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Kathi Marin I have been dancing all my life! My earliest training was in Santa Monica, California with a wonderful Russian teacher at “Mari School of Dance.” I went on to major in dance, attending Christian College, San Diego State, and ending here at Cornish College here in Seattle. My interest has always been in walking a line between strong technical understanding of dance, and learning how to reach and teach the unique capabilities of each of the students in my care. I studied kinesiology, sports medicine, and movement therapy for deaf children. I also studied and became certified in aerobics and yoga instruction before opening my studio, The Center for Dance, in 1987 in Issaquah. We moved to our larger facility in Preston in 2001. For the last twenty years I have had the honor to run The Center for Dance. I have been blessed with some of the best instructors available, and they have helped me create a studio that offers the best in technical training within a nurturing environment, while fostering self-esteem and creative confidence in our students. Thirteen years ago I began a summer program “Reach for the Sky July” which serves the marginalized youth of the area, those children who for whatever reason, are not blooming in their young lives. Each year we bring 35-40 8-12 year old children to a full scholarship camp for three weeks. They receive instruction in dance, art, and theater, developing a production of their own which they proudly perform at the end of camp. The purpose of the camp is to encourage respect for each other, their world, and themselves while being exposed to the arts in a hands-on experience. The children that return year after year, some that have joined the dance studio and are thriving in the dance world speak profoundly to the success of this camp www.reachfortheskyjuly I feel very blessed to have had so many families grow up here at The Center for Dance. I teach the very youngest dancers here at the studio. My aim is to encourage their own dancing hearts to be seen and expressed, even if they sometimes also need to learn to share the pink scarf. In the last several years the added joy of watching my own granddaughter find the magic of dance…priceless. Heartfelt gratitude to those who have shared this dancing journey with me. |
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Laura Peterson Laura is a dancer, teacher and choreographer from Issaquah, Washington. She started dancing in 1990 and has been teaching since 1994. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Dance from the University of Washington in 1998. Laura currently performs with Arc Dance Productions. She enjoys teaching all ages and looks forward to teaching you in the future. |
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Yanina Mikhaylyuk
I graduated with a Master's Degree from
St-Petersburg Art University, Russia the class of Svetlana
Fadeeva. I started to dance when I was eight years old. Two
years later, at 10, I danced at a professional musical
theater. My scenic experience consists of Characteristic and
classical roles of traditional Russian ballets.
Since 2004, I have worked in the U.S. as a ballet teacher. I taught ballet, Pointe and Character dance at Washington Academy of Performing Arts in Redmond from 2004 - 2005. Now I work at Ballet Bellevue and The Center for Dance. Also I work as a Character dance teacher for special programs at Pacific Northwest Ballet School. My pedagogical experience is based on traditional methods of dancing culture and personal work with each student. I love ballet. All my life it is tutus and points |
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Julie Letsche Julie is a former principal dancer with Tennessee Ballet and trained with both Boston Ballet and Atlanta Ballet. She has performed in numerous ballets including Sleeping Beauty, Coppelia, Nutcracker, and many original works. She has taught at all levels of dance throughout her career and spent eight years teaching and choreographing in Los Angeles. Julie is also a choreographer and musical theater performer and continues dto travel the country working for named theater companies |
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Megan Harrison Megan Harrison has been dancing for 20 years. She has attended various dance studios throughout the community, and was a brief member of the Eastside Moving Company. She has been a student at The Center for Dance for the past 13 years and from which she worked her way to becoming an instructor. She has been a teacher at the Center for Dance for the past 7 years.. teaching Jazz, Tap, and Hip-hop. Megan's main goal in her classes is to make them fun while helping her students to learn the skills they need to achieve their goals, and to help them move forward in the dancing world. |
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Amanda Klinke-Hernandez
After 10 years of professional teaching and choreography experience in Illinois and Michigan, Amanda Klinke-Hernandez brought her teaching talents to the Seattle area in 2006. She has been trained in ballet, jazz, tap, and modern dance and has performed with Chicago's Northwest Ballet Ensemble and U of M's Impact Dance Theater. Amanda has taught all levels of ballet and jazz in studios throughout the Midwest. In 1998 she created the "Dance Ypsilanti" program which used public schools and parks programs to bring creative movement curriculum to hundreds of students. Amanda believes in the power of arts education to change lives, and is committed to providing a positive, uplifting dance experience for every child. |