Tap Dancer Brian Jones has been performing since 1975. Known for his Rhode Island dance company (The All-Tap Revue) and his son-and-dance team with Susan Boyce (Jones & Boyce) and his street performances with Donal Suthard (Street Tap). Brian has toured vaudevillian from Hawaii to Europe. He has shared the bill with The Persuasions, Wally Rose, Robert Goulet, Ethel Merman, Savion Glover and the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra. A musical populist, Jones improvises with live musicians, or synchronizes to classic recordings of ragtime, jazz, swing. Latin, country, classical, Broadway, even Techno.

Louise is a teacher and choreographer who started ballet at the age of 6 with Lidia Pettine. From the age of fifteen she spent her summers in New York City studying ballet at the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo as well as with Mrs. Pettine. She was a founding member of Festival Ballet and on the board of directors of RI Civic Ballet. After she retired from performance, she taught and choreographed for Festival Ballet as well as many other RI dance schools including The Studio and The Dance Art Forum. Her classes have been called "Lydia classes" as she teaches very much like her legendary teacher.

Jacqui began her ballet instruction in Gulfport, Mississippi under direction of renowned dancer, Delia Stewart. While attending the University of South Alabama she was a soloist in the university's ballet company "Dance USA" and was an apprentice to Ballet Mobile. After moving to Huntsville she was a principle dancer for Huntsville Ballet Company for 10 years. Since moving to Rhode Island she has taught at The Loft, Fusionworks and here at The Studio.

Heather's parents enrolled her at The Studio, A Dance and Performing Arts Center at the age of eight. Heather studied Ballet under Marilyn Smayda, Chamoni Mossa-Simone and many other instructors. She went on to study dance at the college level at Slippery Rock University, graduating in 2012 with a BA in Dance. While at college she both performed and choreographed for SRUDT, the Jazz/Tap concert, and the Senior Synthesis concerts. She stayed in Pittsburgh and began teaching at Richelle Lyn School of Dance, where she was able to teach many different styles, ages and levels. We are happy to have her back at The Studio teaching and dancing with us again.

Cathy Blaney started out as a gymast/dancer as a child, and has specialized in jazz dance since 1997 when she became a student of Erja Fischer, who studied with the renowned Matt Mattox in Europe. Cathy began teaching jazz nearly twenty years ago and her classes are based in Matt Mattox's technique, though bringing in other influences as well. Cathy teaches Teen Broadway Jazz/Tap combo classes in periodic sessions that run 6 to 8 weeks at a time.