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Ms. Tseng is from Italy, where she began her training studying classical ballet with teachers such as Mr. Erik Bruhn, Ms. Yvette Chauvire’, Mr. Bruno Telloli, Mr. Ricardo Nunez and Ms. Ekaterina Maximova. Ms Tseng started her professional career in Italy where she danced with Teatro Comunale of Florence, Teatro Regio of Torino, and Teatro Nuovo of Torino. In 1990 she accepted an offer from Mr. Roy Tobias to join the Universal Ballet Company of Seoul. She was quickly offered soloist roles and achieved the rank of Ballerina when she was chosen to perform the leading role in the Marinsky Theatre production of Swan Lake. In 1998, she was offered a contract as Principal Dancer with Texas Ballet Theater and she has been featured in all the principal roles of the company repertoire. Under the inspirational artistic direction of Mr. Ben Stevenson, Enrica has being giving the chance to perform in some of the most beautiful masterpieces in the ballet repertoire. September 2006 she received a special award as a "Distinguished Italian Artist in the World" from the jury of the LericiPea, in Italy. Enrica retired from the stage on April 2008 after a successful career with Texas Ballet Theatre and she was once more awarded the "Dancer of Year" by her colleagues. In September 2005, Ms. Enrica Guana Tseng and her husband Mr. Chung-Lin Tseng opened the Ballet Center of Fort Worth, where they pass on their talents, passion, and artistry to the future dancers of North Texas. |
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Taiwan-born Chung-Lin Tseng began his artistic career as a figure skater, and in 1984, won a gold medal for pair’s figure skating in the Taiwan National Championship. In 1990, he accepted a two-year, full scholarship to the Hong Kong Academy for the Performing Arts where he developed a strong background in classical ballet and partnering technique. In the spring of 1992, Mr. Tseng had the great honor of performing in London in the production of Hong Kong Heartbeat where he was privileged to meet Princess Diana.
Prior to coming to Texas, Mr. Tseng danced with the Universal Ballet Company of Seoul. As a soloist for 6 years, he danced in 11 full-length and 19 one-act ballets. Mr. Tseng gained recognition on the international stage, performing in over 100 cities and 16 countries around the world. In 1998, Mr. Tseng joined Texas Ballet Theater where he performed as principal dancer under the direction of Ben Stevenson. He has been featured in Balanchine roles such as Puck in Midsummer Night’s Dream, Allegro Brillante, the Poet in La Sonnambula, the Waltz Boy in Serenade and others. In the classical repertoire, he has appeared as Prince Sigfried in Swan Lake ( Second Act), the Sugar Plum Fairy’s Cavalier in The Nutcracker, the male lead in Paquita, and in Mr. Stevenson’s Four Last Songs and Cinderella.
Mr. Tseng began his choreographic work as a student under the supervision of Aaron Wan. He continue developing his talent choreographing for Universal Ballet and other professional groups in Taiwan and Italy under the supervision of Roy Tobias. He has presented two full-length evenings of his choreography in Fort Worth with dancers from Texas Ballet Theater, and his works were selected by the Star-Telegram as one of the “ Ten Best Performing Events” of the year 2002.
In the summer 2004 Mr. Tseng staged the full-length production of La Sylphide for the Kaohsiung City Ballet in Taiwan. Mr Tseng was appointed Visiting-Artist-In-Residence at Southern Methodist University, Division of Dance, in 2004. In 2005-2006 has taught as part-time adjunct faculty at Texas Christian University, Department of Ballet and Modern Dance. |
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Ms. Edele began her career as a dancer, choreographer, and instructor in Dallas performing in the mediums of television, concert, and corporate/industrials. Her career has expanded over 15 years, and has gone on to include theater, commercial, and film -- adding credits of director, writer, and show producer. Her career has taken her to Austin, Las Vegas, and Los Angeles as choreographer, instructor, and performer working on the stage, TV, and film mediums.
Ms. Edele received a degree in the Applied Arts in Acting Performance, and has won numerous awards for commitment and dedication to the studies of her crafts. She has also studied under Jay Hall, learning the Luigi jazz technique, Fosse, and rhythm tap, and went on to assist Mr. Hall working in the dance and theater department of MVC.
Ms. Edele continues to produce, direct, and choreograph theatrical entertainment, providing a unique opportunity for professionals in the area, as well as combining different disciplines of the arts. She has worked as an instructor in Dallas and LA teaching the disciplines of ballet, jazz, lyrical, tap, modern, hip hop, musical theater, drill team, and acting.
Ms. Edele enjoys the opportunity to not only to teach different art disciplines, but also highly valuable skills that can be used for a lifetime of success for those working toward a professional career or the recreational student.
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Originally from Atlanta, Georgia, Ms. Logan trained at the Atlanta Ballet Center for Dance Education on full merit scholarship from 1994-2001, where she attended the pre-professional program which provided her with a wide variety of styles in order to prepare for a professional career in dance.
She studied with teachers such as Fernando Bujones, Anne-Marie Holmes, Violette Verdy, Patty McBride, Jean Pierre Bonnefoux, Li Chou Cheng. Ms. Schilling was invited to join the Atlanta Ballet Company under the direction of Mr. John McFall for the 2002-2003 and 2003-2004 seasons. She traveled with the company to London where she performed in John McFall’s Nutcracker, Prisma, Stanton Welch’s Madame Butterfly, Michael Pink’s Dracula and Romeo & Juliet. In 2004, Ms. Logan joined Texas Ballet Theater as a company member, where she currently performs. She has enjoyed dancing the role of Snow Queen in Mr. Stevenson’s Nutcracker and the Autumn Fairy from Cinderella along with other Mr. Stevenson productions.
Ms. Logan currently teaches the Intermediate levels at the Ballet Center of Fort Worth. |
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Mason began dancing with Ballet Center of Fort Worth at the age of 14. This past year she was a trainee with Ballet Austin and received her 200 hour yoga certification with Black Swan Yoga. Now back in Fort Worth she is a member of Ballet Frontier for the upcoming season. Mason teaches Pre Ballet 5&6, Basic Ballet 7&8, and Yoga at the Ballet Center of Fort Worth.
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Brooke received her early ballet training at Ballet Conservatory in Lewisville, Texas, where she performed with Lake Cities Ballet Theater. She has attended summer programs with The Rock School for Dance Education, Boston Ballet, Ballet Austin, and Nashville Ballet. At the age of sixteen, she moved to Philadelphia to continue training year-round at the Rock School for Dance Education and graduated in 2008. After graduation, she joined Ballet Austin as a trainee. While at Ballet Austin she had the privilege of performing in Stephen Mills’ The Nutcracker, Carnival of the Animals, Peter and the Wolf, and Coppelia. Ms. Neal teaches at the Ballet Center of Fort Worth the younger ages ballet classes and she is a Ballet Frontier of Texas Company Member. |
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Maria started ballet at the age of two and half under the Royal Academy of Dancing, training/technique completing examinations up to grade 7 of their curriculum under the instruction of Alcira Alonso and Alicia Rusconi. Maria also danced with Escuela de Danza Morena Celarie under the Vaganova technique until age 16. She has participated in Central American competitions such as Certamen Internacional de la Danza, and participated in touring with the company to Central and South America as well. Maria came to live to the USA at age 16, attending Fort Worth Ballet School, and other studios in the metroplex with teachers, Svetlana Stanova, Todd Edson, Mdme. Fedine, Enrica Tseng, Margo Dean. Maria has attended many summer intensives at Fort Worth School of Ballet. She has been invited to teach ballet for outreach programs for Texas Ballet Theater since 2001 and she enjoys teaching for Ballet Center of Fort Worth since it first opened in 2005.
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Katie is originally from Tyler, Texas where she studied jazz, ballet & modern under the direction of Lynn Ramey, Michelle Tyer Haberle, David Roe & Patti Patterson. She is a recent graduate from the University of Oklahoma School of Dance where she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Dance Performance. While attending OU, she was a member of the Modern Repertory Dance Theatre and Contempory Dance Oklahoma, performing annually for 4 years. She attended the Kansas Dance Festival, American College Dance Festival and the Merce Cunningham Summer Intensive in New York City. Katie studied with Austin Hartel, Derrick Minter, Jeff Rebudal, Carol Tennenbaum, Mark Dendy & Gail Gilbert while at OU. Katie's choreography projects have appreared throughout stages in Oklahoma and the DFW area.
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Anastasia began her dance training at age 3 at the Ballet Conservatory. There she studied ballet, modern, jazz, and tap. At age 13 she joined the preprofessional ballet company Lakecities Ballet Theatre, and continued to dance with them for 8 years. In those years she had the honor of performing in the Nutcracker cast in roles such as, Arabian Coffee, Spanish Tea, Snow soloist, and Waltz of the Flowers. She, also, performed in Coppelia cast as, Prayer. She was also cast as the lead wife of Dracula in Le Ballet de Dracula.
After those lovely years, she went on to receive her BFA in modern dance at Texas Christian University. At TCU she has performed in works choreographed by Susan Douglas Roberts, Elizabeth Gillaspy, Suki John and guest artists Robert Battle, Loretta Livingston, and Alexandera Beller.
In the summer of 2009 Anastasia attended the American Dance Festival in North Carolina, and studied modern dance, and choreography with Mark Heim, and Pamela Pietro of NYU.
In the summer of 2010 she attended Bates Dance festival in Maine. Here she was able to study modern dance and choreography under the instruction of the renowned artist Doug Varone, and his company member Natalie Desch, as well as Omar Carrum of Delfos Danza Contemporanea based in Mexico.
All of these magnificent experiences have led Anastasia on a journey of constant growth and learning as a dancer. She has become very interested in choreography and creating her own dance works after creating two very successful Senior Capstone dance pieces, “Bedtime Story” and “Omnipotence”, at TCU. She plans on using all the knowledge she has gained from her years of training and experience to guide her down a never ending path of creativity and dance.
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Kerri began her dance training at South Texas Dance Theatre at the age of 7. She was accepted into intensive summer programs by the Virginia School of the Arts and the Houston Ballet. Kerri was also accepted to the school of dance at TCU in Fort Worth where she spent one semester before moving on to graduate with a degree in Entrepreneurial Management. Since graduating from TCU, Kerri has had the privilege of dancing with the Ballet Center of Fort Worth. She currently works at American Airlines’ headquarters office in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. |
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