Faculty Bios: Children and Teens
Lisa Bostwick
Ballet
Lisa trained at Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, and BalletMet. She received a B.S. from Butler University as well as studied at the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory in St. Petersburg, Russia. She performed with the Alabama Ballet for seven years and with Southern Danceworks for nine years.
Wayne Daniels
Jazz/Hip-Hop Dance
Wayne has over ten years experience teaching dance classes in public and private schools. His dance style is a combination of his extensive training in ballet, jazz, modern, West African, Indian Kathak, and Afro-Caribbean dance.
Lesley Garrison
Creative Dance
Lesley received her B.F.A. in Dance Performance from SUNY Purchase. She has performed with the Mark Morris Dance Group in L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato and currently performs with MMDG in Romeo & Juliet, On Motifs of Shakespeare. She has taught children and teens at various schools in Brooklyn and Manhattan.
Chelsea Glassman
Creative Dance, Modern Dance
Originally from Baltimore, MD, Chelsea received her B.F.A. from SUNY Purchase. She has taught various techniques and choreographed for children at the Dance Academy of Baltimore and at The Berkeley Carroll School’s summer day camp. She currently performs with SYREN Modern Dance.
Maria Hanley
Creative Dance, Tap Dance
Maria has a B.A. from Slippery Rock University. She recently earned her Masters in Dance Education and her K-12 certification from New York University. Maria is a movement teacher for York Avenue Preschool and My Gym NYC. She is also a teaching artist for New York City Ballet, teaching 3rd graders in the Ballet Bridges program.
Angie Ng
Ballet
Angie Ng received her formal training from Dallas, TX. She studied at Joffrey, Boston Ballet, and as a fellowship student at the Ailey School. She has danced with Dallas Black Dance Theatre and many regional ballet companies. She is currently dancing with Alpha Omega Theatrical Dance Company.
Maya Ogunusi
Tap Dance
Maya has a B.F.A. in Dance from SUNY Purchase. She received her formal training at Dance Theatre of Harlem and The Ailey School. She has also taught and choreographed for children at Movement of the Children Dancenter in Queens.
Francine Ott
Jazz/Hip-Hop Dance
A native of New Orleans, Francine received her B.F.A. in Dance from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. She has taught children, teens, and adults at the Family Dynamics After School Program, the Beacon Center and the Better Brooklyn Community Center.
Misty Owens
Ballet, Modern Dance, Tap Dance
Misty received her B.F.A. from the University of New Mexico and her M.F.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is currently performing with Peggy Spina Tap Company. She has over fifteen years of teaching experience with young children, including a dance education program in the New York City public schools.
Mireille Radwan-Dana
Ballet, Creative Dance
Originally from Rome, Italy, Mireille studied ballet, modern, music, rhythm, and theater at the Maurice Bejart School in Belgium. She danced with the Mark Morris Dance Group from 1988-2001.
Mary Seidman
Modern Dance
Mary has extensive experience teaching dance to children in the tristate area and operated her own modern dance school for eight years. Her dance company, Mary Seidman and Dancers, performs at venues such as Jacob’s Pillow, BAM, Symphony Space, and St. Mark’s Church.
Jane Vorburger
Ballet
Jane joined American Ballet Theatre (ABT) at age 16 and spent 5 years performing principal, soloist and corps de ballet roles. She went on to study contact improvisation and choreography at Oberlin College and earned her M.F.A. degree from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She teaches children’s ballet and composition classes in addition to outreach programs in New York City public schools on behalf of ABT, Mark Morris Dance Group, and Alvin Ailey American Dance Center.
William Wade
Music
William works as a composer, lyricist, pianist, arranger, coach, and conductor. His compositions include: musicals – Warsaw and Alice; ballets – The Empty Pot (a Chinese fable), Mole Music, Madeline at the Circus, and Snow White; and chamber as well as concert music. Broadway credits include Fosse, Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake, and The Look of Love. He has taught at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy, Eckerd College, and the Professional Musical Theatre Workshop at Manhattan School of Music. William holds a B.A. in Music Composition from University of South Florida and is an alumnus of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop.