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Tia is a nationally recognized dance professional and an award-winning team director with 25 years of instruction experience. She specializes in dance education for children and has taught in elite ballet and competition programs in Florida and Alabama as well and in pre-professional dance programs on the Monterey Peninsula.  Tia focuses on curriculum development; ballet, jazz, and lyrical/contemporary technique training; pre-professional training tracts for ballet, jazz and contemporary dancers; and Youth America Grand Prix solo and group coaching.  During Tia’s teaching career she has had the honor of instructing many students who have been accepted into programs and companies such as: San Francisco Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, American Ballet Theater, Joffrey Ballet (jazz, contemporary, and ballet programs), Ellison Ballet, Paris Opera Ballet, Royal Danish Ballet, Tisch School of the Arts (NYU), Ballet Chicago, and LINES Pre-professional Training Program.​

 

While Tia has had opportunities to work with many students on a pre-professional path, she also has a strong passion and love for working with those children who are focused on dance as a recreational passion.  She finds it of the utmost importance to foster each desired learning experience in a fun, nurturing, and structured environment.​

 

Tia’s training in ballet, pointe, jazz, and contemporary encompasses nationally and internationally respected instructors; including the renowned, Fiona Fairre’ of the Royal Ballet, Shamil Yagudin of the Ballet Stars of Moscow, Samuel Abramian of the Bolshoi Ballet, Todd Eric Allen of Boston Ballet, Bruce Marks of American Ballet Theater / Ballet West and Boston Ballet, Kathy Kozul of Walnut Hill School of Performing Arts, and Rhee Gold, founder and director of Dance Life Retreat and Training.

 

Competition teams under Tia’s direction have won consecutive regional and national titles. Her choreography has consistently received recognition and highest of honors at regional and national dance competitions. Tia has been the Artistic Director of Monterey Peninsula Ballet Theatre since it was founded in January 2017, formerly the artistic director of other local pre-professional companies for over 12 years), as well as tour director for an eleven day China Tour with twenty-one dancers.​

 

When Tia moved to the Monterey Peninsula in 2004, she continued to follow her passion for dance as well as medicine.  Her fifteen years in the field of medicine as an administrator and medical director have broadened her expertise in establishing and operating all aspects of startup and established businesses.​