Scripps Performing Arts Co.
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ANGELA AMOROSO, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR - Angela Amoroso, Artistic Director and founder of SPAC, was a professional dancer and choreographer in New York. She has studied with some of the finest teachers in New York in all of the disciplines of Dance. Ballet with Wilson Morelli and at Joffrey Ballet; Jazz with Phil Black, Pepsi Bethel and Alvin Ailey; Modern with Martha Graham; Tap with Bob Audy and Phil Black. Her involvement with Community Theater on Long Island for both performance and choreography include Oklahoma, Fiddler on the Roof, Anything Goes, and West Side Story. Angela has also been a member of NYC’s “Dance Circle” Repertory Company where she has choreographed as well as performed. In 1982, Angela performed in the Equity Showcase of Jesus Christ Superstar in Manhattan. Her creative talents as a dancer and choreographer combined with her love for children, have made the Scripps Performing Arts Aademy a great success for the past 17 years.
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MIAH NWOSU, BALLET MISTRESS- began seriously studying ballet at age eight and began her training in tap and jazz two years later. Angela Amoroso and Miah first met at a Miramar Ranch Elementary After School Program. That June she performed in her first production with the Scripps Performing Arts Company, "Earthkalah".
Miah trained at The Scripps Performing Arts Academy for seven years, primarily under Lili Griffith, former principal dancer of the London Royal Ballet. In 2000, she continued her studies at City Ballet of San Diego under Steven and Betsy Wistrich in their pre-professional division. There she performed with their company in two seasons of Nutcrackers, their company premiere of "Don Quixote," and various other productions. In the summer of 2001, she trained intensively at The Ailey School in New York City. In 2002, she attended Fordham University in New York City, where she took classes at Steps on Broadway and Broadway Dance Center, nationally known professional dance studios.
Most recently, Miah performed locally with C. Anthony Cole and LaDiego Dance Theater, where she was also rehearsal coach and dancer representative for the company.
Miah annually choreographs the Company's performance of the Nutcracker has successfully mounted original productions with Angela Amoroso including Earthkalah, Over the Rainbow, The Storyteller and Our Favorite Ballets. She recently staged, set and rehearsed a highly successful production of Cinderella.
Miah has been teaching at The Scripps Performing Arts Academy since January 2003. She teaches classes in all levels of Ballet and oversees all Academy programs.
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DIANA NICASTRO has been teaching ballet in the San Diego area for over 15 years. She studied at the Boston Conservatory of Music under the direction of Ruth Sandholm Ambrose of the Boston Ballet, Yasuko Tokunaga and Emiko Tokunaga, concentrating on Classical Ballet, Modern Dance and Choreography. Diana also studied at the Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance in New York.
A former faculty member of the Scripps Performing Arts Academy, Diana instructed classes in Levels I-V Ballet, Pointe, and Adult Ballet. More recently, she was a faculty member and Director of the Children's Ballet program at The Academy of Performing Arts as well as Branch Manager and Ballet Instructor for the California Ballet School.
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ASKAR ALIMBETOV graduated from the State Choreographic Academy of Alma-Alta, Kazakatan with honors. He has performed for the State Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet in Kazakatan and the Moscow City Ballet. He has toured the US, Japan, England Austria and China. Favorite roles include Albrecht in Giselle, Seigfried in Swan Lake and Princes in Sleeping Beauty and the Nutcracker. Askar is currently a principal with San Diego Ballet and has been since 2001. Askar currently teaches Ballet IV/V and VI/VII classes. |
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SARAH HOGAN began her training at the age of 4 with Tap, Jazz and Ballet, and continued to perform and compete in the areas of Tap and Jazz through out her College years as a member of the UCSD Dance Team. She studied Modern dance under the instruction of Jean Isaacs, Patricia Rincon, and Faith Jensen-Ismay, performing locally in such events as The Mostly Mozart Festival, Café Mojalet, Celebrate Dance Festival, The Encinitas Garden Festival, and three seasons of Trolley Dances. She spent one year as a member of the Collette Harding Contemporary Dance Company, and one Semester as a member of the Gallaudet Dance Company in Washington D.C., choreographing and touring the nation with Deaf and hard of hearing dancers.
Sarah graduated from UCSD in 2004 with a Bachelors Degree in Human Development, and intensive studies of American Sign Language and Modern Dance.
Sarah has worked for a variety of local schools and dance studios, as a DHH literacy instructor, dance teacher, choreographer, long term substitute teacher, and studio artistic director. She has been a member of the SPAA staff since 2007 as our Imagination Station teacher, and now as a teacher of Tap, Jazz, and Ballet. She strives to instill a love of dance and non competitive performing in the heart of every child to walk through our doors.
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CRYSTAL FRAZIER is a gaduate of the San diego SCPA where she studied ballet, tap, jazz,singing and actting. Outside of school she trained at National Ballet,Stage 7,West coast Ballet,Educational cultural complex,and Mesa College.
She has acted as a performer,Choreographer and has taught various styles of dance for 19 years. Growing up,she participated in countless shows,conventions and industrial productions.
Crystal started singing and dancing in Musical Theatre shows at SD SCPA and expanded out to Starlight and Moonlght Theatre. Her favorites include "Guys and Dolls"(1988) at SCPA,"Dream Girls"(1989)at SCPA and then again in (2006)at Moonlight,"42nd Street"(1990)at SCPA,"Singing In The Rain"(1991)at starlight,and "Aida"(2007)at Starlight. She also was a dancer for the Gulls Girls,a dance/promotional squad for the San Diego Gulls Ice hockey Team. With the Gulls Girls, she has Danced on Universal pictures"Bring It On",MTV,a sitcom "18 Wheels Of Justice"and NBA shoot out 2002 for sony Playstation. With all of this the most important thing in her life is raising her 3 beautiful children.
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