Faculty

Cindy Reid: Artistic Director and former Principal Dancer with ITHACA BALLET; danced with ABTII, formerly the Ballet Repertory Co. of NYC,; soloist with Ruth Page's Chicago “Nutcracker” for 3 seasons; studied on full scholarship at American Ballet Theater School with Valentina Pereyaslavic, Leon Danilien, Patricia Wilde, also at Joffrey School, at Pittsburgh Ballet Theater, with Larry Long in Chicago, Ballet Guild & with her mother, Alice Reid at the Village School.

Gunilla Lieberman: Principal Teacher of small children; BA in French from Stockholm University; studied ballet at the Royal Swedish Academy, completing syllabi I, II, and III, studied special work with small children under Lillian Karina in Stockholm, and ballet with Vergiu Cornea at Ithaca College, and at the Ballet Guild of Ithaca. Choreographer of several children's ballets, as well as for Regional Dance America Festivals.

Dansingtree Moonwater: Instructor Modern & Classical Ballet; freelance dancer in NYC, San Francisco, Durham NC, & Ithaca; in Britain with various modern dance cos; touring Britain, Europe & Scandinavia; danced in national ballet in South Africa; studied in NYC with Merce Cunningham, Louis Falco, Mel Wong, Kei Tekei, Floor Barre technique with Zena Rommett, and in South Africa at the Ballet Music & Art School.

Amanda Moretti: Studied modern ballet in fine arts program at York Univ., Toronto; BA in dance from Noropa Institute, Boulder CO; free lance dancer choreographer in Montreal for 12 years; taught dance movement to children in Montreal, Hawaii & Ithaca.

Miranda Strichartz Evans: BA from Cornell University; MA in English from SUNY Albany; danced with Ithaca Concert Dance Company; has taught ballet in Ithaca for over 15 years; studied ballet with her mother Naomi (Richardson) Strichartz, former dancer with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo.

Jayme Burket: BS from University of California Berkeley; MS from Cornell University.  Studied ballet at the Performing Arts School of Classical Ballet in San Antonio TX for 15 years.  She currently studies at the Ballet Center of Ithaca; also with Olga Dvorovenko at Ballet Academy East, and Kenny Larson at Ballet Arts in NYC.  This is her second year teaching a the Ballet Center of Ithaca.