Faculty & Staff

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Faculty & Staff

Jenni Holste

Assist. Artistic Director

Lyrical/Modern, Ballet Instructor

She formerly taught for Armstrong Atlantic State University teaching modern, ballet, jazz, yoga, and folk, social, and contemporary dance. While a competitive dancer she had the privilege of taking dance classes in New York City. She has taken classes from teachers such as Debra Zall, Desmond Richardson, and Frank Hatchett; as well as from Perry Dance, Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Broadway Dance Center, Complexions Dance Company, American Ballet Theater, and New York City Ballet. She is now dancing for her former dance teacher Linda Elchak once again as a guest artist in Linda’s company Nao Dance.

Dawn Oswald

Executive Artistic Director

Anine Picard

Classical Ballet Instructor

Ryan Sullivan

"Remi"

Hip-Hop Instructor

While living in Toronto, Remidee was heavily involved in diverse dance crews of Canada's urban Hip-Hop dance scene. This Christian Hip-Hop musician, with clean positive lyrics, toured in Europe, Canada, United States, and was featured performing on MTV Asia. He teaches Hip-Hop and breaking and continues to further his dance education into other genres such as ballet, contemporary, and rhythm tap. His fusion of these genres makes him an extremely unique and talented choreographer.