Providing Quality dance in Greenville, SC
About Greenville Ballet School
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The Greenville Ballet School provides the finest quality dance instruction in a fun and loving environment in order to promote lifelong learning, fitness, and an appreciation of the arts.
The Greenville Ballet School’s experienced, professional faculty offers instruction and performance opportunities in Classical Ballet, Pointe, and Modern Dance. See what our students can do. We offer a quality experience in a quality environment. Andrew and Merry Kuharsky are Greenville’s best and most experienced ballet teachers. We have four spacious studios with sprung wood floors for safety and a curriculum where students safely learn the proper techniques at each age. Studies have shown that dance training enhances children’s academic achievement as well as helping keep them physically fit, graceful, and confident.

Greenville Ballet School Staff Experience

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ANGIE SHULER (Faculty) – Angie Shuler began her formal dance training at Columbia Ballet School. She studied at summer intensives at The South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts, Hartford Ballet, Boston Ballet, and Pennsylvania Ballet and at year-round programs at North Carolina School of the Arts and The Rock School of the Pennsylvania Ballet before dancing professionally with Charleston Ballet Theatre and Southern Ballet Theatre. Angie is an ABT® Certified Teacher, who has successfully completed the ABT® Teacher Training Intensive in Pre-Primary through Level 7 & Partnering of the ABT® National Training Curriculum. Angie owned Brevard Ballet School and directed Brevard Ballet in North Carolina for nine years. Angie has been on faculty at ballet schools in Atlanta, greater Salt Lake City and Charleston. She is the dance immersion coordinator and a ballet faculty member this summer at South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts & Humanities. Angie is currently working towards an MFA in Choreography at Reinhardt University.
ANNABELLE TERRY (Faculty) – Annabelle Terry is a recent graduate of Anderson University’s Dance and Clinical Psychology undergraduate programs. She is currently a professional choreographer for local theaters, having staged numerous musicals and plays. She has also created some pieces for AU’s dance concerts, ACDA, and President’s Gala. A few of her credits include Grease (AU), Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (Centre Stage Theatre, Greenville), Something Rotten (Market Theatre, Anderson), Piano Man (AU dance concert), and Dancing at Lughnasa (AU). Annabelle has 20 years of classical ballet training under her belt, but also possesses extensive training in pointe, jazz, musical theater, contemporary, and modern techniques. She is currently pursuing a Master’s Degree in Organizational Leadership at Anderson Univerity.
CHARIS VANDONKELAAR (Guest Teacher) – Charis VanDonkelaar has performed professionally with the Columbia City Ballet and the Charlotte Ballet. She received her training at the Greenville Ballet School. She has also studied at Ballet West in Salt Lake City, American Ballet Theatre school in New York City, the school of the Charlotte Ballet, and at the University of South Carolina Summer Dance Conservatory. She has performed in The Nutcracker, Dracula, Peter Pan, and in George Balanchine’s Who Cares? (where she was coached by former New York City Ballet principal dancer Patricia McBride).