Faculty
Experienced teachers who know their dancers.
AFDA faculty bring dance degrees, professional careers and years of teaching into the studio.
Jen Jarnot
Owner and Artistic Director
34 years teaching
Angie Reddy
Office Manager
parent of two former AFDA dancers
Hannah Orff
Office and Instructor
dance minor, Louisiana State University
Bailey Mutschler
PrePRO Director
BFA, SUNY Purchase
Maya Butler
Ballet Director
BFA, Cornish College of the Arts
Brittany Coleman
Performance Company Director
national dance team coach
Koko Buckley
Assistant Director
teaching at AFDA since 2015
Courtney Dagayev
Strength and Conditioning
Pilates and Acrobatic Arts certified
Scott Autry
Contemporary
Juilliard graduate
Mindy Ricketts
Acro
Beyond Belief Dance Company instructor
Brooke Ricketts
Instructor
current NBA dancer
Ho Yun Bobby Chan
Hip Hop and Breaking
more than 20 years breaking
Madalina Varlam
Ballroom
two-time US National Professional 9-Dance finalist
Natalia Magnicaballi
Resident Ballet
Teatro Colón graduate
Tatyana Yatsenko
Ballet
Moscow Academic Choreographic College graduate
Nathan Lopez
Jazz
official biography forthcoming