Success Stories

Studio Success Stories

Grosse Pointe Dance Center dancers and instructors have gone on to have successful experiences in dance. Please view some of our Dance Studio Success Stories below.

Breanna O'mara

A fourth year dance student at the prestigious Juilliard School in New York City.As a native of Detroit, Ms. O'Mara founded the Detroit Arts Immersion project in the summer of 2009 in response to the devastating economic effects waging war on the city and most importantly, on its children. The project is committed to developing a constructive arts immersion program for abuse neglect, long-term foster and paroled youth.

Trina Mannino

University of Michigan 2009 BFA. Is currently pursuing a dance a writing carreer in Brooklyn, New York.

Catherine Coury

University of Michigan 2010 BFA. Currently living and pursuing a dance career in New York City.

Allison Shanley

Allison is currently pursuing a BA degree at Western Michigan University. While majoring in dance education, she recently completed her minor in communications. Throughout her time at Western, she has danced in numerous student pieces and has understudied and performed in three faculty pieces for Western's Winter Concert of Dance.

After graduating in 2011, she plans on auditioning for dance companies in New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Montreal Quebec. She will also be auditioning for various Cruise Lines as well as a Disney Internship.

Ellen Holme

Ellen is a sophmore at UM, majoring in Dance and Communications., Ellen has performed in dances at UM by UM faculty and in BFA senior concerts. Ellen performed at the ACDFA concert this year at University of Illinois.

Chris Masters

Graduated in 2004 from Wayne State University with a B.S. in Dance Performance and B.A. in Corporate Finance. While there he was awarded the WSU talent award 1999-2004, Blanch Shafarman Award for Excellence in Choreogrpahy (2001), 1st place awad in Modern Dance at the Concorso Internationale Dance Grand Prix Italia (2002), Copperfoot Award (2003) and Jack Kuzminski Memorial Award for academic achievement (2003).

He is the artistic director of Mack Avenue Dance Company.

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