ABT Certified Teachers

 
ABT Certified Teachers have completed intensive training in the AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE® National Training Curriculum, a breakthrough eight level program that combines high quality artistic training with the basics of dancer health and child development. ABT Certified Teachers are permitted to teach the ABT National Training Curriculum only to the levels in which they successfully completed the training intensive and passed a thorough examination.

For information on how to become an ABT® Affiliate Teacher, please click here.

Following is a list of teachers certified to teach the ABT National Training Curriclum:

ABT Artistic Board of Examiners Primary – Level 7
		Melissa Allen Bowman (CA)
		Susan Brooker (OH)
		Harriet Clark (NY)
		Franco De Vita (NY)
		Alaine Haubert (CA)
		Virginia Johnson (NY)
		Raymond Lukens (NY)
		Kate Lydon (NY)
		Lisa Slagle (TX)
ABT Affiliate Teachers Primary - Level 3
		Rachel Kennelly (MD)
		Donna Pidel (MD)
		Michela Boschetto Viadana (NY)
ABT National Training Curriculum Primary – Level 7
		Cynthia Anderson (NY)
		Penny Askew (OK)
		Rosine Bena (NV)
		Julie Bickerton Bravata (FL)
		Jenna Bitterman (NY)
		Karena Brock-Carlyle (SC)
		Adriel Brown (NY)
		Ethan Brown (NY)
		Leslie Browne (NY)
		Malerie Bycura (AZ)
		Richard Cammack (CA)
		Deirdre Carberry (OH)
		Nora Cotter (NY)
		George de la Peña (NY)
		Zola Dishong (CA)
		Deborah Dobson-Kage (SWEDEN)
		Karin Ellis-Wentz (NJ)
		Karin Ellis-Wentz (NJ)
		Elizabeth Ferrell (LONDON)
		Kim Fiordimondo (NJ)
		Erica Fischbach (IN)
		Dana Floyd-Sutter (VA)
		Rory Foster (KY)
		Estefania Garcia (NY)
		Kim Gerson (NY)
		Cindi Green Hart (CT)
		Hannah Guruianu (NY)
		Rodney Gustafson (CA)
		Adam Holms (NY)
		Brenda Hotard (GA)
		Eileen Houghton-Hebron (FL)
		Susan Jaffe (NY)
		David Keener (AL)
		Trista Kite Federspiel (WA)
		Oksana Konobeyeva (NY)
		Sonja Kostich (NY)
		Michael Langlois
		Anna Lederfeind (NY)
		Keith Lee (VA)
		Marie-France Levesque (CA)
		Pamela Levy-Arauz (NY)
		Denise Lewis Grothman (CT)
		Chien-Ming Lin (NY)
		Lisa Lockwood (NY)
		Cheryl Madeux-Abbott (MA)
		Andréa Mafra Gregori (MA)
		Charles Maple (CA)
		Jessica Markiewicz (MD)
		Sharon Mathews (LA)
		Rebecca Mathews Acosta (LA)
		Barbara Matthews Hancock (NY)
		Clarence McDorman (NY)
		Erika Mero (NJ)
		Dierdre Miles Burger (FL)
		Orlando Molina (GA)
		Carlos Molina (MA)
		Hilda Morales (CT)
		Ann Moser Trenka (NJ)
		Darrell Notara (NJ)
		Sally Notara (NJ)
		Colleen O'Callaghan (CA)
		Jayne Persch (CA)
		Megan Philipp (NY)
		Donna Pidel (MD)
		Martha Purl Satinoff (FL)
		Cathy Rhodes (NY)
		Paige Ricci (FL)
		Amy Rose (IL)
		Flavio Salazar (NY)
		Kathleen Senger (GA)
		Johanna Snyder Butow (NJ)
		Jung Soo Kim (NY)
		Carla Stallings-Lippert (CA)
		Adelheid Strelick (NY)
		John Summers (NY)
		Richard Toda (NY)
		Terpsie Toon (NY)
		Martine Van Hamel (NY)
		Luis Villanueva (NY)
		Jane Vorburger (NY)
		Aya Wallace (NY)
		Stephanie Walz (NY)
		Kat Wildish
		Jacqueline Young (NY)
		Maria Youskevitch (PA)
		Xin Yu (CA)
		Royce Zackery (NY)
		Jennet Zerbe (NY)
ABT National Training Curriculum Primary – Level 5
		Janet Atallah (NY)
		Ingrid Balalis-Pearsall (NJ)
		Eloy Barragan (IA)
		Sarah Barragan (IA)
		Michela Boschetto Viadana (NY)
		Sophia Fatouros (NY)
		Alison Frankel (NY)
		Allison Jones Gustafson (CA)
		Carol Maxwell Rezabek (IA)
		Marthavan McKeon (MA)
		Kelly Ontiberos (NV)
		Melanie Person (NY)
		Colleen Pratt (NJ)
		Ellen Rosa (CA)
		Alice Schonbek (NY)
		Elisa Schroth (CT)
		Jonathan Sharp (CA)
ABT National Training Curriculum Primary – Level 3
		Tessa Adriani (ITALY)
		Angela Agudo (SC)
		Ron Alexander (NY)
		Natalia Alonzo-Brillante (NY)
		Dodie Askegard (WA)
		Lisa Attles (NJ)
		Miguel Aviles (NJ)
		Elizabeth Aymong (NY)
		Marco Batti (ITALY)
		Gaye Shellman Baxley (GA)
		Catherine Bays Kyle (AR)
		Joan Beatson (DE)
		Ian Spencer Bell (NY)
		Amanda Bennett (SWITZERLAND)
		Shirley Bennett (GA)
		Lois Black-Unkrich (AZ)
		Jennifer Bosco (CA)
		Richard Bowman (CA)
		Julio Bragado-Young (NY)
		Marcela Bragagnolo (NY)
		Lana Brooks (CA)
		Sara Brummel (MO)
		Molly Buchmann (LA)
		Emily Burnell (WV)
		Gilma Bustillo De Quattro (VA)
		Jennifer Cafarella (AZ)
		Kathy Callaghan (TN)
		Bonnie Callahan (FL)
		Leslie Carothers-Aromaa (CA)
		Cecilia Castillo Fisher (AZ)
		Carolyn Clark (NJ)
		Nicole Comella (CA)
		Christopher Cooper
		Jessica Ruth Cooper (AK)
		Erica Cornejo (MA)
		Allison D'Auteuil (TX)
		Debra DeVoe (MD)
		Taylor Dreyling (MN)
		Joan Facciobene (CA)
		Alina Faye (CA)
		Marisa Fiore (CA)
		Linda Denise Fisher-Harrell (MD)
		Wendy Fish-Lawrence (CT)
		Andrew Flagg (VT)
		Donna Floridia (NY)
		Shirley Fortenberry (CO)
		Barry Gager (TN)
		Maria Gianna Panajon (CA)
		Renee Gillenwater (TX)
		Katie Girardi (SC)
		Sarah Goetz (AK)
		Jill Grundstrom (MI)
		Qianping Guo (AL)
		Karen Hanson (TX)
		Marjorie Hardwick Schramel (LA)
		Alera Harrison (GA)
		Thom Hecht (TX)
		Terrie Hiromi Yamazaki (CA)
		Virginia Honneus (NY)
		Stephen M. Hook (CA)
		Abby Hudgins (OK)
		Blanca Huertas-Agnew (PA)
		Amelie Hunter (CA)
		Steven Hyde
		Christy Hyun Jin Ahn (TX)
		Janne Jackson-Dean (WI)
		Perry James (GA)
		Sara Ann Jansen (VA)
		Lorin Johnson (CA)
		Anne Joslin (OR)
		Violeta Katz (CT)
		Rachel Kennelly (MD)
		Minkyoung Kim (KOREA)
		Anna Lederfeind
		Sally Kingery Krystofik (TX)
		Jackie Kopcsak (CA)
		Vitali Krauchenka (NY)
		Svetlana Kravtsova (MD)
		Beth Kurtz (NY)
		Robert La Fosse (NY)
		Karen Lacy (NY)
		Kelly Leonardi-Uygan (CA)
		Seung Hee (Suzie) Lim (NY)
		Shelley Linehan (MD)
		Kristin Lödöen (NY)
		Nataly Lowder (IN)
		Amy Macon (CA)
		Bethany Marc-Aurele (NJ)
		Melissa Marks (NJ)
		Chris Martin (CA)
		Susan McCarter Olson (FL)
		Cameron L. McNinch (OH)
		Kristin Mesa (MD)
		Rebecca Mesa (MD)
		Jillian Adreana Michaels-Hughes (JAPAN)
		Robin Mickle (CA)
		Mary Jo Misra (AL)
		Melba Morris (CA)
		Anne Mutschelknaus (VA)
		Daniela Joyce Nascimento (BRAZIL)
		Janet Neyrey (LA)
		Kin Wee Ng (SINGAPORE)
		Amy Oates (CA)
		Francoise Pender (CA)
		Consuelo Perez (NY)
		Kathryn M. Perrault (CANADA)
		Ali Pourfarrokh (NY)
		Christina Powell (GA)
		Lee Provancha Day (CA)
		Brian Reeder (NY)
		Denise Reeves (GA)
		Christy Remington (SD)
		Larry Rosenberg (CA)
		Betsy Rothermel (GA)
		Sarah Rothrock-Rickel (NY)
		Karissa Schantol (NV)
		Scott Schlexer (NY)
		Rosanna Seravalli (NY)
		Christin Severini (NM)
		Welthy Silva (NV)
		Christine E. Simmons (FL)
		Rio Tasia Smith (NY)
		Sandra Stanton (NY)
		Tasha Stapelfeld (NH)
		Stephanie Stavinsky (NY)
		Valerie Stewart (WA)
		Kate Sulikowski (CT)
		Paul Sutherland (NJ)
		Tiziana Taborri (ITALY)
		Yasko Takeno-Williams (NY)
		Teresa Taylor (CA)
		Kate Thomas (NY)
		Ronald Tice (MN)
		Melana Tysowsky (NY)
		Viktor Uygan (CA)
		Azucena Verdin (OK)
		MaryEllen Vickery (VT)
		Donald Vleugels (LONDON)
		Shannon Volk-Ludlum (SC)
		Maud Wachter (CA)
		Bingfei Wang (MD)
		Ellen Warkentien (CA)
		Carolyn Zettel
		Martine Weber (GA)
		Stephanie Westrom (IA)
		Boleyn H. Willis-Zeger (NC)
		Deborah Young (TN)
		Carolyn Zettel-Augustyn (NY)

denotes former ABT Company members
denotes ABT-NYU Masters Candidates