Come this summer, we are delighted to welcome Ms. Alison Levenberg, who will join Coastal Dance Centre and Coastal Youth Ballet Theatre as a faculty member.
Ms. Alison is originally from England and trained professionally Bird College, London, graduating with Distinction, where she also gained
teaching qualifications in the nationally taught Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing (I.S.T.D.) syllabus.
She has had an extensive professional career which includes performing on Broadway in the ensemble of “42nd St” Revival, and as swing and dance captain in “Billy Elliot”. Ms. Alison was then promoted to the role of Resident Choreographer, and then Associate Choreographer for productions of Billy Elliot across the US, Amsterdam, and the UK.
Ms. Alison was also a Radio City Rockette performing at Radio City Music Hall in New York City for 6 seasons. She can be seen in the movie “The Producers” featured as a ‘Tapping Brown Shirt’ in “Springtime for Hitler”, a ‘Pearl Girl’ and ‘Little Old Lady’. Regionally, Ms. Alison has appeared at Pittsburgh CLO where she also served as Dance Captain. Her favorite shows there include “The Who’s Tommy”, “White Christmas” and “Cats”. She was also awarded the Julia Deberson Award during her time there.
Ms. Alison is an accomplished teacher, coach, and choreographer, with over 20 years’ experience. Her greatest goal in educating young dancers and aspiring professional dancers is to encourage passion and versatility for all performing arts and a sense of self achievement as they accomplish new goals. Ms. Alison will help expand on Coastal Dance Centre’s wide-ranging dance expertise by introducing new dance
classes including “Broadway Triple Threat” (Acting, Singing and Dancing), Tap and Jazz Performance (as a supplement to technique classes), Boys’ workshop classes, Rockette style Precision Dance [for Ages 8-10; Ages 11-13 and Ages 14 and older (In heels)]; Choreography class [for Ages 10 and up (Learning the art of choreography and exploring their own creativity in guided exercises]; and Adult Jazz & Tap class.
Beyond providing an expanded Musical Theater curriculum for our students, the additional dance courses will create new opportunities for a greater number of students we look forward to inviting to experience dance at Coastal Dance Centre.
