Rising Stars
A Cast of Millions
Our community is much more than just Broadway musicals or major ballet companies. It's a cast of millions. It's dancers, skaters, choreographers and instructors from around the world. It's young girls auditioning, young boys showing off their moves, and the young at heart looking back at a lifetime of turns, taps and slides.
Kira Seamon - October 2007
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Kira is a native of Honolulu, Hawaii. She danced there with Ballet Hawaii, Hawaii Ballet Theater, and Windward Youth Ballet. Her numerous corps, demi-solo, and solo responsibilities included roles in Giselle, Romeo and Juliet, La Bayadere, The Nutcracker, Paquita, Sleeping Beauty, and her own original choreography. She trained across the U.S. and Europe. |
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Jahaan Amin - February 2007
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Jahaan has had a passion for dancing all of her life. As I think back, her knack for timing was noticed even before she walked. We used to have video tapes of the old Addams Family show. If you recall the theme song, there were intervals of finger snapping (dah, dah, dah, dah, snap, snap). |
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Tasha Lukenchuk - November 2006
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Tasha Lukenchuk was born January 13, 1988 in Saskatoon Sk, Canada. She began dancing at the age of 2 and a half at Sitters School of Dance, directed under Eloise Sitter. She became interested in jazz, tap, ballet, lyrical, hip hop and musical theatre. |
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Samantha Pollino - July 2006
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Peanut is a 11 year old dynamite kid. She is a true triple threat which makes her very versatile and her work ethic is incredible. |
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Alicia Clifton - February 2006
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Alicia began her dance career at the age of three, and began dancing competitively by the age of five. It wasn't long before her teacher noticed that Alicia had a special talent when it came to tap dancing. |
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Aaron Burr - August 2005
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Aaron is so excited about being one of Capezio's Rising Stars! Twelve-year-old Aaron takes jazz, hip-hop, and ballet, but his favorite style of dance is definitely tap. |
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Marina Micalizzi - May 2005
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Marina Micalizzi is a phenomenal dancer at only eleven years of age. She as attained numerous accolades for her talents and hard work. This year Marina has shown that she is serious about her goal of becoming a Superstar. |
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Shannon Tarleton - April 2005
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Shannon is the subject of the new book "Becoming A Figure Skater" by Nancy Ellison. |
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Alex Fetbroth - March 2005
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Hello, my name is Alex Fetbroth from Woburn, Massachusetts and dance is literally my life. |
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Jensyn Oertel - December 2004
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I have been tap dancing since I was two...and I am currently a freshman at the Boston Conservatory where I am studying for a BFA in Musical Theatre. |
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Jacob Rutledge - November 2004
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I love to compete and have been doing that since I was 7. This last year I won the first ever Mr. Teen Spolight in Branson Missouri, and that was an awesome experience. |
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Sloan-Taylor Rabinor - October 2004
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Sloan has spent almost her entire life dancing. She began dancing when she was three, and now takes five dance classes a day, four days a week, then rehearses for competition on the weekends. |
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Skylar Paley Brandt - August 2004
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Skylar Paley Brandt began studying ballet at six years old and began serious training at the age of eight... |
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Andrew Ranshaw - June 2004
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My name is Andrew Ranshaw and I am in the 5th grade at Pope John XXIII Catholic School. My greatest passion in life is dancing. I hope to some day be a dancer and choreographer... |
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Katy Dvorak - February 2004
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My first year of dance was when I was three. The studio I began at was too serious for me to start at so therefore after two years of lessons I began to take less intense dance lessons at a local community club.... |
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Andrea Scotti - November 2003
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I started dancing when I was almost three years old, and from that point on fell in love with dance. I trained at a tiny school in my hometown, where I stayed faithfully until this year... |
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Nigel Soans - September 2003
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I began dancing at age 12. After a year as a student in the best dance institute in India, I decided that I would take up dancing seriously and after 4 years of hard work, intense auditions, I am now a professional... |
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Janna Appelstein - August 2003
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I love performing, and my dream of being on stage in front of lots of people came true last year when I auditioned for the Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacular for the role of Clara... |
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Ryley Taggart - July 2003
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My name is Ryley and I love to figure skate. I have been skating forever it seems. I first started skating ,when I was really young, with my family in our backyard... |
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Joshua McLamb - June 2003
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I am 13 years old and began dancing because my sister had always danced, and I always was at the dance studio. I saw how fun all the dancers were having and I wanted to have that type of fun too... |
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Daniel Mabry - May 2003
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I started dancing very late because my parents never thought I would actually want to dance. When I look at it I was a big guy and who would ever think some fat dude could dance... |
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Ava Improta - April 2003
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My name is Ava Improta. I've been dancing for 7 years and I'm an 8th grade honor student at Carrigan Middle School in West Haven, CT. I never thought that I would grow to love dance as much as I do now.... |
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Lauren Konrad - March 2003
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I've been dancing for most of my life, but never considered pursuing it as a career. When high school graduation came I tried to prepare myself for a new life--a college life, a life without dancing and performing... |
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Brianne Ferguson - January 2003
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I am a dancer who has overcome many things. I was born 6 weeks pre-mature and with two dissabilities. By the age of 2, I was diagnosed with minor Cerebral Palsy and the doctors said I would be lucky to even walk... |
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Jenna Wise - December 2002
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Hi! I am a dancer in Indiana. I've been dancing since I was about three years old. My mom had to sneak me in because of my age. At the time you had to be four years old to start dancing at that certain studio... |
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Alena Korosteleva - October 2002
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I have been doing ballroom dance for about 8 years and my love for it will never die. These years have been great, even through all of the ups and downs of competitions, studio changes, trainers, partners and changes... |
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Dixie Viar Holt - August 2002
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I first started tap dancing in junior high, and my favorite dance shoes were Capezio patent leather tap shoes. By the time I finished college, I was married and moved to Oklahoma. I wasn't dancing anymore... |
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Rob Cunha - June 2003
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I started out just playing the guy role for my sister's company, because they needed a guy. From there dance turned into a passion. I now dance 30 some odd hours a week... |
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Tiffany Baxter - April 2002
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I am from a very small town with only a little over 100 people in it. I have loved dancing all of my life. When I was three years old I started dancing at Connie House School of Dance in a town about 20 miles away... |
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Catherine Grundmann - February 2002
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Hi! I'm Catherine, but all my friends call me Katie. I have take ballet, jazz and rhythmic gymnastics for almost 6 yrs. My old school was Verne Fowler and my new dance school is the Academy of Dance Arts... |
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