CDP’s Pro Series
Our pro series classes are for professional, pre-professional, post-professional, and advanced dancers only. Classes are $15 drop in, or $50 for a 5 class card, good for 5 weeks, mix and match of pro classes only.
This series runs July 1 - August 2.
advanced musical theater
Wednesdays 3-4:30pm
Karen Colabianchi has been dancing and directing professionally for the past 50 years and cannot wait to share her insight for the advanced series. She has trained and performed with legendary Broadway performers such as Anne Reinking, Debbie Allen, Tommy Tune, Maurice Hines, Eartha Kitt just to name a few. Karen has performed internationally, including some famous venues: Studio 54, Copa Cabana, and Madison Square Garden.
advanced Contemporary
Wednesdays 7:30-9pm
Tea (she/her) hails from St. Petersburg, Florida, and began Scottish Highland dance at age 12. She trained at the Patricia Ann Dance Studio and the Pinellas County Center for the Arts before earning her B.F.A. in 2020 from the Boston Conservatory at Berklee College of Music and completing Hubbard Street's professional training program in the same year. Tea has performed with various companies such as American Repertory Theatre, Fukudance, Adam Weinert and Company, Dance in the Parks Chicago, Little Fire Artist Collective, Aerial Dance Chicago, Groundworks DanceTheater and as a guest artist at Walnut Hill School for the Arts. She has performed works by internationally acclaimed artists. She has been commissioned for new choreographic works by Bellare Carmel, Dance in the Parks Chicago, and Groundworks Dancetheater. Tea has also attended various intensive training programs at Next Generation Ballet, Alonzo King Lines Ballet, the School at Jacob's Pillow, the One Body One Career Countertechnique workshop, Bodytraffic, and Peridance. As a movement teacher she has been on faculty at Patricia Ann Dance Studio, Mass Motion Dance, New England Youth Dance Exchange, Cleveland Dance Project, The Rainey Institute, Shaker Dance Academy, and Cleveland Community College Creative Arts Academy. In 2016, she launched Ballet Naked as an independent ongoing project and in 2021, held the first Pro.noun Dance Project in order to increase visibility of queer and trans artists. Teagan is inspired by her experience as a trans woman to create new work that exists within the canon of queer artworks. Her work attempts to encompass the entire range of human emotion and create new works that are intentional and meaningful to all.
advanced Ballet
Saturdays, 9:30-11am
Originally from Indiana, Chelsea Endris began her love of dance at her mother’s studio, Southern Indiana School for the Arts. She continued to pursue her passion at Point Park University where she graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance degree with a concentration in Ballet. While on scholarship at the university, Chelsea was able to dance a soloist role in Septime Weber’s Fluctuating Hemlines, Kitri in Susan Stowe’s Don Quixote and the lead female soloist in Antony Tudor’s Continuo. Chelsea danced as a guest with the Montgomery Ballet and as a company dancer with Manassas Ballet Theatre. At Manassas Ballet Theatre, she performed many soloist roles including Snow Queen in The Nutcracker, Myrta in Giselle, Queen of the Dryads in Don Quixote, Waltz Variation from Les Sylphide, Lucy in Dracula and The Fairy Godmother in Cinderella. She has been a Cleveland Ballet dancer since 2022.
advanced Commercial jazz
Sundays 1-2:30pm
Lydia Marshall Hacker began her training as a competitive dancer, and she graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Akron with a Bachelor’s of Arts in Dance in December 2020. During her college career Lydia was a member of the University of Akron Dance Team. She was a CDP Company Dancer for one year, and an NBA Dancer with the Cleveland Cavalier’s PowerHouse Dance Team. She was a dancer at Universal Orlando