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Dance
Legacy
Our Mission:
Dance Legacy is
committed to providing professional instruction and education in
dance, within an atmosphere where students are encouraged,
challenged and nurtured to enjoy, create and express themselves
Dance Legacy was
formed, as the name implies; to pass on a quality of dance to those
who seek it. At Dance Legacy, we focus on providing proper
instruction in classical ballet, Character dance and Creative
movement. We combine an extensive, adapted Vaganova syllabus with a
thoughtful and nurturing approach. We focus on teaching our
students proper body alignment, a strong foundation in ballet
technique and a creative approach to the art of dance.
Our classes are
designed to introduce dance to a variety of students beginning with
Creative Movement continuing through Advanced Ballet.
Our Creative
Movement classes give the children an opportunity to create their
own movements. This class teaches confidence, independence, spatial
awareness, rhythm, mathematical concepts and pre-literacy.
Pre-ballet and
beginning ballet introduces basic ballet positions, exercises,
gentle stretching, coordination and basics of Character Dance, as
well as the basics of Acting for ballet.
Pre-Intermediate
Ballet through Advanced classes continue to enhance what has already
been learned and build on the basic foundations to increase the
students’ proficiency through the ballet program developed by
Agrippina
Vaganova.
The Directors
and Teachers
 Anastasiya
Buechele
danced and performed
professionally in the National Dance Company of the Republic of
Belarus in Minsk, Belarus for 5 years. Her education includes
an intense training program in the Vaganova system of ballet from
one of Russia’s top Ballet Colleges; Ballet College of Republic of
Belarus, where she was a company member and soloist. She also
has degrees in Dance Performance, Instruction, and
Theatre/Directing. She has performed in Taiwan, China, Spain,
Italy, Germany, Poland, Russia and the United States. She has
worked closely with a number of well known dance schools in the
Denver Metro area, and has been invited to be a guest artist for
Colorado Ballet Academy, Denver School of the Arts, Academy of
Russian Ballet and Little Theater Art Center and United Ballet
Association in Gulfport, Ms.
 Eileen
Umbaugh
was born and raised in California where she began her ballet
studies. She trained primarily with the California Ballet Company.
After moving to Colorado, she spent her summers dancing with Ballet
West, Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance, Ballet Arts with
Larry Boyette and Colorado Ballet. She danced with Canyon Concert
Ballet as a soloist and principal dancer. She has a B.S. in
Marketing and has undergraduate studies in Speech/Language with an
emphasis on children birth to three years. She works at one of
Denver’s top rated accredited pre-schools; Montview Community
Preschool and Kindergarten. Her background in dance, early
childhood education and parenthood, has given her a great and unique
understanding of children and their natural instinct to want to
move.
 Angela
Martyn began
dancing at age 5 in Toledo, Ohio where she studied through her high
school years, both at The Toledo Ballet School and with Jan
Mortemer. She received her BFA in Dance from Ohio University in
1997, where she studied ballet, modern, contemporary, and jazz
techniques, choreography, teaching dance, anatomy/physiology, and
kinesiology. Upon graduation from OU, she received a scholarship to
study at The Place in London, England where she studied ballet and
contemporary dance. Over the years Angela has studied, performed
and taught dance in Oslo, Norway, London, England, Edinburgh,
Scotland, Ankara, Turkey, and Vancouver, Canada. Angela began her
teaching career in the US in 1999 in Detroit, MI as a member of the
Detroit Dance Collective. She taught contemporary dance and
creative movement classes at over 20 elementary schools in the
Detroit Metro Area. She also taught at the Borgo School of Dance
and Gymnastics in Royal Oak, MI from 1999-2000.
Since 2001, Angela has been the resident Dance
Teacher at Stanley British Primary School in Denver, CO where she
teaches creative movement, contemporary, ballet, jazz, and
gymnastics for grades K-5. She also choreographs for K-8th
grade plays and musicals. Once yearly she creates her own themed
dance performance with grades K-5 where she proudly collaborates
with the children to make original dances performed at an assembly
for the whole school, family, and friends. She has taught Summer
Dance Intensive courses at the “Summer at Stanley” program since
2002. In Denver, Angela has also taught creative dance at
Paddington Station Pre-School since 2002. From 2001-2004 she taught
ballet, contemporary, jazz and tap at Cherry Creek Dance, and
choreographed for the studio’s recitals. From 2003-2005 she taught
jazz and contemporary dance classes at Lowry Elementary School. She
has been a guest teacher at Children’s Dance Place and The Gwen
Bowen School of Dance.Bios
coming soon for:
Jacob Mora
Kevin O'Keefe
Maureen TenEyck
Karla Puskas
Siggy Hartman-Gluck
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