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Pamela Ladas

Pamela Ladas

Pamela has been a dancer, choreographer, educator, and health care provider for most of her life. In 1985 she graduated from Tufts University with a B.A. in Anthropology and Dance, with Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude honors. After teaching dance to children at the...
Kiri Chapman

Kiri Chapman

Kiri Chapman joined the NDI New Mexico team in 2022.  She is from Michigan, and spent four years living in Brazil, in Rio and Sao Paolo teaching Brazilian partner dances.  She started dancing ballet at a young age, and attended the Kirov Academy of Ballet, as well as...
Allegra Lillard

Allegra Lillard

Allegra Lillard began dancing in her home state of Texas and attended Walnut Hill School for the Arts in Massachusetts. She received further training in New York City at The School of American Ballet and American Ballet Theater summer programs and in Canada at the...
Emma Singleton

Emma Singleton

Emma began dancing in her formative years in Santa Fe, New Mexico at Dance for Joy and The Dance Barns. She attended high school at New Mexico School for the Arts with a focus in dance while she continued her training with The Dance Barns Program. She attended summer...
Tina Anderson

Tina Anderson

Tina Anderson is a Native New Mexican, born and raised in Santa Fe. She is trained in ballet, jazz, hip hop and Latin dance. She studied on scholarship with Aspen Santa Fe Ballet and upon graduating High School early, moved to Chicago to further her training on full...
Jenny Sosa-Martinez

Jenny Sosa-Martinez

Born and raised in Havana, Cuba, in 1996 she was accepted into the Cuban National Ballet School, Fernando Alonso, where she graduated with a Gold Medal and obtained the title of dancer and teacher in Cuban Ballet Methodology. In 2005, at the age of 17, she began...
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