Look Up Past Graduating Students by Year Dreyfoos School of the Arts
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Emmy Cheung (Mod/Contemporary)
Emmy Cheung is a senior in high schoolhouse from Irvine, California. She started dancing at the historic period of three at West Declension School of the Arts nether the direction of Paula Kessinger and has trained in the styles of ballet, jazz, gimmicky, modern, tap, and hip hop. Furthering her grooming, she currently attends the Orange Canton Schoolhouse of the Arts in the Commercial Dance Conservatory. Other additional programs of grooming consist of Laguna Trip the light fantastic toe Festival, American Ballet Theatre, and Backhaus Dance summertime intensives. Achievements include being named Spotlight Music Heart's Non-Classical Dance Grand Prize Finalist in 2021. These grooming grounds allowed her to develop a passion for dance by being constantly inspired by her teachers and swain dancers. She would similar to thank mentors Chalatorn Ujamras and Zak Schlegel for their back up and guidance throughout the years.
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Michael Dascomb (Tap)
Michael Dascomb is a tap dancer from New Hampshire who loves performing, improvisation, and everything in between. He began dancing at historic period three at his mother's trip the light fantastic studio where it was clear he had a knack for dance—in particular, tap dance. He is at present a member of two tap dance companies: Speaking in Taps and Touché Taps. Michael has created ii solo shows under the direction of Derick Grant. Additionally, he has attended tap intensives, conventions, workshops, master classes, and festivals to hone his technique, improvisation, and performance skills. Michael appreciates a not bad challenge and loves polyrhythms, complex rhythms, odd meters, and intricate patterns in tap dance. This goes hand-in-manus with his honey for Rubik's cubes, Hanayama puzzles, logic games, brainteasers, and edifice things. Beyond tap dance, Michael is an accomplished martial creative person who has earned his 1st-caste blackness chugalug in American Kenpo before the minimum age of 16.
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Joel Dichter (Ballet)
Joel Dichter took his beginning ballet form from Krista King-Doherty in New Mexico when he was iii years old. He danced competitively in Minnesota and narrowed his focus to ballet in 2013. While in Minnesota, he attended World Ballet Competition in Orlando, Florida, received a bronze medal, and performed in their gala. He attended Master Ballet Academy in Arizona for two years, where he performed prominent roles in Slawomir Wozniak's productions. Joel competed at Youth America Thousand Prix for three years, receiving 1st place regionally in 2016 and 2017 and the regional Youth One thousand Prix in 2018. He danced in the YAGP finals in 2017, 2018, and accepted a scholarship at Académie Princesse Grace in Monte Carlo, Monaco. His summertime training has included the Schoolhouse of American Ballet, Houston Ballet Academy, Royal Winnipeg Ballet, and Side by side Generation Ballet. Joel completes his grooming with Luca Masala and staff as a diplôme in June 2022.
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Mason Evans (Modern-Contemporary)
Mason Evans has been a dancer for ten years. In Florida, he spent all of his babyhood years since the historic period of eight training at his habitation studio, Performance Border ii. Later on his mother piqued his interest in dance, Stonemason joined and loved it immediately. Entering high school, Stonemason had the opportunity to railroad train at A.W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts, where he further honed his technique and gained real-earth dance experience. Since being at Dreyfoos, Mason has worked with a plethora of unlike professional dancers and broadened his mind to the possibilities of trip the light fantastic toe. Evans has also had the opportunity to tour with the national trip the light fantastic toe convention, New York City Dance Alliance, as their national title winner in 2018 and 2021, which helped him develop new imperative skills. Mason's objective equally an artist is to motion whoever his viewer is, to communicate a story, and move his audience.
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Ryan Evans (Modern-Contemporary)
Ryan Evans is from Wentzville, Missouri and attends Holt High School. Ryan has been a dancer for fifteen years. Ryan started dancing at his mother's dance studio in Saint Charles, Missouri. His principal styles of dance were ballet, jazz, and contemporary. His female parent closed her trip the light fantastic studio in 2017, and Ryan changed studios. Ryan decided to travel an hr and a half every day to train at a new studio named Columbia Performing Arts Centre in Columbia, Missouri. At this studio, he worked on refining the skills he already had. Ryan began learning and loving the concert side of trip the light fantastic toe compared to the commercial side he trained in the residuum of his life. Ryan is still training at Columbia Performing Arts Centre, refining his skills for his college career coming up next autumn.
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Selena Hamilton (Modern-Gimmicky)
Selena Hamilton is from Norwalk, California and has enjoyed the fine art of dance for the past 11 years. She currently trains at Project 21 in Yorba Linda, under the management of Molly Long. Selena has worked with numerous choreographers including Teddy Forance, Volition Loftis, Brian Friedman, and Tricia Miranda; also under the direction of Emmy Award-winning choreographers Tessandra Chavez and Tyce Diorio. She has performed in Debbie Allen'south Hot Chocolate Nutcracker, competed on "World of Dance" on NBC, appeared on "The World's All-time" on CBS, "Lip Sync Battle" on Nickelodeon, in a Honda commercial, worked equally an banana for CLI Online Studios and appeared on the comprehend of Dance Spirit. Honors include: YoungArts Finalist (2022), YoungArts Merit winner (2021), Spotlight Finalist (2021), Radix Coreperformer winner (2017 & 2019), The Dance Awards 1st runner-upwards. Selena hopes to pursue a professional dance career afterwards high school.
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Aaliyahmarie Cardinal (Ballet)
Aaliyahmarie Fundamental is a fifteen-year-old high schoolhouse inferior who began her pre-professional person ballet training at the historic period of ix with Maryland Youth Ballet. In addition, she has served as a educatee teacher banana, and has been afforded numerous functioning opportunities. In 2021, she became a national gold medalist in both ballet and contemporary at the Maryland regional level of the NAACP Deed-SO Competition and went on to earn the gold in ballet at the national level. Aaliyahmarie also made the meridian 12 in contemporary and third identify in ballet at the Youth American Grand Prix's Winston-Salem Regional Competition. She ultimately became one of the top 35 dancers to make the terminal round at the national level.
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Nicholas LaMaina (Modernistic-Gimmicky)
Nicholas LaMaina is from West Palm Beach, Florida and is a current first-year dancer at The Juilliard School. He is a 2021 graduate of Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts, where he attended as a dance major. He is likewise a erstwhile educatee of That's Dancing, a local studio in Lake Worth, Florida. Nicholas has attended The Juilliard Summertime Dance Intensive (2019, 2020) and The Jacob'southward Pillow Gimmicky Ballet Summer Programme (2021). He has experience in ballet, modern, gimmicky, jazz, percussive trip the light fantastic toe, and has a nifty interest in choreography. He most recently has had cocky-choreographed work in a Juilliard Educatee Choreographic Workshop (2021).
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Arayah Lyte (Modern-Contemporary)
Arayah Lyte, a young dancer and artist from Chicago, Illinois, began dancing at historic period four at the Mayfair Academy of Fine Arts. She is currently a student at the Chicago Academy for the Arts and is a member of the school'south Repertory Company. She is also a fellow member of the Deeply Rooted Trip the light fantastic Theater Youth Ensemble in Chicago. Lyte has participated in several summer programs including intensives with Interlochen Arts University, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, and The Juilliard School. Her preparation spans beyond genres, but she found her truthful love for art through trip the light fantastic toe in mod and gimmicky styles. Her interest in creating art with movement started early on equally she learned the dazzler of storytelling in trip the light fantastic. Enamored with the union of story and movement, dance became transportive for her. Continuing into the collegiate level, Lyte aims to expound on her dance education and love for the art.
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Kayla Mak (Modern-Contemporary)
Kayla Mak grew up in Rye Brook, NY and is of Japanese, Chinese, and Cuban descent. She studied at Westchester Dance Academy and Ballet University Due east and is at present earning her BFA in Dance at The Juilliard Schoolhouse in New York, under the direction of Alicia Graf Mack and acquaintance director Mario Alberto Zambrano. Kayla currently trains in ballet, modernistic, classical pointe, and gimmicky pointe. Her inspiration for dance sparked at the young historic period of four, while watching New York City Ballet's production of The Nutcracker. She soon became involved in competitive trip the light fantastic, where she was able to gain exposure to stage performance. Every bit she matured, she grew a dear for concert dance. For the past 2 summers, she has attended San Fransisco Ballet Summer Intensive, Arts Umbrella Summertime Intensive, Ellison Ballet Summer Intensive, and Complexions Summer Intensive. In the future, Kayla dreams of becoming a professional person dancer in a company.
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Chase Rogers (Ballet)
Chase Rogers, a ballet dancer, started dancing on a competitive hip-hop squad at the historic period of five. He get-go started ballet when he was watching a form and copying all the moves through the doorway. The ballet instructor swept him into class, told his mom to purchase him some ballet shoes, and Chase has been loving ballet ever since. Chase trained at his local studio for a few years before transferring to American Ballet Theatre'south new school at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts. There, he was blessed with amazing teachers and an surround rich in opportunity. Hunt performed in ABT's Sleeping Beauty, Harlequinade, The Nutcracker, and the Mariinsky Ballet's Don Quixote. Currently, Hunt is training at San Francisco Ballet School. When he is not dancing, he is studying in an online program that allows him a flexible schedule to complete high school and devote his days to ballet.
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Taylor Moxey (Modernistic-Gimmicky)
Taylor Moxey is from Miami, Florida and started her dance career at the tender of age of half-dozen. She has been homeschooled since the fourth class, which allows her the flexibility to devote time to her passion for dance and the arts. She is currently 15 years old and trains with the Miami Dance Collective'south Pre-Professional Senior and Conservatory Programme nether the direction of Marie-Louise Gaschler, Kristin Douthit Richards, Eduardo Iglesias, and Miami Urban center Ballet Principal Katia Carranza. Taylor trains in all forms of trip the light fantastic toe but especially enjoys gimmicky, ballet, modern, and composition. She has worked with an array of professional choreographers such equally Peter Chu, Jenn Freeman, Mat Aylward, Matt Luck, Loren Davidson, Emmy-nominated Chloe Arnold, Martha Nichols, Micaela Yard. Taylor, and many more than. She was besides accepted into the 2020 Alvin Ailey summertime intensive programme. Taylor believes dance is a joyful expression of her inner thoughts and emotions.
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Erin Park (Modern-Gimmicky)
Erin Park is xv years former and in 10th grade at Chino High School. She is from Chino, California and trains in contemporary dance. Trip the light fantastic started out as a hobby and later schoolhouse-action at six years sometime but speedily became a passion and inspiration her life. She has worked with numerous artists such as Bret Easterling, Corey John Snide, Ethan Colangelo, Micaela Taylor, Peter Chu, and RubberLegz. She has likewise been a semifinalist in the Music Center Spotlight's plan and is currently touring with the New York Urban center Trip the light fantastic toe Brotherhood as a Teen Outstanding Dancer.
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Simone Peterson (Modern-Gimmicky)
Simone Peterson dances with Precision Trip the light fantastic toe University and Kinder Loftier School for the Performing and Visual Arts. They were built-in in Houston, TX and began dancing at the age of 3 as an constituent with the local preschool after begging their parents to dance. Their interest in trip the light fantastic first began when they saw videos and TV shows featuring dancers and that is when they knew they wanted to dance forever. They are currently traveling with the Hollywood Vibe Company and preparing for the upcoming Kinder Loftier School Leap Dance Concert.
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Natalia Scuilla (Jazz)
Natalia Scuilla is originally from Fort Myers, Florida, and was raised in Frisco, Texas. She began dancing at 2 years old and one could say it was love at first class. At first, she dreamed of a career in ballet. As passion joined her dear for dance, Natalia chose to forgo the traditional school experience and attend a rigorous online program to allow more fourth dimension to refine her skills. While spending most of her training at The Dallas Solarium, Natalia developed a deep appreciation for all genres of trip the light fantastic toe that has now flourished into her pursuit of a career on Broadway. Natalia has been part of Tremaine Operation Visitor Program, which has afforded her the opportunity to aid and railroad train with artists currently in the industry and to perform in shows across the nation. For Natalia, dance is home and the stage allows her to express herself through art.
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Malavika Singh (Classical Indian Dance)
Malavika Singh is a senior at W Loftier Schoolhouse in Salt Lake City, Utah. Her passion for trip the light fantastic was kindled at the age of four when she was enchanted by Ballet West'southward Nutcracker and enrolled in ballet and contemporary classes. She began learning Odissi, an Eastward Indian classical-dance form, at twelve years erstwhile when she participated in Nrityagram'south summer workshop. Falling in love with the fine art form, lifestyle, and the people, she continued traveling to Nrityagram every summertime and winter during her school holidays, learning nether her gurus Bijayini Satpathy, Surupa Sen, and Pavithra Reddy in the guru-shishya tradition. For the past 2 years, she has been training under guru Bijayini Satpathy virtually, enjoying every minute of information technology. Trip the light fantastic has get Mala'due south preferred form of customs exploration and connexion, as she immerses herself in a multitude of art forms and expands her exposure to different cultures, and ways of life.
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Reva Srivastava (Classical Indian Dance)
Reva Srivastava, a senior at Mission San Jose High School in Fremont, CA, has received Kathak preparation since age 7 from her guru Anupama Srivastava, disciple of Padmashri Shovana Narayan. Reva'due south trip the light fantastic toe is marked past sensitive expressions, rhythmic virtuosity, strong technique, grace, and nuanced artistry, truly embodying the essence of the Lucknow Gharana way of Kathak. She has almost 100 stage performances, 25 awards, and critical acclamation to her credit. Reva strives to share her passion for Kathak as a teaching banana and military camp counselor at InSyncKathak Trip the light fantastic School, co-presenter at lecture-demonstrations at UC Santa Cruz, Drive Leader and virtual dance instructor raising funds for Family Giving Tree, abet for arts multifariousness through her video serial InSyncWe D.A.N.C.E., and Founder of the Indian Classical Dance squad at schoolhouse. Reva has also trained in lyrical, jazz, and ballet for the past decade and has won many awards as a soloist.
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Megan Stuart (Irish gaelic Step Dance)
Megan Stuart began dancing at four years old for the Corda Mor Schoolhouse of Irish Trip the light fantastic in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She apace realized her passion for dance and at present, at seventeen years sometime, is known across the earth for her title success. Megan works tirelessly every day to become the very best dancer she can exist. She attends a altitude schoolhouse to better arrange her contest and training schedule. Some of Megan's greatest achievements include winning the 2020 All Ireland Championships, winning the Mid America Championships seven times, and condign a three-time Globe Medal Holder. Peradventure well-nigh meaningful to Megan are the connections she has fabricated with others through Irish gaelic dance and the purpose she feels when she performs. Getting to share in a collective love of Irish trip the light fantastic with others is what drives Megan's eye for dancing.
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Dylan Szuch (Tap)
Dylan Szuch is a sixteen-year-old tap dancer. He has been dancing for seven years and began his tap trip the light fantastic toe journey around age ix. He lives in Wilmington, Northward Carolina where he teaches and takes class at Techniques in Motion school of dance. He is as well a member of the North Carolina Youth Tap Ensemble (NCYTE) under the direction of Gene Medler. Dylan has had the opportunity to attend multiple festivals and intensive programs all across America and Europe. More recently, he has been working virtually with Derick Grant, on developing as an improvisational artist in his Improv Labs, and with Brenda Bufalino on developing his skills equally a whole. What Dylan loves most nearly tap dancing is getting to express himself artistically to a public centre, which he does locally past busking in the streets of downtown Wilmington and by attending local Jazz Jams.
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Natalie Wong (Modern-Gimmicky)
Natalie Wong, a native Texan, is currently pursuing a BFA in Dance at The Juilliard School. She trained at Dance Institute in diverse styles, including ballet, jazz, contemporary, hip hop, and tap. Natalie's artistic journey originated in competition trip the light fantastic, where she discovered her love for performance. Natalie was introduced to concert dance through her participation in summer programs at American Ballet Theatre and The Juilliard Schoolhouse. She was equally dedicated to academics and service while at Vandegrift High Schoolhouse, where she ranked #xiv of 671 graduates and was named an AP Scholar with Distinction. Natalie was voted Freshman Homecoming Princess, and served in executive officeholder positions as a member of Student Council, National Laurels Society, PAL (Peer Assistance Leadership), and National Charity League. In the future, she hopes to dance with a contemporary ballet company, and merge her love for art and academics by researching trip the light fantastic toe anthropology.
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Kailyn Yi (Modern-Contemporary)
Kailyn Yi began dancing at the age of three. She currently lives in Irvine, CA and attends Orange County School of the Arts in the Commercial Dance Conservatory, where she trains in ballet, jazz, tap, modern, contemporary, hip hop, and musical theater. Kailyn previously trained at Westside Trip the light fantastic toe Project under the guidance of Jessie Riley and continues to train in ballet with Carolyn Lovett. She has participated in many performances such every bit OCSA Commercial Dance Winter Show and Westside Dance Project'south InsideOut. Kailyn has had the opportunity to work with renowned choreographers such as Yusha-Marie Sorzano, Bret Easterling, Spenser Theberge, Michaela Taylor, Corey John Snide, RubberLegz, and Ethan Colangelo. After graduation, Kailyn aspires to nourish a university to major in trip the light fantastic and nutrition.
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