Faculty

Jacqueline Porter

FOUNDING ARTISTIC AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Ballet, Pointe, Variations, YAGP Coaching, Theatre Dance

Jacqueline Porter founded and directs The Dallas Conservatory, with 16 studios on three campuses and a faculty of three dozen top pros teaching Dance, Theater, Music, Voice, TV/Film and Fitness to 1,700 children and adults of every level from beginner to professional. Continue reading →

Clair Culin

ASSOCIATE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Jazz, Lyrical, Contemporary, Tap

Clair Culin re-located from Atlanta in 2012 to teach and choreograph for The Dallas Conservatory. In 2018 she was named Associate Artistic Director … Continue reading →

Megan Story

RESIDENT CHOREOGRAPHER AND SENIOR CONTEMPORARY FACULTY

Contemporary

Megan Storey is originally from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. She began her dance journey at the age of three, mainly studying tap and jazz.Continue reading →

Lyndsay Renger

DIRECTOR, FRISCO STUDIO COMPANY

Jazz, Lyrical, Contemporary, Tap

Lyndsay Renger is an accomplished dancer, currently serving as the Studio Company Director and Senior Faculty at The Dallas Conservatory. … Continue reading →

Traci Drescher

PRIMARY DIVISION COORDINATOR AND RECITAL COORDINATOR

Jazz, Lyrical, Contemporary, Tap

Traci has been teaching at TDC since 2015 and is currently the Primary Division Coordinator and the Recital Coordinator. … Continue reading →

Kenna Kosh

DIRECTOR, DALLAS STUDIO COMPANY

Jazz, Lyrical, Contemporary, Tap

Kenna Kosh is the current Director of the Dallas Studio Company at The Dallas Conservatory. … Continue reading →

Christi Murphy

DIRECTOR OF THEATRE AND ACTING COMPANY DIRECTOR

Theater

Christi Murphy is a deeply experienced acting teacher, coach, and director with more than 20 years of experience working … Continue reading →

Sean Smith

REHEARSAL DIRECTOR, SENIOR FACULTY AND CHOREOGRAPHER

Modern, Contemporary, Jazz, Tap

A native of Vancouver, British Columbia, Sean Smith has received training from The Ailey School, Toronto Dance Theatre and Goh Ballet Academy Canada … Read about him in Wold Arts Today

Olga Pavlova

REHEARSAL DIRECTOR AND SENIOR FACULTY

Ballet, Pointe, YAGP coaching

OLGA PAVLOVA, Russian prima ballerina, was born in Moscow, Russia, graduated from the famed Bolshoi Ballet Academy and has an impressive 30 years of professional career on stage as a classical principle ballerina. She also holds a Master degree in Teaching … Continue reading →

Jeff Amsden

SENIOR FACULTY

Ballet, Jazz

Jeff Amsden began his training in Spokane, Washington with the Spokane Ballet and later joined the company. He also studied on scholarship with the Pacific NorthWest Ballet and then the Joffrey Ballet in New York. Jeff toured the US for three years as a soloist with the Joffrey Ballet concert group. He also danced with the Chamber Ballet USA in New York… Continue reading →

Vincent Hardy

INSTRUCTOR AND CHOREOGRAPHER

Contemporary, Coaching

Vincent Hardy danced for Complexions Contemporary Ballet under the direction of Desmond Richardson and Dwight Rhoden before earning his masters of Fine Arts from … Continue reading →

Stevo McMaryion

INSTRUCTOR AND CHOREOGRAPHER

Jazz, Coaching

STEPHEN “STEVO” MCMARYION realized his passion for dance, he joined the West Texas A& M University program studying ballet and modern. He has since trained in many different styles … Continue reading →

Christine Chambers

INSTRUCTOR

Singing

Christine has been an instructor of private voice and a performance coach for 30 years, teaching in New York City, New Jersey, Philadelphia and currently, Texas Wesleyan University where she is an adjunct professor of Theatre Voice… Continue reading →

Kathryn Morgan

REGULAR GUEST FACULTY

Classical Ballet

Kathryn Morgan began studying ballet at age three in Mobile, Alabama under the direction of Winthrop Corey, a former principal dancer with the National Ballet of Canada and the Royal Winnipeg Ballet … Continue reading →

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