Faculty

Alice Reid: School Director; Co-Artistic Director the ITHACA BALLET; studied in Michigan, New York, and England; AB & MA from MSU; co-founder the Ithaca Ballet in 1959; taught own Village School of Ballet, with Vergiu Cornea, and at Ithaca College; designer & builder of many sets, costumes and props; Choreographer of over 50 ballets.

Cindy Reid: Co-Artistic Director and former Principal Dancer with ITHACA BALLET; danced in NYC with Ballet Repertory Co. (former American Ballet Theater Second Co.); soloist with Chicago “Nutcracker” at Arie Crown Theater for 3 seasons; studied on full scholarship at American Ballet Theater School with Valentina Pereyaslavic, Leon Danilien, Patricia Wilde, also at Joffrey School, at Pittsburgh Ballet Theater, with Larry Long in Chicago, Ballet Guild & Village School.

Gunilla Lieberman: Principal Teacher of small children; BA in French from Stockholm University; studied ballet at the Royal Swedish Academy, completing syllabi I, II, and III, studied special work with small children under Lillian Karina in Stockholm, and ballet with Vergiu Cornea at Ithaca College, and at the Ballet Guild of Ithaca.

Brigitte Dansingtree Arndt: Instructor Modern & Classical Ballet; freelance dancer in NYC, San Francisco, Durham NC, & Ithaca; in Britain with various modern dance cos; touring Britain, Europe & Scandinavia; danced in national ballet in South Africa; studied in NYC with Merce Cunningham, Louis Falco, Mel Wong, Kei Tekei, Floor Barre technique with Zena Rommett, and in South Africa at the Ballet Music & Art School.

Amanda Moretti: Studied modern ballet in fine arts program at York Univ., Toronto; BA in dance from Noropa Institute, Boulder, CO; free lance dancer choreographer in Montreal for 12 years; taught extensively dance movement to children in Montreal, Hawaii, & Ithaca.

Kirsten Hensley: Studied at Ballet Arts in Minnesota; performed with Apprentice Ensemble, Minneapolis, MN; studied, choreographed and performed at Eatham College, Richmond, IN.

Miranda Strichartz: BA from Cornell University; MA in English from SUNY Albany; danced with Ithaca Concert Dance Company; has taught ballet in Ithaca for over 14 years; studied ballet with her mother Naomi (Richardson) Strichartz, former dancer with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo.

Claire Readhead: Taught for the Houston Ballet Academy; the Milwaukee Ballet, and at Indiana University; danced professionally in several companies including Houston Ballet and Milwaudee Ballet; studied at the School of Houston Ballet and Pasadena Dance Theater.