BALLET, CHARACTER, AND MODERN INSTRUCTOR | ADAPTIVE DANCE PROGRAM LEAD Christine Gilmore first came to Virginia Ballet Company as a young student in 2003 and grew up receiving training here for 11 years. While at VBC, she performed such roles as Swanhilda in Coppélia,...
Photo credit: Jose Miguel Constantino Shelley Siller (she/her) grew up in Cape Coral, FL, where she studied Cecchetti ballet technique and all movement styles at Pine Island Dance. After moving to Washington, D.C., she continued her training under ballet master Pamela...
Mr. Rubin has been teaching for more than 30 years. He began his training with such world-renowned teachers as David Howard, Dolores Brown, Robert Christopher and George Chafee for ballet; Luigi, Fred Benjamin, and Ron Forella for jazz and Joyce Tristler, Bertram Ross...
A Northern Virginia native, Leanne started her training under Susan Blazy at the Metropolitan Ballet School. She later studied at Virginia Ballet, where she trained under former Ballets Russes dancers Oleg Tupine and Tania Rousseau. Leanne continued her training at...
Mrs. Bernero began her ballet training at the age of 5, with Muriel Shelley Evans at the Academy of Ballet and Hampton Roads Civic Ballet, in Hampton, Virginia. As a teenager, she studied under Mary Marshall at the Academy of the Peninsula Ballet and later Esperance...
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR – CONTEMPORARY/MODERN Mr. Miegel is originally from Fairfax, VA and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance & Choreography from Virginia Commonwealth University in May 2008. While a student at VCU he danced in faculty member James Frazier’s...
