Edie's Dance Factory

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Teacher Bios Edie Ollwerther, Director Edie has been dancing all of her life and teaching since she was a teenager. She has taught in the Bergen County area for the last 30 years. She danced professionally and taught in New York City for Jack Stanley before getting married and raising a family. She has studied at many New York Studios and has performed with several touring groups throughout the east coast. She began teaching in the basement of her home in 1974 and opened the Dance Factory in 1991. A second studio in Secaucus was opened in 2004. As a teacher and director of Edie’s Dance Factory, Edie hopes her students will love dance as much as she does, and will benefit from the commitment, camaraderie and discipline that dance gives. Lizzie Perez – Tap, Ballet, Jazz, Lyrical, Vocal, Musical Theatre Lizzie trained, competed, and taught for ten years at a large, well known studio in New Jersey. She has released a record, has directed several children’s productions and has performed in several community theatre productions. She has also trained at Broadway Dance Center in New York City and has an extensive background teaching dance, vocal and choreographing tap, jazz, lyrical and production numbers. She has choreographed many of our competition high score dances. Along with teaching and choreographing, Lizzie is currently pursuing her degree in elementary education. Marion Senzon – Tap, Ballet, Jazz, Lyrical Marion grew up dancing at the Dance Factory. She now has her Master’s Degree in Reading Education from the College of St. Rose. She is a reading specialist for the Garfield school district. Marion has been dancing since she was 3 years old, has studied with various teachers in New York City and has been teaching dance for the past 10 years. She was part of our original competition team which started in 1992. She is also now choreographing some of our award winning competition dances. Michelle Tolson – Tap, Jazz, Lyrical Michelle was a Radio City Rockette for 6 years, was Miss New Hampshire in the 1996 Miss America Pageant, and has been teaching and choreographing for the past 14 years. She holds her B.A. in English from Notre Dame College and is currently an adjunct professor at Wagner College, Staten Island. Michelle teaches and choreographs competition dances, teaches at studios in the metropolitan area and was a winner of the Young Choreogropher of the Year award in 1998. Joey Taddeo – Hip Hop Joey Taddeo is football player turned Hip Hop Choreographer and dancer. His story can be compared to the recent movie, “Honey,” where the main character was picked out of a club to become a famous choreographer. Using his athletic skills as a catapult Joey is quickly moving the Hip Hop community. He is currently a substitute teacher at Broadway Dance Center and Peridance in New York City. His most recent projects include the New York City Dance Alliance Summer Intensive piece which was directed by Joe Lanteri, assistant choreographer for the Broadway revival of the 80’s, “Starmites,” at a regional theatre in New York and was the choreographer for a Hip Hop show for the Surfrider Foundation. Joey has also traveled throughout the tri state area and as far as Rhode Island working as a choreographer and teaching master classes with ages ranging from children to adults. Joey’s style has a very modern feel which gives his choreography a new smooth look to go along with some old school popping and locking. Most of all though his choreography exudes a fun, free flowing, almost freestyle, type of energy which expresses his motto, “ live while you Dance.” Joey is also pursuing a model and acting career, recently shooting a commercial for Verizon and will be taking acting classes at TVI acting studios in the fall. Genevieve Norell, Classical Ballet – Pointe Genevieve has an extensive background in classical ballet, pointe and jazz. Genevieve has taught in many schools in New York City and the surrounding area. She is also a guest teacher at Ballet schools in Europe. She has performed with many ballet companies both in the United States and abroad and brings her love of ballet and dance to our students. Her ambition is that as a teacher she will help keep alive the unique knowledge of ballet inherited from the great line of ballet masters. Chelsea Cicci – Office Manager, Vocal, Musical Theatre Chelsea has been with the Dance Factory for three years. She specializes in vocal and musical theatre. She has trained in NYC with some of Broadway’s top voice teachers. Chelsea spent a year performing in the 25th Anniversary Tour of “Cats”. The tour took her all around the United States, Mexico, and Canada. She is currently a featured performer at the Hunterdon Hills Playhouse in New Jersey. Janet Volpi Janet grew up dancing at the Dance Factory. She worked as a class demonstrator, assistant teacher and now is a member of our staff. Janet is a third year student at the Laboratory Institute of Merchandising, she is majoring in fashion merchandising and hopes to become a buyer. She also works at a boutique in both Garden State Plaza and Palisades Mall and is manager at the Palisades store. Janet was a member of our competition team, performed in several high school plays and continues to take classes in New York City when time permits. We are very happy to have Janet as our newest faculty member.

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