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Seaside Arts Center's teachers lead with enthusiasm, pedagogical expertise, passion, and fun, keeping students engaged and excited to learn.
Want to join our team? Email your resume to: elyssa@seasideartscenter.org.
Elyssa Dru Rosenberg holds a Master’s degree in Dance and Dance Education from New York University and a B.A. from Tufts University. As a dance educator, she brings her passion for historical context and artistic development to her students in her Isadora Duncan technique, Ballet, and Creative Movement classes. Elyssa is a world-renowned expert in the legacy of Isadora Duncan and has presented her research, choreography and historical restorations at dance education and dance history conferences and in numerous venues around the United States. She has also taught Master classes and workshops at universities including UCSD, Tufts University, NYU, and SUNY Purchase. As a performer and choreographer, Elyssa’s work has been presented at various venues in New York City, San Diego and Boston. Elyssa founded Seaside Arts Center as a creative space for children of all ages and means to express themselves and gain confidence through art.
Hollie delaMontaigne is a Southern California native and graduate of the University of California Santa Barbara. She studied Art History and Early Childhood Education and has worked for various non-profit organizations in communications and development. She also has more than a decade of experience working with children, which taught her how essential it is for children to have a creative outlet and to find their own voices. As Director of Operations at Seaside, Hollie oversees everything from tuition and billing to scheduling and communications. When not at the Seaside studio, Hollie can be found with her energetic toddler, James, her husband, Brian, and their rambunctious boxer dog, Rudi.
Christine Rudy-Reed is a certified dance educator in public PK-12 education. In addition to her work at Seaside Arts Center, Christine serves as the Magnet Schools Assistance Program Arts Resource Teacher at Creative, Performing, Media Arts (CPMA) Magnet Middle School, guiding and supporting teacher professional learning and curriculum development for the San Diego Unified School District. Christine has been an active member of several organizations, including the Illinois Dance Education Organization (founding Board of Directors), Prismatic Movement (founding Board of Directors), and the National Dance Education Organization (Development Committee, K-12 Teaching Mentorship Committee). Christine holds a Masters in Teaching, with a focus in Elementary Education, from Columbia College Chicago, as well as a Bachelors of Science in Business Administration with concentrations in General Business Administration, Dance, and Arts Management, from Bowling Green State University.
Olesya Antonio (Mezzo Soprano) is a graduate of the Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory in St. Petersburg, Russia, where she studied with Sergey Aleksashkin, an internationally renowned singer with the Mariinsky theatre. After graduation, she moved to Vienna, Austria, where she made her debut with Neue Oper Wien, in a production of Orpheus by Check-Monteverdi. In 2008, Olesya moved to Lisbon, Portugal, where she continued her carrier as an opera soloist in the Theatre Nacional de Sao Carlos. Olesya is a laureate of several international Opera competitions in Spain, Italy, and Bulgaria. She works with voice students of all ages, and her specialties include breathing, tone creation and placement, diaphragm support, resonance, performance and much more. In 2014, Olesya moved from Lisbon to San Diego, where she currently resides with her family, including three young children.
Danielle Behrens was born and raised in Visalia, California. She works professionally as a musical theatre performer and dance instructor in both California and New York City. She has been dancing since the age of 3 and teaching and choreographing since the age of 16. While studying dance at Sierra Performing Arts Center, Danielle quickly discovered that she wanted to pursue a career in the arts and began training in voice and acting as well. She continued her training at College of the Sequoias, and then transferred to Marymount Manhattan College in New York City where she earned her Bachelor of Arts in Musical Theatre. After graduation, Danielle joined the North American touring cast of The Wizard of Oz working as a swing. She then performed on the Disney Wonder cruise ship where she appeared onstage as Aurora, Cinderella, Belle and more. Danielle has also had the pleasure of performing at many regional theaters around the country. Some of her favorite credits include: Peggy Sawyer in 42nd Street, Clara Johnson in The Light in the Piazza, Kathy Selden in Singin' in the Rain, and Meg Giry in Phantom of the Opera. She has worked as an instructor and choreographer at Broadway Dance Center, Thommie Retter’s NYC Tap Crew, Lopresti Dance Theatre, Sierra Performing Arts Center and College of the Sequoias. She loves sharing her passion for the arts as well as everything she has learned along the way!
Originally from Colorado, Stacie Birky Greene received degrees in Art and Art History from the University of Kentucky. She also studied in Florence, Italy, and at the Art Institute of Chicago. Although painting was the focus of her training, she has explored her art in a wide variety of media, including drawing, installation and mixed media work. Since 1998 Stacie has been teaching art to children and adults throughout San Diego county, though non-profit organizations, private studios and private lessons. Stacie believes in providing a warm and open classroom environment where students learn the fundamentals of art, for example, portraiture, still life, landscape, color theory and art history. These subjects are explored while fostering a sense of creativity and personal expression. She feels the visual arts open doors that can empower a student, helping them to develop confidence and individuality by embracing both the intuitive and the rational, and providing a framework for creative thinking that is applicable to a broad variety of study.
Uriah Brown (Bass-Baritone) is a graduate of San Diego State University where he earned a BM in Music Education and a BA in Spanish for Education. He is a classically trained Singer and has performed in a few operas, but is deeply rooted in Gospel and R&B as he grew up and learned to sing at church. Uriah has an extensive background in musical theater both on-stage and behind the scenes. Some of his favorite leading roles were in The Wizard of Oz, Rent, and The Music Man. Although he loves to be on stage, Uriah’s true passions are Education and Advocacy for the Music and Dramatic Arts. He has served as an ambassador and mentor for Youth Entertainment Stage Company (Y.E.S. Co.), a Musical Theater Arts Education program of the Stanislaus County Office of Education in partnership with Gallo Center for the Arts and is annual lead performer for UC Merced’s Children’s Opera, an outreach program servicing the neighboring schools and districts.
Uriah is originally from the San Fransisco Bay-Area, but spent his most important and formative years in Turlock, California. Uriah is thrilled to share his passion for the stage and music with the children of Seaside Arts Center and it’s community.
Shawn Burgess is from San Diego and has worked professionally as an actor, dancer, singer, & musician. He has performed in the Broadway revival of “West Side Story” (’10), danced to The Beatles’ music in the film “Across the Universe”, worked extensively for Universal Studios Japan “Wicked”, danced for Tokyo Disney Sea in “Mystic Rhythms”, and acted as Pépe for several years & nights on the “West Side Story” anniversary tour (London, Paris, Zurich, Athens, Amsterdam, Vienna, Kuala Lumpur, etc.). He has danced seasons with both the California Ballet and the San Diego Ballet as well as with the San Diego Opera and has performed in regional musicals at the Welk Resort Theatre and the Moonlight Amphitheater. He works for Escondido Union School District as a school teacher, regularly engages in piano accompaniment for dance, and is very happy to work with Seaside Arts Center in encouraging artistry in children & youth.
Karama "Ayanna" Butler is a performer and instructor recently relocated here from Los Angeles. She was most recently on staff as an adjunct Dance Professor at Hussian College for the Commercial Dance Program prior to moving to San Diego. Her professional experience includes: working with Laureanne "Boomkack" Gibson for French Montana, assisting the company Ballet Black in London, instructing for the Korean Dance Federation, Master class series at Cal State Fullerton, The Koresh School, and various schools back East. Some of her training background includes: the Cincinnati Ballet school, The Alvin Ailey School, Dayton Contemporary Dance Company and Jacob’s Pillow. Past collaborations/company work include: DCDCII, Dance Theater X under direction of Charles Anderson, Nathan Trice's R I T U A L S, and Abdel Salaam's Forces of Nature, Zane Booker's Smoke, Lilies, And Jade, and Iquail Shaheed’s Dance Iquail!. Outside of dance she has always extended herself to many different artforms, such as the beauty industry which she's been involved in for over 10 years. Ayanna is very excited to join Seaside and believes that in this very specific environment, we are able to promote development, artistic expression, and individuality . Whether it’s instruction in class or conversation out of class, she is excited and grateful at the opportunity to be a part of that process. She loves laughter and making her class enjoyable, imprinting the joys of dance on students.
Hannah Cook graduated Summa Cum Laude from UCSD with a BA in Dance. She has taught dance for children of all ages for the past 8 years all over San Diego County, including enrichment programs in academic settings. Ms. Cook enjoys introducing kids to rhythm and creative movement as well as developing their gross motor skills, emotional expression, and technique.
Averill Corkin has been teaching for over 10 years; subjects including musical theater, vocal pedagogy, classical and a cappella choirs, acting through song, movement for the stage, and Shakespeare. She has a BA from Brigham Young University in Humanities of Theater, and Piano and Vocal Performance, and an M.Ed. from Harvard Graduate School of Education in Arts in Education. She is passionate about using the performing arts as a way to develop humans. She is excited to be a part of the Seaside Arts Team!
After training in Ballet from the age of 4 at the Performing Arts Workshop in Born and raised in San Francisco, Selena trained as a classical ballet dancer. At age 19, after performing and touring with local companies (Robert Moses & Robert Henry Johnson), Selena moved to NYC, where she discovered Pilates. She found it was the perfect rehab/cross training for Ballet dancers and quickly saw how it would benefit anyone. For 20 years Selena has taught all levels of Pilates, tailoring her teaching to meet the needs from her clients.Selena is certified in both Mat & Equipment Pilates.
After training in Ballet from the age of 4 at the Performing Arts Workshop in Encinitas, Elster graduated from the University of California Santa Barbara in 2017 with dual degrees in Dance and Education. Upon graduation she was named in the Santa Barbara Independent’s “young artists to watch” list, and awarded the “Emerging Dance Artist 2017” prize. She was also awarded the DEL Scholarship to receive training at the Dance Education Laboratory in New York. She particularly enjoyed touring internationally and getting to perform in London, Athens, Cypress, and Italy as well as in New York and California. Rebecca is very happy to be back at her “childhood dance home” teaching dance in North County!
Eliana (Elle) Krasner is a San Diego movement artist who puts her mind and body to work exploring the ways that dance informs the complexities of her own identity and her lifestyle of questioning. In 2022, Eliana earned her BFA in Dance from The Peabody Conservatory at Johns Hopkins University under the direction of danah bella in Baltimore, Maryland. At Peabody, she had so many incredible opportunities to better herself not only as a dancer, but as a person. Before her college career, Eliana trained at Step in Step Dance Studio and the San Diego School for Creative and Performing Arts (SCPA) in numerous styles including tap, jazz, ballet, different modern techniques, and contemporary. Between Peabody and SCPA, she has worked with world renowned artists including Kyle Abraham, Danielle Agami, Yin Yue, Marjani Saunders, Tessandra Chavez, and Hope Boykin to name a few. Eliana is beyond proud to be a part of the professional world of dance, dance making, and dance teaching.
Zoe Kromer is an intuitive, creative, and empathic human being with a deep love for the practice and philosophy of yoga. She works as both a children and adult yoga instructor in the greater San Diego area. Her classes combine movement, breath, and mindfulness to create an effective and memorable experience. She is a certified yoga instructor (200 hr YTT) with her training from 3Oms Yoga. She also holds a BA in Holistic Health and Wellness, with an Emphasis on Yoga Studies from Western Washington University. Zoe believes that when taught and practiced with integrity, yoga has the power to heal, unite, and awaken us all to our divine nature. When she is not teaching yoga, she enjoys painting, dancing, writing poetry, and being in nature with her dog.
Shiri Ramras was born and raised in Mexico City where she received her BA in Communication Science at the Universidad Anáhuac de Mexico. After moving to San Diego in 2001, she continued her studies in Early Childhood Development. Shiri has been working in education for more than 25 years, 15 of those as a preschool teacher. She worked as a Music Together teacher for over 10 years bringing music and movement to infants, toddlers and preschool children. In her spare time, Shiri enjoys listening to music and going to the theater with her husband and two daughters. Shiri is excited to be part of the Seaside Arts team and sharing her love for music with children.
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