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Besdies Ms. Kelley Clark who is the director and main teacher at the studio, there is also a wonderfully talented staff who helps to create, shape and influence our students. It is important to Ms. Clark that she offers the very best education toher students no matter how recreational or professional dance is to them. Teachers and Guest teachers are carefully selected and these teachers are, like Ms. Clark, willing to go above and beyond for the students. These amazing people that are part of our dance family are such great role models for our students. Take a moment to meet them here..........

Courtney Glennon has been with the studio for 18 years. Courtney grew up in the studio following in her older sister's footsteps and quickly became one of the high scoring soloists of our competitve team. Courtney has had many years working as a class assistant in tap, jazz and ballet classes and has recently been welcomed as a full time instructor. She is well versed in classcial ballet, pointe, tap, jazz ,and lyrcial dance. Besides working well with our older students, Courtney has a sepcial love and gift for working with the youth of the studio. Courtney's list of credits goes well beyond her winning scores in competition. She has also been a principal dancer for The Braintree Ballet Company, our resident ballet company. Courtney has starred in many classical ballets as well as many company originals. She also worked as a coach for the company rehearsals and has assisted with production planning of both ballets and our annual recitals. Courtney has been a huge help with our annual Summerdance sessions and has been on faculty as an instructor.. Her love for dance and love for teaching are a pefect recipe for the wonderful teacher she is.

Ricardo Machado is celebrating his 17th year with our studio. "Mr. Rick" came to us after experiencing dance life at Bridgewater State College. He quickly picked up on many styles of dance but found ballet to be his favorite. After years of dancing, studying, reading, attending performances and trying his hand at choreography, Rick was aksed to officially join our staff for education. Rick has taken years of classes in classical ballet, tap, jazz, lyrical, modern, muscial theatre and pas de deux. Rick has danced many years in pricipal roles for our own Braintree Ballet Copany. His partnering skills are outstanding and work ethic is one to be admired. He embraces all that our studio stands for and is constantly thought to be a motivator and mentor for all of our students. He has graced our audience with his choreography in ballet, tap, jazz, pas de duex, lyrical, modern and musical theatre. He always has something new ready to show us and excite us. It is an honor to have him on staff.

Donna Ryan is no stranger to the studio. Donna started with us 17 years ago and has been a joy to have on board. She grew up dancing at the Boston Ballet School but then took time off later in life to get married and then become a mom. Donna found our ballet company through one of our dancers and quickly jumped back into dance. It was not long before Doona was starring in pricipal and solist roles in with our ballet company. She has also been training in tap, jazz, lyrcial, and much more besides just her classical studies. After spending a few seasons of assisting the pre-ballet program as well as working as a rehearsal coach for the ballet company, Donna became one of the regular pre-ballet teachers at our school. She is also certified to teach yoga for children up to age 18. This wonderful passion she has for dance and yoga has helped create the program she teaches. Her guidence in the classroom cotinues to promote a positive learning environment with detail to the needs of young children. She loves children and has such a passion for helping them enjoy dance. Donna has a welcoming and caring way to approach teaching and the children just adore her, as do we!

Tony Tucker first visited our school in 2008 as an assistant to teacher, Jeffrey Louiza. Now as a teacher himself, he provides us with oustanding hip hop and contempoary choreography and classes. Tony is our resident Hip Hop instructor and has brought such a fantatstic level of energy to the cirriculum at DSOB. Tony also trains with our ballet company as well as continues his dance education with other progams we offer. He never stops finding inspriation and also continues to be it to others. A true artist in every sense of the word! Besides being a member of our own Braintree Ballet Company, Tony has danced with the Boston based modern company, Deborah Able Dance Company and guest performs with Bosoma, another popular Boston dance troupe. He is the founder and director of Street Hype, his own outstanding hip hop company. Tony spent a few summers involved in the Boston University "Reach" program, a summer dance prgram that educates and mentors the community's youth through dance. His training includes, hip hop, Krump, jazz, tap, modern, comtemporary, ballet, partnering, and Haitian Folk. Some people are just born to dance and Tony is one of those pople! Tony’s fantastic energy and creative choreography keep our students motivated, and challenged. We are so proud to have him with our school.

Ricardo Foster Jr. was born and raised in Boston, Ricardo has been involved with the entertainment industry for over 10 years. Using his special talents as a dancer, choreographer, performer, actor, comedian, and model, he has single-handedly made a name for himself amongst many of today’s popular artists. Working and performing with artists ranging from Jay-Z, Usher, Britney Spears, NSYNC, En-vogue, Uncle Cracker, and Beyonce to old school classics like Naughty by Nature, Wu-Tang clan, and RUN DMC, he has seen it all. Recently he has been focusing his talents on ventures behind the scenes, choreographing for various artists, guest choreographing for major dance companies and crews and producing onstage performances through his production company Unyted Stylz Productions. He has also fashioned Unyted Stylz to be an entertainment umbrella housing performers, teachers, and dance groups of different disciplines, styles, and backgrounds to help enrich and broaden the dance community. Ricardo is also proudly one of the main choreographers and developers for the Xbox Kinect video game franchise “Dance Central”. Due to his involvement with these projects and his works showcased on different platforms of entertainment Ricardo has been recently dubbed a world renowned choreographer. All while being a devoted teacher at Dean College for both Jazz and Hip-Hop, as well as constantly doing workshops, master classes, and lectures on the performing arts as a whole.
With an outstanding personality, he has a way with audiences, students, and his peers alike. By using comedy, simple physical analogies, and a story-like premise behind all of his dance movements, he looks to have people understand and enjoy his performances, choreography, and classes. All while trying to help people find a new appreciation and love of dance and themselves. Known as a master teacher, an exceptional performer, and an international choreographer Ricardo strives to live up to the standard of “…..not necessarily being the best, just everyone’s personal favorite.”

Derrick Louizia, a Boston native, is a member of our ballet company and is a substitute.guest instructor. He graduated form the Boston Arts Academy and then continued his dance trainign at Dean College. His traingin consists of everythgin form ballet, tap and jhazz to hip hop and cultural dance. He is a member of his family's own Arc en Ciel Dance Company and travels all over New England performing traditional Haitian Dance. he has performed with Festival Ballet as a guest dancer in thier Nutcracker Ballet as well as taught jazz and hip hop for their academic program. He is well known in New England as a great dance teacher with his own creative and evolving style. Derrick is a wonderful addition to the DSOB family both on stage and off. He works well with the youth of the school and really knows how to motivate anyone he works with. Derrick has created numerous pieces of choreographic work whcih has been seen on stages of college dance performances, competition stages and recital but his favorite way of sharing his love of dance when not in the classroom is through his videos. Derrick writes, directs and performs in his own concept videos that recieve rave reviews on many forms of social media. He is a true, well rounded talent.

Guest teacher, Stephanie Imbornone, is a graduate of Dean College and has her Bachelor of Arts in dance. Stephanie is an amazing teacher with so much energy that you can get tired from watching her. Our students get so excited when they know she is coming to teach a class. They adore her! Her classes are educational, inspirational and motivating. She has worked our students into a deep sweat while challenging their skills at modern, hip hop and contemporary styles of dance. Stephanie has also used her "mock audition class" to show the students what it is like if they decide to ever pursue a dance career and what professional auditions are really like. She is a kind person and knows how to educate dancers to want to be their best without forcing them. Stephanie is currently living and dancing in LA California where she has worked on numerous projects, appeared in a short film, danced for music artists live performances, and teaches dance. Stephanie makes our studio one of her first stops when she comes home to visit her family who lives locally to us. We miss her when she is gone but look forward to her visits and her awesome classes.

Jeffrey Louizia, our "King of Hip Hop" is one of our favorites. One of our guest faculty members, Jeffrey currently living in Salt Lake City, UT, comes home often to be with family and always finds plenty of time to visit us and teach a great class. His fusion styles really allow our trained dancers to express their technique in ways they don't normally see or feel in the more classical styles. Jeffrey teaches hip, hop, tap, modern, contemporary and Afro-Haitian dance. He goes well beyond the rules of choreography and thrills both dancers and audiences with his gift for the art of dance. A graduate of Dean College, Jeffrey currently holds his Bachelor of Arts in dance and teaches at many dance studios as well as guest taught at the Boston Conservatory, Boston Arts Academy and much more. After living in LA for a period of time where he worked on a short film, danced for live shows/concerts, appeared in a Black Eyed Peas video, he moved to Salt kale City to join Odyssey Dance Theatre. He is a principal dancer with the company and has also landed the job as director of hip hop at the Pointe Academy, one of the leading dance studios in the Salt Lake City area. He teaches at workshops across the country with many of the SYTYCD past winners. Jeffrey is also the creator of Lovolution of Hip Hop, a series of workshops that inspire and motivate the future of hip hop dance. Jeffrey is a true gem and one we are so so happy to have as part of our dance family- even if it is part time for now.

Jeryl Palana Pilapil is a native of Massachusetts and recently graduated from Dean College earning her B.A. degree as a dance major. She has experience and knowledge in dance composition, pedagogy and Laban Movement Analysis. Jeryl has trained in Ballet, Jazz, Tap, Hip Hop, Modern and Contemporary. She is excited to start her first season with Spunk and Co., a Boston based contemporary company, and is currently a member of hip hop crews Unyted Stylz Crew and StreetHYpE. Being a member of these crews has allowed her to perform in various shows throughout New England. She has also experienced on stage performances with Impact Dance Company of Boston and Dean College Dance Company, as well as doing video work for independent and upcoming artists. Jeryl is loved at DSOB and we get excited when we know she is coming in to teach as it guarantees us a great class and creative choreography!