Dance with Erika S.

Erika is multi-platinum award winning choreographer in Jazz, Tap and Hip Hop. After graduating from Brentwood High School on Long Island, New York, Erika moved to Philadelphia where she received her BFA in Dance Education from the University of the Arts. Erika continues her dance education yearly by attending New York’s Dance Teacher Summit where she takes master classes with well known names in dance such as Germaine Salsberg, Greg Russell and Debbie Dee (just to name a few). Her dynamic and well-rounded experience and teaching style allows her to teach students of all ages, preschool to adult, in almost every dance genre. Erika’s students have excelled both on the recreational level and in the competition circuit as her dancers have won Platinum and High-Gold awards in many competition platforms, including the prestigious Starquest, Onstage New York and Starpower Competitions. Erika has been awarded the Apogee Award two years in a row – this award goes to the highest scoring routines among all levels of dance entries in the Competition. During the summer months, Erika is the director of the Julian Krinsky Dance program in Bryn Mawr, where she has written and directed dance programs for children of many ages and nationalities. For the last five years, children have come from all over the world (China, France, Lebanon, Italy and the Dominican Republic) to participate in Erika’s program. Erika’s love and passion for dance is evident in her day to day life as she continually seeks ways to further her own dance education and that of her students. Erika plans to continue this profession for many years to come – and has high hopes for dance education to cross into mainstream physical education for ALL students *** Lesson Details *** I am a strict fun and Energetic instructor that cares about quality dance education. I use vaganova and chechetti ballet method and have monthly focuses within my lesson plans such as , tempo, musicality, space in relationship to other dancers, etc. I am sure you will be very please after taking lessons with me *** Travel Equipment *** radio/ ipod. students should have appropriate shoes and dance attire for lesson and notebook *** Specialties *** tap, jazz , modern dance and hip hop