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After taking time off to start a family, she joined Ballet Iowa, where under the direction of Artistic Director Kennet Oberly, she danced numerous principal roles, many of them being original works. She also performed with the Des Moines Metropolitan Opera and Wisconsin Ballet Theatre. During her career, she has danced in well-known ballets such as Symphony in C, Konservatoriet, Napoli, Don Quixote Pas De Deux, Coppelia, Cinderella, Swan Lake Pas de Trois and Giselle.

Ms. Meredith has taught in schools in Salt Lake City, UT, Des Moines, IA, Green Bay, WI and Chicago. She helped create a pre-professional program at the Green Bay School of Dance which consistently places students in prestigious schools such as the School of American Ballet, Harid Conservatory, Pacific Northwest Ballet School and the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School. Many have gone on to professional careers that include Carolina Ballet, Nashville Ballet, North Carolina Dance Theater, Pacific Northwest Ballet and Louisville Ballet, and to Broadway shows such as Young Frankenstein.

While dancing in Los Angeles, Brittany had the opportunity to dance in the film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, as well as the television show House.

In addition to her dance training, Brittany has a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of California San Diego. She has experience working with children in preschool settings including work as a creative movement and physical education instructor. She enjoys teaching ballet to children of all ages and is happy to be joining Chicago Dance Academy.

during which time she completed a teaching apprenticeship and performed lead roles in classical and contemporary works created for the Reif Center Dance Company. She continued training at the Boston Ballet while in graduate school at Harvard before moving to Oxford University to complete her studies. Since moving to Chicago eight years ago, she has been training and performing throughout the city, including solo roles in Don Quixote, Sleeping Beauty, Paquita, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, while teaching ballet of all levels to children and adults.

Chloe graduated from Indiana University’s Jacob School of Music with Highest Distinction, earning a Bachelor of Science in Ballet with an Outside Field of Kinesiology. While dancing with Indiana University Ballet Theatre, she was featured in Twyla Tharp’s Sweet Fields, Dwight Rhoden’s Dear Frederic, and as Princess Aurora in Act II and Act III of The Sleeping Beauty. After graduating from IU, Chloe was given the opportunity to perform George Balanchine’s Nutcracker Pas de Deux and Robert Rodham’s Snow Scene with the Indianapolis School of Ballet. Chloe then moved to Chicago, where she spent two years as a company dancer with Elements Contemporary Ballet, and performed as a guest artist in the Ruth Page Civic Ballet Nutcracker.

In 2014 Jacob attended the Indigenous Dance Residency at the Banff Centre. After attending the residency Jacob returned to Banff as a company member with Red Sky in which he performed as a dancer and choreographer in multiple showcases in Banff and Vancouver Canada. He joined Giordano Second company in 2016 and was promoted to the main company in 2017.

and taught pre-ballet through advanced modern at two local studios. At Illinois State, she had the opportunity to dance under the instruction of several renowned choreographers, including Randy Duncan, Keith Elliott, Joanna Rosenthal, Julie Tice and Kim Nofsinger. In 2010, she was cast as the yellow woman in a recreation of Martha Graham’s masterpiece Diversion of Angels under the direction of Graham dancers Sandra Kaufman and Denise Vale. Additionally, her own choreography was chosen to perform in 2012 at Dance Chicago. After college, she choreographed for Grayslake Central High School’s annual musical and single-handedly organized and ran the Grayslake Central Orchesis Dance Company, which is comprised of 41 aspiring dancers. Currently, Amy is a full cast dancer, choreographer and Assistant Director for Meraki Dance Company, a professional jazz, modern, and ballet company based in Naperville, for the third year in a row.  In 2015, her work was performed at the Love is Alive showcase at Madison Street Theatre and chosen to perform at the SEA conference. This past year, she performed in six pieces and showcased two pieces of her choreography in Darkness Turns to Light. Aside from teaching pre-ballet and creative movement at Chicago Dance Academy, Amy is starting her 5th year of teaching high school English at Rauner College Prep in West Town.

Katie has also had the pleasure of teaching the fanciest jazz squares around while setting pieces for CPS Drama and Musical Theater programs. She currently performs and dances joyously with Synapse Arts. When not focused on the dance world, Katie enjoys long walks on the beach, listening to good music, and hunting for vintage treasures.

During her time at LINES, she worked with various teachers and choreographers such as Alonzo King, Maurya Kerr, Christian Burns, Gregory Dawson, Amy Seiwert, Charles Moulton, and Kara Davis, among others. She also had the opportunity to teach and perform internationally with JUNTOS Collective, an organization committed to multicultural exchange. She is currently dancing with Trifecta Dance Collective and is also an apprentice and mezzo company member with Cocodaco Dance Project.