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ABOUT TRDance
In its fifteenth season, TRDance Center, Coastal Virginia's only professional modern dance company, performs original modern dance as well as classical and contemporary ballet as the Virginia Ballet Theatre. The company blends both classical and modern forms, the "downtown" spirit, hints of pop culture, and a keen sense of musicality.
TRDance Center is an urban dance center planted in the heart of Virginia's largest performance art community. It's home to Coastal Virginia's only modern dance company, Todd Rosenlieb Dance and Virginia Ballet Theatre, the area's oldest professional dance company.
One of TRDance's studios
With dance offerings for all ages, TRDance features both a structured curriculum and an open class model, adaptive dance classes and outreach for children and adults with disabilities and a Pilates Studio.
TRDance Center’s unique Dance Academy model offers students of all ages the unique opportunity to drop in for open classes, enroll in its widely respected classical training program, and/or audition for a select spot in one of the coveted pre-professional ballet or modern dance Ensemble positions.
MISSION & VALUES
Todd Rosenlieb Dance is a center for promoting the highest level of professional performance, education, and community outreach. Through innovation, creativity, and inclusion, we explore modern dance and contemporary ballet that enrich the culture and community of the Mid-Atlantic region.
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We seek to establish a culture that ignites a passion and appreciation for all forms of dance and that develops the next generation of professional dancers, students of all abilities, dance educators, and audiences for this ephemeral art form. We accomplish this with our five core values of excellence:
Diversity
By celebrating our true individuality, we develop a stronger self-worth and therefore a stronger dance community. Each unique perspective plays an essential role in the creation of our own art form, the strengthening of the human spirit, and the common bonds in our community.
Creativity
The fusion of imagination and intellect is the essence of the human spirit that strives for new ideas and a vision beyond ourselves.
Innovation
By honoring our rich history, embracing the present, and promoting a constant evolution, we illuminate and endow the future of the art form.
Collaboration
We are stronger together, we strive on working with others to affect change in our community and the world around us.
Education
By spreading knowledge of the history of dance, we are able to positively impact the experience of our current audience.
TODD & RICARDO
COMPANY DANCERS
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Daena Bortnick
TRDance & VBT since 2016
Houston Ballet Ben Stevenson Academy, Pacific Northwest Ballet Professional Division, Ballet Met II
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Elise Giannotti
TRDance & VBT since 2015
Montgomery Ballet, MoveWorks, The Ailey School
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TRDance & VBT since 2014
BFA-Dance, Shenandoah University, Soloist-Dissonancy Dance Theatres, Pointe Magazine’s Solo of the Month- Jan. 2013
Caitlin Granville
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TRDance & VBT since 2018
BFA-Ballet, University of Utah, Central West Ballet First Soloist
Timothy Knoll
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Megan Montagne
TRDance since 2016
BFA-Dance Performance, University of the Arts, Choreosplat Dance Works, the Philadelphia Dance Ensemble
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TRDance since 2019
BFA-Dance, Radford University
Soloist- danahbella Danceworks
GSA-Dance Dept 2012
Alexa Dunks
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TRDance & VBT since 2016
Brookline Ballet School,
Nashville Ballet 2
Amber Romano
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TRDance & VBT since 2019
Danced with Academie De Ballet 2004- 2016 , Past Company member with BVI 2016-2017 , Trainee with Orlando Ballet 2017-2018
Andrew Cook
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Morgan White
TRDance 2019
TRD Company Member 2007-2009, Member AEA since 2012, CATS National Tour Virginia Opera , BA Christopher Newport University
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TRDance & VBT since 2019
TRDance and VBT Ensembles
Pittsburgh Musical Theater
West Virginia Wesleyan College
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Kathyrn Gardner
TRDance & VBT since 2019
Atlanta Ballet Conservatory Dancer
Contracted Huntsville Ballet Company Dancer
Michaela Hutchins
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TRDance & VBT since 2019
Performer and Assistant Director, The Limelight Collective;
BFA--Dance, Belhaven University
Melody Stowe
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STUDIO INSTRUCTORS
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Ballet & Pointe
Amanda Clayton
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Fundamentals, Jazz & Ballet
Lindi Denning
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Hip-Hop
Khyre Dean
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Creative Movement, Jazz, Modern & Contemporary
Lexi Dunks
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Ballet, Modern, Pilates Mat
Dr. Lynette Hauser
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Ballet
Michaela Hutchins
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Modern
Lauren Kidd
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MixMo
Erin Hartnett (Pentecost)
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Tap
Cheryl Simmons
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Ballet & Pointe
Jaime Simpson
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Broadway Jazz
Morgan White
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Ballet, Pointe, & Pilates Mat
Krista Zomar
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STUDIO STAFF
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Todd Rosenlieb
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Artistic Director
Christopher Reybrouck
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Executive Director
Ricardo Melendez
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Director, Virginia Ballet Theater
Lia Rudon
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Business Operations Manager
Erin Hartnett (Pentacost)
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MixMo Administrator
Jaime Simpson
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Academy Director
Christen Thomas & Tracey Buckner
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Company Assistants
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Inaugural Chair
Deborah Thorpe
Immediate Past President
Susan Hirschbiel
2020-21 Officers & Board of Directors
Lisbet Hanson, MD
Co-Chair
Connie Campbell
Vice President
Katie Kenerson
Secretary
Christie Mendoza McCall
Co-Chair
Deborah L. Swiecinski
Treasurer
Emily Miller, JD
Michael Curry
Emily Mitchell
Angelique Ragland
Elise Giannotti
Company Representative
2020-21 Advisors
Elizabeth Blachman
Helene Uhlfelder, Ph.D.
Mikaela Watkins
Raegan Kotsko, MD
Tara F. Saunders
Ellen Nixon
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OUR SPONSORS
We are so grateful for the support of public & private grants and individual donors. Todd Rosenlieb Dance is a non profit 501(c)(3) organization, and your contribution is tax deductible as allowed by law.
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