Ballet University, LLC Testimonials and Alumni Reports

1. Testimonials and 2010-11 Alumni Reports
"Charmaine is a knowledgeable, hard working, dedicated doer. She has Charmaine
knowledge of being a good teacher, with a great business mind, a Branch –
personal touch and a smiling even attitude; she respects dance and is Private
respected by her peers. She can create schools and companies with student
tremendous ease." who
co-directed
the restart
~Jean Paul Comelin,
and is
International Freelance Artist and former director of the dancing
Milwaukee and Arizona Ballets and Ballet du Nord, choreographer with the
to the Stuttgart Ballet Vassar
Repertory
Dance
Theatre
Elizabeth Pischel, age 14,
private student; Youth America
Grand Prix medalist now
performing with North Carolina
Dance Theatre and studying at Fana Tesfagiorgis
a professional arts high school Ballet University student from age 4-13;
currently poster dancer for
Ailey II American Dance Theatre, 2012
http://www.alvinailey.org/node/1260
BU Alum,
Becca Shulla.
"It is for good reason Ms. Ristow's University of
achievements are recognized. She has a Arizona
professional knowledge which she Dance Major
communicates easily."
Dancing two
months in
~Galina Zakrutkina,
China with
Kirov Ballet Soloist, Certified Vaganova
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Pedagogue Company
"Miss Charmaine teaches
the fundamentals of ballet
in such an enjoyable "I appreciated that you chose to
manner. My girls look give clear, uncluttered combinations
forward to class each that allowed a focus on and
week and they have discussion of technical theory. Often
Master Classes seem designed to
learned a tremendous impress rather than empower,
amount this year." yours did the latter!"
- Ballet University Dance
~Robin Pettersen,
Parent Dance Program Coordinator,
Professor
UW Whitewater Dance Department Ella Rosewood
Private student who began dancing only four
years ago, now director of her own company,
Ella Rosewood Dance, with solo performances
at Merce Cunningham Studios in New York
"I enjoyed your sense of freedom, yet you gave challenging classes. Overall, I think you allowed for each
person's own identity to exist within the structure of ballet. Critical to generating good dancers!"
~Jula Gleich, AD, Gliechdances, New York