Our teachers are experienced and dedicated professionals – all fully committed to your child’s joyful dance experience. Let us nurture your child’s love of music and movement in a non-competitive creative environment, where imagination and self-expression through dance:
-Promote self-confidence & body awareness -Channel energy -Foster social & communication skills -Build fitness, and strength -Develop balance and coordination
Cathy Hazeltine Fallon, Director (Ballet, Pointe, Pilates, Alexander Technique) received her classical ballet training from Melissa Hayden, Laurence Rhodes, Christina, Bernal, and Maggie Black. She danced with Garden State Ballet and Kansas City Ballet, where she performed in ballets by George Balanchine, Lew Christensen, Todd Bolender and Peter Anastos. She also danced with Laura Dean Dancers and Musicians, Mark Morris, and other modern choreographers, and studied and rehearsed with Twyla Tharp and her company members. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Kinesthetic Education and Dance. She began her Pilates training in New York with Kathy Grant, one of only two teachers certified by Joseph Pilates’, and completed her certification through the Physicalmind Institute. In 1993 she completed the three-year training to become and AmSAT certified teacher of the Alexsander Technique. She incorporates her Pilates and Alexander training into her dance classes. This is especially helpful to students with injuries, and/or strength and alignment issues.
Elaine Sisler (Creative Dance, Pre-Ballet, Ballet) is an experienced dancer, classroom teacher, arts educator and advocate. Her dedication and commitment to arts education and integration is evidenced by a variety of programs she has developed, coordinated and implemented in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maryland and New York. She is the recipient of the 2006 Massachusetts Alliance for Arts Education’s “Outstanding Arts Educator in Dance” and the “Goldin Foundation for Excellence in Education” awards. Elaine believes that students can learn much of what they need to know through music, movement, dance, drama and good literature. These are the tools she uses to design programs that help children and adults develop creative thinking, problem solving skills and aesthetic awareness. Elaine is a designated “Creative Teaching Partner” for the Massachusetts Cultural Council’s Creative Schools grant program. She teaches at Endicott College in the Creative Arts and Learning graduate program and is a member of “Skyloom” Sacred Dance Group and “Encore Dance Ensemble”.
Anthony Williams
(Adult Ballet) is the Founder and Artistic Director of BalletRox. Mr. Williams began training
with Tatiana Babuskina, former ballerina with the Lithuanian Ballet, E.
Virginia Williams, founder of the Boston Ballet, and Sydney Leonard. After only
nine months of training he became a charter member of the Boston Ballet,
dancing in E. Virginia Williams's Young Loves. Three years later Mr. Williams
was promoted to principal dancer and was picked to dance the lead in
Balanchine's Scotch Symphony opposite New York City Ballet's guest star Kay
Mazzo. Positive reviews in Dance Magazine and The New York Times attracted the
attention of Robert Joffrey, who auditioned and then invited Mr. Williams to
join the Joffrey Ballet, where he danced in several soloist roles. Mr. Williams
has also been a principal dancer with the National Ballet of Norway, the Royal
Winnipeg Ballet, Sam Kurkjian’s Boston Repertory Ballet and the Gulbenkian
Ballet of Portugal. Mr. Williams now commits himself to offering the fruits of
his experience to the Boston community through BalletRox, a dance company, and
the Tony Williams Dance Center, whose mission it is to unite people through the
power of dance. Mr. Williams is also very proud of his three sons: Alex,
Spencer, and Jeremy!
