Samantha Pasquarette
Owners
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Artistic Director
Pointe & Contemporary Instructor, Creative Movement & Nutcracker Director
Courtney Jones
Studio Manager
Jazz, Kinder-dance, Adult Hip Hop & Musical Theater Instructor
Samantha Pasquarette's own training began at Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, Harrisburg Dance Conservatory, and Pennsylvania Regional Ballet, where she was trained in pre-professionally in classical ballet, contemporary, jazz, tap and modern. In her dance career, she has danced in numerous ballets such as Coppelia, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Giselle, and the Nutcracker. She's attended Regional Dance America for several years where she received scholarships for summer intensives. Later in life Samantha traveled to Los Angeles and took classes at The Edge Performing Arts studio before returning home and beginning college. At Millersville University, she joined Expressions where she choreographed, taught, and became the President for the organization. In 2014, she became a ballet, jazz, and hip hop instructor at McCann's School of Dance and worked under the direction of Sandy McCann for three years. Samantha later became the artistic director for the studio along with the advanced ballet, pointe, and contemporary instructor. During her time at McCann's, she has choreographed her own Nutcracker production, co-created the Company, and has organized and operated numerous performances.
Samantha is grateful for the training and opportunities that were given to her as they will guide her through studio ownership. Her enthusiasm for all dance disciplines allows her to promote a strong dance educational background for all dancers who walk through the door. She is excited to welcome you to Studio 22!
Courtney Jones started her dance training at a small studio in Rutherford. Here she was trained in Tap, Jazz, and Baton. In 2007, she then came to McCann's School of Dance where she was trained in jazz, tap, hip hop, ballet, and lyrical. She attended Millersville University and had the opportunity to dance with the dance organization Expressions, as well as choreograph, teach, and be a member of the board for two of her four years. In 2015, she started her job in the summer choreographing musicals such as Beauty and the Beast, Into the Woods, Elf, Music Man, Shrek, and Thoroughly Modern Millie. In 2018 she became a teacher at her home studio, McCann's where she was the advanced Jazz instructor. In 2020 Courtney became the studio manager of McCann's where she was able to start her musical theater program. In 2022, she had the opportunity to choreograph Camp Hill's High School Musical of Anything Goes.
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Courtney is very thankful for all of the opportunities she has had to keep dance in her life as an adult and is very excited for this next step of owning a studio. Her love for dance and sharing dance with others is what will drive her dreams to continue on in this new studio. Studio 22 is a place where her dreams are continuing on and she hopes that it will be a place for others to begin living their dreams.
Faculty
Marlie Niedwick-Intro to Pointe, Jazz, and Contemporary
Marlie is a dedicated dance instructor whose lifelong journey on the dance floor began at her home studio, McCann's School of Dance (now Studio 22). She has Now, as a proud Penn State graduate with extensive cross-training in multiple styles, she is thrilled to step into the role of teacher to inspire the next generation of dance. Dance has always been Marlie's ultimate passion. Having grown up taking classes, rehearsing, and performing at the very same studio she now teaches at, her connection to the local dance community runs deep. She has trained under both Samantha and Courtney as a dancer and as a new teacher. Marlie is a proud Penn State graduate, and through her college career has continued taking classes to expand her artistic vocabulary, refine technique, and deepen her appreciation for dance education. Now, she is back home and ready to share her lifelong love for movement with students of all ages and skill levels.
Kara Negrini- Tap, Duo Dance, Rehearsal Assistant and Owner's Assistant
Kara has been dancing since she was 3 years old. Although she is pursuing a career as a veterinarian, she has kept dance in her life by attending classes regardless of where her education has taken her. She started her training in Carver, MA at Carver Dance Center. Throughout her years at Carver, she took tap, ballet, pointe, and jazz classes. She continued to dance during undergrad by joining Worcester Polytechnic Institute’s student run dance team, The WPI Rockets. At WPI she was encouraged to try different styles of dance, and teach choreography to her peers. She went back to taking tap, pointe, and ballet classes at Turning Pointe Academy in West Lafayette, IN during veterinary school. She has been involved in Adult Tap and Adult Combo classes at McCann’s School of Dance since 2020. She is so excited to teach beginner through advanced tap, adult tap, and duo dance!
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Lauren Azzarelli- Hip Hop & Adult Combo
Lauren has been dancing since the early age of 3 years old. The majority of her life was spent under the Direction of Linn McDonald, of Linn McDonald School of Dance in Dunmore Pennsylvania. Areas of dance instruction included Hip Hop, Jazz, Tap and Ballet. Throughout her life, Lauren was also very involved in Cheerleading. Her experience started with Midget Football Cheerleading and continued until Senior Year of High School, participating in Varsity Cheerleading and Competition Cheer. Throughout college at East Stroudsburg University, Lauren danced and choreographed for the ESU Contemporary Dancers. Her love for Choreography has paved the path which led to McCann School of Dance where she is now the intermediate and advanced hip hop instructor and adult combo instructor. She looks forward to c ontinuing that role with all the awesome dancers at Studio 22.
Angelina Capp-Ballet,Rehearsal Assistant
Angelina graduated from Pennsylvania Leadership Charter School Center for the Performing and Fine Arts in West Chester, PA, while training at the Dance Center and performing with Brandywine Ballet Company and Brandywine Contemporary Company. She graduated from Montclair State University with a BFA in Dance performance and choreography, and a minor in Musical Theatre. Angelina started teaching dance in high school and choreographed several high school musicals. She dances many genres, but teaches ballet, jazz, contemporary, and musical theatre jazz at various studios. Her musical theatre credits include Lost Child and Dance Captain in Peter Pan, as well as Baby Angie in Gypsy at The Fulton Theatre. She has worked with choreographers such as Cameron McKinney, Doug Varone, Dolly Sfeir, Christian Von Howard, Emmanuel Phoun, and Kathleen Kelly, and served as rehearsal director for Maxine Steinman. Angelina continues to dance as a company member with Emme Dance Collective, a guest artist with Project Moshen, and a teaching artist with Ballet 180 School.
Isobel Dottle- Private Ballet Lessons and Variations
Izzy began dancing at the age of 3 with Anita Kissinger and Margaret McCann. When she was 9, she started classical ballet training with Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet for the next 9 years. She attended Harrisburg Area Community College. Studied ballet, modern, character and performed with the Pennsylvania Allegheny Dance Company where she was awarded the gold medal for character and ballet. Izzy had the pleasure of taking classes with a world class faculty at the Northeast Regional Dance Festivals. She went on to teach advanced ballet and pointe at the Harrisburg Academy of Dance and Company where she was also ballet mistress. Along with that, she was the artistic director for the after school program at the Milton Hershey School for 5 years. She was the advanced ballet and pointe teacher at McCann’s School of Dance and she taught ballet and pointe at Miss Glynn’s School of Dance. Issy was also a guest teacher for ballet and pointe for Margaret McCann School of Dance, Greater Dover Dance Academy and The Harrisburg Dance Conservatory. Some performances she was in include: The Nutcracker, Coppelia, Sleeping Beauty, La Sylphide, Cinderella, Carmina Burana (with the Pennsylvania Ballet), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and numerous ballets with guest artists from around the world. She has choreographed about 150 dance pieces over her career and numerous private lessons. Izzy is so happy to be working with the students and faculty at Studio 22 Dance Academy. She wants to instill a sense of pride, beauty, confidence and accomplishment in each student. Their time here will be so special and will boost their self esteem and self assurance, which will help them in other areas of their lives.
Kayla Faust- Hip Hop, Ballet, Baby Ballet
At the young age of 5, Kayla gained her passion for dance during a summer kindergarten camp. Kayla continued her training at Studio ‘91 through her senior year studying all genres of dance. During her time there she trained under master instructors from New York City and Boston. Aside from yearly recitals, she also performed in the studios Christmas “‘Twas” performance. This performance gave her the opportunity to perform well-known choreography such as “March of the Wooden Soldiers” taught to her by one of the New York City Rockettes. She performed numerous times during National Dance Week at Capitol Kickline held on the capitol steps in Harrisburg, as well as various other community events. Her fondest memory is traveling with the studio to Orlando on several occasions to participate in the “Dancin’ at Disney” and “Disney’s Broadway Magic” workshops taught by a resident choreographer from Disney. Her studio then had the opportunity to perform for the world at Downtown Disney! She is excited to work with the students to share knowledge, build their confidence, and encourage them to express themselves through dance.
Cole Nissley- Ballet and Rehearsal Assistant
Cole Nissley is a local dancer and 2014 graduate of Lower Dauphin High School. He currently dances with the Chambersburg Ballet Theatre under the direction of Lavinia Reed. Trained in classical Vaganova technique, Cole has performed with multiple local studios and colleges while also teaching in his free time. Some notable roles performed include The Cavalier in The Nutcracker, Pas de Six, Bluebird and Aurora’s wedding Pas. Cole is thankful to everyone at Studio 22 for welcoming him into their dance family.
Courtney Schrieber- Modern
Courtney Schreiber has been dancing since the age of three and teaching dance since the age of 19. She has always enjoyed using dance as an artistic outlet to express herself and be healthy; she looks forward to getting to share that with younger dancers each year. Her competitive dance experience includes a wide range of many styles from hip-hop and ballet to Polynesian and Irish. As a former gymnast, she enjoys getting to push dancers out of their comfort zone by including stunts and tumbling. Modern dance is her passion to choreograph and teach because she believes it has no boundaries and endless opportunities. Courtney teaches with an explorative style, encouraging dancers to break out of their normalcy especially through individual opportunities for the dancers as well as improvisation. Her main goal when teaching dance is to build confidence and encourage her dancers while strengthening their bodies and growing their passion for dance as a beautiful art form.
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