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TEACHING STAFF

 

TAMMIE MAGEE REINSCH has been teaching all forms of dance at the Ballet Academy since 1996. Previously she was the assistant director of the Plano Metropolitan Ballet and the director of dance at Titans Gymnastics Center. Her choreography has won awards at the Youth America Grand Prix competitions and has been selected for the Regional Dance America Southwest festivals. 

 

JENNY JOHNSTON began her ballet training with Pat Mitchell in Longview, Texas. She continued her studies at The School of American Ballet and The American Ballet Theater School in New York. She received her B.F.A. in Ballet from Texas Christian University while also performing as soloist with The Fort Worth Ballet. Other teachers which influenced Ms. Johnston were Arthur Mitchell, Erik Bruhn, Nancy Schaffenburg Cross, Fernando Schaffenburg, Robert Denvers, and David Howard.
Ms. Johnston has been on the ballet faculty of BTWHSPVA, Dallas Ballet, Ballet Dallas, and Ballet Academy of Texas where she has taught since it's inception. She has been on the guest faculty of The American College Dance Festival and continues to guest teach and coach in the area.
Her choreography has won awards at The Youth American Grade Prix Regionals. Her ballet La Nuit Rose was performed on the Gala Evening of the RDA/Southwest Festival and won the RDA National Commissioning Award for 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 in her tenth year of teaching young students all forms of dance at the Ballet Academy. She was previously the Dance Program Director for the Sonshine Academy in Arkansas.  She has a degree in Psychology and Sociology from Hendrix College. Allison D'Auteuil is an American Ballet Theatre Certified Teacher, who successfully completed in 2009 the ABT Teacher Training Intensive in Primary through Level 3 of the ABT National Training Curriculum.

 

Clarence McDorman received his ballet training on talent scholarship at the Ruth Page Foundation School of Dance in Chicago. He danced professionally with Nevada Ballet Theatre, Ballet Hawaii, Lyric Opera of Chicago, and as a featured ballet dancer on the Las Vegas strip. Clarence has served as Ballet Master for Birmingham Ballet and been an advanced ballet instructor for prominent dance schools in Alabama, Iowa, and Nevada - including Birmingham Ballet Academy, Birmingham Dance Theatre, Studio One Las Vegas, and Dance Vision in Des Moines. Guest teaching includes Cirque du Soliel, Academy of Nevada Ballet Theatre, Arkansas Academy of Dance, Iowa Youth Ballet, Naples Academy of Ballet, and Metropolitan Ballet Theatre in Atlanta. Choreography includes "Prokofiev Waltzes" for Arkansas Festival Ballet and the musical "Fairy Tales" for WPA Theatre off-Broadway. He is a graduate of the Alabama School of Fine Arts and holds a BA in Communications from DePaul University. In 2009, Mr. McDorman graduated in the first class of the historic New York University / American Ballet Theatre Master's degree program in ABT Ballet Pedagogy with a 4.0 GPA. He is a member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers and Pi Lambda Theta, the national honor society for educators. 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 and has successfully presented students for examinations.

 

Darrell Cleveland recently retired from Dallas Black Dance Theatre, where he was a leading dancer for 8 years.  He has been teaching Jazz at the Ballet Academy’s Summer Intensive for the past 9 years.  He has become a regular staff member of the Ballet Academy of Texas   since his retirement, teaching Jazz and Modern to all levels.   He has performed with Toni Braxton and En Vogue, and choreographed several musicals and commercials. He received a full scholarship from the Regional Dance America/Southwest organization to attend the 2008 Craft of Choreography Workshop for his choreography of "Grace Under Fire" for the Ballet Ensemble of Texas.

 

Karen Hanson has been studying all forms of dance since the age of 3, beginning in her hometown of Beaumont, Texas. Karen Hanson is an American Ballet Theatre Certified Teacher, who successfully completed in 2009 the ABT Teacher Training Intensive in Primary through Level 3 of the ABT National Training Curriculum. Karen is also a certified personal trainer through the American Fitness Association of America.

 

Laurie Granlund
Voice Teacher

Ms. Granlund has enjoyed a national professional singing career.  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.  Ms. Granlund’s stage experience has included roles in Casa Manana’s and the National Tour of Dallas Summer Musical’s broadway series and with the Fort Worth Opera.  Laurie has been a private voice teacher for over 25 years and has enjoyed directing choirs much of her professional career.  She obtained her Bachelor of Music Degree from the University of North Texas and has studied under such prominent instructors as the late Grant Williams and Laurel Miller, two alumne of the New York Metropolitan Opera, and Stephen Austin, head of the voice department at the University of North Texas. 

 

Emilia Hotz was born and raised in Mexico City, Mexico. She started her ballet studies at an Academy affiliated to the Royal Academy of Dancing of London. Later she joined 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 with the Mexico City Ballet and the National Dance Company of Mexico and in several musicals.
She has taught classical ballet in Mexico City, Kansas City and Coppell TX. Currently she works for Carrollton Framers Branch ISD as a bilingual kindergarten teacher at Blanton Elementary. She lives in Coppell with her husband and three daughters.

 

Jessica Bates received her Pilates certification in 2003 and began training a full slate of clientele in the Pilates method. Her experience includes teaching both the Mat and Equipment techniques, and she is certified in Pilates Mat, Reformer, Cadillac, and Chair. Coming from a background in classical ballet, Jessica was drawn to the Pilates Method because of the discipline, control, grace and poise it produces, as well as the overwhelming ways it benefits the  practitioner's daily quality of life. She now teaches only part-time, as she is the full-time mommy to her  daughter, Emma. Jessica and her husband are expecting their second child in early 2009. She is thrilled to be back at the Ballet Academy of Texas, working with such delightful students.

 

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