Our people are our best asset
Our primary goal at Planet Dance is to give our students access to top talent through classes, workshops as well as industry connections. All of our resident and guest teachers have worked, and continue to work, professionally in the industry with some of the top names in the business. And this doesn't mean teaching at your corner studio for 10 years.
RESIDENT STAFF
Broadway Productions of CATS, Footloose & Jesus Christ Superstar, Peter Frampton, Cincinnati Ballet, NY Knicks , Radio City Music Hall, Broadway Dance Center, Guiding Light, Exhale Dance Tribe
- Radio City Music Hall Rockettes
- Choreography and performance credits including 98 Degrees, Missy Elliot, MTV, VHI NFL, NBA, Carol the movie and more
- Co-Director of School for Creative and Performing Arts Musical Theater Program
- Co-Owner Lachey Arts
One Love Dance Company, Lexington Dance Factory, United Talent
America's Got Talent, Dancing with the Stars, Melody Thornton (Pussycat Dolls), Beyonce, Lil' Wayne, Edge PAC, Exhale Dance Tribe
The Apprentice, Good Morning America, NFL Ben-Gals Choreographer, ESPN, CBS Sports, Exhale Dance Tribe (Dancer/Choreographer), Dance Captain Rutger’s Nationally acclaimed Dance Team
NFL Halftime sho with Madonna, MTV’s America’s Best Dance Crew, BET’s 106 & Park
Resident Choreographer Exhale Dance Tribe, Competition Judge Nexstar & Showcase America, Over the Rhine
Owned Bonnie Williams Dance Studio for 48 years, Cincinnati Summer Opera Ballet, Encore Talent Productions
GUEST TEACHERS
Emmy Award winning choreographer, SYTYCD,
SHAPING SOUND DANCE CO.
Assistant Choreogapher Broadway's 'WICKED', Original Broadway cast of 'FOOTLOOSE', 'WICKED' & '9 TO 5'
Broadway Choreographer of Hamilton & CATS, 2X Tony Award Winner for Best Choreography
Warner Brothers, Sony BMG, Atlantic Records, Matchbox Twenty, Broadway Dance Center, Alvin Ailey
Beyonce's "Single Ladies", Justin Timberlake, Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet
Step Up 3D, Justin Bieber World Tour, Miley Cyrus, Chris Brown, Omarion and Keke Palmer
Worked with several artists including Gwen Stefani, Alicia Keys, John Legend, Meghan Trainer, Chris Brown, Justin Bieber, Nicki Minaj and more. Currently on tour with FERGIE
TV Credits including Billboard Music Awards, American Music Awards, Grammy Awards, American Idol, SYTYCD, Dancing with the Stars
Pharrell, Soulja Boy, Akon, Pitbull, Kreayshawn, GRAMMY's, Radio City Music Hall
Dancer for Janet Jackson, Jennifer Lopez, Justin Bieber, Christina Aguilera and Nelly Furtado
Recipient of The Princess Grace Award. Detroit’s Renaissance Hero 2008.
Principal dancer /Joffrey Ballet, Complexions Contemporary Ballet, and Ron De Jesus Dance. Creative team/Twyla Tharp’s Tony-award winning show Movin’ Out. Staged national touring cast of Movin' Out.
Ballet Master/Complexions Contemporary Ballet, Faculty at Wayne State University, Maggie Allesee Department of Theatre and Dance, Program Director/Complexions Detroit Summer Intensive.
- Currently on tour with Janet Jackson!
- 3X Janet Jackson World Tours
- Worked with artists including Trey Songz, Neyo, Jennifer Lopez, Ludacris, NKOTB and more
- Cincinnati Ballet, Senior Soloist
- Trained at Ballet Concierto de Puerto Rico
- Virginia School of the Arts
ALUMNI
BA Fine Arts & Dance Captain UMKC, Kennedy Center Washington D.C., Showcase of America, Exhale Dance Tribe
Joffrey Ballet, Armitage Gone Dance, Metropolitan Opera, Gallim Dance, The Dash Ensemble, The Peridance Ensemble
Marymount Manhattan graduate, Asst to Andy Blankenbuehler, Dirty Dancing the movie (May 2017), Exhale Dance Tribe (Senior soloist), Assistant for NYCDA
Juilliard, Exhale Dance Tribe, Dance Captain 100 Days (choreographer Sonya Tayeh)
Exhale Dance Tribe (Senior soloist), Cirque Du Soleil Bug Squad, Asia Duo Dance Company, Capezio 125 Year Gala at New York City Center, BFA NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, Amirov Dance Theatre, Dancer, Over The Rhine (Emery Theater).
Juilliard, Exhale Dance Tribe, Groundworks Dance Company
Norwegian Cruiseline Asia, Exhale Dance Tribe
MTV Taking the Stage, Exhale Dance Tribe
Flordia State University, Exhale Dance Tribe (Senior soloist), Seminole Dance Florida (Dance Team), SCPA Alum
Northern Kentucky University Alum, Exhale Dance Tribe, Mather Dance Company and Icon Dance Awards