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Lauren Bauer

Director

Lauren Bauer, Director of The Community House Ballet and Jazz School and a ballet teacher for 30 years, offers classes in the RAD and Vaganova (Russian) Method. Her pedagogical training was with Sharon Dante, foremost authority in the Vaganova system of Classical Ballet. She is a member of Michigan Dance Council and the National Dance Education Organization. She has adjudicated for the Michigan Youth Arts Festival and Michigan Ballet Theater and is currently seated on the jury to select this year's recipient of the Cultural Arts Award of Birmingham Bloomfield. Before joining The Community House 17 years ago she established a school and performing arts company in Connecticut and was instrumental in helping her students gain admission to professional dance and theater companies as well as colleges and universities as dance majors. Many have enjoyed professional careers performing and teaching dance.

 

 

 

Associate

Katie Deloy has been a member of the Oakland Dance Theater and the Oakland University Repertory Dance Company.  She is completing her Bachelors in Performing Arts at Oakland University. Ms. Deloy will teach Creative Dance, Jazz, and Tap.  In addition she is coordinator for the junior and senior level jazz competition groups.


Julie Gervais

Associate

Julie Gervais received a BA Cum Laude from the State University of New York. She studied ballet pedagogy and theory at Skidmore College in New York and was an adjunct faculty member at Marygrove College. Her performance credits include Lexington Ballet in Lexington, Kentucky, MoreDances Contemporary Dance Company in Troy and MOT’s production of La Traviata at the Detroit Opera House.


Leeann Bland


Associate
Leeann Bland is a graduate of Marygrove College where she earned her Bachelors degree in Dance Theater Performance. She is a former staff member of The Dance Academy in Port Huron and continues her dance education at Marygrove College.  Performance credits include Urban Ballet Theater and several area musicals.