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...
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. ...
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...
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 in...
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