Lori Brody

Lori Brody

After her professional career with the San Francisco Ballet, Lori taught for many years in Los Angeles, California. She was a faculty member at The School of the Westside Ballet, The Stanley Holden Dance Center, The Crossroads School for the Arts and Sciences, and in...
Melissa Briggs-Bransford

Melissa Briggs-Bransford

Melissa is a graduate of New York University/Tisch School of the Arts (MFA in dance) and Smith College (BA in sociology; Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude). For over 20 years she has taught young people ages three to university age in schools and arts programs in New...
Rachel Zervakos

Rachel Zervakos

Rachel Zervakos earned her B.F.A. in Dance Summa Cum Laude at The Boston Conservatory at Berklee, where she was a Jan Veen Scholarship Award Recipient. She received her initial dance training at Tolbert-Yilmaz School of Dance in Roswell, GA, and attended summer...
Savanna Leyba

Savanna Leyba

Savanna teaches dance fitness classes all around Santa Fe, participated in NDI programs in her childhood, and joined the NDI New Mexico teaching team in 2021 learning the outreach methodology as well as training with Allegra Lillard as a teacher of creative movement. ...
Simone di Pietro Reche

Simone di Pietro Reche

Born in Campinas, Brazil, Simone di Pietro began dancing at age of 10. She studied in Brazil, the Centre International de Danse Rosella Hightower (France, Cannes), Academie D’Art e Choreographie Raymond Franchetti (Paris, France), Karlsruhe Dance Company (Karlsruhe,...
Tracy Ritter-Golson

Tracy Ritter-Golson

Tracy trained at La Mesa Dance Academy with Cecelia Jaramillo before studying under New Mexico Ballet Company’s (NMBC) founder, Suzanne Johnston.  She has been a member of NMBC since 2002, performing Lead Mirliton and Dew Drop in The Nutcracker, Queen of Hearts...
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