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Boomer Ballet

For ages 55 and better!

Children's Division

Parent & Me ages 2.5-5
Creative Dance ages 4-5
Pre-Ballet age 6

Adult, Teen, Senior Division

Adult Fundamentals, Beginning, Intermediate, Advanced
Starting As A Teen?,
Adult Lifelong 40+, Boomer Ballet 55+

School-Year Training

Elementary Ballet through Level 5
Pre-professional Level 6
Placement for new students email spb@spballet.org

Meet Our Faculty

Christina Onusko

Christina Onusko

School Director, ballet

Ms. Onusko began her training in her native Pennsylvania. She performed with the Hartford Ballet and principal roles with Ballet West Virginia including Cinderella and the Lilac Fairy in The Sleeping Beauty. For five years...

Kaylie Bullock

Teaching Artist - Ballet

Kaylie Bullock just moved to the area to join James Sewell Ballet. She recently completed her seventh season with Central Illinois Ballet as principal dancer. During her time with CIB, she had the privilege of debuting roles in many ...

Leanne Campbell-Noonan

teaching artist - BALLET

Leanne has been a dance educator for over 25 years. She currently teaches at Dance Works Performing Arts Center in Lakeville and previously at St. Paul Conservatory for Performing Artists. Before moving to...

Penelope Freeh

Teaching artist - Ballet and composition

Dancer, choreographer, educator, and writer Penelope is a two-time McKnight Fellow for Choreographers, McKnight Fellow for Dancers, and Sage awardee for Outstanding Performer. She danced for James Sewell Ballet for seventeen years...

Emilia Garrido-Vasquez

Emilia Garrido-Vasquez

Teaching Artist - Children's programming

Bio to come...

Rose Hartnett

teaching artist - BALLET

Rose studied classical ballet and contemporary dance with Ballet Arts Minnesota and Minnesota Dance Theatre. She continued her study of ballet and expanded her modern dance training by earning her BFA in Dance at Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University...

Helen Hatch

teaching artist - Ballet

Helen Hatch is a dancer, choreographer, and teacher based in Minneapolis. A Minnesota native, Helen began her training at Ballet Arts MN and graduated Cum Laude with Dance Department Honors from the...

Alejandra Iannone

teaching artist - BALLET

Alejandra was classically trained in the Cecchetti method and obtained her B.F.A in Dance performance from the Fordham University/ Ailey School. She is an ABT® Affiliate Instructor who successfully completed the ABT® Teacher Training Intensive in...

Anthony Jones

teaching artist - BAllet

Originally from Minneapolis, Anthony Jones began his early ballet studies at the Minnesota Dance Theatre & School followed by professional training at Canada’s National Ballet School and ultimately The School of American Ballet, where he studied on full scholarship...

Jill Lile

teaching artist - BALLET

Jill began her training in Omaha NE with teacher, Valerie Roche and continued her studies in summer programs at Banff and San Francisco ballet schools, the Royal Academy of Dancing in London and in various schools in New York City. She has a BFA and an MFA...

Jennifer Mack

ballet, modern and progressive

Jennifer Mack's 20+ year career in dance includes receiving several notable roles, awards & grants for her work as a dancer/performer, choreographer, instructor and adjudicator internationally in dance, theater, opera, music, film, and...

Laura Osterhaus Rosenstone

Teaching Artist - Composition

Laura is a movement artist and educator, born and raised in the Midwest. Across all modes of creating, she strives to connect with and listen to people. Laura received her M.F.A. in Choreography & Performance from Smith College and her B.A. in Dance from the...

Hannah Pierce

teaching artist - Ballet

Hannah Pierce (she/her) is a dance artist and educator based in Saint Paul, MN. She grew up dancing in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and attended Middlebury College in Vermont, graduating with her BA in dance in 2013. She has had the pleasure of dancing...

Sean Scantlebury

teaching artist - modern, contemporary

Sean Scantlebury is a performer and teacher equally adept in modern, ballet and contemporary. A native of Barbados, Sean is a naturalized American citizen. He moved to New York City at age eight and was invited to study at the New York City Public School for Dance. He became a member of Eliot Feld’s Ballet Tech ...

Aloe Lui

Aloe Lui

GUEST TEACHING ARTIST - BALLET

Ao (Aloe) Liu, Dance Artist, Choreographer, Dance Instructor from Yunnan Province, China Ao Liu graduated from Denmark International Youth leader Education graduate program and holds a Bachelor of Dance Performance degree from Yunnan Arts University and a Master of...

Laura Greenwell

guest teaching artist - BALLET

Laura is trained in classical dance from Ballet Arts Minnesota, under the direction of Bonnie Mathis, Christina Onusko and Lirena Branitski. She continued her studies with the Butler Ballet.
Laura is an American Ballet Theatre® Certified Teacher, who has...

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