 Miss Jackie (Owner/Executive Director)
N-Step Dance Center proudly welcomes Jackie Lemoine as its new owner. Miss Jackie is trained in classical ballet, jazz, and tap, and has been dancing since she was 2 ½ years old. Miss Jackie continued her study of dance as a dancer and dance instructor in New Hampshire, while she completed her Bachelor’s Degree in Business Management. In addition to dancing, Miss Jackie is an extremely talented cheerleader, cheerleading coach and choreographer. With an extreme passion for youth, and a focus on making sure young people have plenty of extracurricular options to guide them into lives of athleticism and prosperity, Miss Jackie began working with a Manchester youth cheerleading organization. Miss Jackie served as Cheerleading Coordinator for ten years, and successfully revised and redirected the organization, which was comprised of approximately 120 cheerleaders and 25 staff members annually. Under her direction, the organization achieved numerous titles on the state, regional, and national level. Miss Jackie is also a certified cheerleading competition judge. Miss Jackie was also pivotal in the inception of the Southern New Hampshire Beavers Semi Pro Football & Cheerleading Team serving as General Manager, bringing semi professional football and cheerleading talent and excitement to Southern New Hampshire. Miss Jackie’s love of dance, coupled with her 15+ years of successful business management experience, will be demonstrated in the experience that both you and your child will receive while at N-Step. Miss Jackie teaches Tiny Tots, PreDance, KinderCombo and Tap, and is a Competition Team choreographer. When she isn’t wearing her tap shoes, Miss Jackie is wife to Jonathan for 11 years, and mother to Stephanie and Caleb, both N-Step Dance Center Competition Team National award winners.
Miss Emma
Miss Emma has had the privilege of receiving her training from some of the most experienced teachers in the New England area. It was with the help and guidance of her teachers that she earned the opportunity to study with The Joffrey Ballet in New York and The Royal Academy of Dance in London. Emma has been dancing since the age of three and has trained under well known teachers such as David Howard, Peter Schabel, Herida Mae, John Magus, Andy Blankenbuhler, Katherine Sullivan, Winthrop Corey, Zelma Bustillo and many more. As well as dance, Emma also has experience in theater. She has participated in numerous plays and musical productions. Along with teaching dance, she passes on her experience on the stage to her students. Emma has been formally teaching dance since 1999. She is excited to be back in the classroom this fall after having a baby this Spring and will be choreographing for our Competition Team. Many of her students have received high score awards and have won titles. In 2007 alone, Emma received 6 Outstanding Choreography awards for her work with our students. Emma's choreography ("Sau Gan") can be seen on vipdanceonline. Her students have also been accepted into numerous training programs including The Boston Ballet, New York City Dance Alliance, Walnut Hill and the Tisch School of the Arts (NYU). Emma added the role of adjudicator to her resume in 2008! Miss Emma will be joining us as a choreographer for our Competition Team this year.
Miss Janet
Miss Janet has studied with Boston Ballet, The Boston Conservatory and also many ballet masters including: David Howard, Joseph Giocobbi and Fred Knecht to name a few. She previously owned a school in the New England area for 18 years and since selling the business, has been sharing her extensive knowledge with students in the local area. Janet was invited and chosen on two occasions to dance in Leningrad (St. Petersburg), Moscow in the former Soviet Union, Copenhagen, Denmark and Warsaw Poland as part of an International Dance Festival. She has also taught ballet workshops at DCTB Boston. Because of her technical training, many of her dancers have gone to win such titles as, Miss Dance, Jr. Miss Dance, Petite Miss Dance and Mr. Dance with the New England Chapter of DMA. Her students have also won numerous titles, high scores and best technique awards at prestigious competitions such as ADA and IDC. She also has numerous students dancing on cruise ships, some of whom are dance captains, in national touring productions of White Christmas, Chorus Line, Moving Up, Hairspray as well as other regional theatre productions. One former student has just been hired as a Rockette in NYC, in addition to former student Colin Bradbury dancing in Twyla Tharp's Come Fly With Me and performing at the Tony Awards Show! Miss Janet lives with her husband Ralph and has 2 grown sons. She will be teaching advanced and intermediate level ballet. We are delighted to have Miss Janet at N-Step and continue to look forward to all she has to share with our Family!
Miss Jen Miss Jen began her dance training locally at age 7. She has trained in Ballet, Jazz, Tap, Pointe, Lyrical, Hip-Hop, Gymnastics & Modern. Miss Jen had the priviledge of being a member of the N-Step Competition Team and is a proud Alumni of NSDC. As a member of the NSDC Competition Team, Miss Jen was awarded numerous regional and national High Score Awards and Titles, including a National Title. She began teaching at the early age of 15 as a student apprentice and transitioned into a teaching position over 10 years ago. Her students have been the recipients of numerous Choreography Awards, Judge's Awards, Overall High Scores and Titles, including National Petite Miss Dance of the United States. When Miss Jen isn't in the studio, she is working towards her degree in Early Childhood Education. Having well over 15 years experience with children, Miss Jen has developed a love for working with young minds, which shows in every one of her classes here at N-Step. Miss Jen's students love her positive, upbeat and fun personality while still giving them a disciplined classroom environment. Miss Jen currently teaches Tiny Tots, Jazz and Lyrical as well as choreographing for our Competition Team.
Miss Gil
Miss Gil is one of the new additions to N-Step and we are thrilled to have her here! Miss Gil has been dancing for over 30 years and has furthered her dance training by attending Dean College and Oklahoma City University. She has taught for some of the most prestigious dance studios in the New England area and has won numerous awards for her choreography. Miss Gil's students love her engaging and fun personality and while parents are enamored with her ability to inspire their children to do their best. Miss Gil will be bringing a fresh perspective to our Tap 3 and Tap 4/5 class this year, as well as choreographing for our Competition Team.
Miss Ashley
Miss Ashley took her first dance class at the age of two and a half, and has been dancing ever since. From her original disciplines of Ballet and Tap, she has branched out in her studies to include Lyrical, Jazz, Modern, Pointe, Hip-Hop, Musical Theatre and Partnering. At the age of six, Miss Ashley began competing. Since then she has been awarded many high scores, special awards, scholarships and titles at various regional and national dance competitions. Such scholarships include the "Convention Triple Threat" Award, a Ballet Scholarship, and two runner-up "Senior Outstanding Dancer" Scholarships at New York City Dance Alliance. She has also had the opportunity to attend the prestigious summer intensives offered by The Boston Ballet and NYCDA. Miss Ashley loves children of all ages and uses this love and understanding to reach out to her students. She also engages their imagination to help them understand ways to think outside the box. Miss Ashley strives to pass on her love of dance to all of her students and hopes they all grow to love dance in their own way. Miss Ashley was a competitive dancer here at N-Step for many years. Miss Ashley is teaching a variety of classes this year, as well as choreographing for our Competition Team. Deo Mwano
Deogratias Mwano has been teaching dance to all skill levels for seven years all over the United States, and his choreography has been performed all over the world through Youth With A Mission Performing Art’s Program. He is a local favorite who taught dance routines to Recycled Percussion, runner-ups in the TV show "America’s Got Talent". Recently he Co-Choreographed for a special he & his brothers performed for the TV show “DANCING WITH THE STARS”. Deo has spent a lot time learning & perfecting his craft as a dance teacher, learning that dancing is more than just a bunch of motions put together. He encourage unique self-expression by releasing one’s own personality through the form of dance. Deo believes dance is a language of movement that connects to sound and melody and paints a picture of feelings and emotions within the performer. Deo’s specialties are Rhythmic Modern, African Dance, Hip Hop (all styles), and Urban Jazz. Deo is currently working as a Dance Instructor for Southern NH Services Refugee Project in Manchester, where he teaches all forms of hip-hop, jazz, lyrical, and African dance to refugee teens in 4th through 12th grade. This allows him to work with over 100 teens from all over the world twice a week; countries represented include Nepal, Liberia, Sudan, Vietnam, Congo, and Somalia. He also volunteers his time at Hillside Middle School’s after school program, working to instill values of leadership in today’s youth. As one of our newest additions to the Staff, Deo will be teaching 2 Hip Hop Competition Groups, as well as Street Hip Hop and Hip Hop Skills. We are excited to have Deo as a Staff Member of N-Step this year and look forward to all that he brings to our dancers.
Miss Erin Miss Erin began dancing at the age of 3 and continued dancing and training in the forms of Ballet, Tap and Jazz for the next 11 years. As an adult she continued to pursue her love of the art of Jazz, Tap and Hip Hop for an additional 5 years. Miss Erin was very involved in Theatre in High School. As a result, she pursued her passion in College and minored in Theater, as well as performed in several collegiate productions. While in college she studied Theater Directing, Acting and Set Design. Her studies also included various classes in Education, including Early Childhood Education. Miss Erin has taken her knowledge that she gained from all her studies and successfully applied them to her classes. She is currently teaching Tiny Tots, KinderCombo, Beginning Jazz and is a choreographer for the Competition Team. She is also the proud mother of one of our Competition Team Dancers, Sinéad!
Miss Monique
Miss Monique began her dance career right here in NH at the age of 3. She began taking clogging lessons at the age of 8 with the Granite State Cloggers as a few of her family members were on the team. That's when her love of clogging began. Miss Monique has several routines that have been published in Step in Time and the Double Toe Times, which are National Clogging Publications. She has taught her original routines to such venues as the Northeast Clogging Convention & Competition and in workshops throughout New England and Texas, as well as judged clogging at such venues. She has been fortunate enough to have taken workshop classes from national instructors all over the country. She is the Director of the Northeast Elite Clogging Company, a competition clogging team made up of members from all over New England. We are so thrilled to have Monique's talent and enthusiasm here at N-Step Dance Center!
Shaquille Worsley
Shaquille is the newest member to the N-Step Dance Center Staff. Shaquille brings a whole new dance style to N-Step. He is trained in various forms of dance such as Hip Hop, Krumping, Popping, B Boying, Parkour and Tricking, training with a local talent who has recently appeared on Dancing with the Stars. Shaquille has had the opportunity to perform in various professional venues. In 2008 he was a featured performer at the Miss New Hampshire Pageant. He was a dancer in a video for Dan Sky, a performer on the MTV hit show “Making the Band”. He was been through the rigorous audition process for So You Think You Can Dance and appeared in an advertising video for Dance Your A** Off. Shaquille has a talent beyond his years. He is extremely patient with his students and encourages them with enthusiasm and praise. Shaquille is currently teaching our Break Dancing class and is looking forward to bringing more of his style to N-Step in the future. Shaquille currently lives in Manchester with his girlfriend and baby boy!
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