Who's Who
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Sharon Strickler Sanchez serves as Executive Producer of the story ballet Gaspar – A Pirate Fantasy.
As a member of the New York City Ballet, Mr. Fleming danced principal roles in works by George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins and Peter Martins. With Mr. Balanchine’s encouragement he embarked on a career as a choreographer and received a fellowship from the National Choreographic Institute.
Kathy has over 25 years of theatre experience. She has acted, directed and/or designed over 100 full length plays and musicals. Mrs. Buck holds a Bachelor's of Theatre Arts degree from the University of South Florida where she specialized in Directing and Costume Design.
Mr. Arsenault has served on the staff of The Joffrey Ballet, Opera Company of Boston, Palm Beach Opera and Nacional Ballet de Colombia and as General Manager of the San Francisco production of Cloud 9.
Ms Brakke has been stage managing for dance, opera and theater for the past 19 years, touring with dance, circus and musical theater. For the last 18 months she toured with the contemporary ballet company Trey McIntyre Project.
Adrianna de Svastich, a native of New York, began her ballet training under Leonid Kozlov in Ramsey, New Jersey. At the age of 14, she was accepted to The School of American Ballet in New York City, where she trained from 1999-2004. She has also attended various summer programs with American Ballet Theater, Miami City Ballet, and the Royal Ballet School in London. 
Holly is from Lambertville, NJ and began her training locally at Princeton Ballet and Princeton Dance &Theatre with Susan Jaffe. She attended NCSA and graduated from The Rock School where she first worked with Christopher Fleming.
Ms. Koorts began her dance training at Dance Arts Studio in Macon, GA, under Alice Sheridan and Jean E. Weaver. She was a founding member of the Middle GA Youth Ballet, and after graduation spent a year at University of Utah before transferring to London Studio Centre in England.
Timothy was born and raised in Wenonah, New Jersey. His training includes The Philadelphia Ballet School, The Rock School as well as The Orlando Ballet Summer Program. 
Lisa is a Board Certified Anesthesiologist and Residency Program Director at Largo Medical HCA. She has a ballet, jazz, and tap background. She switched to ballroom 6 years ago. Lisa ranked 3rd in the 9 Dance Championship at Ohio Star Ball this year.
David Goldstein was born and raised in Winnipeg, Canada. He began piano lessons at the age of four and soon after discovered a passion for composition. He has Piano Performance and Composition and Theory degrees from the Royal Conservatory of Music (Toronto).
Mike has been a part of the Tampa Theatre scene for over a decade as actor, singer and costume designer. Most notably, Mike was a best local actor finalist for the 2009 Creative Loafing’s “Best of the Bay” Awards.
A full time Florida resident since 1986, Joseph has designed lighting for four hundred and seventy productions with such organizations as the Asolo Repertory Theatre, Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Seaside Music Theatre, Orlando Shakespeare Theatre, Florida Repertory Theatre, Palm Beach Dramaworks, Palm Beach Opera, Opera Tampa, New Orleans Opera, Ballet Eddy Toussaint USA and the Interlochen Dance Ensemble in Michigan.
Camille has been working in the theatre since she was six years old, starting on stage in operas at Troy State University in her hometown of Troy, Alabama.
Alex Crozier-Jackson is a native of Philadelphia Pennsylvania. He began dancing at the age of seven at his neighborhood dance school Jeanette’s School of Dance. In 2001, he performed with The Houston Grand Opera in their production of Carmen.
Nick began his training at the Pacific School of Dance in Coos Bay, Oregon and later at the Oregon Ballet Acadamy under the direction of John Grensback. In 2009 he received a full scholarship to train at The Rock School for Dance Education in Philadelphia. 
Gina-marie Battista began her training with the Harrisburg Dance Conservatory under the direction of Forrest Gehret. During her training she studied with the Atlanta Ballet, American Academy of Ballet, amongst others.
Matthew Stern began his dance training at an early age in Wallingford, Pennsylvania. He then studied at the Rock School of Dance Education before going on to University of Cincinnati, where he graduated with a BFA in Dance.
Donald Tolj is the newly appointed director of the classical program for New Tampa Dance Theatre and the choreographer in residence for Dance Theatre of Tampa. He has returned to Florida after four years in the UK from 2006 to 2010 where he was Artistic Administrator and Faculty Member at the Elmhurst School for Dance in Association with the Birmingham Royal Ballet.
Mr. Chapman has been dancing since age 9 and is a former World Exhibition Champion. He travels the world as a ballroom choreographer/adjudicator and a leading instructor.
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