Teaching Bio

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Breanna loves pretty much everything about pretty much every vintage jazz/vernacular folk/really old/swing-era dance there is, ever. Goofy animal dances? She loves 'em. Swingin' out hard and fast? Just try and stop her. Messing around with chuggy charleston patterns? She can't get enough. Melty and stretchy blues dances, long-legged peabody, fancy-footed balboa, she enjoys all of it. And one of her favorite things is when she gets the chance to share all of those favorite things with other people and watch those things become their favorite things! In classes, she's known to focus on technique in a nerdy way, such as comparing dancers' arms to triangles' hypotenuses or trying to air-graph movement intensities. Breanna's absolute favorite, though, is when everyone just gets together to thrown down and have fun! (Especially if it involves things like rolling across the floor or accidentally tripping over your own feet and turning it into "styling", things she is known for.)

Breanna continually works on her dancing by learning from dance instructors all across the United States and by competing whenever she has a chance, doing well in her fair share of those competitions.

Competition Placements

1st Place JnJ @ Swing into Spring, Columbia, SC (Partner: Sam Copeland), February 2010
1st Place JnJ @ Enter the Blues: Do It Yourself Weekend, Atlanta, GA (Partner: Dan Rosenthal), February 2010
1st Place Strictly Lindy/Swing @ Oberlin Jazz Dance Festival, Oberlin, OH (Partner: Mark Calkins), March 2009
1st Place JnJ @ Oberlin Jazz Dance Festival, Oberlin, OH (Judged individually), March 2009
1st Place JnJ @ Rhythm is Our Business, Knoxville TN (Partner: Brooks Prumo) February 2009
2nd Place Lindy Strictly @ Dance Renaissance, New Orleans LA (Partner: Robert Claypool) January 2009
 2nd Place Strictly Swing @ Flying Pig Jitterbug Jamboree, Cincinnati OH (Partner: Russell Maltempo) December 2008
2nd Place Solo Charleston @ Southern Belle Swing Bash, Atlanta GA September 2008
3rd Place Vintage Cabaret Contest @ Lindy Focus VIII, Asheville NC December 2009
3rd Place Solo Charleston @ Southern Belle Swing Bash, Atlanta GA August 2009
3rd Place JnJ @ Valentine's Uproar, Nashville TN (Partner: Michael Gamble) February 2007
Finalist JnJ @ Southern Belle Swing Bash, Atlanta GA (Partner: Joel Green) August 2009
Finalist JnJ @ Enter the Blues, Atlanta GA (Partner: Jon Carlomagno) January 2008
Finalist Solo Blues @ Enter the Blues, Atlanta GA January 2008
Finalist JnJ @ Lindy Focus VI, Asheville NC (Partner: Hurley Francois) December 2007
Finalist JnJ @ Harvest Moon Melee, Nashville TN (Partner: Patrick Manigault) September 2007
Finalist Solo Charleston @ Southern Belle Swing Bash, Atlanta GA September 2007