Directors & Faculty
ANDREW KUHARSKY - Director
MERRY KUHARSKY - Director
CHRISTINA LOFTIS – Director, G.b.2 - Jazz, Tap, Lyrical
AMBER FINCHER – Assistant Director, G.b.2 - Hip-Hop
Directors & Faculty
ANDREW KUHARSKY - Director [photos - click here]
Mr. Kuharsky is a graduate of Canada’s National Ballet School. He was an apprentice with the Joffrey Ballet in New York, a principal dancer with The Atlanta Ballet, and a soloist with Les Grands Ballets Canadiens in Montreal. He has performed across Canada, the U.S., and in France, Italy, Switzerland, and Yugoslavia. He taught in or chaired the dance program of the S. C. Governor’s School for the Arts from 1984-1999, and directed the dance program at the School District of Greenville County’s Fine Arts Center from 1984-2002. He has taught at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, and choreographs regularly for many regional companies. Recently his work has been performed in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Georgia, Alabama, Virginia, Kentucky, Vermont, Texas, and Scotland.
MERRY KUHARSKY - Director [photos - click here]
Mrs. Kuharsky was a principal dancer with The Atlanta Ballet and the Augusta Ballet in her native Georgia. With The Atlanta Ballet she danced leading roles across the United States including Alaska. She trained at the Augusta Ballet, and studied at the Joffrey Ballet School in New York. She has taught at the Augusta Ballet School, the Atlanta School of Ballet, and the New Jersey School of Ballet. She served as Ballet Mistress for The Atlanta Ballet, and has staged works for The Atlanta Ballet, Augusta Ballet, Gainesville Ballet, and Burklyn Ballet Theatre.
CHRISTINA LOFTIS
Director G.b.2 - Jazz, Tap, Lyrical
Ms. Loftis graduated from the Fine Arts Center and has been a contestant in the Miss South Carolina Pageant three times holding the titles of Miss Poinsett Downtown 2006, Miss Greater Greer 2004, and Miss Simpsonville 2003. At the 2004 Miss South Carolina pageant she became the first ever recipient of the $1,000 Former Miss South Carolinas scholarship for the most service hours provided, and in 2006 she was a non-finalist talent winner. In November 2004 she was awarded a scholarship to the Joffrey Ballet School in New York from a national dance convention. Ms. Loftis has previously taught at Upstate Carolina Dance Center and DanceVisions, and is the choreographer for the Blue Ridge High School Dance Team.
AMBER FINCHER
Assistant Director G.b.2 - Hip-Hop
Amber Fincher trained at the Greenville Ballet and graduated from the Fine Arts Center with the top senior award in dance. She has studied in New York at Broadway Dance Center and Steps on Broadway. Amber has studied with Dina Rizo, Frank Hatchet, Stacie Tookie, Stephen Pier, Savion Glover, and Christopher Gatelli among others. She has previously taught at Westgate Dance and Fitness, DanceVisions, and the Greenville Ballet School. She has been a guest teacher at Dance Discovery in Walhalla and has coached the Riverside High School Dance Team. Amber is a business management student at Greenville Technical College, works full time as an office manager in her family’s business, Hensons’ Inc., and has a two-year-old daughter.
