Meet the 2026 Faculty
DANIEL RODRIGUEZ (Ballet, Pas de deux, Repertoire, & Social dance) is a dance educator and creative from New York City with an MFA in dance from the prestigious Hollins University. Once he was introduced to dance by the nonprofit National Dance Institute, he became enamored with classical ballet and began his training under Deborah Wingert, Francois Perron, and Nadege Hottier at the Manhattan Youth Ballet. After graduating from LaGuardia’s Dance department with multiple awards and honors, he began a 15 year career with dance companies across the United States including Sarasota Ballet, Dayton Ballet, Kansas City Ballet and the Nashville Ballet. He got to perform works by acclaimed choreographers such as Jiri Kylian, George Balanchine, Frederick Ashton, Twlya Tharp, Dwight Rhoden and Justin Peck. He also studied and taught Ballroom dance under Francisco Madrigal and Rachel Uneburg.
KAYLA ROWSER TAZIK (Ballet) During her 14-year career as a professional ballet dancer, Kayla Rowser performed principal roles such as Odette/Odile in Swan Lake, Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty, Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, and Lucy in Lucy Negro Redux, among others. She also performed featured roles in works such as George Balanchine’s Western Symphony and Serenade, Christopher Wheeldon’s Ghosts, and many original roles created by Nashville Ballet Artistic Director Paul Vasterling. Rowser has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Pointe Magazine, and Huffington Post, and she was named one of Dance Magazine’s “Top 25 to Watch.” She has performed at the Kennedy Center with Nashville Ballet, in the Kansas City Dance Festival, Spoleto Dance Festival, Spring to Dance in St. Louis, and the Big Ears Music Festival with musician Rhiannon Giddens. Rowser has taught across the U.S including master classes at Yale University. Since retiring from her performance career in 2020, Rowser has continued to speak, teach, and mentor students. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications with honors from The University of Arkansas in May 2022 and currently works in corporate marketing and communications.
NOELIA GARCIA CARMONA (Flamenco) is a dance educator, performer, and choreographer from Barcelona, Catalonia (Spain), with more than 30 years of professional experience. From an early age, she followed her passion for dance, a journey that led her to perform and teach around the world. A graduate of the Institut del Teatre i Dansa in Barcelona, she specialized in Spanish Dance and Flamenco. Soon after, she co-founded Increpación Danza, a Flamenco and contemporary dance company with which she toured internationally for a decade across Europe, China, and the Philippines. In 2003, Noelia made Memphis, Tennessee her home. As Dance Director and faculty with New Ballet Ensemble & School, she created and performed original works that reached both local and national stages, including the Alvin Ailey Theater in New York City and the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. with the National Symphony Orchestra. Today, Noelia continues to share her artistry teaching ballet and Flamenco, as part of the faculty at Collage Dance Conservatory, Company D, and the University of Memphis, and as a teaching artist & choreographer with the Tennessee Governor’s School for the Arts. She was guest choreographer for University of the South at Sewanee to create a new work ReBirth for their Fall Concert. She is also the founder and Artistic Director of Flamenco Memphis, an initiative dedicated to sharing the beauty and power of Flamenco Dance through performances, residencies, and community programs.
TYLER GILSTRAP (Contemporary: Battleworks Rep) (Danville, VA) earned her BFA in Dance from Southern Methodist University. She was a founding member of Battleworks Dance Company (2001-2010), under the direction of Robert Battle. In 2014, she was the associate choreographer for the Sochi Winter Olympic Games Opening Ceremony. Tyler has also been the assistant choreographer for other major events such as the film 'Love And Other Drugs', the Italian San Remo TV Award shows, and the opening ceremony for Pope John Paul II at Yankee Stadium. In 2019, she was the movement director for the "Infinite Hotel" as part of the Prototype Festival NYC. Over the years she has choreographed music videos for innovative musical artists such as Andrew McMahon, Son Lux, Skyes, FireHorse and SENIT. Tyler founded the creative production company TunanuT in 2014, which has created events for Bonnaroo, Panorama Music Festival, Figment Festival NYC, The Blue Bus Project, Big Data's fall tour 2015, Un(Scene) Art show, Ballroom Marfa, The Feast, and The Windmill Factory. As a dancer, Tyler has been featured in such films as 'Across the Universe’, 'The Wackness,' and the Italian TV show 'Amici.'
She has been a guest artist with the Bavarian State Opera, Irish Modern Dance Theater, The Windmill Factory, Azure Barton, New York Theater Ballet, Corbin Dances, and Amy Marshall Dance Company. She has taught improv, contemporary, and modern dance in Russia, Germany, Hungary, Italy and throughout the USA. She has been on faculty at Montclair State University, Joffrey Ballet School, New York Dance Project, Frank Sinatra High School(NYC) and Peridance Capezio. Her choreography has been staged on New York Dance Project, Wgruv Dance Company, Chattanooga Ballet, Joffery Ballet School, Joffery Jazz and Contemporary, The Fine Arts Center in Greenville, SC, Converse College, Montclair State University, Frank Sinatra High School, American Ballet Theatre's Summer Arts Program, Peridance Capezio, and the Academy of Performing Arts in Pécs, Hungary.
ALEX WINER (Modern: Horton Technique) is a Nashville based dancer, choreographer, and educator. She received her Bachelors in Dance from Franklin & Marshall College and continued on to earn her MFA from London Contemporary Dance School. Alex has faculty roles at Middle Tennessee State University and Nashville Ballet, and works as a freelance dancer and solo artist. Most recently, Alex has performed and taught with local companies PYDANCE, FALL Dance, New Dialect, Shackled Feet DANCE, Amanda Reichert, and Kindling Arts Festival. Alex has also been commissioned to choreograph for DancEast Collective, DancEast Youth Ensemble, MTSU Theatre productions, and had solos commissioned for Oz Arts Nashville’s 10th Anniversary Bash and inaugural Brave New Works Lab.
REBEKAH HAMPTON BARGER (Aerial) is a choreographer and dancer based in Nashville whose work combines classical, modern, and aerial dance. Rebekah draws on personal experience, deep connection to her community, and collaboration across genres and disciplines to articulate the experience of those living with chronic pain and illness. At age twenty-six, ongoing pain from severe scoliosis and related injuries threatened her ability to continue performing at a professional level. Then she discovered aerial dance and with it came strength-building plus spinal and joint traction which allowed Rebekah to continue her career. She learned to listen to her body during choreography, which developed her unique approach to movement creation: one that honors dancers’ bodies and helps them discover how to work within their own limitations and abilities. With more than three decade of experience as a teacher, performer, and choreographer, Rebekah thrives on collaboration, constantly seeking ways to connect across disciplines and communities. As the founder and director FALL, she has served as the choreographer or lead artist for multiple projects and arts organizations in the Nashville area since 2010. Her creative process draws on deep community research and interdisciplinary exploration to create work that is bold, innovative, and socially engaged.
MELANIE SWIHART (Yoga) received her 200-hour yoga certificate through TaraMarie Perri while living and working as a freelance dance artist in New York. Through her training she is certified to teach alignment-based, breath-focused yoga through the Mind Body Dancer® curriculum (founded and developed by TaraMarie Perri), where energetic and anatomical imagery and themes are paired. Melanie taught Mind Body Dancer® at Steps on Broadway, Dance New Amsterdam, and privately while in New York, and taught vinyasa classes throughout her graduate career in the Department of Dance at The University of Iowa and HotHouse Yoga. Since her first training in 2012, Melanie has become certified in Yin Yoga and received a second 200-hour yoga teacher training at Peachtree Yoga Center in Atlanta, GA. Her classes explore anatomical, sensational, and emotional awareness, and the plethora of possibilities within the ‘Self’, through thoughtful thematic and anatomical development. She continues to be inspired and rejuvenated by her students’ hard work and dedication to their practice and strives to cultivate a community of nurturing, inspiration, and kindness.
JEN-JEN LIN (Tai Chi) JEN-JEN LIN holds an MFA in Dance from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, and an MSA in Accountancy from Bentley Graduate School of Business. As a young adult, Jen-Jen served as artistic director for the internationally-acclaimed Lan-Yang Chinese Folklore Performing Dance Company. In the U.S., she danced with the Chicago-based modern dance company, Jan Erkert & Dancers, taught dance at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, VA, and was a professor of dance at Trinity College in Hartford, CT. Her modern dance choreography won the Boston Moves choreography competition, and was presented at the Emerson-Majestic Theater. Jen-Jen founded the Chinese Arts Alliance of Nashville in December 2002, to continue pursuing her passion in performing arts as well as promoting Chinese arts. Jen-Jen was awarded “Living Cultural Treasure Award” by Scarritt-Bennett Center, Nashville, in 2000, and the Carell Fine Arts Artist in Residence in 2013 at the Harpeth Hall School. She has taught Chinese dance at the Nashville Chinese School, was Principal of the Nashville Chinese School 1999-2001, the initial Chinese language program teacher at the Eakin School, a Teaching Artist at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center's Education department's "ArtSmart Program." Presently she choreographs and directs the Chinese Arts Alliance of Nashville and teaches Tai Chi at Sevier Park Community Center.
TANTSOVA GRUPA (Folk Dance) (Bulgarian for "dance group") is a Nashville-based musical ensemble created in 2009 to accompany the Nashville International Folk Dancers (www.nifddance.com). The band's repertoire includes village dances from Armenia, Bulgaria, France, Hungary, Israel, Macedonia, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Turkey, and Ukraine. Current musicians are Mary Lou Durham, violin; Tim Murphy, violin, accordion; Amberly Rosen, fiddle and dance teaching; Janet Epstein, recorders and dance teaching; Sam Frazee, guitar; Sara Johnson, violin; Michael Lewandowski, mandolin; Holly Tashian, upright bass; and William Wiggins, percussion.
ELIZABETH TILSTRA, PT, DPT (Dancer Health Seminar) is a licensed physical therapist, movement specialist, dance medicine educator, and business owner based out of Nashville, TN. Elizabeth graduated from Belmont University with a B.S. in Liberal Studies, continuing on to receive her Doctorate in Physical Therapy from The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Prior to completing her college education, Elizabeth danced professionally with Cincinnati Ballet, Joffrey Ballet of Chicago, and Nashville Ballet. During her doctoral program, Elizabeth had the opportunity to provide physical therapy services to the professional dancers of the Boston Ballet. Elizabeth’s dance experience gives her a deep understanding of the unique physical demands dancers face and enables her to effectively treat the musculoskeletal injuries they experience.
SARAH VEACH, LPC-MHSP (t), NCC has a Master of Science in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, and has received specialized training in Perinatal Mood Disorders, Trauma, Body Image Concerns, Attachment Theory, and Expressive Arts. Before becoming a counselor, she spent a decade as a professional ballet dancer, which informed her understanding and appreciation for the mind-body connection. When she is not seeing clients, she enjoys spending time with her husband and two children, taking or teaching ballet classes, and learning how to grow vegetables and flowers in her new garden.
DANIELLA PARISOT (Dance History, Personal Warm-up Techniques), originally from southern Connecticut, received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Ballet Pedagogy and Dance Performance from The Hartt School at the University of Hartford. While there, she had the opportunity to perform works by George Balanchine, José Limón, Claudia Schreier, Norbert De La Cruz III, Hilda Morales, Stephen Pier, Katie Stevenson-Nollet and many others. She was a company artist with Ballet Hartford, where she worked with and performed works by choreographers such as Elizabeth McMillian, Silas Farley, Michelle Thompson-Ulerich, & Mikhail Fokine. During her formal pedagogy education, Daniella was closely mentored and studied under Stephen Pier, (Hamburg Ballet, The Royal Danish Ballet, José Limón Company, Company Wayne McGregor, the Julliard School and many more), Carol Roderick, (who was a member of the professional division faculties of Boston Ballet School, Royal Winnipeg Ballet, The HARID Conservatory, Tulsa Ballet School, The Hartt School Community Division and who credits her formal pedagogical training of former Bolshoi Ballet’s the late Jürgen Schneider and the Kirov/Mariinsky’s Gabriela Komleva). Daniella credits them, as well as her other pedagogy mentors, Hilda Morales, (American Ballet Theater, Pennsylvania Ballet/Philadelphia Ballet), and Debra Collins-Ryder (Hartford Ballet) for having a major influence on her passion and style of teaching. She was on the ballet faculty and the office administrator for the Hartt School Community Division before moving to Nashville in 2019 to work closely with the growing dance community as a freelance choreographer, dancer and teacher. While in Nashville, she has been on faculty for Harpeth Hall and currently teaches and choreographs for the Centennial Youth Ballet at the Metro Parks Dance Division. She is a certified Progressing Ballet Technique © instructor.
PAULETTE BROWN (Line Dance) Ms. Paulette attended the University of Memphis and recently retired from the TN State Government Human Services Department. She currently works with the Hadley Park Line Dancers, a collective group of dance/music lovers who travel throughout Nashville and its surrounding areas sharing their love of dance in promotion of good health and good cheer in Nashville communities.
KAYLA ROWSER TAZIK (Ballet) During her 14-year career as a professional ballet dancer, Kayla Rowser performed principal roles such as Odette/Odile in Swan Lake, Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty, Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, and Lucy in Lucy Negro Redux, among others. She also performed featured roles in works such as George Balanchine’s Western Symphony and Serenade, Christopher Wheeldon’s Ghosts, and many original roles created by Nashville Ballet Artistic Director Paul Vasterling. Rowser has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Pointe Magazine, and Huffington Post, and she was named one of Dance Magazine’s “Top 25 to Watch.” She has performed at the Kennedy Center with Nashville Ballet, in the Kansas City Dance Festival, Spoleto Dance Festival, Spring to Dance in St. Louis, and the Big Ears Music Festival with musician Rhiannon Giddens. Rowser has taught across the U.S including master classes at Yale University. Since retiring from her performance career in 2020, Rowser has continued to speak, teach, and mentor students. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications with honors from The University of Arkansas in May 2022 and currently works in corporate marketing and communications.
NOELIA GARCIA CARMONA (Flamenco) is a dance educator, performer, and choreographer from Barcelona, Catalonia (Spain), with more than 30 years of professional experience. From an early age, she followed her passion for dance, a journey that led her to perform and teach around the world. A graduate of the Institut del Teatre i Dansa in Barcelona, she specialized in Spanish Dance and Flamenco. Soon after, she co-founded Increpación Danza, a Flamenco and contemporary dance company with which she toured internationally for a decade across Europe, China, and the Philippines. In 2003, Noelia made Memphis, Tennessee her home. As Dance Director and faculty with New Ballet Ensemble & School, she created and performed original works that reached both local and national stages, including the Alvin Ailey Theater in New York City and the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. with the National Symphony Orchestra. Today, Noelia continues to share her artistry teaching ballet and Flamenco, as part of the faculty at Collage Dance Conservatory, Company D, and the University of Memphis, and as a teaching artist & choreographer with the Tennessee Governor’s School for the Arts. She was guest choreographer for University of the South at Sewanee to create a new work ReBirth for their Fall Concert. She is also the founder and Artistic Director of Flamenco Memphis, an initiative dedicated to sharing the beauty and power of Flamenco Dance through performances, residencies, and community programs.
TYLER GILSTRAP (Contemporary: Battleworks Rep) (Danville, VA) earned her BFA in Dance from Southern Methodist University. She was a founding member of Battleworks Dance Company (2001-2010), under the direction of Robert Battle. In 2014, she was the associate choreographer for the Sochi Winter Olympic Games Opening Ceremony. Tyler has also been the assistant choreographer for other major events such as the film 'Love And Other Drugs', the Italian San Remo TV Award shows, and the opening ceremony for Pope John Paul II at Yankee Stadium. In 2019, she was the movement director for the "Infinite Hotel" as part of the Prototype Festival NYC. Over the years she has choreographed music videos for innovative musical artists such as Andrew McMahon, Son Lux, Skyes, FireHorse and SENIT. Tyler founded the creative production company TunanuT in 2014, which has created events for Bonnaroo, Panorama Music Festival, Figment Festival NYC, The Blue Bus Project, Big Data's fall tour 2015, Un(Scene) Art show, Ballroom Marfa, The Feast, and The Windmill Factory. As a dancer, Tyler has been featured in such films as 'Across the Universe’, 'The Wackness,' and the Italian TV show 'Amici.'
She has been a guest artist with the Bavarian State Opera, Irish Modern Dance Theater, The Windmill Factory, Azure Barton, New York Theater Ballet, Corbin Dances, and Amy Marshall Dance Company. She has taught improv, contemporary, and modern dance in Russia, Germany, Hungary, Italy and throughout the USA. She has been on faculty at Montclair State University, Joffrey Ballet School, New York Dance Project, Frank Sinatra High School(NYC) and Peridance Capezio. Her choreography has been staged on New York Dance Project, Wgruv Dance Company, Chattanooga Ballet, Joffery Ballet School, Joffery Jazz and Contemporary, The Fine Arts Center in Greenville, SC, Converse College, Montclair State University, Frank Sinatra High School, American Ballet Theatre's Summer Arts Program, Peridance Capezio, and the Academy of Performing Arts in Pécs, Hungary.
ALEX WINER (Modern: Horton Technique) is a Nashville based dancer, choreographer, and educator. She received her Bachelors in Dance from Franklin & Marshall College and continued on to earn her MFA from London Contemporary Dance School. Alex has faculty roles at Middle Tennessee State University and Nashville Ballet, and works as a freelance dancer and solo artist. Most recently, Alex has performed and taught with local companies PYDANCE, FALL Dance, New Dialect, Shackled Feet DANCE, Amanda Reichert, and Kindling Arts Festival. Alex has also been commissioned to choreograph for DancEast Collective, DancEast Youth Ensemble, MTSU Theatre productions, and had solos commissioned for Oz Arts Nashville’s 10th Anniversary Bash and inaugural Brave New Works Lab.
REBEKAH HAMPTON BARGER (Aerial) is a choreographer and dancer based in Nashville whose work combines classical, modern, and aerial dance. Rebekah draws on personal experience, deep connection to her community, and collaboration across genres and disciplines to articulate the experience of those living with chronic pain and illness. At age twenty-six, ongoing pain from severe scoliosis and related injuries threatened her ability to continue performing at a professional level. Then she discovered aerial dance and with it came strength-building plus spinal and joint traction which allowed Rebekah to continue her career. She learned to listen to her body during choreography, which developed her unique approach to movement creation: one that honors dancers’ bodies and helps them discover how to work within their own limitations and abilities. With more than three decade of experience as a teacher, performer, and choreographer, Rebekah thrives on collaboration, constantly seeking ways to connect across disciplines and communities. As the founder and director FALL, she has served as the choreographer or lead artist for multiple projects and arts organizations in the Nashville area since 2010. Her creative process draws on deep community research and interdisciplinary exploration to create work that is bold, innovative, and socially engaged.
MELANIE SWIHART (Yoga) received her 200-hour yoga certificate through TaraMarie Perri while living and working as a freelance dance artist in New York. Through her training she is certified to teach alignment-based, breath-focused yoga through the Mind Body Dancer® curriculum (founded and developed by TaraMarie Perri), where energetic and anatomical imagery and themes are paired. Melanie taught Mind Body Dancer® at Steps on Broadway, Dance New Amsterdam, and privately while in New York, and taught vinyasa classes throughout her graduate career in the Department of Dance at The University of Iowa and HotHouse Yoga. Since her first training in 2012, Melanie has become certified in Yin Yoga and received a second 200-hour yoga teacher training at Peachtree Yoga Center in Atlanta, GA. Her classes explore anatomical, sensational, and emotional awareness, and the plethora of possibilities within the ‘Self’, through thoughtful thematic and anatomical development. She continues to be inspired and rejuvenated by her students’ hard work and dedication to their practice and strives to cultivate a community of nurturing, inspiration, and kindness.
JEN-JEN LIN (Tai Chi) JEN-JEN LIN holds an MFA in Dance from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, and an MSA in Accountancy from Bentley Graduate School of Business. As a young adult, Jen-Jen served as artistic director for the internationally-acclaimed Lan-Yang Chinese Folklore Performing Dance Company. In the U.S., she danced with the Chicago-based modern dance company, Jan Erkert & Dancers, taught dance at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, VA, and was a professor of dance at Trinity College in Hartford, CT. Her modern dance choreography won the Boston Moves choreography competition, and was presented at the Emerson-Majestic Theater. Jen-Jen founded the Chinese Arts Alliance of Nashville in December 2002, to continue pursuing her passion in performing arts as well as promoting Chinese arts. Jen-Jen was awarded “Living Cultural Treasure Award” by Scarritt-Bennett Center, Nashville, in 2000, and the Carell Fine Arts Artist in Residence in 2013 at the Harpeth Hall School. She has taught Chinese dance at the Nashville Chinese School, was Principal of the Nashville Chinese School 1999-2001, the initial Chinese language program teacher at the Eakin School, a Teaching Artist at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center's Education department's "ArtSmart Program." Presently she choreographs and directs the Chinese Arts Alliance of Nashville and teaches Tai Chi at Sevier Park Community Center.
TANTSOVA GRUPA (Folk Dance) (Bulgarian for "dance group") is a Nashville-based musical ensemble created in 2009 to accompany the Nashville International Folk Dancers (www.nifddance.com). The band's repertoire includes village dances from Armenia, Bulgaria, France, Hungary, Israel, Macedonia, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Turkey, and Ukraine. Current musicians are Mary Lou Durham, violin; Tim Murphy, violin, accordion; Amberly Rosen, fiddle and dance teaching; Janet Epstein, recorders and dance teaching; Sam Frazee, guitar; Sara Johnson, violin; Michael Lewandowski, mandolin; Holly Tashian, upright bass; and William Wiggins, percussion.
ELIZABETH TILSTRA, PT, DPT (Dancer Health Seminar) is a licensed physical therapist, movement specialist, dance medicine educator, and business owner based out of Nashville, TN. Elizabeth graduated from Belmont University with a B.S. in Liberal Studies, continuing on to receive her Doctorate in Physical Therapy from The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Prior to completing her college education, Elizabeth danced professionally with Cincinnati Ballet, Joffrey Ballet of Chicago, and Nashville Ballet. During her doctoral program, Elizabeth had the opportunity to provide physical therapy services to the professional dancers of the Boston Ballet. Elizabeth’s dance experience gives her a deep understanding of the unique physical demands dancers face and enables her to effectively treat the musculoskeletal injuries they experience.
SARAH VEACH, LPC-MHSP (t), NCC has a Master of Science in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, and has received specialized training in Perinatal Mood Disorders, Trauma, Body Image Concerns, Attachment Theory, and Expressive Arts. Before becoming a counselor, she spent a decade as a professional ballet dancer, which informed her understanding and appreciation for the mind-body connection. When she is not seeing clients, she enjoys spending time with her husband and two children, taking or teaching ballet classes, and learning how to grow vegetables and flowers in her new garden.
DANIELLA PARISOT (Dance History, Personal Warm-up Techniques), originally from southern Connecticut, received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Ballet Pedagogy and Dance Performance from The Hartt School at the University of Hartford. While there, she had the opportunity to perform works by George Balanchine, José Limón, Claudia Schreier, Norbert De La Cruz III, Hilda Morales, Stephen Pier, Katie Stevenson-Nollet and many others. She was a company artist with Ballet Hartford, where she worked with and performed works by choreographers such as Elizabeth McMillian, Silas Farley, Michelle Thompson-Ulerich, & Mikhail Fokine. During her formal pedagogy education, Daniella was closely mentored and studied under Stephen Pier, (Hamburg Ballet, The Royal Danish Ballet, José Limón Company, Company Wayne McGregor, the Julliard School and many more), Carol Roderick, (who was a member of the professional division faculties of Boston Ballet School, Royal Winnipeg Ballet, The HARID Conservatory, Tulsa Ballet School, The Hartt School Community Division and who credits her formal pedagogical training of former Bolshoi Ballet’s the late Jürgen Schneider and the Kirov/Mariinsky’s Gabriela Komleva). Daniella credits them, as well as her other pedagogy mentors, Hilda Morales, (American Ballet Theater, Pennsylvania Ballet/Philadelphia Ballet), and Debra Collins-Ryder (Hartford Ballet) for having a major influence on her passion and style of teaching. She was on the ballet faculty and the office administrator for the Hartt School Community Division before moving to Nashville in 2019 to work closely with the growing dance community as a freelance choreographer, dancer and teacher. While in Nashville, she has been on faculty for Harpeth Hall and currently teaches and choreographs for the Centennial Youth Ballet at the Metro Parks Dance Division. She is a certified Progressing Ballet Technique © instructor.
PAULETTE BROWN (Line Dance) Ms. Paulette attended the University of Memphis and recently retired from the TN State Government Human Services Department. She currently works with the Hadley Park Line Dancers, a collective group of dance/music lovers who travel throughout Nashville and its surrounding areas sharing their love of dance in promotion of good health and good cheer in Nashville communities.
2025 FACULTY:
LENORE PAVLOKAS MORALES (Ballet)
KAYLA ROWSER TAZIK (Ballet)
JULIA EISEN (Ballet)
BANNING BOULDIN (Contemporary)
ALEXANDRA (ALEX) WINER (Modern)
DANIELLA PARISOT (Progressing Ballet Technique)
MELANIE SWIHART (Yoga)
WINDSHIP BOYD (West African)
TANTSOVA GRUPA (Folk Dance)
MICHELLE BURLINGAME (Tap)
ELIZABETH TILSTRA, PT, DPT (Dancer Health Seminar)
ANNA PEPPER, M.A. (Supporting Dance Mental Health)
LENORE PAVLOKAS MORALES (Ballet)
KAYLA ROWSER TAZIK (Ballet)
JULIA EISEN (Ballet)
BANNING BOULDIN (Contemporary)
ALEXANDRA (ALEX) WINER (Modern)
DANIELLA PARISOT (Progressing Ballet Technique)
MELANIE SWIHART (Yoga)
WINDSHIP BOYD (West African)
TANTSOVA GRUPA (Folk Dance)
MICHELLE BURLINGAME (Tap)
ELIZABETH TILSTRA, PT, DPT (Dancer Health Seminar)
ANNA PEPPER, M.A. (Supporting Dance Mental Health)
