Director
Angela Sham has an advanced teaching degree from London's Royal Academy of Dance (R.A.D.). She was trained by Ethne Ferraris in South Africa and attended the National School of the Arts studying Ballet, Modern, Flamenco, and Classical Greek. She owned her own Dance school in Johannesburg for 12 years before being invited to Dallas in 2000 to teach the RAD method at Royale Ballet. Angela became the owner/director of Royale Ballet in 2003. Royale Ballet continues to grow and has become well known for promoting a high standard of classical ballet, jazz, modern and Flamenco.
Faculty
Joanna Jordan graduated from the University of North Texas with a B.A. in Dance, cum laude, and is certified in Pilates. Joanna has been teaching various forms of ballet, pointe, jazz, tap, modern, hop-hop, drill team, Latin Dance, and private lessons for 14 years in the Dallas area. She has performed in many dance companies and as a soloist for various local and regional shows. She also runs a community dance program for the city of Carrollton and a Pilates, yoga, and adult Ballet program in Farmers Branch.
Daniel De Cordoba A native Texan, Daniel de Córdoba returned to his home state in 1992 and founded the Daniel de Córdoba Bailes Españoles Company. De Córdoba’s early training included ballet, jazz and Spanish and Flamenco dance in the US, Mexico and Spain. His professional career spans the globe from concert halls in Europe to the Broadway stage. In Spain he worked with leading dance companies including Antonio Ruiz, Roberto Iglesias, Mario Maya and Carmen Mora and Jose Greco. Daniel was partner and a protégé of Mariquita Flores. He has received numerous grants and recognition from the United States, Mexico, Korea and Spain. In Dallas, Daniel directs the company and teaches flamenco.
Mary Jane Hawkins was born and raised in Dallas, Texas. Ever since a young age she has loved to dance. She has had the opportunity to study under a variety of teachers including Peggy Willis-Aarnio, Galina Panova, Timour and Lori Christman Bourtasenkov, Debra Sayles Senchak, Basil Thompson, Irina Vakhromeeva, and Denise Vale. She graduated from Texas Tech University with a B.A. in dance. While attending Tech, Mary Jane was a member of The Royals, the dance team for the Cotton Kings semi-professional ice hockey team of Lubbock, Texas. Upon her graduation, she became a soloist with the Willis Ballet performing roles such as Myrtha from Giselle, Grande from Grande Pas de Quatre, the female variation from Pas Classique, Dawn and War from Coppelia, and a Snowflake from the Nutcracker. She has also performed in several contemporary ballets alongside the St. Petersburg Classic Ballet Theatre of Marina Medvetskaya. Since her move back to Texas in 2005, she has performed and co-choreographed the shows “It’s Now or Never” and “L.O.V.E” and had the opportunity to perform with the Fort Worth Opera in two of their productions, “Amahl and the Night Visitors” and “La Traviata” in Bass Hall. In addition, Mary Jane performed in the award winning musical “Walk a Mile in My Shoes” alongside the creator, Jack Foltyn and is currently a member of Company Mayes. Throughout her dance career, she has completed six teacher’s congresses in the Teaching Method of Classical Ballet.
Tatyana Ivanova Case is
experienced in Russian Vaganova Ballet School methodology. Tatyana has
a Master of Arts (major in Philology, minor in Pedagogy) from Odessa
State University in Ukraine, and an Associate of Arts, Classical Ballet
from Odessa State Choreographic Academy.
Debra Bale
Debra is a native Texan. Her professional career started in New York
with American Ballet Theatre. She danced principal and soloist roles in
classical, neo-classical and contemporary repertoire with Hartford
Ballet, Milwaukee Ballet, Dallas Ballet, Atlanta Ballet, Nevada Dance
Theater, North Carolina Dance Theater, International Ballet Rotaru,
Ballethnic, as well as touring with Columbia Artist nationally and
internationally. Miss Bale’s faculty affiliations have included Milwaukee Ballet School, Dallas Ballet School, School of the Atlanta Ballet,
International Ballet Rotaru Academy and The Atlanta Ballet Centre for
Dance Education. Debra has also had the honor of being Artist in
Residence at Emory University, Georgia State University and Guest
Teacher for Dallas Black Dance Theatre.
Guest Teacher
Suzelle Poole Spanning twenty-five years as a professional ballerina, Mrs. Poole danced as Soloist in Canada,the United States, and in Great Britain. After English training and Cecchetti certificates I, II, III, and IV, she was for many years Assistant to the director of the Houston Ballet, Madame Tatiana Semenova of St. Petersburg and pupil of Mathilde Kchessinska. Suzelle Poole has been teaching ballet since 1958 in Houston, London, Stuttgart, Cape Town, and Dallas. Many of her students have become professional dancers in the U.S.A. and Europe.
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