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Lucretia Lomax | Svetlana Krylova | Stacey Lloyd | Alexandra Nelson | Teresa
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 Bjart 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 used to be the character teacher for American Ballet Theatre's Summer Intensive at the University of Texas at Austin. This is her twelfth 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.
Stacey Lloyd Back to top
Stacey Lloyd is a recent graduate of Oklahoma City University with a degree in Dance Management. While studying at OCU, she was a member of the American Spirit Dance Company, the PEP dancers, OCU Rhythms, and co-director for the Spirit of Grace Liturgical Dance Company. She choreographed many works for both the PEP and Liturgical Company that have been performed in churches and venues across the state of Oklahoma. Stacey recently danced for the Oklahoma City Yard Dawgz dance team, part of the arena football league.
Stacey is excited to return to The Dance Studio, as it has been her second home and family since the age of four. Stacey danced several principles roles and was a dance captain with Dance Spectrum, and choreographed multiple works for the Young Choreographers Showcase. At Westwood High School, Stacey was a part of their first Fine Arts Academy, in which she studied both Dance and Musical Theatre.
Stacey has a wide variety of training ranging from ballet to hip-hop, tap, and theatre dance. In the spring, Stacey was given the opportunity to travel to New York and take workshops with current Broadway performers and producers. Along with her passion for dance, Stacey is also pursuing certification in personal training, and plans to incorporate cardiovascular exercise into her dance classes. Her goal for this upcoming year is to educate and enthuse students in classical as well as non-traditional dance forms.
Alexandra Nelson Back to top
As a young child Alex took ballet and danced in the Leander High School Blue Bellesʼ clinics. She studied four years of jazz dance at Shirley McPhailʼs School of Dance from the ages eight to twelve, then joined the Cedar Park Middle Schoolʼs drill team, the Crimson Cadets, and continued on as a member of the Cedar Park High School Celebrities.
After high school Alex took jazz/tap, ballet, and modern dance at Kilgore College, then transferred to Stephen F. Austin State University majoring in Dance Education with a minor in History. Through the dance program, she studied jazz, modern, ballet, production, improvisation, costuming, rhythmic analysis, analysis of movement (major muscle groups), and dance theory/ practice. She was a member of the Stephen F. Austin Repertory Dance Company and traveled to TCU for American College Dance Festival Association in 2007.
Alex graduation in May 2008 Magna Cum Laude and moved home to Cedar Park. Her passion is dancing and choreographing for children and young adolescents. She loves surrounding herself with others who enjoy dancing as much as she does.
Teresa Wang Back to top
Teresa came from Chengdu, China. She studied Chinese folk dance from the Dance Company of Sichuan Province. She has participated in many state level performances and has won numerous rewards.
Teresa has a BS Degree of Education. She held the director position for a number of daycare centers in Chengdu. During her tenure in these daycare centers, she choreographed and directed many large performances, some of which won first and second prizes from Chengdu Children’s Arts and Performance Festival.
In 2006, Teresa was appointed by CDTV as choreograph judge for its hit series “Fairy tale – Chengdu girls”. She was also a judge of CDTV’s children’s programs.
Teresa’s teaching material combines fundamental choreograph training with Chinese folk dance to build a solid foundation for children to develop beautiful postures and to keep long lasting love for dance.
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