Meet Our Awesome Team
A well-balanced team of professional dance instructors. Terre's Dance Workshop offers an artistic, creative, and experienced team of dancers that provide the best possible learning environment. Learn to dance from the best dance teachers in Dayton, OH.
Terre Hoke Manning
Owner & Principle Dance Instructor Terre holds a BS in Dance Performance...
Terre Hoke Manning
Owner & Principle Dance Instructor
Terre holds a BS in Dance Performance, concentration in Ballet, from Ball State University. Further studies include John Rodriguez, Dayton Ballet, and Broadway Dance Center, the latter both in New York City. Terre is the owner and principal teacher of Terre's Dance Workshop. She is the founder and director of Miami Valley Dance Company. She is also a member of The Miami Valley Dance Teachers and a former member of the board of Dance Theater Dayton.
Pam Turner Ellis
Pam Turner Ellis – Pam studied dance for 15 years at Terre's Dance Workshop...
Pam Turner Ellis
Dance Instructor & Choreographer
Pam Turner Ellis – Pam studied dance for 15 years at Terre's Dance Workshop. She was a soloist for Kettering Youth Ballet for five years. Pam has a degree in dance and education from Wright State University. She has danced professionally in musical theater and has been dance captain and assistant to the choreographer in many shows.
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Date: August 10, 2018
Categories: Staff
Pam Turner Ellis: Dance Instructor & Choreographer
Claire Dorothy Hinde
Dance Instructor Claire Dorothy Hinde is thrilled to be choreographing...
Claire Dorothy Hinde
Dance Instructor
Claire Dorothy Hinde is thrilled to be choreographing for the Miami Valley Dance Company. A native of Kettering, she was the Registrar and Summer Programs Coordinator for the Gelsey Kirkland Academy of Classical Ballet in New York City and has now happily relocated to the Dayton area.
Beginning her training with Terre Manning, Clair Dorothy went on to study dance and choreography at Mercyhurst college, spearheading several projects, including a student art salon, giving students a chance to showcase new works. During her time in New York City, Claire Dorothy co-created and performed several works for choreography festivals, including a featured piece in the GRC Dance Lab in 2012.
Claire has performed as a dancer on an international tour of Elmo's Superheroes! and in a local company, SoMar Dance works, and as a freelance artist. In her performance opportunities, she has been fortunate enough to work closely with Bruce Marks, Gelsey Kirkland, David Howard, and other masters.
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Cassie George
Dance Instructor Cassie George studied dance for fifteen years at Terre's...
Cassie George
Dance Instructor
Cassie George studied dance for fifteen years at Terre's Dance Workshop and was a part of the Kettering Youth Ballet. She went on to receive a BFA in Fashion Design from the Columbus College of Art and Design. Cassie has worked with multiple studios teaching dance/tumble as well as designing costumes. In North Carolina, she helped launch a new studio, create an elementary school dance program, and design costumes for competition teams and companies. You'll see her at the desk, working with our children's program or altering costuming.
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Lily Seitter
Dance Instructor Lily Seitter grew up in Ottawa, Ontario, where she received her formative...
Lily Seitter
Dance Instructor
Lily Seitter grew up in Ottawa, Ontario, where she received her formative ballet training at The School of Dance, under Merrilee Hodgins and Celia Franca. Lily graduated Cum Laude from Butler University with a BFA in Dance Performance. While at Butler, she performed various roles with the Butler Ballet, including the Dew Drop Fairy in The Nutcracker and the principal role in George Balanchine's Walpurgisnacht Ballet. Lily has danced professionally with the Richmond Ballet in Virginia and New York City, performing in works by George Balanchine and Merce Cunningham. Her choreography has been performed in the US, Canada, Poland, and Russia.
Project Details
Date: August 28, 2017
Categories: Staff
Lily Seitter: Dance Instructor
Jaelyn Blake
Dance Instructor Jaelyn Blake is from Toledo, Ohio, where she started dancing at the
Jaelyn Blake
Dance Instructor
Jaelyn Blake is from Toledo, Ohio, where she started dancing at the age of six. She attended Toledo School for the Arts, Company C Dance Club, and Ballet Theater of Toledo. She attended many dance competitions and conventions, including West Coast Dance Explosion, where she won the Senior Elite Title award. Jaelyn Moved to Dayton, Ohio, in 2014 after she graduated high school to attend Wright State University to study dance. While enrolled at Wright State, she participated in many performances included Emerging Choreographers Showcase as a dancer and a choreographer. She was also seen in the Faculty Spring Dance Concerts and Fall Concerts. During her four years in college, she had to chance to work with the amazing faculty at Wright State University. She also had the opportunity to work with world-known choreographers, including Dwight Rhoden of Complexion, Shannon Bramham of Koresh Dance Company, Ray Mercer, and Jon Lehrer of the Lehrer Company. In her junior year at Wright State, she was accepted into Dayton Contemporary Dance Company II. She trained under Shonna Hickman-Matlock, Debbie Blunden Diggs, and many others. Jaelyn has performed a lot throughout her college career. However she has also choreographed many works at Wright State. Jaelyn recently graduated from Wright State University, receiving a BFA in dance. She will continue her dancer career but would also like to go back to school to receive a degree in Physical Therapy.
Project Details
Date: August 07, 2017
Categories: Staff
Ashley Griffin
Dance Instructor Ashley Griffin grew up in South Carolina where she joined South Carolina...
Ashley Griffin
Dance Instructor
Ashley Griffin grew up in Florence, South Carolina, where she joined South Carolina Dance Theatre and had the opportunity to perform in many leading roles. At the age of 16, Ashley moved to Boston when she was accepted to Boston Ballet School’s Pre-Professional Program on full scholarship. Ashley has attended summer programs at the School of American Ballet, Houston Ballet, Exploring Ballet with Suzanne Farrell at the Kennedy Center, Chautauqua Institution School of Dance, Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, Charlotte Ballet, Boston Ballet, Orlando Ballet, Pennsylvania Ballet, and the “ART of” intensives supported by William Forsythe in Zurich, Switzerland and Madrid, Spain. In 2018, Ashley was invited to become a trainee with Orlando Ballet School on full merit scholarship, and she was promoted to Orlando Ballet II after one season. Ashley had countless opportunities to perform with Orlando Ballet, while simultaneously completing a Bachelor’s Degree in Health Science from Northeastern University with Summa Cum Laude honors in December 2019. She has also completed Boston Ballet’s Adaptive Dance Teacher Certification. Ashley joined Dayton Ballet as a company dancer in 2020. If you can get out to see her perform it is a real treat. We are thrilled to have her on staff.
Project Details
Date: August 07, 2017
Categories: Staff
Jonathan Harris
Dance Instructor Jonathan Harris is from Dallas, Texas, where he received his early ballet training...
Jonathan Harris
Dance Instructor
Jonathan Harris is from Dallas, Texas, where he received his early ballet training with Thom Clower, Jason Fowler, and the Dallas Ballet Center. In high school, he relocated to New York City to study with Jock Soto at the School of American Ballet. With the Balanchine aesthetic firmly ingrained in his dancing DNA, he took great pride when he performed Cortège Hongrois and Le Tombeau de Couperin in SAB’s annual Workshop Performance. Upon graduation, Jonathan spent a year each as a trainee with the Washington Ballet and then a second company member with BalletMet in Columbus, Ohio. He joined the Sacramento Ballet as a company member in 2015 and danced there for the next 4 years. Jonathan has enjoyed a diverse performance career including Sugar Plum Cavalier in Ron Cunningham’s The Nutcracker and a large variety of ballets by Septime Webre, Edwaard Liang, Brian Enos, Ron Cunningham, Stephen Mills, Ma Cong, Penny Saunders, Adam Hougland, Val Caniparoli, and Annabelle Lopez Ochoa. Jonathan has also performed twice with National Choreographer’s Initiative, and in his free time he enjoys training and racing as an amateur cyclist. He brings so much both do our Ballet program and the MVDC.
Project Details
Date: August 28, 2014
Categories: Staff
Jonathan Harris: Dance Instructor
Mackenzie Krapfel
Dance Instructor MacKenzie Krapfel started her ballet training in Kettering, Ohio...
Mackenzie Krapfel
Dance Instructor
MacKenzie Krapfel is a former dancer here at Terre’s Dance Workshop and performed with the MVDC and Terre’s Dance Team for many years. Mackenzie has her Dance Minor from Kent State University and an Early Childhood Education Major from Wright State University. While attending KSU, Mackenzie was chosen to perform a piece titled “Aftermath” by Catherine Meredith at the John F Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. Mackenzie also was chosen to perform pieces choreographed by Ronald K Brown and Gregory King. Mackenzie has also studied with companies such as the American Ballet Theatre, Complexions Contemporary Dance Company, Louisville Ballet, and has taken classes in NYC at Steps, Just off Broadway, and Alvin Ailey. Mackenzie is very excited to come back to her roots here at Terre’s Dance Workshop and share her love and passion for dance with her students!
Project Details
Date: August 28, 2014
Categories: Staff
MacKenzie Krapfel: Dance Instructor
Jonathan Pattiwael
Dance Instructor Jonathan Pattiwael began dancing at 16 where he competed in dance...
Jonathan Pattiwael
Jonathan Pattiwael began dancing at 16 where he competed in dance all over Texas. At 21 he then went into training for both Contemporary and Modern. Jonathan has a very diverse teaching resume, having taught full time throughout graduate school at Texas Woman's University. Now he is a full time professor at UD and collaborates with artist. You can still catch him rockin the divers througout Dayton. With all this we are so excited that he's sharing his talents with the students here at the studio.
Project Details
Date: September 29, 2020
Categories: Staff
BROOKE GIST
Dance Instructor Brooke is starting her first season at DCDC2 after graduating from...
Brooke Gist
Dance Instructor
Brooke Gist (Chicago, Illinois) is starting her first season with DCDC2. She recently graduated fromThe Ohio State University with a Bachlors in Fine Arts in Dance and a minor in Real Estate.
Growing up she attended Whitney M. Young Magnet High school for 6 years with early acceptance where she served as Senior Class president, captain of the pre-professional dance team, and finished each semester as an honors student.
During her collegiate experience as a dancer she is currently a senior Class Representative for the class of 2022, a Department of Dance Student Ambassador, has traveled to multiple states within the dance department on tour, traveled across the country with the Dance Brazil tour group, been in numerous faculty dance pieces, and is now preparing to travel on tour with the department to Paris, France in the spring of 2022 where she will be performing Anna Sokolow’s Rooms, and the solo track of Martha Graham’s Steps on the Street. She has been seriously committed to developing her artistry of dance since the age of thirteen where she has studied the art form in numerous places including, Kyle Abrahams’ Summer Intensive, Chicago Multicultural Dance Center, Thodos Dance Chicago, Joffrey Contemporary and Jazz Intensive, New York University Summer Intensive, Guys and Dolls Pre-Professional Dance Company, and International Association for Blacks in Dance, and more.
We are very excited for her to join our staff this year.
Date: August 28, 2014
Categories: Staff
Brooke Gist: Dance Instructor