Adams
Tumbling, Acrobatics USA Gymnastics Certified Instructor; all levels USA Professional Member, Gymnastics National Safety Certified Movement Education & Lesson Plan Development Certified Kinder Accreditation for Teachers Certified Meet Director Certified Amy is the Director of Berkshire Dance Theatre Gymnastics Program. She has 23 years of experience as both an instructor and a competitor. She attends national and international gymnastics [...]
Office Assistant, Adams an Williamstown locations BA Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, MA Becky graduated in 2010 with a bachelor’s degree in English/Communications from MCLA in North Adams, MA. She teaches advanced hip hop at Karen’s School of Dance in Adams, MA. She is also former co-president, choreographer, and lead dancer of MCLA’s Dance Company. [...]
Ballet, Modern MFA in Dance Smith College, BFA in Dance SUNY Purchase, ADF 1977 and 1979 Chuck started dancing in Adams around age 18 at The Studio and in Pittsfield at The Berkshire Ballet. After departing from the Berkshires to further his studies, he danced and taught in NYC, Boston, throughout the Northeast, and was [...]
Hip-Hop, Show Director for 2011 Annual Production JD, Southern University Law Center, LA; BA Political Science, Southern University and A&M College, LA Derrick is a native of Opelousas, Louisiana. He took tap, jazz, and hip-hop dance classes until the age of 13. Derrick has worked extensively in the non-profit sector with local organizations such as [...]
Jazz, Tap, Pre-Ballet,Tap/Jazz Taking dance lessons in ballet, tap, and jazz wasn’t enough for her passion, and at age 13 Elizabeth began choreographing and soon after became an assistant dance teacher at The Ballet School in Port Clinton, OH. By her senior year in high school she was teaching two jazz classes. While attending college [...]
Jazz Fran Steinert formally trained with Fred Benjamin, Lynn Simonson, Ann Reinking, Pat Hall, Richard Gonzalaz and various members of the Paul Taylor Dance Company. More noteworthy, however, was her training at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center and Luigi Jazz Center. At the same time she traveled extensively throughout the U.S. to choreograph and [...]
BDT welcomes Jamal as part of our 2011-2012 Hip Hop faculty! Bio coming soon.
Operations Manager Ballet, Jazz, Tap, Equipment BA Fine and Performing Arts with Theatre & Arts Management concentrations, MCLA, MA Jessica began her dance studies at BDT in 1988. She soon realized her love of dance, and studied ballet, pointe, jazz, tap, and modern throughout her high school years. She was a teaching assistant and a [...]
BA Psychology, UMASS Amherst, MA; AOS Culinary Institute of America, NY Kathleen represents the roots of BDT, as a student of the original organization, the Brookfield School of Dance. She has served as a dancer, teacher, board member, writer, choreographer, and production manager throughout the years. As a professional chef, Kathleen has lived in China, [...]
Executive Director BA in dance, Dean School of Dance at Dean College, MA Kimberly first fell in love with the performing arts at a small playhouse in New Hampshire in 1990, and since then has worked with numerous non-profit arts organizations throughout New England. She has studied dance with such master teachers as Joan Phelps [...]
