Christine Dent

Christine Dent is from Cincinnati, Ohio, and received her training from The Studio for Dance, Cincinnati Ballet, and Ann Reinking’s Broadway Theatre Project. She graduated with a BFA in Dance from The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she performed in works by Roni Koresh, Scott Jovovich, Zane Booker, Kim Bears-Bailey, and performed Martha Graham’s Panorama as a guest artist with the Martha Graham Dance Company. She has performed at Carnegie Hall, been featured on the Today Show, and danced at sea with Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines. She has appeared in countless musicals across the country, and favorite credits include Judy Haynes in White Christmas, Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, Bebe in A Chorus Line, Cabaret, Kiss Me, Kate, Legally Blonde, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, and Oklahoma!, to name a few. Upon relocating to Los Angeles in 2013, Christine turned her focus to dance education. In addition to TTDC, Christine was on faculty as the Commercial Dance Director at RC Dance Center, and is currently on faculty at Burbank Dance Academy.  She serves as the Director of Red Chair Productions’ performance of The Nutcracker, which features a cast of over 100 young performers, ages 5-18, held at the Alex Theatre in Glendale every December. She continues to set competitive dance choreography on students in both the Los Angeles and Cincinnati areas, and has sat as a competitive dance adjudicator for several dance competitions across the country. Christine has directed and choreographed musicals for The Adderley School and choreographed pieces for Burbank Unified School District.  She loves to share her passion for movement with all of her students! Let’s dance!

Erica Ammermann

Erica Ammermann is a freelance lighting designer, tap dancer, production manager, and theatrical electrician in Los Angeles. She began dancing at the age of four at her home studio in Northern New Jersey. Throughout her childhood, she trained in all genres of dance, but always knew that tap dance held a special place in her heart. She continued to dance all throughout grade school and went to further her training in dancing, singing, and acting at vocational magnet high school in New Jersey. She has recently graduated from the University of Southern California with a major in Theatrical Lighting Design and a minor in Dance. When not working in theaters, Erica spends her time diving into the history of tap dance along with training and working at tap festivals all over the country. Most recently, she has worked at DC Tap Festival and Hollywood Tap Festival, having the wonderful opportunity to assistant direct the 2023 All-Start Concert at Hollywood Tap Festival.

Erica’s teaching experience began at 14 years old, when she started as an assistant teacher for younger tap classes at her home studio. Since then, she has choreographed musicals and taught classes all throughout her time at USC. She has been working summer camps and substituting classes at Twinkle Toes since the summer of 2022 and is so excited to bring her love of tap dance to the TTDC community.

Maime Green

Mamie Green studied ballet at Cornish College of the Art’s Preparatory Dance Program and the International Ballet Academy in Seattle, WA. She holds a BFA in dance from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University in New Jersey where she trained in ballet, modern, contemporary, improvisation, and Afro-Fusion techniques. Along with choreographing her own work, she has performed repertory by visiting choreographers such as Shannon Gillen, Kimberly Bartosik, Bennyroyce Dance, Alex Ketley, Christian Burns, Stephanie Batten Bland, Alexandra Beller Dances, Delfos Danzas, and more. Mamie has also performed in venues around Los Angeles and New York in works by freelance choreographers. She has supplemented her dance training at the San Francisco Conservatory of Dance Summer Intensive, Bates Dance Festival, BODYTRAFFIC Summer Intensive, Ate9 Summer Intensive, Gaga Summer Intensive at USC, Sidra Bell Dance NY Winter Module20, and Vim Vigor’s Winter Intensive among others. During this new virtual reality, Mamie has been exploring dancing on film including commercial shoots and dance films. She is also currently getting certified as a Pilates instructor with Polestar Pilates. Mamie is excited to pass on her passion and knowledge of dance to young dancers at TTDC!

Megan Paradowski

Megan Paradowski began training at age three in the small town of College Station, Texas, where she learned commercial styles as well as classical ballet and contemporary. She went on to receive her BFA in Dance at Tisch School of the Arts at NYU, where she had the pleasure of performing works by Sean Curran, MADBOOTS DANCE, and Ronald K. Brown, amongst others. She continued her training in Berlin with Judith Sánchez Ruı́z, Dominique Duszynski, Meg Stuart, Ayman Harper, Eleanor Bauer, Johannes Wieland, and Helder Seabra. She has since performed her own work as well as the works of other contemporary choreographers in venues and festivals across New York City and Philadelphia, including the New Works Series Festival, FUSE Dance Festival by The Creators Collective, and WAXworks. Megan has choreographed for and performed in three music videos by New York musical artists. She is also featured in clothing designer Nan Seo’s spring ad campaign “Dancing with Father.” Megan is thrilled to be joining the faculty at TTDC and looks forward continuing her career in Los Angeles!

Meghan Lalor

Meghan is a freelance performing artist, dance teacher and stretching instructor. She specializes in dance, active stretching and rhythmic gymnastics. She currently performs with the LA follies in a variety of roles which include dance, rhythmic gymnastics, bubble sphere, poi and other specialties. Previously, She was a choreographer, trainer, dancer, acrobat and for AidaNova/AidaCosma, the fifth largest cruise ship in the world. She was featured in Tokyo’s Revenge, Gotham City music video as Flexy, an Elastic Girl inspired character. In rhythmic gymnastics she reached the rank of level 10 elite and was ranked in the top 10 of the United States, first in California and competed Internationally for the US team. She received her BFA in dance from the Fordham University/Alvin Ailey School Program and has studied dance at The Alvin Ailey School, Orange County High School for The Arts, Hubbard Street Dance Center, San Francisco Conservatory of Dance, School of American Ballet, and Pacific Northwest Ballet. She has a passion for teaching and sharing all the knowledge and experience that she has gained over time with other professional performing artists. She has taught dance and coached rhythmic gymnastics since she was 16 and has taught people of all ages how to dance, including extensive work with guiding those disabilities such as Parkinson’s disease using dance as an outlet.

Kelly Mlady