Creative Dance & Introduction to Dance Bios

Evelyn Balassanian
Evelyn Balassanian Evelyn Balassanian, an Armenian, started her dancing career at the age of 8 years old. By the age of 12, she was invited for training in Leningrad, Russia. At the age of 14, she was the youngest dancer to join the company, which she professionally performed as a soloist in classical and modern ballets with major European dancers, teachers and choreographers such as John Buttler, Nicolas Briazoff, Ann Heaton,Morris Bejar, Robert Dewarren, Robert and Inga Urazgildier. She also taught for various Long Island ballet schools for over 15 years. Currently she is a teacher and choreographer in Great Neck Arts Center teaching various classes for children and adults. She is also a ballet instructor in the Westbury Middle School outreach program as well as the director of the music and creative movements program for North Shore Day school in Glen Cove for over 20 years.
Jeanie Nannarone
Jeanie Nannarone Jeanie Nannarone studied at The American Theater Dance Workshop for over 10 years.  She performed with The American Dancemachine and The Eglevsky Ballet Company.  She also trained at the North Carolina School of the Arts under Melissa Hayden. For the past 8 years Jeanie has performed across the US, Japan, Europe and Austrailia with "Sesame Street Live".
Michelle Vivona
Michelle Vivona has performed on Broadway in Thoroughly Modern Millie, How To Succeed…, Gypsy (Tyne Daly), Anything Goes (Patti LuPone), and Sweet Charity (Dir. Bob Fosse). National Tours include: How To Succeed…, Guys and Dolls, 42nd Street and On Your Toes. Michelle toured Europe with West Side Story and as Peggy Sawyer in Broadway Tonight! She has appeared in music videos, as a Westinghouse Babe on Late Night with David Letterman, One Life to Live, numerous national commercials, The Rosie O’Donnell Show, The Today Show, and was directed by Woody Allen in Zelig. Michelle was also a Radio City Music Hall Rockette.
Rose Walsh
 
Rose Marie Walsh began her early training at the School of American Ballet and continued her training with the Eglevsky School of Ballet in Massapequa.  She studied under noted ballet instructors Madame Valentina Pereyslavic, Nina Stragnova and Vladimir Dokoudovsky.  As well as performing in New York City
and other out of state companies, Rose Marie has performed on Long Island with Fedicheva Ballet and Lumiere Ballet.  She is a graduate of Bernard Baruch College, The City University of New York.

 

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