2011-2012 Studio Faculty

Our Directors

The Studio Director - Lisa A. DeCamella
The Studio Business Manager - Nick Damianakis
The Sarasota Ballet Director - Iain Webb
The Studio Creative Director - Marvin Millora

Studio Faculty Credits Include

The Sarasota Ballet - So You Think You Can Dance - MTV's America's Best Dance Crew - Justin Bieber - CBS Radio - Clear Channel Radio - Radio Disney - Universal Studios Orlando, Rihanna, T-Pain, Michael Jackson, Britney Spears, Jennifer Lopez, Step Up Films, Lady Gaga, Beyonce, Celine Dion, Christina Aguilera, Footloose, Usher, and more...
Learn more about our faculty by clicking on their names to the right.

INTERESTED IN TEACHING?

Contact our Studio Director by email jobs@studiodancers.com, or 727-724-5999

Lisa A. DeCamella

Lisa began her training in New York and studied Ballet, Jazz, Lyrical, Modern & Hip Hop. In New York, Lisa had the opportunity to train under the direction of several highly respected and renowned dance educators and pursued her formal education at the University of Florida where she received a Bachelors of Science degree.

Lisa resides as director of The Studio Dance Company. She has developed a cutting edge professional dance program for students to achieve both an urban style and technical dance foundation. Under Lisa’s direction, The Studio Dance Company has become nationally recognized for its achievements in dance education.

Lisa has staged, choreographed and directed Studio Dance Company performances for National Recoding Artists such as the Jonas Brothers, Rihanna, Snoop Dogg, Natasha Bedingfield, Jesse McCartney, T-Pain, T.I. and more. Her relationships and industry connections have now come full circle as she continues to create opportunities for her students to work directly with artists and choreographers, as they develop their own dance careers through performance opportunity.

Lisa also serves as the Vice President and member of the Board of Directors to The Hip Hop and Health Foundation, Inc. a 501(c3) charity. The foundation strives to promote a healthy lifestyle among today’s youth through hip hop dance, exercise, self-esteem and positivity.

Iain Webb

Iain Webb, Director of The Sarasota Ballet is pleased to announce that the Sarasota Ballet School will be providing the ballet curriculum and instruction for The Studio Dance Company, one of the largest and most highly regarded dance studios in the Clearwater/Tampa Bay area.

The Studio Dance Company has a large enrollment of young dancers seeking training in a variety of dance styles. While their instruction is exceptional in hip-hop, jazz, lyrical and modern with faculty posessing significant professional experience and credentials, they recognized that they wanted to include a ballet component at an equally high standard.

Their choice was to partner with The Sarasota Ballet School to serve as their professional instructors teaching classes and guiding the program. In addition to weekly classes, they will be providing periodic Master Classes sending teachers Pavel Fomin, Octavio Martin, Yaima Franco, Kate Honea, and Dex Honea, among others.

The Studio Dance Company will help The Sarasota Ballet School augment their urban styles training with famous hip-hop teachers and dancers providing periodic master classes and workshops in Sarasota. Together the two schools will collaborate on outreach programs to build greater interest in dance and dance training among youth in the greater Tampa Bay, Sarasota and Manatee community.

Marvin Millora

Marvin Millora received his degree in dance from The University of The Arts in Philadelphia . He is also an alumni of The Edge Performing Arts Center scholarship program in Hollywood, CA. Marvin's dance credits include performances for Nickelodeon, Disney, VH1, Coca Cola, Red Bull and Paramount . He's worked on TV shows such as MTV's America 's Best Dance Crew, Lifetime's - How to Look Good Naked and ABC's Dance Machine.

Marvin has also worked for artists such as Britney Spears, Jesse McCartney, Nick Cannon and Clay Aiken. He has toured on Disney's Cheetah Girls One World Tour. Currently, Marvin is touring with Justin Bieber on his My World Tour. Since working with Justin Bieber over a year ago, Marvin has had the opportunity to dance on shows such as The Today Show, SNL, David Letterman, Jay Leno, The Ellen Degeneress Show, The View, and Oprah.

Dancing for Justin Bieber has given Marvin the opportunity to open for artists such as Taylor Swift, Black Eyed Peas, and Ludacris.He has also had the amazing opportunity to perform at The White House for the Presidential Family. Other than performing, Marvin is now the Creative Director for The Studio Dance Company's 2011-2012 dance season. He is eager to work with dancers @ The Studio and be part of this AMAZING Program!

Shoulin

Shoulin's New York street dancer foundation and hard beat hitting mentality has crafted his unique style into a high energy, high intensity art form. Preaching musicality or "beat riding" as he would call it, Shoulin strives to instill the drive and hunger for dance in all that he comes across.

With influences from bboying, krumping, popping and his love of house music and old school hip hop n break beats this diverse dancer/choreographer is making his mark on the world of dance and heading straight for the top!

Jane

Ms. Jane was born in South Africa and grew up in ballet studio’s studying RAD (Royal Academy of Dancing), ISTD (Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing) and Cecchetti style. She attended the University of Cape Town Ballet School in South Africa and has been qualified as a Ballet and National Character Dance teacher in ISTD method for over 20 years.

Jane taught briefly in South Africa before immigrating to America, where she taught in Connecticut, Kentucky and four years locally in Florida. Jane follows the RAD syllabus keeping her dancers up to date with International standards. Ms. Jane enjoys transforming eager dancers into beautiful ballet dancers.

Brittany

Brittany has been dancing at The Studio Dance Co. for the past four years and has also been a part of The Studio’s performance team. She has been able to perform at many events including LDS 11 & 12, Wild Splash, T-Pain's Super Bowl Bash and Guavaween. Brittany has also had the opportunity to work and train with many of the dance industry’s most influential choreographers including; Nick Bass, Marty Kudelka, Tony Testa, Dave Scott, GiGi Torres, Cris Judd, Amy Allen and more

Dani

Dani was born and raised in Clearwater, Florida. She has been dancing since the age of four and cannot imagine her life without dance. Since 2004 she has been training at The Studio Dance Company. As a member of The Studio’s performance teams; she has been able to perform as the opening act and during major concerts, half-time and pre-game shows, and Tampa Bay area events and festivals. In addition to her classes at The Studio, she attends master classes and workshops. Dani wants to share her dance techniques and skills with others as well as her enthusiasm and passion for dance.

Brianna

Brianna was born in California, but raised in Clearwater, FL. Brianna's always had a passion for dance and began started as a student with The Studio Dance Co. five years ago. She has grown into her own style thanks to all of the help and instruction from fellow Studio choreographers shes had the chance to work with. Brianna has been able to take workshops and master classes learning from the best, as well as had the privilege to be apart of the Studio's performance team where she has been able to perform at many different events, such as, Wild Splash 09' and 10' and recently 93.3 Jingle Ball. She is thrilled to be apart of the Studio's elite group of instructors and ready to offer her own style of dance and share her training with others!

Adina

Adina was born and raised in Marquette, Michigan. She went on to Wright State University in Dayton Ohio as a dance major. From there she was accepted into the Broadway Dance Centers Intern Scholarship Program in New York City. She followed that program with the Broadway Dance Centers Professional Program and joined the Contemporary Jazz company "Pushing Progress". From there she moved to Minnesota to work full time at the dance company Just For Kix, where she has worked for the past eight years doing summer dance tours and intensives.

Carleigh

Carleigh began dancing as a hip hop dancer at age 9 and branched out into other styles such as ballet and contemporary her sophomore year of high school. She has been part of The Studio's performance team and has been able to perform at events such as LDS 11, Wild Splash, and T-Pain's Super Bowl Party. Over the years, she has been able to train and take class from many of the industry's top choreographers, including Tabitha and Napoleon D'umo, Marty Kudelka, and Sonya Tayeh. She is now pursuing her BFA in Dance Performance at the University of South Florida and is excited to be a part of The Studio faculty.

MJ

Michael "MJ" is from Clearwater,Fl, describes himself as a free moving artist. He fell in love with dance at the age of 18 and decided to pursue a career in entertainment. His personal style of dance is a fluid blend of krumping, popping, locking, and contemporary movement ideas. He is also studying at the University of South Florida to earn his B.F.A. in dance. Other interests of his include: music, dj-ing, acting, fashion, poetry, photography, and cars.

Jermaine

Jermaine Began his dance training with lyrical jazz & ballet at PSLH during his senior year of high school. Upon graduation, Jermaine received a dance scholarship to Indian River Community College in Fort Pierce Fl. There, under the instruction of Molly Magee, he began an in depth study of dance, to include Vaganova ballet technique, as well as Graham, Cunningham and Limon modern techniques.

After receiving his AA degree from IRCC, Jermaine again received another dance scholarship to the University of South Florida, in 2006 where he is now pursuing a BFA degree in Dance Performance. Upon arriving at USF Jermaine has had the opportunity to perform in numerous modern and ballet performances choreographed by the faculty as well as guest choreographers, such as Bill T Jones. Jermaine’s passions in dance are to teach, perform and choreograph.

Olivia

Olivia was born in Colorado and moved to Florida ten years ago and has been training at The Studio ever since. She is trained in Hip Hop, Lyrical, Ballet, Modern, Jazz, and Pointe. Olivia has performed with The Studio Dance Company on various events such as Radio Disney’s Jingle Jam, Tampa Bay Storm Arena Football, Harlem Globetrotters, Danity Kane, The Jonas Brothers, Niki Minaj, Yo Gotti, New Boys, Wild Splash, LDS, and Keri Hilson.

She has advanced her dance training taking several workshops from top choreographers such as Tony Testa, Nappy Tabs, Rhapsody James, Marty Kudelka, Hok, Sonya Tayeh, Dave Scott, Wade Robson, and Lil C. Olivia lives to dance and looks forward to sharing her love of dance with dancers at The Studio Dance Company.

Lindsay

Lindsay was born in Clearwater, Florida and has lived here all of her life. She began taking dance classes at age three and has been doing so ever since. A competitive dancer for five years, Lindsay left the competition scene to be a member of a strictly performance only dance ensemble based out of Ruth Eckerd Hall for a year. Now a member of her high school dance team, Lindsay enjoys singing, acting, and training in the areas of ballet, jazz, lyrical, contemporary, and hip hop. Lindsay has trained with a variety of dancers and choreographers such as Gregg Russell, Pam Bohling, and So You Think You Can Dance's Ivan Koumaev, Sabra Johnson, and Travis Wall.

Dex Honea

Dex Honea was born and raised in Bangkok, Thailand, then started his classical training of ballet in Canada’s Royal Winnipeg Ballet. After four years, Dex graduated from the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School in 1995, and remained with the company until 1998. He then joined Milwaukee Ballet for three years, and moved to Florida in 2002 to become part of the Sarasota Ballet. Honea performed numerous roles from classical ballet to contemporary works. He began teaching ballet in 2002, and he continues to show his passion for dance through teaching today.

BECOME A PART OF OUR TEAM!

Send your resume and information to our Studio Director, jobs@studiodancers.com, or 727-724-5999