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Maria Usher (Studio Owner/Director):
is
an owner and director of Maria’s School of Dance. She began dancing
when she was two and a half. Instructors and studios that she has
studied under include: LaRainne Jones of Fowlerville, Sisters Dance
Studio, Glenn's School of Dance and Cheryl's School of Dance in
Howell, Tina Marie's School of Dance in Warren, Roxy & Co. in
Fowlerville, Lansing Community College, and Michigan State
University. She began teaching dance in the fall of 1986 for
Fowlerville Community Education with only 5 students. She opened her
studio in the summer of 1995 and has watched it continue to grow.
Maria has been preparing students for competition since 1989
receiving many awards throughout the years.
Maria continues to train professionally studying at New York studios
Broadway Dance Center
and Steps on Broadway. She has also studied dance at
Debbie Reynolds Dance Studio and The Edge in Las Angeles
and at Giordiano Dance Center in Chicago.
In
addition to dancing at the studio, Maria has choreographed
Brigadoon and Anything Goes for Hartland High School.
Shows she has choreographed for Howell Community Theater include
Anne of Green Gables, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolored Dreamcoat
fall of 2000 (2 numbers) and fall of 2002, Cinderella,
Singin’ In The Rain, Fiddler On The Roof (co-choreographed), and
King And I. Maria was the co-director and choreographer for
the Spring 2003 musical HONK!.
On
the side, Maria teaches mathematics part time at Lansing Community
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Carrie
Beam: (Director): |
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Kellie Beam:
started dancing when she was four at Dance Expressions in Howell,
MI. After her first year of dance she enrolled at Glenn’s School of
Dance and continued there for three years. Since then, Kellie has
been studying at Maria's School of Dance (9 years). Kellie has been
teaching at Maria’s since the Fall of 2000. In 1997 Kellie danced in
the Florida Citrus Bowl and in 2001 she went to California on a
scholarship to Debbie Reynolds School of Dance. Kellie auditioned
and was selected for Hoctor’s Caravan Kids and Dance Olympus’ VIP.
She has taken classes from professional dance instructors at the
Broadway Dance Center in New York, Debbie Reynolds School of Dance
and The Edge in California, and at Gus Giordano Dance Center in
Chicago. Kellie attended Eastern Michigan University for one year,
and then enrolled in Douglas J Academy. She graduated in August
2005 and is now working at Douglas J Academy as an instructor in
East Lansing, Michigan. She began choreographing for Dance Express
in 2002. Her dances have received a number of awards including: 2nd
Place Regional Grand Champion at Dance Caravan in Cincinnati, OH
(July 2001), Top Score at Dupree Dance Expo in Southfield Michigan
(April 2003), and 2nd Overall High Score at Stars of
Tomorrow, March 2006. |
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