Our Celebrity Artists

Teaching master classes for gotta dance students

Amy YakimaWas season 10's female winner and season 11 All-star from the Hit reality Tv show "So You Think You Can Dance". Has toured with the Shaping Sound dance company and Lindsey Stirling's international Music Box tour. She is a principal dancer in season 2 of Emmy nominated Amazon Prime TV series, Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and John Oliver’s Late Night Tonight and recently performed live with Julianne Hough on NBC for New Years Eve 2020. She made her Broadway debut as Peter Pan in Finding Neverland and was on the 2nd National Tour of Wicked as the Witch’s Mother.View ProfileAmy Yakima
Jared Grimes Grimes has toured with Musical legend, Mariah Carey, under the choreography of Marty Kudelka, and danced for artists such as Common, Salt-n-Pepa, Envogue, Busta Rhymes and the Roots. View Profile Jared Grimes
Maria Briggs She debuted in Cats and continued the 2018-2019 season with Frozen, Hello Dolly!, Anastasia, and Mean Girls. Maria also teaches at AMDA and masterclasses around the tri-state area. View Profile Maria Briggs
Michael Trusnovec For over two decades, Michael was a Principal Dancer with the Paul Taylor Dance Company, creating more than 25 roles with Mr. Taylor, and premiering new works by choreographers including Pam Tanowitz, Larry Keigwin, Margie Gillis and Doug Varone. Additionally, Mr. Trusnovec was Associate Rehearsal Director, and now serves as the Director of Worldwide Licensing and as a repetiteur of Mr. Taylor’s dances. View Profile Michael Trusnovec
Jaimie Goodwin Jaimie appeared in commercials, movies, and television shows including Dancing With The Stars, Ellen, Glee, Mad Men, American Housewife, Fish Off The Boat, Rock of Ages, High School Musical 3, Two and A Half Men, McDonalds, and many more. View Profile Jaimie Goodwin
Christopher Rice Christopher is currently performing in Broadway tour of HAMILTON. Broadway: Pretty Woman, The Book of Mormon. Tours: West Side Story (Baby John, Tony understudy) and White Christmas. View Profile Christopher Rice
Joey Arrigo Joey Arrigo is a dancer, teacher and choreographer from the Greater Toronto Area. Currently, Joey is on tour with Cirque du Soleil’s VOLTA as the principle character of “Waz”. He was, also, part of Cirque du Soleil’s KOOZA as “the trickster”. View Profile Joey Arrigo
Devon Teuscher Teuscher joined the ABT Studio Company in 2006. In December of 2007, she joined American Ballet Theatre as an apprentice and the corps de ballet in June 2008. Teuscher became a Soloist in August 2014 and Principal Dancer in September 2017. View Profile Devon Teuscher
Gev Manoukian Gev became a principal dancer in the movie “American Mall”. In 2008 Gev was one of the finalists on the Fox reality hit TV show “So You Think You Can Dance”, where he was one of the top 10 dancers. View Profile Gev Manoukian