TAMMIE MAGEE REINSCH teaches Tap, Jazz, and Modern at the Ballet Academy. Since the age of 3, she has studied all forms of dance as well as in college at TWU and UNT.  She has been the assistant director of the Plano Metropolitan Ballet and the director of dance at Titans Gymnastics Center. She has taught full-time for the Academy since 1997, and choreographs regularly for the Ballet Ensemble of Texas.

JENNY JOHNSTON has taught on the ballet staff of Dallas Ballet, Ballet Dallas, and the Arts Magnet High School.  She received her BFA in Ballet at TCU while also performing as a soloist with the Fort Worth Ballet. Ms. Johnston has been teaching advanced and intermediate ballet for the Academy for the past 15 years.  Her choreography for the Ballet Ensemble of Texas, the Academy’s resident ballet company, received the RDA National Commissioning Award in 2009.
Her former students have gone on to perform with The San Francisco Ballet, Boston Ballet, The Royal Danish Ballet, Houston Ballet, Tulsa Ballet, Texas Ballet Theater, Carolina Ballet, American Ballet Theater, and The New York City Ballet.
Her teaching style is one of grace, energy, and joy.

ALLISON D’AUTEUIL-WHITFIELD is beginning her twelfth year teaching young students all forms of dance at the Ballet Academy, including Musical Theatre, Drill Team, and Hip Hop. She was previously the Dance Program Director for the Sonshine Academy in Arkansas.  She has a degree in Psychology and Sociology from Hendrix College. She is co-director of the ACT, the Academy’s resident Musical Theatre Company.

CLARENCE McDORMAN received his ballet training at the Ruth Page School in Chicago and danced professionally with Nevada Ballet Theatre, Ballet Hawaii and Lyric Opera of Chicago. He has been Ballet Master for Birmingham Ballet and taught advanced ballet for Birmingham Ballet Academy, Birmingham Dance Theatre, and Arkansas Academy of Dance. He holds a Master's degree in ABT Ballet Pedagogy from New York University and American Ballet Theatre. Clarence is an ABT® Affiliate Teacher, who has successfully completed the ABT® Teacher Training Intensive in Primary through Level 7 of the ABT® National Training Curriculum.

DARRELL CLEVELAND, a principal dancer with Dallas Black Dance Theatre for 8 years, has been teaching Modern and Jazz at the Ballet Academy for the past 8 years, and choreographs regularly for the Ballet Ensemble of Texas.

KAREN HANSON began dancing at the age of 3 in Beaumont, Texas. and has studied all forms of dance. She is a certified instructor for Primary through Level 3 in American Ballet Theatre’s National Training Curriculum, as well as being a certified personal trainer.

EMILIA HOTZ was born and raised in Mexico City, Mexico. She studied at  the National Fine Arts Institute where she graduated as a Classical Ballet Teacher. She also holds a BA in Education from the National University of Mexico.  She performed professionally with the Mexico City Ballet and the National Dance Company of Mexico.

LAURIE GRANLUND is our voice and acting coach for the Musical Theatre division, and brings over 20 years’ performing and coaching experience to the Academy.   She has performed as featured soloist at events ranging from “Miss Texas Pageant” and cruise ships to guest artist with the Irving Symphony Orchestra and the Plano Symphony Orchestra.  She obtained her Bachelor of Music Degree from the University of North Texas.

GLORIA DE LA GARZA PEMBERTON teaches Yoga for Dancers.  She has been in the fitness profession for over twenty years and was introduced to Yoga as an alternate form of exercise while dealing with her Lupus.  She currently has over 250 hours of training in Power Vinyasa, Hatha, Ashtanga and Raja Yoga. 

CHRIS WHITE has been street dancing for as long as he can remember, but he has been training professionally for three years. He has begun to master the form of house dancing; training with Jojo Diggs, Jardy Santiago, and Lando Wilkins, and is becoming more and more well-known in the housing community around the country. Aside from the rhythm and fancy footwork of housing, Chris has recently expanded his knowledge in the basics of old school hip hop in styles such as popping and locking . He has taught several master classes, and substitutes for some of the top hip hop instructors in the Dallas Fort Worth. But most importantly, people in the dance community respect Chris for ability to do, as well as to teach. Chris is a member of Alien Tactics Cru, and he was one of the eight dancers who made it to the final round of MTV’s America’s Best Dance Crew Season 6  auditions before television.