Caroline Blair began her pre-professional dance training at Community Ballet in Huntsville, Alabama at age 13. She furthered her training with American Ballet Theatre and the Joffrey Ballet. Upon graduating from the University of Arizona with degrees in Linguistics and Russian & Slavic Studies, she returned to Huntsville Ballet as a dancer and faculty member. In 2015, Caroline joined Chattanooga Ballet, where she danced for six seasons. While with Chattanooga Ballet, she held the position of Pointe Coordinator and was an active member of the faculty. Career highlights include Sugar Plum in Nutcracker, Hermia in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Tsarevna in The Firebird, the Lilac and Violente Fairies in productions of The Sleeping Beauty, and Dream Laurey in Oklahoma. Other credits include soloist roles in Romeo and Juliet, Paquita, Giselle, and The Magic Flute. Since retiring from full-time professional ballet in 2021, Caroline remains an active part of the dance community in Chattanooga - teaching, choreographing, and occasionally performing with organizations throughout the region.
Elena Bozzone is from Aiken, South Carolina and has taught dance since she was 15. Elena danced professionally with Roanoke Ballet Theatre for three years and spent the past year dancing with Gwinnett Ballet Theatre. With them she performed repertoire including A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Snow White, Giselle, Sleeping Beauty, The Nutcracker, Carmen, and Dracula. Though her primary training was in Ballet, she is versed in tap, jazz, contemporary, and hip-hop.
Lydia Campbell began her training at Chattanooga Ballet. While at Chattanooga Ballet she performed many corps de ballet roles in Hippolyta’s Acolytes, A Midsummers Night Dream, Giselle, and Ruby Jewel variation in Sleeping Beauty. Over the years at Chattanooga Ballet, she performed in the Nutcracker as a Snowflake, Waltz of the Flowers, and as demi soloists in Arabian and Chinese. In 2016, she performed the lead role as Clara. For the 2018-2019 season Lydia participated in Nashville Ballet’s Academy where she performed in Paul Vasterling’s Nutcracker and in the 20th Anniversary Gala with Nashville Ballet at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center. In 2019, Lydia moved back home to Chattanooga and has been a part of the faculty inspiring young dancers through the art of dance. She graduated from Chattanooga State Community College with an Associates of Science in 2021. Lydia is also the head instructor at our newest satellite location at Silverdale Academy.
Dillon Davis is a native of Chattanooga, Tennessee and began his ballet training at Chattanooga Ballet and Center Stage Dance at age twelve. Dillon started his professional career as a trainee at Alabama Ballet under the direction of Wes Chapman. While with Alabama Ballet he danced in George Balanchine’s Stars and Stripes, An American in Paris, Giselle and The Sleeping Beauty. He later attended the highly respected Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet under the tutelage of Marcia Dale Weary.
After completing his training at CPYB, Dillon performed professionally with Nashville Ballet and Dance Theater of Tennessee dancing various soloist roles such as Escamillo in Carmen, Peter in The Diary of Anne Frank, the jester in Cinderella, and Franz in Coppélia. While with Dance Theater of Tennessee, he had the opportunity to work with world renowned choreographers Ma Cong, Darrell Grand-Moultrie and Ron De Jesus of Hubbard Street. Dillon then moved back to Chattanooga and danced the rest of his career with Chattanooga Ballet for seven seasons and retiring from the company in 2021. Dillon is happy to continue to be a member of the Chattanooga Ballet community by teaching in the school.
Jane began dancing as a young child with her babysitter in Atlanta. Soon after, she began taking formal ballet classes throughout the metro area. After graduating high school, Jane moved to NYC to train as a scholarship student at The Ailey School, where she studied modern forms of dance including, but not limited to Horton, Graham, Taylor and Dunham. Performance credits include The Metropolitan Opera and The Lion King. Ms. King is ecstatic to resume her teaching journey here in Chattanooga.
Rebecca has taught dance, movement, and yoga for students aged three through adult for over twenty years. She grew up in Maryland and has danced with several ballet companies in the United States, including American Repertory Ballet (NJ) and Grand Rapids Ballet (MI). Most recently, she taught elementary school for eleven years in Chattanooga and Cleveland, TN. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in English and Elementary Education. When not in the studio and classroom, Rebecca enjoys spending time outside with her husband and their four-year-old daughter.
Ryan was born in Oklahoma City and raised in Chattanooga, TN. Ryan found his love of Hip Hop dance at the tender age of 9 years old and has been dancing ever since.
To better his Hip Hop skills, he took several dance classes anywhere he could and loved to watch live performances from his favorite artists. From 2013-2015 Ryan trained at WEAVE: A Conceptual Dance Company to help shape his Hip Hop style and learn other dance styles.
Ryan has taught Hip-Hop at various dance studios and schools around Chattanooga such as Ballet Tennessee, Chattanooga Ballet, Modern Play, Divine Dance Studio, Raw Art Dance and Entertainment Corp, Baylor School, Girls Preparatory School, Chattanooga High Center of Creative Arts, D. Williams Dance Academy and Tennessee Association of Dance. He is currently teaching Hip-Hop at Velocity Dance Center, Normal Park Museum Magnet School, Red Bank Middle School and High School.
Ryan is also an Artistic Teacher, dance instructor and company member of The Pop-Up Project and appeared in their dance film “The Light We Share”. Ryan preforms at different events and collaborates with local artists on special projects around the Chattanooga area.
Megan Quiroz McSween is a native of Grand Rapids Michigan where she began her professional ballet career as an apprentice with the Grand Rapids Ballet at age 16. From there, she was hired as a Seasonal Artist with the Joffrey Ballet during her senior year of high school. After a year as a trainee at the Pacific Northwest Ballet School in Seattle, she returned to the Joffrey Ballet where she remained for eight seasons, performing featured roles in ballets such as Robert Joffrey's Postcards, Edwaard Liang's Age of Innocence, and Christopher Wheeldon's Carousel, A Dance. In 2009 Meg was named one of Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch”. Since then, Meg has served on faculty for the Joffrey Ballet School in New York City, the Grand Rapids Ballet School, Grand Valley State University, IPC Ballet and Ballet Memphis. In addition to teaching dance, Meg is a certified GYROTONIC instructor. Since moving to Chattanooga in 2019 Meg has loved exploring the beautiful terrain with Brian and their three kids, Connor, Micah and Madelyn. Meg enjoys her time in the studio with the CHA Ballet dancers and students, as well as the occasional opportunity to guest perform with the company.
Emily specializes in Broadway tap and musical theater styles, bringing an energizing dynamic to each class, whether for beginners or advanced students. With over 30 years of teaching experience, she aims to bring joy to her classes while instilling proper technique and developing musicality.
After a successful professional dance career as a performer, Emily moved to Chattanooga from Los Angeles in 2008. Prior to teaching at Chattanooga Ballet she was on faculty at Ballet Tennessee for five years. This will be her fourth year as the tap instructor for Chattanooga Ballet. She also enjoys choreographing for musical theater. Her recent choreography credits include Freaky Friday, Newsies, Schoolhouse Rock, and High School Musical 1 & 2, with Christian Family Theatre.
Emily is committed to continuous improvement and strives to bring out the best in herself for each class. She is a lifelong dance student, regularly taking classes at Broadway Dance Center and Steps on Broadway in NYC during summer and winter breaks, as well as attending tap festivals.
