Staff Archives - Page 10 of 13

Sidney Fendley

Sid has been in Albuquerque for over 30 years working as a keyboardist, vocalist, audio engineer, recording artist, composer, and music director. Sid joined NDI New Mexico in 2016 and playing for classes at The Hiland and in the Albuquerque In-School Program bring him...

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 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 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 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. ...

Steve Figueroa

Born into a musical family, Albuquerque native Steve Figueroa began playing the drums at age 9. He then switched to the piano at age 17 and has been playing it ever since. Steve is largely self-taught. He has been a fixture on the local New Mexico music...