Voted South GA Best Dance Studio '13 & '17
We offer professional ballet, pointe, tap, jazz, hip hop, and lyrical dance classes for ages starting at 2 1/2!
Home of the "Princess Ballets"
Coming to you this January 23rd & 24th 2016........Sleeping Beauty......... in collaboration with Valdosta State University's Dance and Theatre Department!
Please call our office at 229-247-9966, email us at [email protected], message us on Facebook, or visit our website at http://valdostaschoolofballet.net for more information concerning classes and performances!!
**Owner/Artistic Director -- BRANDI ROBERTS**
Brandi began her training at the early age of four. She has studied jazz with Nilo Toledo and tap with Jo Rowan of St. Petersburg, FL; ballet and Pointe with Kim Tuttle of Dance Alive, Gainesville, FL, Jargen Scheidek of the American Ballet Theatre, Paul Miley of the Atlanta Ballet, David Howard of the New York City Ballet, Kathryn Dandois of the Sarasota Ballet, Dermounte Burke and Marjorie Mussman of the Princeton Ballet and also Russian style ballet with Janvia Vanova, Luba Gulyaeva, Larisa Sklyankaya, and Irene Kolpakova. Brandi attended the North Carolina School of the Arts and Princeton School of Ballet summer intensive programs. She has attended the Dance Makers Convention in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. She has also traveled to New York City to attend the Dance Teacher Magazine Summer Conference. She studied there with Finis Jhung, Bob Rizzo, Barbara Bashaw, Michael Kerr, and Debbie Allen. Brandi has appeared as a guest artist and member of the Valdosta State Dance Ensemble in the Valdosta State University’s productions of the Gene Kelly Revue, Dance Celebration, Oklahoma, Fads, Fashions, and Romance, and The Little Match Girl, all directed by Eric Brandt Nielsen. Brandi brought to us the production of The Little Match Girl for three years in conjunction with the Valdosta State University Theatre Department. Brandi also had the opportunity to perform Clara, Dew Drop, and the Sugar Plum Fairy in the Nutcracker. Dance Teacher Magazine chose Brandi as a finalist for best choreography for Amazing Grace. Brandi looks forward to returning to her studio and to her children. She has found that dance is an integral part of her life and sharing her talent and love of dance with her students brings her much joy. Brandi’s goal for the students is for them to grow not only as a dancer, but also as a person.
***Assistant Director -- BROOKE BUTLER***
As a 1998 Magna Cum Laude graduate from Valdosta State University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Theatre/Dance, Brooke has a 28 year background in the performing arts. While at VSU, under the direction of Eric Brandt Nielsen, she was a principal dancer (Sally Bowles) in Tribute to Bob Fosse, a featured dancer in Let’s Go Crazy, The Gene Kelly Revue, Let’s Dance, Kismet, and was Susie in the musical production of Crazy for You. She received a Golden Circle scholarship her freshman and sophomore years of college. She was also a member of VSU’s Dance Team the Red Hots. She is now a member of the Golden Circle Scholarship and Support Fund Board at Valdosta State University. Brooke has worked at the Valdosta School of Ballet for 17 years. As part of her training she has worked with Nilo Toledo, Joel Ruminer, Kim Tuttle, and Kathryn Dandois. She was chosen to perform as the Bluebird, Pierott Doll, Arabian, and Can Can in the Little Match Girl and Waltz of the Flowers and Snowflake in the Nutcracker. She has also been the wicked stepmother in Cinderella and the wicked fairy in Sleeping Beauty. She had an opportunity after college to live in New York City and work with MTV on their Campus Invasion Tours. Brooke has volunteered to work on several plays with the Ginderbread Players of Theatre Guild Valdosta. She has choreographed dances for Peter Pan, Greatest Americans, The Christmas Toy Shop, and Babes In Toyland. She has volunteered her time choreographing dances for South Georgia Council for Youth in the Performing Arts performance of Honk and The Boyfriend. She has also attended the 2003/2004 Dance Teacher Magazine Conference in NYC. While there she studied with Cathy Roe, Bob Rizzo, The Radio City Rockettes, Debbie Allen, Debbi Dee, and jazz master Luigi. Brooke has taken Master classes with Ivery Wheeler and Judy Skinner at VSU. She participated in the 2012 BYU Ballroom Dance camp and has taken classes in Atlanta at Dance 101. She is so excited to have this opportunity to work on this community performance with such wonderful people. Sharing her love of dance with others gives her great joy.
***GAYE GEORGE***
Gaye Dampier George began her dance training at the age of 4 under the instruction of Linda C. Chase. In her sixteen years, Gaye performed the roles of the Angelical cat in Cats, the cat in Peter and the Wolf, Clara, Snow Queen, Dew Drop Fairy, Ballerina Doll and Sugar Plum Fairy in the Nutcracker. She has danced under the tutelage of Kim Tuttle of “Dance Alive”, Gainesville, FL and Nilo Toledo of St. Petersburg, FL. As a rising tenth grader at Lowndes High, she was chosen to participate in the Governor’s Honors Program in the area of dance. Gaye graduated from the University of Georgia with a Bachelor of Science degree in Pharmacy. Gaye is the wife of Frank,and mother of sons, Judson and Cannon and daughter, Evans. Gaye has recently been the Queen in Sleeping Beauty and looks forward to another great performance of Cinderella.
