The Dance Studio
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Faculty
Lucretia Lomax |
Svetlana Krylova |
Amanda Booth |
Katrina Kutsch
Lucretia Lomax, Director of The Dance Studio
Lucretia studied at Texas Christian University, the San Francisco Ballet School and the University of Utah where she received a B.F.A. in Ballet. She has danced with Longview Ballet Theatre, Fort Worth Ballet and Austin Contemporary Ballet. Her teaching career began in 1980 with Star Studios in Salt Lake City, and USA summer workshops in Utah, Texas, and California. She also toured with the Osmond family, performed with Vanessa Williams, studied with Paula Abdul, and choreographed half-time shows for the SLC Stars which were performed for the Utah Jazz, LA Lakers, LA Rams, SF Forty-Niners, University of Utah, University of Hawaii, and the Osmond's annual 4th of July Freedom Festivals.
She moved to Austin in 1986 to teach for Austin Ballet Theater, Austin Dance Academy, and Ballet Austin, and was also resident choreographer for Austin Contemporary Ballet and Texas Youth Ballet. In 1991 she became director of The Dance Studio and founding director of Dance Spectrum in northwest Austin. Her spectrum of repertory ranges from classical ballet, modern, lyrical, jazz, tap, hip hop, and musical theatre.
Her acting experience began at a very young age, and she loves working with actors as well as dancers, and the cross training process for both theatre and dance productions. Her theatre choreography includes Spoon River Anthology in Longview, Twelfth Night in Salt Lake City, Ruddigore in Austin, and Chorus Line and Grease with Dance Spectrum.
Lucretia spent ten years at the University of Texas Department of Theatre & Dance, first as adjunct faculty, then as Director of Summer Outreach Programs coordinating the American Ballet Theatre Summer Intensive and the Rockette Summer Intensive.
International projects include teaching and performing at Danza Nueva-Festival Internacional de Lima, Peru in 1995, and several collaborations with Myra Woodruff and Thierry Hochstatter of Béjart Rudra in Lausanne, Switzerland. She is a member of the Texas Association Teachers of Dancing, and Texas Assoc. for the Gifted and Talented.
Svetlana Krylova Back to top
Svetlana Krylova has a Master Degree in Performing Arts and Classical Ballet from the Russian State Academy for the Classical Ballet of Veronez, Russia. She danced as an artist and soloist for the Russian State Academy Theatre for the Opera and Ballet of Donetsk. She toured the United States twice with the Donetsk Ballet and once with Vadim Pisarev and his Russian Ballet. She has taught Classical Ballet, Character Dance, and Ethnic European Dance in Pennsylvania and Ballet Austin. She is the character teacher for American Ballet Theatre's Summer Intensive at the University of Texas at Austin. This is her tenth year with Dance Spectrum and The Dance Studio. She draws from her extensive knowledge of classical and character dance to stage excerpts from Paquita, Coppelia, Sleeping Beauty, The Nutcracker, Le Corsaire, and Les Sylphides for Dance Spectrum. She has a true talent for simplistic classical details and creating beautiful choreography which features all her dancers in full elegance on stage.
Amanda Booth, Director of Dance Spectrum Back to top
Amanda Booth has trained in Austin under several teachers including Lucretia Lomax, Marla Valk, and Renata Stanford. She has danced with several companies such as Steel Dance Company, Austin Contemporary Ballet, Ballet Austin, Dance Spectrum, Texas Youth Ballet, and Sundancers. She has been the recipient of several titles and scholarships such as Miss Starmakers Dance, Miss Southwest Texas, Miss USA Jazz, Spotlight Dancer of the Year, LADF, Urban Jam, and the Movin' Easy scholarship. After graduating from Westwood High School she spent a year as an apprentice at The Performing Arts Center in Los Angeles, California. She has appeared on TV shows such as Ally McBeal, and Tracy Ulman's Invisible Panty Line; as well as music videos, Usher's "Pop Ya Collar", and several Persian Artists. She also worked on an animation project as Mowgli for the production of Walt Disney's Jungle Book II. As the artistic director of Steel Dance Company for three years she created over nine self produced shows and co-founded the University Performing Arts Council at the University of Texas. She graduated from The University of Texas in 2006 with a Dance and Corporate Communications major. This is her fourth year on faculty with The Dance Studio, Amanda grew up here in our studio and was a charter member of Dance Spectrum, a student assistant receiving Alternative PE credit at school, a choreographer in our first Young Choreographers Showcase in 1997, and was also a mentoring chaperone for the 2002 ABT Summer Intensive at UT. We are very proud to announce her new position as Director of Dance Spectrum this year.
Katrina Kutsch, Newest faculty member Back to top
Katrina is a senior in the Fine Arts Academy at Westwood High School. She began classes at The Dance Studio with Miss Lucretia in 1993 when she was three years old. Katrina joined Dance Spectrum in February of 2002 after appearing as a guest dancer in their production of The Land of the Sweets. Since then Katrina has danced en pointe in blue jeans, barefoot in pajamas, overlooking Lake Travis at The Oasis, and under the stars at Zilker Park. Katrina has performed in Dance Spectrum productions of Sleeping Beauty, Don Quixote, Paquita, and Les Sylphides. One of her favorite roles was the woodland fairy in Sleeping Beauty. In 2005 she attended the Youth America Grand Prix in Dallas. Katrina was awarded the Senior All-Around Scholarship at the TATD summer convention in 2006 for being the best dancer in ballet, jazz, and tap classes. In 2007 she played the lead of Cinderella in our spring production. Katrina taught in the TDS summer camps the past two years, and loves choreographing new dances. She has a gift for creating fun and humorous pieces which are lively and entertaining. In addition to dancing every evening after school, she enjoys drawing, listening to music, and playing the piano. Katrina would like to thank her teachers for encouraging her and providing unwavering support over the years. We as teachers are proud to have this talented and dedicated student full of positive personality and perky energy teaching our advanced tappers this year!
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