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Teachers
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Jeanne
Mattis
Jeanne and her husband Karl are the owners of the Design
In Motion Dance Studio. Jeanne has been teaching dance
for the past 10 years in the Anne Arundel County area.
She was accepted to the School of Performing Arts in Baltimore
and held a full dance scholarship at the University of
Maryland Baltimore County. She was the recipient of a
four-year scholarship at the Maryland Hall Summer Arts
Program. Jeanne joined a team of people to establish a
Creative Arts Program for Park and Recreation in a low-income
community. She developed and managed the dance curriculum
and was responsible for the choreography and dance education
of approximately 40 children involved in this program.
Jeanne enjoys spending time with her husband and son,
Norman.
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Serene
Webber
Serene is the Manager for Design In Motion Dance Studio.
Serene holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Dance Performance
from Towson University and is currently working to complete
her certification in Laban Movement Analysis from the
Laban / Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies in New
York. She has been teaching in the Anne Arundel County,
Howard County and Baltimore City areas for the past 10
years. Serene also enjoys performing and choreographing
as a guest artist with various companies in the Washington
DC and Baltimore area. Besides dancing, Serene loves spending
time with her husband, daughter and son.
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Kristen
Brown-Maki
Kristin Brown-Maki is new to the Maryland area and grew up
in Tampa Florida, where she was a graduate of Howard
W. Blake High School of the Performing Arts. She received
her early training around Central Florida before joining
the Lakeland Ballet Florida Dance Theatre. She was the
Donald Bryd/Ruth Eckerd Hall Dance Scholarship recipient,
the First Place winner at the National Society of Arts
and the Letter Ballet Career Competition, and was recognized
as a merit Award recipient from the National Endowment
of the Arts. Kristin continued her dance education on
scholarship at the University of South Florida working
towards her a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Dance
Performance. She has been a guest artist with the Brandon
Ballet, performing around the country with the United
Nations of Dance, and at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe
in Edinburgh, Scotland with Burklyn Ballet. Kristin
taught extensively in the Tampa area for three years
and has spent the last five summers working and teaching
at the Burklyn Ballet Theatre in Johnson, Vermont. In
2003 she joined the Ballet Theater of Maryland, the
teaching faculty of the School of Ballet Theatre of
Maryland and local dance studios in the area.
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Emily
Jamison
A
performer since the age of four, Emily Jamison has danced
for sixteen years competitively as a member of the Susan
Ina Dance Studio in Linthicum, MD. She has received
formal training in tap, ballet, pointe, basic ballroom,
jazz, hip-hop, and lyrical, and received local and national
recognition for her efforts. Impressed with her leadership
and patience with her fellow cast mates in productions
at Seton Keough, Emily, as only a sophomore, was approached
and eventually hired to be her school's head choreographer
for all-future productions. As a senior, Emily took
the head choreography job at Mount Saint Joseph, and
presides over the position to this day as a rising junior
at Towson University. Over that span, she has educated
over 150 young men and women to perform jazz numbers,
to waltz, and to tap in productions of A Midsummer's
Night Dream, Cinderella, Peter Pan, Wizard of Oz, Damn
Yankees, Into the Woods, Anything Goes, and in the spring
of 2009 Disco Inferno. She is very excited for the opportunity
to join Design in Motion Dance Studio and cannot wait
to get started!.
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Carrie Hammond-Roemer
Carrie Hammond-Roemer is a graduate of Baltimore School for the Arts and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in visual and performing arts from the University of Maryland Baltimore County. She has performed and studied under Gregory Hines, Hinton Battle, Liz Walton, Adam Parson and other well established performers and teachers. She is Managing Director of Common Ground Dance Company as well as an Arts In Communities panelist for the Maryland State Arts Council. Carrie enjoys teaching all styles of dance from ballet and lyrical to jazz, tap and hip hop. She is a certified D.A.R.E. dance instructor and is currently pursuing a Master of Arts in Teaching degree with a concentration in Dance from the University of Maryland Baltimore County. |
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Facility
Design In Motion Dance Studio offers two large 30 x 40 studios
with high ceilings. We are proud of our studio and your assistance
is requested in the following areas. Smoking is not permitted
anywhere in the building. Our hope is to offer a comfortable
waiting area and siblings are welcome to watch through our
studio windows. We ask that you take care in supervising your
children and help us to keep the studio clean by picking up
after yourself. Parents are responsible for their child's
behavior and any damage incurred by their children, enrolled
or otherwise visiting. Employees only are allowed in the office
area. Studios
No food, gum or drinks are allowed in either of our studios.
Water bottles with lids are permitted. Only dance shoes are
allowed on the studio floors. This applies to family members.
Students are asked not to hang on the barres or touch the
mirrors. Staff,
Dancers, Parents & Visitors
It is our hope that you have a positive experience at our
studio. Dancing is an opportunity to emote joy and good energy.
Allow yourself the opportunity to participate fully in the
joy of dancing. It is essential that we respect each other.
Proper behavior, positive talk and following the rules of
our studio ensure our goals are met. If you have any concerns
I ask that you share them with the appropriate staff that
can assist in getting them resolved. Our owners and manager
are always willing to help with any questions, comments or
concerns you may have as a parent or a student. |
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743 Route 3 North
Gambrills, Maryland
21054 Phone: 410-923-9925
Fax: 410-923-9926 Serene@designinmotiondance.com
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