CHRISSY JONES
Guest Instructor / Choreographer


Born in Dallas, Texas and raised in the Chicago area, Chrissy Jones currently resides at the University of Arizona in Tucson.   Chrissy’s choreography has appeared in several Footprints' Tap Jam productions,  National Tap Dance Day Windy City Rhythms 2008, concerts presented by Grayslake High School Orchesis and at Chicago Human Rhythm Project’s Great American Youth Tap Ensembles concerts at Northwestern University and Loyola University. Chrissy appeared live on the WTTW (PBS) television production called “Center Stage: Arts Across Illinois,” as well as a  Warner Brothers’ “Happy Feet” movie promotional, Tap Kids’ Showcases in 2006, 2007 and 20090, the stage play Oklahoma!, and numerous other professional venues. The Peoples Republic of China funded her recent performances at the Beijing Exhibition Center in Beijing. Chrissy was a rehearsal director of Footprints Tap Ensemble for five years. She has been dancing since the age of two and has taken master classes with Jason Samuels Smith, Dianne “Lady Di” Walker, Jimmy Slyde, Dormeshia Sumbry-Edwards and many other master tap dancers.  Chrissy teaches tap improvisation workshops, is a choreographer for TransRhythm Tap, a guest teacher at TranscenDance Studios, and a member of the tap dance duo called The Jones Sisters.



STAFF
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TDS staff members have toured the Netherlands, China, and the U.S. East Coast with professional dance productions.
LINDSEY BEEBE
Beginning Ballet, Tap, Jazz, Lyrical, Advanced Ballet, Pointe, Glee Club

Lindsey Beebe began her dance training at age 8 in her home town of Wichita, KS.  By age 14 she was performing with Ballet Wichita, where she worked her way up to Company Soloist.  Miss Beebe continued her training at Oklahoma City University where she studied with Jo Rowan and Robert Reed, and also at Wichita State University where she studied with Nicholas Johnson and Sabrina Vasquez.  At Wichita State she was given the opportunity to work with internationally known mine/physical theatre company, Alithea Mime Theatre, performing in places such as Taiwan, Poland, and the United Nations in New York. 

Teaching for 9 years, Miss Beebe has had the blessing of working with students from all over the state of Kansas, including those at Wichita Children's Theatre and Dance Center and the Nancy Harvey School of Ballet.  She has also done extensive free-lance choreography for many Kansas area High-schools and organizations, as well as professional dinner theaters.  As a recent transplant to the Chicago area she is so excited to work with the students at TranscenDance!  She looks forward to sharing her passion for artistry in dance to each student!


TranscenDance Studios in residence at Fitness Formula Clubs
1114 Lake Street Oak Park, IL 60301 Ph:  773.944.5352 caitjones@TranscenDanceStudios.com add text
DESK STAFF AND DEPARTMENT HEADS

Cait Jones - Founding Director
Gerrie Reese-Jones - Office Manager

Cheryl Jackson - Wed & Thurs
Eleanor Quintanar - Sun
Izabella Brugioni - Mon
Indya McGrone - Tues & Sat
Jessica McClain - Sat
Jonny Bastek - Wed
Letitia McEastland - floating
Maria Keller - Tues
Sonia Bidigare - Sun



TEACHING ASSISTANTS

Ana Gonzalez - Beginning Lyrical 3
Bailey Stewart - Beginning Break Dance
Brittany Negron - Beginning Level 3 Ballet, Tap, Jazz/Hip Hop
Dana Schwarts - Beginning Level 2 Ballet, Tap, Jazz/Hip Hop
Eddie Yousif - Boyz Only Hip Hop
Jasmine Rios - Beginning Ballet/Tap Combo
Jessica McClain - Beginning Ballet/Tap Combo. Intermediate Hip Hop 1/2
Sabrina Fitzhenry - Beginning Level 2 Ballet, Tap, Jazz/Hip Hop
Sydney Jackson - Beginning Tumbling and TDS Minis
Trinity Dent - Pre Ballet/Tap Combo, Intermediate Jazz 3/4


MARTEL JACKSON
Tumbling

Born and raised in Peoria, IL Martel has been dancing ever since he could remember.  At 7 his grandmother enrolled him into tap, jazz, and tumbling lessons at D/D Productions, the local studio in Peoria, mainly so she could positively direct his energy and stop him from getting hurt flipping off her furniture. There he took for 12 years dancing and competing in places like Dallas, TX, Las Vegas, NV, Myrtle Beach, SC, Gatlinburg, TN, and many other places.

After graduating in 2002 in the top 10% of his class at Peoria Central High school he applied and enrolled in at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign that fall. There he majored in Business Administration with a concentration in Entrepreneurship.

In the fall of 2003 he auditioned and joined Dance2xs International Dance group, he joined Dance2xs UIUC (hip hop) in 2003 and Dance2xs Caliente (Latin styles) in 2005. For the rest of his college career he performed on many stages on campus and off campus and also got to perform in Portugal at Dance2xs' first international Urbanite event that included multiple bases.

He started attending Monsters of Hip Hop dance convention in 2005 and eventually went on to be come a finalist and show cast member in the 2007 Inspirations show at the El Portal Theater in Los Angeles, CA. Since then he's gone to multiple cities assisting choreographers Tabitha and Napoleon Dumo, Marty Kudelka, Chonique Sneed, Kevin Maher, Rhapsody James, and many others.

Currently resides in Chicago, IL and dance with ReDefinition and The Puzzle League.


DIAZ
Break Dance

Diaz has been a member of the internationally known Chicago Tribe dance crew since 2005.  He's been featured in battles such as City Vs. City, Free Soul Battle, and many others.  Diaz has had the pleasure to train and battle with the greatest B-Boys to ever come out of the midwest.  His style of dance is based on power moves and tricks with Chicago foundation.



KRISTIN REED KLADE
Int Lyrical, Int Ballet, Adv Ballet, Pointe

Kristin Reed Klade is a new resident to the Chicago area and is excited to continue her career in dancing and teaching is this great city. She has completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Ballet Pedagogy at the University of Oklahoma, under the instruction of Mary Margaret Holt. At OU, Kristin was a member of the Oklahoma Festival Ballet Company for three years where she performed solo and corps roles in many productions including The Nutcracker, Lakmé, The Young Choreographer’s Showcase, Afternoon of a Faun, The Firebird, among many others. She has also performed principal roles in productions such as The Sleeping Beauty and The Firebird with the North Central Civic Ballet Company in Keller, Texas. Kristin trained extensively with ballet masters in the Fort Worth area including Karen and Fernando Schaffenburg, Svetlana Stanova, Nicolai Semicov, and Leslie M. Jordan III. In addition, she completed two American Ballet Theater summer intensive programs. Later at Broadway Dance Center in New York City, she studied ballet and contemporary jazz for six months under Jack Hertzog, Natalya Stavro, Brice Mousset, and Salim Gauwloos.
In 2006, Kristin really developed her love for teaching when she was a teaching assistant in the children and teen program at Broadway Dance Center in New York City. In 2007 she completed an internship at the same institution. Kristin has taught various dance forms at a number of studios including Dance Unlimited Performing Arts Center and Dove Dance in Oklahoma City, as well as at Footlights Dance Studio in the Dallas area. She also enjoys choreography, having created works for The Oklahoma Festival Ballet, North Central Civic Ballet, and the Nolan Catholic Royelles Dance Team and Company, among others. Her contemporary choreography was recognized at the Regional Dance America Southwest Festival and was chosen to be in their prestigious Emerging Choreographer’s Showcase.

Alongside her ballet pedagogy studies, Kristin also completed a Bachelor of Arts in Religious Studies, as she is very interested in world religions and the sociology of religion. She is passionate about interfaith dialogue, liturgical dance, and dance as a beautiful form of cross-cultural communication.


JESSICA MCCLAIN
Beginning Ballet/Jazz/Tumbling Combo

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SEBASTIAN RODRIGUEZ
Boyz Only Hip Hop

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