| George Jayne began dancing at 10 years old in his hometown of Los Angeles. He went on to study Jazz dance with Roland Dupre, worked at Cal State Fullerton Dance department, and has studied gymnastics at Cal State L.A. He also studied mime with Marcel Marceau. His credits extend over stage, television, and film. He started performing with Bobby Gentry in Las Vegas, then did several Academy Awards shows and television specials. His film credits include Annie, Pennies From Heaven, and To Be Or Not To Be. He taught dance and movement in the L.A. area, worked extensively with ice skaters and gymnasts. Since moving to Nevada City, he has continued teaching as well as choreographing local productions: West Side Story, The Wiz, the community players production of Bye Bye Birdie for which he was nominated for a 1990 Elly Award for Best Choreographer and the Foothill Theater Company's production of Guys and Dolls for which he won the 1990 Elly Award for Best Choreographer. George has choreographed Pump Boys and Dinettes for Off Broad Street, and most recently Man of La Mancha for Foothill Theater Company. | |
| Beth Jayne is originally from Los Angeles where she was trained in voice, dance, acting, cello, and musical comedy. She received her B.A. degree from UCLA in theater. Beth has traveled throughout the United States, Canada, and Mexico performing in many prestigious night clubs and hotels. She has performed at Disneyland's Golden Horseshoe Revue as Slue Foot Sue, and she was the featured singer in 2 Folie Bergere productions, where she met her husband George. She has appeared in Bally's Reno production of Hello Hollywood Hello where she danced and sang for 6 years. While in Reno, she performed in A Chorus Line as Sheila. She starred in Community Players production of Bye Bye Birdie for which she was nominated for a 1990 Elly Award and the Foothill Theater Company's production of Guys and Dolls, for which she won the 1990 Elly Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical. She appeared in A...My Name is Alice, an Off Broad Street production. She has performed her one woman show Living in the Direction of My Dream with the Ken Hardin Trio. She gives private instruction in voice. Together, Beth and George are a well-balanced team. | |
| Myrna Galle, SDI Ballet Instructor, was educated at The School of American Ballet in New York City as a scholarship student. Madame Galle was a soloist with the NYC Ballet, a member of the Radio City Music Hall Corps de Ballet, and a member of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. She was the lead dancer in "Music Man" and "Once Upon A Mattress" on Broadway and in the national tours. Myrna choreographed many Broadway productions including "Brigadoon," "Music Man," "Wizard of Oz," "The King & I," and "South Pacific." She also choreographed the televised production of "Coppelia." She taught ballet at the Point Theatre Arts Festival in Texas, the Houston Youth Ballet Company, and the Beverly Hills Dance Academy before joining Sierra Dance Institute ten years ago. | |
| Tresa Honaker has been dancing for more than 18 years. She attended the St. Louis Visual and Performing Arts School on a dance scholarship, where she studied classical ballet, jazz, and modern. She worked exclusively with young children at the Lagervale Dance Institute in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Now on the West Coast, Tresa continues to study and perform, both in Northern California and in the Los Angeles area. Her studies continue at Performing Arts Center, The Edge, and The Dance Center in L.A., at Step 1 in Sacramento, and at San Francisco Dance Center. Tresa has taught and choreographed locally for the Nevada City School of the Arts, Stellar Gymnastics Academy, and for Sierra Dance Institute where she is also an instructor teaching Jazz, Lyrical, Ballet, and Hip Hop. | |
| Barbara Seibert began dancing at the age of 4 in Portsmouth, NH with Madame Cordova. At the age of 8 she began dancing with the N.H. Ballet under the direction of Warren Lynch. At the age of 14 she moved to the School of American Ballet in NYC where she studied with legendary ballet masters Alexandra Danilova, Stanley Williams, Felia Dubrovska, Antonia Turnkovsky, Suki Schorer, and Andrei Krammerevsky. Ms. Seibert toured with Patricia McBride and Jean Pierre Bonnefous, and then joined the New York City Ballet dancing all of the Balanchine and Robbins ballets. She toured extensively and spent her summers with the NYCB at Saratoga Springs, NY. In New York she also studied with David Howard, Fhinis Jung, and Maggie Black. After NYCB, Ms. Seibert was a guest teacher with the Royal Conservatory in the Hague where she taught ballet and pointe. Returning to the U.S., she performed in the musical "Nine" in Los Angeles and formed a dance program for homeschooled boys and girls. We are fortunate to have Ms. Seibert join us at SDI. | |
| Haven Caravelli | |
| Kevin McNiel | |
| Susie Kight | |
| Gaia Powell | |
| Ben Sayles | |
| Chris Fouche | |
| Rhonda Campbell | |
| Daisy Hang |