TOM BOYS - OWNER DIRECTOR
Tom Boys has been in the instructional field for almost 2 decades. He has instructed his students to envelope the discipline
and passion for dance. Tom Boys has shown intense dedication to the feild of dance. Mr. Boys has had extensive carrier performing
in ballet and jazz backgrounds.
Tom Boys has been trained by some of the world’s leading
instructors, such as, JOSE MARTIN, JOHN MAGNUS, FRANCESCA CORKLE, GERALD ARPINO, MICHEAL VERNON, DORITHY LISTER, TRINETTE
SINGELTON, MICHEAL ENGLISH & WINTHROP COREY to name a few. Tom Boys started his ballet carrier and training with The One
Arte Ballet Theatre in Miami, Florida. Their he was an apprentice under the ballet master Jose l. Martin (former Joffrey Ballet
dancer). Tom had principle roles in “The Indian Heritage Ballet” and “Three Easy Pieces”. Mr.
Boys has performed with The Joffrey Ballet in the performance of “Petrushka”. Tom Boys also was fortunate to perform
with the internationally acclaimed Kirov Ballet in “Le Corsaire” at the Metropolitan Opera House first time in
twenty years since they were in the United States.
Mr. Boys has also choreographed and
performed for pop idols such as CYRE, ADIRANA MARANDA, ROB BASE & JANET JACKSON (performer). Tom Boys performed in central
park (New York City) for the 1st Earth Day for the singer CYRE, opening up for the B52’s.
Mr. Boys has also been in numerous industrials show as a performer and choreographer. Tom Boys has choreographed
dancers for local and national pageants.
Tom Boys has won many regional dance competitions,
but national competitions throughout the United States. Mr. Boys has also has a pantented way of choreographing and cleaning
dances. Tom is known for his intensive style of jazz and unique emotional lyrical dances. Tom tries to push
each individual dancer to their fullest potential.
Lindsey Kurland – tap teacher &
choreographer From the moment Lindsey
entered the world, she was ready to tap dance her way through life (literally!). Her intensive dance background
and training began at Michael’s Academy of Performing Arts in Coral Springs, Florida through which she had the opportunity
to study with some of the greats such as Ronn Daniels, tap dancing legend, and Judy Bassing, international jazz dance instructor.
For two summers, Lindsey traveled to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for an intensive workshop under the direction of Dance
Masters of America past President, Lee Garrard with whom she also obtained a few tap solo routines from. At
age 13, Lindsey starred in an Equity show that graced national stages called “Common Ground”. This
show incorporated different styles of tap including clogging and Irish step dancing in addition to good-old American tap.
Through this experience, Lindsey was able to master the choreography of Michael Minery and Savion Glover while working
closely with professional tap artists, Michelle Dorrance and Jared Grimes. Lindsey
took part in numerous dance competitions and conventions, among them the North American Tap Dance Festival where she was honored
with the title of First-Runner Up and the Alternate for the US Tap Dance Team for her category. She won
numerous runner-up titles at Dance Masters of America in the Petite through Miss categories and also took home the first place
tap scholarship in the state of Florida. In high school, Lindsey received
a solo from tap great, Debbie Dee in Boca Raton, Florida and studied closely with her for two years. Lindsey
went on to college at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina where she continued to pursue her love for dance.
She became involved with two student-run dance troupes, jazz and tap, where she taught her own choreography and performed
for her colleagues and the greater community. She auditioned for the prestigious Modern Repertoire her
freshman year and performed a 12-minute intensive piece with some brilliant dancers. Lindsey expanded her
dance training by taking classes in swing dancing, Latin dancing, and African dancing. After
graduating, Lindsey was a tap dance instructor for children ages 6-17 at Conchita Espinosa Academy and Conservatory in Miami,
Florida. There, she taught three different levels of tap and choreographed a routine which was performed
at a local dance competition. Lindsey has taught other forms of dance
including Lyrical, Jazz, Hip Hop, Ballet, and Acrobatics. She has had the opportunity to coach and work
privately with several students training for competition and other endeavors.
Lindsey has a versatile dance background and training and is looking forward
to sharing it with her new students.
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Neva
Daniels – Trudel – Instructor Neva Daniels-Trudel A.K.A. Coach Daniels has been teaching in Naples
for well over a decade. She has been a master instructor in the field of Gymnastics and Acrobatics and has taught many students
in the Naples area. She is currently the lead Cheerleading coach for Gulf Coast High School.
Fallon D’Eliseo – Jazz,
Contemporary & Hip Hop Teacher Choreographer Fallon D’Eliseo graduated summa cum laude from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte with a
BFA in dance and theater. Prior to her graduation, she also trained at the North Carolina School of the Arts and the North
Carolina Dance Institute as well as several intensives in Chicago and New York.
Fallon attended a prestigious pedagogy workshop with the National Dance Institute Teacher Training Program
in NYC founded by famous NYC ballet dancer Jacques D’Amboise and instills their methodologies in her classroom due to
its positive effect on children and its way of inspiring, disciplining and enriching children through the arts. She performed
professionally in Charlotte, NC with Martha Connerton’s Kinetic Works dance company touring regionally in the south
east as well as made several television, theatre and short film appearances. Fallon is excited to be a part of the Naples
community and looks forward to sharing her passion and love for dance with them. We are very excited to
have Miss D’Eliseo to apart of our staff teaching with a new energetic style of jazz, modern, contemporary & hip
hop.
Christy Pagoni – Young Attitudes Instructor
Guest ArtisT Sergiy Mykhaylov Sergiy Mykhaylov attended
the Kiev Ballet Academy. Upon graduating from the Academy, he danced with the National Ballet Theatre of the Ukraine,
and toured Germany, France, Belgium, Norway, Denmark, Spain, Italy, Holland and Australia. In 1996 he was invited to
work with the Paris Classical Ballet under the direction Janette Jake. Mr. Mykhaylov took first place in the Serge Lifar
Ballet Competition in the Ukraine. His repertoire includes principal roles in Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, Giselle,
Le Corsaire, La Bayadere, Paquita, Don Quixote, The Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Coppelia, Scheherazade and numerous
contemporary works including The Evening Jester. Before joining the Sarasota Ballet, he was a principal dancer
for Southern Ballet Theatre. Mr. Mykhaylov has been a guest artist with the Cincinnati Orchestra and the Terada Ballet
Art School in Kyoto, Japan, and has also performed as a guest artist with Ocala Ballet, Orlando City Ballet and the Boca Ballet,
as well as the Metropolitan Ballet of Topeka, KS and the Russian Ballet of America directed by Vadim Fedotov. This is
Mr. Mykhaylov’s sixth season with the Sarasota Ballet. During the last four seasons, he was seen in principal
roles in Carmina Burana, Le Corsaire Pas de Deux, The Nutcracker, Don Quixote, Paquita, Hommage ˆ Chopin,
Dvorak-American, Gigabyte, Ca d’Zan, Camille, Madame Butterfly, and La
Boutique Fantasque.
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JENNIFER WATKINS - INSTRUCTOR
Jennifer completed her studies in June of 2005
and earned a Bachelor of Arts in Dance from Columbia College, Chicago. While attending Columbia Jennifer was an active member
of the Repretory Performance Theater where she performed main stage works by renowned choreographers Liz Lerman, Margi Cole
and Erica Wilson-Perkins. By attending a college located in the heart of Chicago, Jennifer was able to
train with past company members from Martha Graham Dance Company, Merce Cunningham Dance Company, The Royal Ballet in London
and Alvin Ailey. Her choreography experience was enriched from attending workshops from contemporary choreographers such as
Jawole Willa Jo Zollar (Urban Bush Women), Bill T. Jones (Bill T. Jones Dance Company), Australian Dance Theater, and Joe
Goode (Joe Goode Dance Company).She also studied from professional studios in Chicago such as Gus Giordano, Lou Conte, Joel
Hall, and Ruth Page Center For The Arts. In 2004 she received a scholarship to study with Ballet Rast. Jennifer was also invited at this time to perform
with the modern dance company Fightwater Pros which fused dance and modern technology and challenged the perception of creativity.
Other performing opportunities include being selected to represent her college at the American College Dance Festival as a
performer.
Prior to moving
to Chicago, Jennifer was a member of the Lakes Area Civic Ballet in Detroit, Michigan and performed leading roles in Sleeping
Beauty, Cinderella, and the Nutcracker. Jennifer brings eight years of experience in regional and national dance competitions
from her local dance studio in Michigan where she received top awards as a group and solo performer. She is currently certified in the Ballet method
Cecchetti grades I-V through the Cecchetti Council of America. Jennifer is expanding her teaching knowledge to include Pilates
and currently teaches the Stott method in both mat and equipment. Patricia Storelli – Ballet
Teacher/Choreographer PATRICIA
STORELLI is a professional Ballet Teacher and choreographer who taught in most European countries and is currently a freelance
Teacher in the United States. She received her professional training at the “La
Scala” Theatre Ballet School in Milan (Italy) and became a Member of the Company where she performed in most ballets
of the classical repertoire. She danced many leading roles like The Lilac Fairy and Blue
Bird in Sleeping Beauty, Sugar Plum Fairy in Nutcracker and Myrtha in Giselle. She continued
her training with world renowned teachers Yvette Chauviree and Daniel Frank from the Paris Opera, Anne-Marie Holmes, former
Bolshoi’s principal Irek Muhamedov, David Howard, Rosella Hightower and English National Ballet’s Artistic Director
Wayne Eagling. Patricia Storelli started her teaching career at age 25 and
studied with the Royal Academy of Dance to obtain her teaching qualifications. She became a Registered Teacher and Member
of the Royal Academy of Dance after obtaining the RAD Teaching Certificate and Teaching Diploma with Anatomy and History of
Ballet. She has been entering students for RAD exams since 1985 with
a 100% rate of Pass and recently obtained a BA (Hons) in Dance Education from the University of Surrey (England). In 2006 she was appointed as a Mentor of the Royal Academy of Dance for candidates enrolled Certificate in
Ballet Teaching Studies. She writes ballet articles for the Diary of the Royal Academy of Dance and
other dance publications. Miss Storelli has been Artistic Director of West
Florida Youth Ballet in Safety Harbor (Florida) for two years and she is one of the principal teachers at Etudes de Ballet
in Naples and Leggz Dance Academy in Orlando. She stages the Russian version of Nutcracker every year for several schools
and she is a Member of Dance Masters of America.
We at Attitudes are very fortunate to have Miss Storelli as a principle ballet instructor.
Nena Pulling – Young Attitudes Instructor
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