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Teachers:
Christine Higham
Mrs. Higham's dance
training began at Shore Ballet. She passed several dance
examinations and performed in numerous productions as a member of the
Shore Ballet Company. After continuing her studies of ballet,
jazz, and modern dance at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers
University, she transfered to Trenton State College to complete her
bachelor's degree in Elementary Education. For seven years Mrs. Higham
taught 7th grade in Manchester Twp. As a 4-H leader for 19 years, she
has assisted youths and adults by teaching them proper training
techniques as they raise seeing eye puppies to become dog guides for
the blind. Mrs. Higham's enjoyment of dance and working with
children has brought her back to Shore Ballet as a teacher.
Kathryn Leibe
Kathryn has
extensive classical dance training and danced on scholarship with
professional dance schools such as The Joffrey Ballet School, The Rock
School of Pennsylvania Ballet, The School of Hartford Ballet and Boston
Ballet. She has a BA from North Carolina School of the Arts and has
danced in many productions in NYC and NC. Kathryn has been teaching
dance since 1998 and specializes in Classical Ballet, Modern and
Lyrical. She also enjoyed working at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC
for several years.
Nichole Masters
A graduate of Cape
Town University, South Africa, Miss Masters taught with the Western
Cape Education Department for nine years. During those years, she
specialized in ballet and creative dance and organized R.A.D.
examinations and performances. Miss Masters has been examined
successfully in both Royal Academy of Dancing and Cecchetti methods.
She holds the Royal Academy of Dancing's Teachers Diploma, and is a
certified fitness instructor. Miss Masters joined our faculty in 1999.
Colleen Poerner
An alumni of the Shore
Ballet School, Miss Poerner went on to dance at the School of Hartford
Ballet where she studied classical ballet, jazz, Russian character
dancing and pedagogy. In 2000 she graduated from the University of
Hartford with a Major in Computer Science and a Minor in dance.
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