Ms. Jennifer Olszewski, Director, Ballet, Pre-Tap, Modern I Instructor 

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Joya has been dancing for over twenty-five years. She has been trained in classical ballet in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, London and Seattle under such instructors as Alexi Yudenich, Zvi Gotheiner, Arturo Fernandez, Alonzo King, Magali Messac, Betsy Cooper, Mark Haim and Patricia Rianne, among others. Joya performed in many ballets as a soloist in the SF Bay Area and on the east coast. She was trained in modern dance at Margaret Jenkins Dance Company School/ODC San Francisco with Janice Garrett, Ellie Klopp, Cheryl Chaddick, and at the Trisha Brown Company School in New York. Her performing experience includes dancing as a modern dance company member in many independent troupes in the Bay Area as well as directing and performing in her own work in San Francisco.

Joya has studied choreography under Bessie Schoenberg on scholarship at Jacob’s Pillow where her work was highlighted as part of the Inside/Out series. She has made a series of dance performance videos for web streaming and CD-ROM/DVDs.

Joya is Licensed Massage Practitioner, Certified Polarity Practitioner and Reiki Practitioner. She has recently received her BA in Somatics, Psychology and Dance from Antioch University, Seattle. Her background and education in somatic bodywork modalities, psychology, and health sciences informs her dance teaching style. She focuses on developing safe and healthy technical abilities and somatic awareness in her students, encourages her dancers to express their creativity and emotions through dance, and believes that dance education can and should be fun and enjoyable.

Amy Daniels, Modern Instructor

Amy is from Nevada City, California.  She has recently received her BFA in Dance from Cornish College of the Arts.  During her schooling in Seattle, Amy has danced with Pat Hon, Gerard Theoret, Deborah Wolf, Peter Kyle, Maureen Whiting, Christy McNeal-Dobson, and Wade Madsen.  Amy also teaches ballet and jazz technique to a wide age range of children and is a certified Pilates instructor. 

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Sarah Edwards-Strode, Ballet Instructor

Ms. Edwards-Strode has trained with Joffrey Ballet on scholarship in the Professional Division, received an apprenticeship from Connecticut Ballet, and has also studied and performed with Ballet Bellevue, Spectrum Dance Theater, New City Ballet as well as other dance schools in the state of Washington. She has most recently studied dance, Kinesiology, and injury prevention with Cornish College of the Arts on scholarship and performed with Cornish Dance Theatre. Being a student of New City Ballet in her youth she has a special and personal commitment to further the academy’s education department. Sarah hopes to share her enthusiasm, passion and knowledge of dance with her students and continue to dedicate the art of dance to enriching peoples lives.

Giavanna was born and raised in San Francisco, California. At the age of five she began dancing at Star Dance Studio, a dance school specializing in tap. She graduated from the program after thirteen years of taking tap, jazz, lyrical, and modern classes and moved to Seattle the following year. She is currently working on receiving her BFA in dance from Cornish College of the Arts, where she is focusing on ballet, modern, improvisation and choreography. She is thrilled to be able to share her experiences in dance with the students at New City Dance.

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Kate is excited to be teaching, choreographing and working creatively in the Great North West. She began performing and choreography on her front lawn at the ripe age of eight.   When she was sixteen she formally began teaching, choreographing, training, and performing with Allegro Dance Company. The foundation of her training consists of Gymnastics, Modern, Jazz, Ballet, Contemporary, Tap and Musical Theater.  She had the wonderful opporturnity to choreograph adaptations for Auburn Actor's Guild, some of her credits include: Rodgers & Hammerstein's 'Oklahoma!' and Cole Porter's 'Kiss me Kate.'   Kate has performed works and trained with many local and nationally known Choreographers:  Bebe Miller, Tonya Lockyer, Wade Madsen, Deb Wolf, Pat Hon, Adelle Myers and Amy O' Neal.  She received her BFA majoring in dance (focusing on Composition, Choreography, Performance, and Modern and Ballet technique) from Cornish College of the Arts. She is a current member of Walrus Dance Productions and Serendipity Dance Brigade.  

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Lisa grew up in Burien, where she begun studying dance at Studio VII.  During high school she continued her learning through New City Ballet, where she taught tap and belonged to the performing group.  She has also taught for Belltown Ballet and Conditioning, performed and choreographed for the University of Puget Sound Repertoire Dance Group, and studied at Johnson and Peters.  She has a passion for teaching and is currently studying to obtain a degree in education.

Sierra has been involved with forms of dance since an early  age.  She participated in Cheer, Flag Teams and Dance Teams in High School, and studied and performed in musical theatre at SCC in Seattle.  Sierra was Clarkston Junior Miss in 1989 and choreographed for the Junior Miss program in 1989 and 1990.  Her TV credits include a music video, which appeared on MTV.  Sierra has studied ballet at ABA, NCDC, Spectrum Dance Theatre, Pacific Northwest Ballet and Arc School of Ballet.  She has performed with The American Ballet Academy, Dance Works, and New City Dance Company.  Most recently, Sierra continues her ballet training under many Pacific Northwest Ballet Dancers: Jeremy Conner, Kabby Mitchell III, Oleg Gorboulev and Marie Chong, and she is currently studying Contemporary Jazz with Jason Ohlberg, and Traditional Jazz with Richard Jessup.  Sierra was previously on staff at NCDC as a Ballet Instructor and is excited to rejoin the staff as a Jazz Instructor.

Chris started performing in musical theater in 1971, singing and dancing in "Man of LaMancha" at the University of Connecticut, where he earned his BFA in music and a B.S. in music education.  He continued performing in musicals and nightclubs throughout the East.  He has choreographed and directed more than 50 musicals since 1979, and has taught jazz and tap since 1978 at various schools, including 4 years with New City Dance.  He has studied dance with many greats, including Honi Coles, Bubba Gaines, Ray Busey and Seattle's own Johnson and Peters.

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Ms. Stine received her early training with Russel Fratto, Leon Danielion, Vincenzo Celli, David Howard, Fernando Schaffenburg, Wayne Soulant and Joyce Karpiej. As a Nordan Fine Arts Scholar, she received her BFA in Ballet and Theater from Texas Christian University, while dancing with the Fort Worth
Ballet. Other professional credits include: Phoenix Ballet, Center Ballet of Connecticut, Arizona Metropolitan Ballet and Ballet Arizona. She began teaching thirty years ago in Texas and has taught in Connecticut, New York and Arizona. Ms. Stine was a Faculty Associate at Arizona State University for ten years teaching all levels of Ballet, Pointe and Pedagogy. In 1997
she began duties as Dance Chair at New School for the Arts and developed the dance program to a national level. Ms. Stine is listed in the 2000 and 2002 Who's Who in American Teachers, and was Artistic Director of Eastside Ballet for the past 22 years.