stephanie Batten Bland, Paul O’Campo, and Julia Ritter.
Kelli McGovern
Co-owner
Kelli McGovern is a Doctoral student in the Ed.D. Dance Education program within the Dept. of Arts and Humanities at Columbia University’s Teachers College and a recipient of the Arnhold Fellowship Scholarship. She is a graduate of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey with an Ed.M. in Dance Education from the Graduate School of Education and a B.F.A. in Dance Performance from Mason Gross School of the Arts. Kelli is a full time tenured dance educator at Bayonne High School (BHS) where she has created the dance arts curriculum in the district and the BHS Young Dancer Program, a community outreach program designed to offer dance technique training.
Kelli is an owner of Washington Rock Dance (WRD) along with her business partners and collaborators, Cleo Mack and Blair Ritchie. WRD is a private dance school founded in 2015 that is based on developmentally focused training designed to maximize the potential of each student. WRD creates a foundational support structure for its professional dance company, Rock Dance Collective (RDC), a non-profit company of which Kelli is a Dancer, Founder, and Executive Director. RDC has been commissioned by DanceNOW SteelStacks, DanceNOW Joe’s Pub, Rutgers Summer Stage, and CoLab Arts. RDC has self produced multiple evening length works in both nontraditional and traditional spaces to create pieces that respond to societal and environmental stimuli through an interdisciplinary collaborative process. As a performer Kelli has performed as a freelance artist with many choreographers at various venues and festivals throughout New York City, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Boston.
Ms. McGovern has recently served on the review team of the new NJ Core Curriculum Content Standards for Visual and Performing Arts Standards to be released this year and has developed the Model Curriculum Dance Assessments to be used as a guide for dance programs in the state of New Jersey. She has been selected to present her educational philosophies at the National Dance Education Organization National Conferences in Arizona, Washington, D.C., and Miami, and at the NJAHPERD Conference. Kelli is an American Ballet Theatre® Certified Teacher, who has successfully completed the ABT® Teacher Training Intensive in Primary through Level 5 of the ABT® National Training Curriculum.
Blair Ritchie
Co-Owner
Blair Ritchie is a member of the Faculty of Mason Gross School of the Arts Dance Department at Rutgers University where she has taught Modern Technique, Improvisation I and II, Contact Improvisation, Dance Appreciation, Performance Skills, and Yoga for Dancers, for the past seven years. She sits on their Dance Technique Curriculum Committee and has created the curriculum for the Yoga for Dancers course. In collaboration with Rutgers University and Om Factory in New York City, she developed the first ever Rutgers/Om Factory 200hr. Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Training.
Ms. Ritchie is an owner of Washington Rock Dance, a private dance training facility located in Warren, NJ. She is also a Founder, Managing Director, and Dancer for Rock Dance Collective, a professional dance company. Her company's educational and professional work has been presented at many conferences, performance venues, and universities throughout America.
Blair graduated Summa Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance from Mason Gross School of the Arts. Throughout her career as a dancer, she has performed nationally and internationally as a member of multiple modern dance companies.
Blair is a registered Yoga Teacher (RYT) and has completed her 500 hour teacher training with renowned yoga teachers Sue Elkind and Naime Jezzeny at DIG Yoga. For the last decade, she has continued her education in alignment based Hatha yoga and the life affirming philosophy it brings with it. She has also taken extensive therapeutics training to learn the practical applications of yoga and hands-on adjustments for the chronically and acutely injured body.
Faculty
Deja Baret
Deja Baret holds an EdM degree from the Dance Education program at the Graduate School of Education, Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ. During this time, Deja was selected from her class to be a member of the Rutgers CAEP (Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation) Reaccreditation Team as a K-12 EdM Dance Education representative. Currently, Deja works full time as a teacher of yoga and dance at Bayonne High School. Furthermore, she is a dance instructor for both Washington Rock Dance and the Bayonne High School Young Dancer Program, teaching a variety of dance styles to children ages 2-11. Deja is also a yoga instructor for the Bayonne High School baseball team, working with them weekly to strengthen and enhance their performance as athletes.
In May of 2020, Deja graduated Magna Cum Laude with her B.F.A. in Dance Performance from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. While at Mason Gross, she performed in works by Cleo Mack, Randy James, Chien- Ying Wang, John Heginbotham, and Jordan Lloyd. In October of 2019, Deja performed for Chien- Ying Wang alongside her peers at the International Creative Dance Seminar in Beijing, China. Deja is currently a company dancer for Rock Dance Collective, performing in multiple venues in New Jersey and New York. In 2018, Deja received her 200-hour Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Certification through Om Factory and Rutgers University under the direction of Taryn Vander Hoop and Blair Ritchie.
Dani Fishman
Dani Fishman grew up in Marlboro, NJ and started dancing at the age of 5. She is mainly a contemporary dancer but is also trained in ballet, jazz, modern, hip-hop, tap and acrobatics. In 2017 she graduated from The Ohio State University with a BFA in dance and a minor in arts entrepreneurship. There she was trained by former Mark Morris and Merce Cunningham company dancers Susan Hadley, Daniel Roberts, and Karen Elliot. While in college, Dani taught dance at a private school to children with autism and also received her certification for dance teacher training in Dance for PD (Parkinson's disease) from the Mark Morris Dance Center in Brooklyn, NY. Her summer going into senior year she interned at Washington Rock Dance where she has now been working as a teacher for 7 years. Dani also teaches a dance elective course at Henry E. Harris Elementary School in Bayonne to 4th-8th graders.
Athena Lambos
Athena Lambos graduated from Rutgers University with a B.F.A. in Dance Performance from Mason Gross School of the Arts with a minor in Developmental Psychology and Education as a Social Science. She grew up in Bayonne, NJ where she started her dance training at Dance With Me Dance Studio and later trained at Washington Rock Dance.
Athena will soon be graduating with a master's degree and certificate in Pre-K-12 Dance Education from Rutgers University Graduate School of Education. During her time at Rutgers, she completed her full-time clinical internship at John F. Kennedy Memorial High School in Iselin, NJ. Athena is a certified pilates instructor and has completed the Polestar Pilates Reformer Teacher Training Program, as well as holding her 200-hour Vinyasa Yoga teacher certification and Pilates Mat certification through Lila Core.
Throughout her career as a performer, Athena has been able to work with choreographers including Kelli McGovern, Cleo Mack, Lori Alexander, Blair Ritchie, Kyle Marshall, Heather Favretto, Kimberly Elliott, Tony Bordonaro, and Ani Javian.
Emma Massarelli
Emma Massarelli was born and raised in Bayonne, New Jersey. She started dancing at Ms. Huguette’s Broadway Dance and Theatrical Studios in Bayonne and continued her dance education at New Jersey Ballet in Livingston, New Jersey. As a member of New Jersey Ballet’s junior company, she performed in numerous productions of The Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, and Don Quixote.
Emma holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, under the direction of Seán Curran and Giada Ferrone. During her time at NYU Tisch, she performed works by Crystal Pite, Sonya Tayeh, and Paul Taylor, and studied with artists such as David Dorfman, Judith Sanchez-Ruiz, Ayman Harper, and Johannes Wieland. She currently is a member of RyderDance, a contemporary dance company based in New York City, a ballet teacher at Washington Rock Dance in Warren, New Jersey, and has recently begun working with Showbiz National Talent as a backstage coordinator. Emma will begin Columbia University’s Doctor of Physical Therapy program in the fall of 2020.
Madison Meredith
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Madison Meredith is a performing and teaching dance artist, choreographer, and Registered Yoga School (RYS) 200HR certified yoga teacher in the greater New Jersey/New York area. Madison holds a Master of Education in Dance Education from Rutgers Graduate School of Education, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance Performance with minors in Psychology and Education as a Social Science from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. She also holds a New Jersey Certificate of Eligibility with Advanced Standing (CEAS) in PK-12 Dance Education. Growing up in southern New Jersey and the greater Philadelphia area, Madison primarily trained at PassMORE Dance with Robin Passmore, Filip Lacina, Andre Morris, and Lina McMenamin, as well as Gloucester County Institute of Technology under Marissa Stahl and Norman Taylor.
With specialties in modern/contemporary, tap, and jazz, Madison also teaches hip hop, ballet, and musical theater. Madison is on staff as a teaching artist at The School/Community Programs at Nimbus Dance Works, Mark Morris Dance Center, Gloucester County Institute of Technology Performing Arts department, All For Dance, Be You Dance Center, and Washington Rock Dance. Other teaching partnerships include BOLD Arts, Fresh Theater Arts, MOVE CJ, and Swedesboro-Woolwich Little Theater. She also has taught tap and contemporary/modern based masterclasses and workshops for a number of dance studios across New Jersey, as well as set choreography for competitive dance teams.
Madison is a company member of moe-tion dance theater based in New Jersey, and has performed with Opus Dance Company based in Philadelphia, PA. She also performs for Julia Ramirez and has appeared in her works at festivals such as the 92Y Future Dance Festival and White Wave’s DUMBO Dance Festival. Madison has performed repertory works of Heginbotham Dance, UNA Productions, and John Evans, and has performed works of other acclaimed artists such as Chloe Arnold, Robin Passmore, Lynn Neuman of Artichoke Dance Company, Caitlin Casson, and Reggie Oliver. Madison’s professional choreographic works have been presented at Triskelion Arts in Brooklyn, NY, the Adrienne Theater in Philadelphia, PA, and the Koresh Artist Showcase in Philadelphia, PA. She has also set choreographic works for MOVE Central Jersey, Gloucester County Institute of Technology dance department, Union City High School dance department, Swedesboro-Woolwich Little Theater, and multiple competitive dance companies and recreational dance groups at studios throughout New Jersey.
Maribella Miller
Maribella Miller is originally from Los Angeles, CA where she began dancing at the age of 3. She trained at Los Angeles Ballet Academy and was a member of the Los Angeles Youth Ballet Theater and Team Theatrics. Maribella graduated with her BFA in Dance Performance and Choreography from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University and holds a Masters in Dance Education from the Rutgers Graduate School of Education. She is a Pre-K through 12th grade certified dance educator currently teaching in the Franklin Township School District.
Maribella has taught dance in the New York City Public Schools, as well as in Public and Charter schools across New Jersey. She has performed at various venues around the US including the Joyce Theater in NYC, Disneyland in Anaheim, CA, Spreckles Theatre in San Diego CA, and Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles. Maribella is also an American Ballet Theatre® Certified Teacher.
Jordan Pratko
Jordan Pratko is an Ed.M. graduate in Dance Education with a K-12 teaching certification from the Graduate School of Education, Rutgers University. While at Rutgers, Jordan was awarded the Mastrobuono EdM Dance Education Excellence Award Scholarship, the Mastrobuono Distinguished EdM Dance Education Student Scholarship, and the Nancy Higginson Dorr Award.
Jordan is a full time dance educator and yoga instructor at Bayonne High School (BHS) where she has collaborated with Kelli McGovern to create the yoga curriculum in the district. Jordan enjoys teaching various dance styles and age levels at Washington Rock Dance (WRD) in Warren, NJ. Additionally, she is a yoga and fitness instructor at Ken Pilates in Hoboken, NJ.
In May 2019, Jordan graduated summa cum laude with her B.F.A. in Dance Performance from Mason Gross School of the Arts. While at Mason Gross, Jordan performed the works of Ani Javian, John Evans, Cleo Mack and Blair Ritchie. Currently, she is a company dancer for Rock Dance Collective (RDC) and has appeared in various venues across New York and New Jersey. Her original choreography has been performed at the Loree Dance Theater and Victoria J. Mastrobuono Theater in New Brunswick, NJ and the Ailey Citigroup Theater in New York City. Jordan is a 200-Hour Registered Vinyasa Yoga Teacher through the Om Factory in NYC under the instruction of Blair Ritchie and Taryn Vander Hoop.
Julia Ramirez
Julia Ramirez is an emerging artist currently based in Jersey City, NJ. She is a 2023 graduate from the Rutgers Graduate School of Education at Rutgers University with her Master’s degree (Ed.M.) in Dance Education and a 2022 graduate of Rutgers Mason Gross School of the Arts and was awarded the Margery J. Turner Choreography Award for a work of exceptional undergraduate student group choreography. Throughout 2023, she completed a residency at Mark Morris Dance Center in Brooklyn, NY and presented her newest work, Kinematic Indeterminacy. She was also a guest artist at Riverside Elementary School In Motion’s After School Program in Princeton, New Jersey. She is currently the Media and Artistic Assistant of David Dorfman Dance and since 2020 has worked diligently as a member of their administrative team, a rehearsal assistant, a guest teacher, and a production assistant. In the summer of 2022, she co-created and taught at LEAP in New Haven, Connecticut alongside Nik Owens. For the 2023-2024 season she is a dance educator at Lehigh Valley Charter High School of the Arts in Bethlehem, PA, Mark Morris Dance Center in Brooklyn NY, Washington Rock Dance in Warren, New Jersey, and Accent School of Dance, Allentown, PA.
Since graduating from the Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Arts in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Julia’s work has been featured in the 2023 92 NY Future Dance Festival, International Washington Dance Festival, Kun-Yang Lin’s Performance Series, the Koresh Artist Showcase, 92Y Emerging Choreographers Festival, Women’s Day Dance Festival, Uptown Rising Performance Series, and Rutgers University. In addition to collaborating with fellow interdisciplinary artists, she has performed on stage and in films for various artists in the NYC, NJ, and PA area. She has performed at venues such as Dixon Place, Ten Tiny Dances, Muhlenberg College and Point Park University. She will be performing in Malcolm Shute’s work in the spring of 2023 and developing her first evening length work that will premiere in June 2024.
Julia completed her student teaching internship at Middlesex Vocational High School under the supervision of Cleo Mack. Together, they co-directed and choreographed Flux States in December of 2022 performed at New Brunswick Performing Arts Center. She has had the opportunity to work with Babs Case as a guest artist in implementing The Dancing Alphabet in K-5 public schools in Jackson, Wyoming in 2021.
Julia Shicatano
Julia Shicatano is a graduate of the Ed.M in Dance Education at Rutgers University. She has completed her full-time student teaching internship at Middlesex County Vocational Technical High School alongside cooperating teacher Cleo Mack. In May 2019, Julia graduated magna cum laude with a B.F.A in Dance Performance from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. While attending Mason Gross she had the pleasure to perform works by Chien-Ying Wang, John Evans, Blair Richie, Cleo Mack, and work with Martha Graham Dance Company members Miki Orihara and Nya Bowman. Julia has appeared in a Times Square commercial for Color Me Cosmetic, National T-Mobile commercial, and performed with 78moves Dance Company at various venues in New York and New Jersey. Julia was inducted into the National Honor Society for Dance Arts and serves as the Co-Chair of the National Dance Education Organization Student Organization at Mason Gross School of the Arts.
Mandy Stallings
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Mandy Stallings is a Brooklyn-based dance artist, choreographer, and educator with seventeen years of professional experience in New York City. She received her BFA in Modern Dance Performance from the North Carolina School of the Arts and will receive her MFA in Choreography from Wilson College in May 2020.
Throughout her career, Mandy has performed the works of renowned choreographers such as Larry Keigwin, Nicole Wolcott, Pascal Rekoert, Neta Pulvermacher, Scott Rink, Gerri Houlihan, Grady Bowman, Lina Puodziukaite, Sean Sullivan, and Trish Casey, amongst others. From 2008-2016, Mandy performed almost exclusively with the prolific modern dance company, the Cleo Mack Dance Project. CMDP performed all over the trip-state area in venues such as New York City Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music, New Jersey Performing Arts Center, Joyce Soho, and George Street Theater. Mandy currently performs for and serves on the Board of Directors for Mack's newest creative endeavor, Rock Dance Collective, since its inception in 2016.
Mandy's choreography has been presented throughout New York City in prominent venues such as Capezio Peridance Center, Long Island University's Kumble Theater, Arts on Site, Judson Memorial Church, Dance Forum, Galapagos Art Space, HATCH, Studio A.I.R., SWEAT performance series, and the Cunningham Studio. In February 2020, she premiered her one-woman show, Domesticated:Housebroken, in Brooklyn.
Mandy is a certified and registered Ashtanga yoga instructor, a Reiki Master, and is currently a full time dance educator at the Packer Collegiate Institute in Brooklyn. She is thrilled to teach jazz classes and workshops for the awesome students at Washington Rock Dance! Please visit Mandy at www.mandystallings.com.
Rachel Stanislawczyk
Rachel Stanislawczyk is a May 2020 Ed.M. graduate in Dance Education with a K-12 teaching certification from Rutgers University. During her time at Rutgers, Rachel completed her full-time clinical internship at Alexander Hamilton Preparatory Academy in Elizabeth, NJ and served as a Part-Time-Lecturer of Ballet in the Dance Department at Mason Gross School of the Arts. In addition to her studies, Rachel performs professionally with Rock Dance Collective: a company based in creating rich sensory experiences for audiences in non-traditional spaces. Rachel is a certified instructor of the Elemental Body Alignment System and teaching artist for American Repertory Ballet’s Dance Power Program, the Mark Morris Dance Group, Kaye-Lynn Dance Studio, and Washington Rock Dance.
Rachel is the Director and Founder of the Dance for Parkinson’s (PD) Program at American Repertory Ballet: a program for people diagnosed with PD and their caregivers. During her time as director, she has expanded the program to multiple locations throughout NJ and presented at numerous events including The Parkinson’s Foundation’s Moving Day NJ, Dr. Jill M. Giordano Farmer’s PD Education Conference, The American Parkinson’s Disease Association’s Living Well with Parkinson’s Disease Conference, and The Parkinson’s Alliance’s 5K Team Parkinson Run. In 2017, Rachel progressed from an intern to a lead teacher of the Mark Morris Dance Group’s (MMDG) Dance for PD® program and Pamela Quinn’s PD Movement Lab, where she continues to teach classes at MMDG, New York University, Juilliard and Ballet Academy East.
Rachel graduated Magna Cum Laude with a BFA in Dance and Choreography from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2017. In the spring semester of her junior year, she was a student in the University of South Florida’s Dance in Paris Program, where she studied with various celebrated dance artists in Europe including Nathalie Pubellier, Wanjiru Kamuyu and Kevin Quinaou. She was awarded the EDM Dance Education Scholarship, the VCU Arts Dance and Choreography Outstanding Service Award, the VCU Academic Achievement Award and the VCU Arts Dean’s Renewable Scholarship. Rachel is a proud alum of The Middlesex County Vocational and Technical School of the Arts, developed her foundational training at Princeton Ballet School, and sparked her passion for dance at Kaye Lynn Dance Studio.
Danella Vecchio
Danella Vecchio is an alumna of Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, graduating Magna Cum Laude with a BFA in Dance. She has been the recipient of the Turner Prize Award for Choreography and has twice received a scholarship to the Nikolais/Louis Dance Theater Lab in New York City to study exclusively with Murray Louis. Danella has traveled the United States as well as Europe and South America performing in numerous festivals and venues, teaching Master Classes in Modern Dance, Partnering, Improvisation and Theater Technique. It was in Santiago, Chile that she received the honorable “Best Actress Award” for her performance in “The Shaft.” Danella has been humbled to receive many accolades throughout her dance career. Robert Johnson from The Star Ledger quoted…”Vecchio is a sensitive and sparkling performer.” Blake Weil, the NYC Curator for -No Proscenium; The guide to everything immersive - wrote about Danella’s performance in “Invited”, “..the highlight of the evening for me was the manic, over-enthusiastic party guest, who spent most of the evening attempting to force cake on everyone.”
Danella has worked with and performed for innumerable talented and diverse choreographers from various countries, throughout her 25-year professional dance career. She has worked with Cleo Mack since 1996, first with the Cleo Mack Dance Project and currently performs and serves on the Board of Directors with her new company, Rock Dance Collective. Danella has been the Dance Director at various schools throughout New Jersey and Southern California. She is the founder and artistic director of the Dance Out Loud Performing Arts Summer Camp. She has worked with the Irvine Arts Council in Southern California to help students in grades K-12, unleash their artistic talents and create a forum that allows them to showcase their work and artistry. Danella has concentrated on working with young children through a variety of movement approaches and techniques that she has developed for the past 20 years. She continues to advocate for quality Arts Education in all forms and capacities.
She has worked in special education classrooms for the past 6 years. She is a Special Olympics coach at Special Olympics New Jersey as well as working in the SONJ development department where she assists with coordinating corporate events and non-profit fundraising. Danella also serves on the Board of Directors for three New Jersey organizations; the Ben Franklin Swim Club, The Jersey Dive Academy and the Lawrence Intermediate School.
Becky Visintainer
Becky Visintainer graduated from Rutgers University with a B.F.A. in Dance Performance from Mason Gross School of the Arts and a Masters in Dance Education PK-12 from the Graduate School of Education. She spent a year abroad studying at the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London, UK. Becky has had the opportunity to perform works by many accomplished choreographers both at home and abroad. She is also a 200 hr certified Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance.
Becky is the full-time dance educator at North Plainfield High School. She is also a Part-Time Lecturer for Rutger's Graduate School of Education, instructing a course for the Dance Education Program. Currently she a company dancer for Rock Dance Collective and an active member of the National Dance Educators Organization and DanceNJ.
Kerry Zak
Office Manager
Kerry Zak is a performer and dance educator hailing from Livingston, New Jersey. Over the past year, she has lived and worked internationally as a professional dancer for RWS Entertainment Group, as part of the inaugural casts for 10 brand-new shows at Iberostar Hotels and Resorts (Riviera Maya, Mexico) and MSC Cruises’ World Europa. Kerry obtained her master’s in dance education (Ed.M.) as well as her Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in dance from Rutgers University. She has taught dance at the high school, vocational level at Union County Vocational Technical Schools, Academy for Performing Arts in Scotch Plains, NJ, and the Grunin Performing Arts Academy as part of Ocean County Vocational Technical Schools in Toms River, NJ. During her graduate studies, she served on the student board for the Rutgers National Dance Education Organization (NDEO), received the Mastrobuono Scholarship for excellence in the study of Dance Education, and was inducted into the National Honor Society for Dance Arts. In her time as an undergraduate, she performed in works by Mark Morris (Joyce Theater, NYC), Yin Yue, Alexandra Beller, Maxine Doyle, Randy James, Cleo Mack and Blair Ritchie. She holds her 200-Hour Registered Yoga Teacher certification through OM Factory NYC, and is an ABT® certified ballet teacher in levels Pre-Primary through Level 3. Additionally, Kerry has coached artistic gymnastics at the recreational and competitive level for 11 years. She is overjoyed to teach at Washington Rock Dance and bring her passion for the art of dance to all.