RESIDENT FACULTY
Mauro Villanueva
DIRECTOR / EDUCATOR
Mr. Villanueva grew up in San Antonio, Texas. He began his dance training with Shawn Knife and later joined the University of Incarnate Word Ballet School. Mauro attended a summer course and consequently studied for two years at the Nutmeg Conservatory in Connecticut.
In August of 2000, Mr. Villanueva joined the Joffrey Ballet as an apprentice and later received a full company contract.
During his thirteen years at the Joffrey Ballet he danced ballets by world renown choreographers, was a union representative for the artists, and was one of two dancers chosen to participate in the search for the new artistic director. He appeared as a representative for the Joffrey Ballet and on television and radio in Chicago, San Antonio, Los Angeles and Manila, Philippines.
Mr. Villanueva retired from the Joffrey Ballet to pursue a career as an independent artist, teacher, coach, and choreographer. He has worked for Barak Ballet, Intermezzo Dance Company, Ballet San Antonio, The Jacksonville Symphony and others. He has taught at the Colburn School, Edge Performing Arts Center, Regional Dance America Mid-States and Southwest Festivals, The New Orleans Ballet Association, The New Jersey Ballet, and Eglevsky Ballet. Mr. Villanueva is also part of Cultivating Better Tomorrows, a company dedicated to educating dance communities in diversity and inclusion.
Kenny Borchard
DIRECTOR / EDUCATOR
Kenny Borchard is an alumni of Idyllwild Arts Academy and the University of Arizona. Since graduating Kenny has worked on television and commercial projects with credits including a featured role on TruTV’s Fake Off, What Not to Wear, Toyota Pruis, Mobbed, and Lifetime’s Petals on the Wind. Kenny has worked with Odyssey Dance Theatre, Solevita Dance Company, Pacific Festival Ballet, and Pasadena Dance Theatre and others. Kenny was a closing cast member of “Aladdin: A Musical Spectacular” at Disney’s California Adventure.
Besides dancing, Mr. Borchard assisted the marketing and production of Los Angeles Dance Festival in its early years as a festival. As an educator, Mr. Borchard has taught on the faculty of Broadway Dance Center's Children and Teen Program and has taught as a guest educator around the country. Mr. Borchard is also an adjudicator for various national competitions. Kenny is also part of Cultivating Better Tomorrows, a company dedicated to educating dance communities in diversity and inclusion.
Diane Orio
EDUCATOR
Diane Orio began dancing at age 8 in her native New Jersey. She later studied at the School of American Ballet and then joined The Joffrey Ballet in 1968 where she danced for more than ten years. Later she became ballet mistress for the company working under Robert Joffrey’s guidance. She has lead dancers through ballets for choreographers such as Tharp, Kylian, Ailey, Feld and Arpino. Mr. Joffrey invited Ms. Diane to be on faculty at his first Texas workshop. We are grateful that Diane continues to return to Joffrey Texas share her wealth of knowledge.
Trinette Singleton
EDUCATOR
Trinette Singleton was a principal dancer with The Joffrey Ballet for nearly twenty years. She was thrust into national prominence in 1967, appearing in the multi-media ballet, Astarte, created on her by her mentor, Robert Joffrey. She was the first American dancer to appear on the cover of the national news magazine - Time.
Currently, Trinette is Co-Artistic Director of Repertory Dance Theatre in Allentown, PA. She is also on the faculty at DeSales University, Center Valley, PA. In 2010, Trinette was appointed to the Board of Directors for The Gerald Arpino Foundation. She is on the Advisory Board for Cecchetti USA and has recently been made an Honorary Member of Cecchetti International-Classical Ballet.
Trinette holds her Licentiate, Imperial Society of Teachers of Dance, London, England, and her Doctor of Fine Arts, Honoris Causa, DeSales University.
Bailey Anglin
EDUCATOR
Originally from Shreveport, LA, Bailey Anglin began her training at Carol Anglin Dancenter where she was a member of Louisiana Dance Theatre and was featured in Gala performances of Regional Dance America, International Ballet Competition/Jackson, and Tanzsommer Austria Festivals. She furthered her education by studying at the Kirov Academy of Ballet in Washington, D.C. Upon graduation from KAB, Bailey accepted a traineeship with the Richmond Ballet. She attended numerous summer intensives including Kirov Academy of Ballet, Bolshoi Ballet Academy Lincoln Center, Alvin Ailey American Dance Center, Richmond Ballet and Ballet Austin. She has taught for summer intensives including Ballet Austin and Michigan Ballet Academy.
As a dancer, Bailey has performed classical repertoire as well as contemporary choreography by Robert Battle, Christopher Huggins, Dianne Maroney-Grigsby, Billy Siegenfeld, Chet Walker, Stephen Mills, and more. Bailey recently completed her second and final season with Ballet Austin and has relocated to New York City.
Jared Oaks
MUSIC DIRECTOR
Jared Oaks, one of the leading young ballet conductors in the United States, is Music Director of Ballet West. Since joining the company in 2008, Jared has conducted at the Capitol Theatre and Kingsbury Hall in Salt Lake City, the Kennedy Center, Chicago's Auditorium Theatre, the Wortham Theater in Houston, and the Northrop Auditorium in Minneapolis. He is also in demand as a collaborative pianist throughout the country.
Jared studied with renowned conductors Terence Kern, Ronald Staheli, and in masterclasses throughout Europe and North America. He is a fellow of the American-Scandinavian Foundation and co-founder of the Composer Discovery Initiative.
VIRTUAL FACULTY
Mindy Moeller
Mindy Moeller, a native of Overland Park, Kansas began her training at the age of 3 at Miller Marley School of Dance and Voice. She continued her training at the University of Arizona where she received a BFA in Dance in 2011. Since graduation she has been a Radio City Rockette for the past 8 seasons performing in the beloved Christmas Spectacular along with the Spring Spectacular and the New York Spectacular at Radio City Music Hall. During her years as a lady of the line she has also dabbled as an Assistant Dance Captain and Swing. She has made extra performance appearances on the Tony Awards, Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, Today Show, Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon, Rockefeller Tree Lighting Ceremony, Video Music Awards, and America's Got Talent.
Lindsey Fletcher
at a young age and began her professional dance education very shortly
after. While training year round with the Antelope Valley Ballet under
the direction of Kathleen Burnett, she attended several ballet intensives
on scholarship including American Ballet Theater in New York,
BalletMet Columbus, and Texas Ballet Theater. At age 18, Lindsey
decided to venture into more styles of dance and signed with Bloc Talent
Agency in Los Angles. After working as a professional dancer in LA and
developing a career as a performer with Disney, Lindsey ventured to
New York to apply her technical background in a more theatrical
environment. Since then she has danced for several years in the Radio
City Christmas Spectacular and was given the opportunity to be apart of
the opening cast of The New York Spectacular directed and
choreographed by Mia Michaels. Most recently, you may have seen
Lindsey dancing in the Broadway 1st National Tour and international
tour of An American in Paris directed and choreographed by
Christopher Wheeldon.
Kelsey Kramer
Kelsey Kramer is a graduate of The Ailey School in New York City, and is currently a swing on the National Tour of HAMILTON!
While she currently finds herself in the musical theater world, during her schooling she studied ballet, pointe, jazz, Horton, Graham, theater dance, improv, partnering, West African and multiple other styles which has lead her to a beautiful career of 10 years as a professional dancer. Kelsey’s extensive training and talent has led her to perform in episodes of Saturday Night Live, the National Tour of Dirty Dancing, Disney’s The Golden Mickey's, Vegas! The Show, Holland America Cruise Line and more.
Kelsey is passionate about sharing her knowledge through teaching and thrives when working with dancers of all ages and backgrounds. She encourages her students to step outside of their comfort zone, explore their individuality and find a deeper connection to dance through story telling.
Christina Johnson
Christina’s 25-year performance career began at seventeen with Boston Ballet before she joined Dance Theatre of Harlem. She became a principal dancer within four years and danced with the company for a total of thirteen years. She is an original member of Complexions Contemporary Ballet and was a featured guest artist with the Royal Ballet of London, along with her partner Ronald Perry, making them the first African American couple in history to perform with the company. Christina danced in Switzerland for seven years with Le Ballet du Grand Theatre de Geneve and Ballett Basel.
After her performance career Christina held the position of Rehearsal Director with Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, Washington Ballet, Armitage Gone! Dance, Trey McIntyre Project and Complexions Contemporary Ballet. Christina has been invited to teach at dance schools, universities and professional dance companies both nationally and internationally.
She holds a MFA in Dance from Hollins University in collaboration with the American Dance Festival, The Forsythe Company and Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts in Germany. She is currently on faculty at Marin Ballet in San Rafael, CA and is Adjunct Faculty at Dominican University in the LINES/Dominican BFA in Dance Program.
ADDITIONAL FACULTY
Claudia Schreier
Deborah Wingert
Jovan Dansberry
Nathalie Marrable
Regan Hutsell
Yumelia Garcia
Ginger Cox
Derrick Agnoletti
Christopher Charles McDaniels
Adam Sklute