Malinda LaVelle

Malinda LaVelle

Malinda LaVelle (she/her) is a choreographer, dance/movement therapist, and mental health counselor in New Mexico. She graduated with a BFA in Dance from the University of Arizona and is an alumna of the San Francisco Conservatory of Dance (SFCD) under the direction...
Melissa Briggs

Melissa Briggs

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...
Melody Gallagher

Melody Gallagher

Melody Gallagher is a professional musician, stage director, and opera singer from Denver, Colorado. She holds a degree from Denver School of the Arts, a Bachelor of Music from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and a Master of Education from Eastern New Mexico...
Patience Stevens

Patience Stevens

Patience grew up in Fort Myers, Florida, where she explored many styles of dance including ballet, tap, modern, jazz, flamenco, and Hawaiian dance at Dance Bochette studio. Once she started college in Boston, she narrowed in on tap dance and started teaching and...
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. ...
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