Faculty at San Elijo Dance and Music Academy
Nancy Robinson, Ballet Mistress
Ms. Robinson danced as a soloist there for seven years, then as Principal dancer with the City Center Joffrey Ballet Company, which made her an internationally acclaimed ballerina. She has toured Vienna, London, and several major United States cities. During her career, she danced in principal roles such as Astarte Pas de Desses (Joffrey), Moves and Interplay (Robbins), Time Cycle (Bolender) several works by Arpino, Nutcracker-Sugar Plum Fairy (Christensen), and other works by Fokine and Ailey. Later she was Ballet Mistress at Pacific Northwest Ballet Company and The Los Angeles Ballet.
Ms. Robinson has taught at The Joffrey School (NYC), Cornish School (Seattle), Marcia Dale Weary School (Pennsylvania), Los Angeles Ballet School (Los Angeles), City Ballet (San Francisco), The Ballet Studio (San Francisco), and the California Ballet School (San Diego). Nancy now brings her accomplished talent and expertise to SAN ELIJO DANCE AND MUSIC ACADEMY.
Tiffany Case
Tiffany Case was born and raised in a suburb of Seattle, Washington. Trained at the prestigious Pacific Northwest Ballet School she had the opportunity to perform in many of their productions including Cinderella, the Nutcracker, and Snow White. Ms. Case also trained at Oregon Ballet Theatre, San Francisco Ballet School, Boston Ballet, Milwaukee Ballet, and Ballet Austin. At age 18, Tiffany was asked to join the corps de ballet at California Ballet in San Diego. There she performed a variety of roles in both classical and contemporary ballets including Red Riding Hood in Sleeping Beauty as well as Betzie Roe's Dry Roses.
France Woodard
France Woodard France-Marie Woodarod began her ballet training at a young age in San Diego. She spent her summers training at intensive programs with the Joffrey Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, Boston Ballet and Richmond Ballet. In 2003 Ms Woodard was asked to join the Richmond Ballet training program where she performed many roles with the company. In 2007 she moved to Princeton, New Jersey and joined the teaching team at Princeton Ballet School. Most recently, Ms Woodard returned to San Diego to pursue teaching and share her love of dance with the students of San Elijo Dance and Music Academy.
Christina Wurz
Christina Wurz began her professional training with The Joffrey Ballet School and danced with the company for five years. She earned a B.F.A. in Dance at the University of Hartford, Hartt School in 2001. Ms. Wurz is an accomplished performer, having danced with San Diego Dance Theater, Mohegan Sun/Christopher Lee Productions, Dance Connecticut's Touring Ensemble, Full Force Dance Theatre, Bronx Dance Theater, and at the Radio City Music Hall. Ms. Wurz also performed internationally at the Rome Festival in Italy, Burklyn Ballet Theater in Scotland, and in the World Cup Opening Celebration. Ms. Wurz brings years of experience and a wealth of knowledge to her students at SEDMA where she has been teaching since 2005. Christina would like to thank her parents for providing her many wonderful opportunities; her wonderful husband Robert for his understanding of her late nights during numerous Nutcracker seasons. Finally, a special thank you to Ben and Lauri-Michelle for miraculously finding her and providing the best job and students in all of San Diego.
Cassandra Ream
Cassandra Ream studied Ballet for fourteen years with the San Jose Ballet company out of Cleveland Ohio before she found her love for contemporary lyrical and Jazz. Touring by the age of fourteen with Urban Jamm dance convention was just the beginning. She later danced with LADF in LA on scholarship, which led to a full ride scholarship to The Edge Performing Arts Center in LA in 2000. Cassandra worked out of LA for 5 years fulfilling her dream as a young professional dancer, working for Debbie Allen's company "Atmosphere" founded and created by Terri Beeman. She also work with Hysterica Dance Company founded by Kitty Mcnamee's. In these companies, Cassandra had the opportunity to work with prestigious choreographers such as Mandy Moore, Mia Michaels, Scott Hislop, Wes Veldink, and Ryan Heffington to name a few. Fulfilled by performing and studying dance Cassandra later starting teaching and becoming a choreographer her self. Cassandra is the Director of SEDMA's Dance Project, their dynmaic competitive jazz and lyrical team for ages 6-18. She believes young children are candles waiting to be lit.
Alexandria Corosanite
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Adriana Guerrero
Adriana Guerrero is one of our Gymnastics Coach for our program Gymkids. She has 7 years of experience prior she has also worked for California Gold gymnastics, YMCA Escondido, and PCG San Marcos where she also was the preschool coordinator and level 4-team coach. Adriana is a member with the USA Gym professional member and is safety certified.
Linnette Roe
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