JoAnn East
Dream
ASPIRATIONS:
- Dream~Dance~Achieve! I am committed to Dance Education Excellence. I hope to inspire students to reach their individual goals and fullest potential by providing opportunities to experience and enjoy the greatest benefits of dance. Dance, and its education has brought me such joy over the years; I feel very fortunate to have a career that I enjoy and love so deeply. It has been a true honor and priveledge to have made so many memories and shared so much with the students and their families of the communities JEDEC has proudly served over these past twenty years.
Dance
EXPERIENCES:
Full Bio on “About Us” eastdancestudios.com
- Years of Dance Study: 31 years (including The Gus Giordano Dance Center, Chicago and Dance Centre South, Atlanta)
- Dance Conventions and Master Class Training: 1983-present
- Dance educator: 25 years
- Dance Educators Training Course Graduate: 1989
- Certified by, Active Member and Serving on the Board of Directors of the Dance Teacher's Club of Boston incorporated with the American Society
- Dance Courses Include:
Ballet
Pointe
Tap
Jazz
Lyrical
Modern
Contemporary
Hip-Hop
Childrens Dance
Dance Injury Prevention
Ballroom Dance
Music, Dance & Choregraphy Theories
Achieve
ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
- Proud mother of four children
- Founder and Artistic Director of the East Dance Studios/JEDEC, The JoAnn East Dance Co. & Scholarship Programs
- Published writer of "Dancing at Disney" in “Dance Studio Life Magazine” September 2009
- Featured in article in "Dance Teacher Now" Magazine in an article on training teachers in 2007
- Certified by the Dance Teachers Club of Boston: 1989
- Please see JoAnn's full bio or the JEDEC timeline for exciting accomplishments; including performance, choreography and education awards that JoAnn East and her students have been bestowed locally and nationally.
About Me...
FUN FACTS:
- Talent Tally: Teaching, Project Managing and Group Leading are the talents I feel help me with my passions of being a mom and a dance educator. (In my mind I can sing--but my family and students tell me "not so much").
- Interest Inventory: Spending time with Family and Friends, Travel, Writing & Everything Disney!
- Prior Pastimes: I used to work at a horse farm and loved to go horse-back riding. I was also a CNA for 8 years.
- Motivation Musts: Coffee Please! (Teavana is heavenly too) Great Music, Mechanical Pencils & a Smile
- Quirks & Quotes: Quirk: Clean Freak Quotes: “Move Up!”, “YESSSSS!” "Smile!” I love reading motivational quotes and find inspiration in their messages.