Teresa Lubarsky has been teaching dance to children and professionals on the West Coast for 25 years. She trained under Lew and Harold Christensen of San Francisco Ballet where she was a scholarship student. Her further studies include Richard Gibson of the Peninsula Ballet, Carlos Carvahal, and Anato Vilzak. In her training she received the best of Chettchetti, Russian, Royal and Bourneville.

Ms. Teresa had a very fulfilling career as a soloist with Ballet Folk Moscow, San Antonio Ballet Texas, Redwood Empire Ballet, San Francisco Dance Theater, West Coast Jazz, Alameda Dance Theater and Ballet California.

She was the Ballet Mistress for “Robert Kirkpatrick’s School Of Dance” in San Mateo, San Francisco Dance Theater, Alameda Dance Theater, and later owned and directed Children’s’ Dance Theater in Redwood City.  Upon relocating to Sonoma Co. in 1986 she was the director for the late Anita Kane, the original founder of Healdsburg Ballet, at which time Ms. Teresa directed and staged a full length Nutcracker Ballet in the years 1986 and 1987.
 
Ms. Teresa opened Healdsburg Ballet in 1994 and has choreographed several Ballets for the community including “The Night before Christmas”, “La Boutique Fantastique”, “The Magic Garden”, “Mother Goose Village”,  “Dorothy in the Land of Oz”, “Dances through Time”,  and “Alice’s Adventure’s in Wonderland”.

Tess began her training with her mother, Ms. Lubarsky, and then  continued her studies for 7 years with Keith Martin and 3 years private coaching with Marie Vegh, giving her the opportunity to be a guest artist for local ballet companies.
 

Tess continued with CRWB as an Aspirant and was able to travel and perform with the company such ballets as “Nutcracker”, “Les Syphides”, “Giselle”, and “Concerto Boroco” as well as perform in the Opera “Aida”. She was a teacher with Northbay Performing Arts and Airport Health Club as well as finding time to choreograph for us at Healdsburg Ballet and teach.  Tess is now pursuing a career in acting and modeling, but will visit us often to produce choreograph works for Healdsburg Ballet.

Eddie Islas comes to us as a native of Sonoma County.  Eddie teaches the Hip Hop classes at Healdsburg Ballet. He has performed with Fierce Dance and Performance Academy as well as with Gabriel Francisco of Vibe DC.  He currently teaches for the city of Windsor for the Windsor Bloco.  Mr. Islas taught the competition Fierce Cheer of Rohnert Park at the University of Sports.  He is also is a massage therapist and his stage name is Estilo.  Welcome Eddie!

Tamra Brooks has been a student at Healdsburg Ballet for 9 years. She has danced several principal roles in our performances. She was accepted at Contra Costa Summer Ballet Intensive and attended California Ballet of San Diego. She will be teaching Ballet 1/2/3.

Danielle Sawyer has been a student of Healdsburg Ballet (Ballet and Jazz) for 12 years.  Ms. Sawyer has been a cheer leader for Windsor High School, and choreographed cheer dances.  Danielle will be teaching the Beginning Jazz class.

Cole Vernon has been a student of Healdsburg Ballet for 6 years and has choreographed two works for Healdsburg Ballet.  Cole is also a junior instructor for the “Norquist Junior Dance Club”.  Cole has received several awards in Ballet, Ballroom and Hip Hop from the “Sonoma County Dance Guild”.   This summer he was accepted to California State Summer School for the Arts “InnerSpark Intensive Training Program.” He will be teaching the Children’s Hip Hop class.

Jenny Huse has been teaching for five years. She started dancing at three years of age.  Jenny was a soloist for the original “Ballet California”. and a scholarship recipient at “The Rock School”  of Pennsylvania Ballet.   Ms. Huse performed such roles as Chinese, Waltz of the Flowers, Dew Drop Fairy and sleeping Beauty.  She will be teaching ballet classes.

Ashlee Blosser  has been a student of Teresa’s for nine years. She has 4 years experience in assisting and substitute teaching the Kinder-dance and Pre-Ballet classes. Her choreography has been included in several of our performances. This summer she was accepted to California State Summer School for the Arts “InnerSpark Intensive Training Program.” She will substitute teach as needed.