Providing Quality dance technique in Greenville, SC
About Greenville Ballet School
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The Greenville Ballet School is dedicated to providing exceptional dance instruction in a fun, supportive, and nurturing environment. Through high-quality training, we inspire a lifelong love of learning, encourage physical fitness, and foster a lasting appreciation for the arts.
The Greenville Ballet School’s experienced and professional faculty provides exceptional instruction and performance opportunities in Classical Ballet, Pointe, and Modern Dance. Our comprehensive curriculum is designed to help students develop strong technical skills while fostering artistry, discipline, and confidence.
*Students train in a safe, high-quality environment featuring three spacious studios with sprung wood floors that help reduce impact and support proper technique. Our age-appropriate curriculum ensures that each student progresses safely and successfully at every stage of their training.
Dance education offers benefits that extend far beyond the studio. Studies have shown that dance training can enhance children’s academic achievement while improving physical fitness, grace, coordination, self-discipline, and self-confidence. Discover what our students can achieve at Greenville Ballet School.
Greenville Ballet School Staff Experience
REBECCA T. LEE (Artistic Director) – Rebecca Lee is a native of Greenville, where she received her dance training with the Greenville Ballet, the Greenville County Schools’ Fine Arts Center, and the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts. She received her B.F.A. in Dance, Performance, and Choreography from Columbia College and her M.F.A in Dance, Performance, and Choreography from Florida State University. She has been a company member with Dance Repertory Theatre in Tallahassee, FL, and a guest artist with Wildwood Ballet and the Power Company in Columbia, SC. She has also danced with Christian von Howard in the Von Howard Project and with the Garage Girls a Go-Go in New York City. She has taught for FSU Summer Dance Intensive, FSU non-major dance classes, Tallahassee Ballet, Foothills Conservatory, Pas de Vie Ballet Company, Ballet Spartanburg, and Broadway South. She has also choreographed for Converse College, Columbia College, Clemson University, Ballet Spartanburg, Tallahassee Ballet and the Fine Arts Center. She has taught dance in the Greenville County Schools and at the after-school A.R.M.E.S. program at the Greenville County Schools’ Fine Arts Center. She currently teaches at Anderson University, and South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities. She just recently trained with Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet teacher training program.
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.
Ashley Shepard (Faculty) – Ashley began dancing at the age of two at Studio School of the Arts. She received most of her training at En Pointe School of Dance and it’s sister company, Praise in Motion, under the direction of Kathy Thomas-Law and Susie Grimley. She received her BA in Dance from Anderson University instructed by Katie Stewart, Kathryn Yon, Rebecca Lee, and Lauren Imhoff. Along with growing individual technique, she has choreographed pieces for multiple different mediums and studios, including 5 collegiate choreographic works and a self-produced, directed, and choreographed show.
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).
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