Karine Newborn

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(Jazz, Ballet, Hip hop, Dance Workout, Pilates, Voice)

Look under About the Owner for biography.

Anath Benais

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(Belly Dancing)

Anath was born in Tel Aviv, Israel, from Tunisian parents. She began dance and music lessons at Tel Aviv's Royal Academy of Dancing. She was trained in classical and modern jazz dance. By the time she was sixteen, Anath was already a veteran of Israel's musical theater scene. She had performed in plays as "Cabaret", "West Side Story" and "Le Big Bazaar", been on national television and extensively toured across Israel.

Ms. Benais moved to France to complete her studies and pursue her career as a singer and dancer. In Paris, she trained in Middle Eastern dance with renowned Tunisian choreographer Leila Haddad. In 2000 Anath joined the cast of the groundbreaking French musical "THE 10 COMMANDMENTS", playing one of the starring roles: Nefertari, the Egyptian princess.

In 2002 Anath moved to New York to work with the great choreographer and instructor of Middle Eastern dance, Yousry Sharif. Anath loves to share her knowledge of dance and has been teaching for many years.

Henry Hill

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(Hip Hop, Salsa Groove)

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Henry Hill studied both music education and dance performance at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, VA. Since moving to New York, he has had the opportunity to produce, perform, and teach his own eclectic style of hip hop, african, and modern dance at the Dixon Place Theater and the Creative Arts Studio. Hill's teaching makes all dance fun and enjoyable to learn and he looks forward to passing this on to his students.

Marshall L. Davis, Jr.

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(Tap)

MARSHALL L. DAVIS, JR. was born in Miami Beach, Florida. He began tap dancing at the age of 10 at the African Heritage Cultural Arts Center. By the age of 11, he was a finalist in the Philip Michael Thomas "Rising Star" Competition and was the 1989 Florida winner for the Tri-Star Pictures Tap Day contest, a promotion for the movie "Tap" starring Gregory Hines and Sammy Davis, Jr. At age 13, he accepted a check from Ed McMahon for winning the coveted 1991 Star Search Teen Dance Champion. Since winning, he has performed in Europe, Japan and throughout the United States. Marshall's dancing is most heavily influenced by his mentor, the late Steve Condos of the "Condos Brothers". He has also received training from Buster Brown, Edwin Holland, Paul Kennedy, Ted Levy, Lavaughn Robinson and Sam Weber. He performed in the Tony award-winning Broadway and touring production of Bring in Da' Noise Bring in Da' Funk starring and choreographed by Savion Glover. Prior to Noise/Funk he performed at the Guthrie Theater as Pocket in Babes in Arms directed by Garland Wright. Named "Most Unusual Dance Soloist" by The Miami Herald for his rendition of the Morton Gould Tap Concerto, Marshall is also the recipient of Isaac Hayes' "Breaking the Barrier" award for his achievements at such an early age. He was most recently honored by Savion Glover "for giving tirelessly to the Spirit and Legacy of Tap Dancing." He recently performed at the Joyce Theater this summer and is touring this year with Savion Glover.

Heidi Flanagan

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(Jazz, Tap, Movement, Ballet)

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Heidi Flanagan started teaching in Philadelphia where she attended the University of the Arts. She was a merit scholarship student at the Alvin Ailey School and danced with their second company. She danced with Dejazzics Dance Company in Holland and then returned to the United States to pursue her passion for musical theater. Since then she has been a judge for the Star Systems dance competition and teaches at their summer workshop. She also teaches for Camp Broadway in NYC. In addition to teaching, Heidi has performed in many musical theater productions including A Chorus Line and Sweet Charity. She has been an assistant choreographer for two off Broadway shows--- Bloomer Girls for the Encore series at the Manhattan Theater Club in NYC with funding from the Agnes DeMille Foundation and Censored! for the Lincoln Center Summer Festival at Alice Tulley Hall also in NYC. She has performed in many industrials for such companies as Reebok, Sony and NBC’s annual fall line up presentation at Radio City Music Hall with Conan O’Brien.

Heidi uses positive reinforcement to build her students skills and self esteem. She teaches her students a solid technique in an atmosphere of fun.

Jamal Jackson

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(West African)

Jamal Jackson was born in Brooklyn, New York and began his formal studies of movement with the Harlem based Batoto Yetu Dance Company.His pursuit of dance led him to Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, where he received the Weston Award for his contribution to the Fusion Dance Company and New Works/World Traditions African Dance Company from 1996-2000. Jamal studied with Michelle Bach-Coulibaly, Seydou Coulibaly, and Fred Benjamin and worked under Mba and Bisar in Mali, West Africa. Jamal choreographed for the New York Arts Festival and Inaya Day in 2002, marking the beginning of his African-based, modern style of movement. Jamal performed with Ballet International Africans for two seasons as a principal dancer and in 2004 he founded the Jamal Jackson Dance Company, which debuted Images of the Union at University Settlement in New York and at Westport Hall in Connecticut. The company is currently performing new original works United We Stand, which has been presented at the Hudson Guild Theater, Dance New Amsterdam, Mo Pitkins, and for Jennifer Muller/The Works series. Jamal has recently created work for the Diversity in Dance Project at The Yard featuring Urban Bush Women and the Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company and has returned to Batoto Yetu Dance Company as the Assistant Artistic Director.

Genevieve Ortiz

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(Drama)

A native New Yorker Genevieve Ortiz, (aka Ginny Ortiz) is a graduate of the original Performing Arts H.S. and the Leonard Davis Center for the Performing Arts at CCNY. She studied “The Method” with Sandra Seacat of The Actor’s Studio, Meisner with Kathryn Gately and spent three years in mentorship with Earle Gister, Lloyd Richards and Slava Dolgachev thru The Actors Center Teacher Development Program. She was certified in Alexander Technique in 2001 under Rivka Cohen. Commiseration with Jed Diamond facilitated the transformation of Alexander as acting pedagogy.

Her career began with numerous Spanish market commercials while still a teenager. She was an original cast member of CTW’s award winning show “3-2-1 Contact” appearing in over sixty episodes (subsequently re-produced in Spain). In addition she appeared in “Watch Your Mouth” and several guest roles on “All My Children”. She was the famous Candy Store Girl in Walter Hill’s “The Warriors”. She has worked with the Off Broadway Company INTAR.

Her teaching appointments include The Summer Theater Institute, School for Film and Television and Columbia University. She has done guest teaching and rehearsal coaching at St. John’s University, SUNY Purchase, NYU’s Classical Studio.