Lizabeth Skalski (Director) was the Associate Director at Main Street Ballet in Woodbury, CT since 1999. Her guest teaching credits include: The Hartford Conservatory; School for Creative and Performing Arts - Cincinnati, OH; Covenant Dance Studio   Brooklyn, NY; as well as schools in Canada, Taiwan and China.  Ms. Skalski s teaching style uses the best aspects of the Ceccetti, School of American Ballet, French and Russian schools which is reflected by her training at the Joffrey School and from New York s most innovative ballet teachers: Lawrence Rhodes, Finis Jhung, Nadine Revene, Igal Perry, Melissa Hayden and modern dance teachers Lar Lubovich, David Gordon, Lynn Simonson, Don Redlich and Robyn Cutler.  Heralded by critics of the New York Times, Dance Magazine and New York Newsday, Ms. Skalski created over twenty-five original contemporary ballets for New York s New American Ballet Ensemble, Ballet Santa Barbara and in showcases throughout New York, Connecticut and in Canada.  She also created original choreography for  Oklahoma ,  Phantom of the Opera ,  Three Penny Opera  and  Oliver .  As a dancer, Ms. Skalski performed throughout the United States and Asia with New York based Chen & Dancers, Baba Dancers as well as with Downtown Ballet, New American Ballet Ensemble, Santa Barbara Ballet Theatre and Carlton Smith Ballet Chicago.  Ms Skalski holds a MFA in dance from New York University s Tisch School of the Arts.

Sylvia Kinal-Davidowitz (primary ballet, pointe/variations, principal coach) began her studies at L Ecole Superieure des Grands Ballets Canadiens at age five, and has studied under some of the world's most outstanding teachers. She was awarded a Canadian grant to study with Rosella Hightower in Cannes, France, at American Ballet Theatre, and with the noted teachers, David Howard, Larry Rhodes, Haynes Owens and Maggie Black. At age 16, she was awarded the silver medal at the VIII th International Ballet Competition in Varna, Bulgaria. In 1978, she was recognized as an Outstanding Artist of Canada, bestowed to her by HRH Queen Elizabeth of England. She toured the world as a principal dancer with Les Grands Ballets Canadiens and the Cleveland Ballet as well as with Martine Van Hamel's American Ballet Stars, and with principal dancers from American Ballet Theatre and the Joffrey Ballet. Invited by Alicia Alonzo, Sylvia performed in Cuba at the Cuban International Dance Festival. Canadian choreographer Fernand Nault created the solo Incoherence for Sylvia which she performed at the Varna Ballet Competition, and the role of Anna, in the Seven Deadly Sins. Sylvia worked with the noted choreographers, Sir Anton Dolin, Lar Lubovitch, John Butler, Lynn Taylor Corbett, Milko Sparamblek, Dennis Nahat, Ian Horvath, Fernand Nault, and Brian Macdonald and performed principal roles in: Romeo and Juliet, Le Corsaire, The Nutcracker, Les Sylphides, Coppelia, Raymonda, Don Quixote, Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake, and Balanchine's Serenade, Concerto Barocco, Theme and Variations, and The Four Temperaments. Other works include John Butler's Catulli Carmina; Maurice Bejart's Firebird; Lar Lubovitch's Exultate Jubilate and Les Noces; Anthony Tudor's Jardin aux Lilas and Sunflowers; Milko Sparemblek's The Miraculous Mandarin, and works by Dennis Nahat, Ian Horvath, and Canadian choreographers, Brian Macdonald and Fernand Nault.