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. She teaches our advanced ballet, advanced tap, and advanced jazz classes and is an Associate Director for the Miami Valley Dance Co. Pam has been a wonderful part of our studio for over 20 years. She is an award-winning choreographer and consistently gets recognition for her dances. TDT has received an award for everyone one of Pam's dances. We are so lucky to have her at Terre's Dance Workshop.
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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.
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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
Alyssa Eyster
Dance Instructor Alyssa Eyster was born in San Jose, CA, ...
Alyssa Eyster
Dance Instructor
Alyssa Eyster is originally from San Jose, CA. She began her training at Cincinnati Ballet’s Otto M. Budig Academy and Northern Cincinnati Youth Ballet, both located in Ohio. At Inland Pacific Ballet in Claremont, CA Alyssa continued her training where she was also able to perform as a trainee with the company. In her senior year of high school, Alyssa attended the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. She received a high school diploma with a concentration in ballet in 2016 and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2019 also from UNCSA under Dean of Dance, Susan Jaffe. After graduating in 2019, she joined Nashville Ballet. From there she moved on to the Minnesota Ballet. Over the last few years, she has been a soloist for the Nashville Ballet and the Minnesota Ballet. Her roles have spanned from Spanish Sister in The Nutcracker, and the Fairy of Musicality, Aurora's Friend in Sleeping Beauty to Billy the Kid and Tallet Tango. It will be wonderful to have her talent as a part of our team.
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Date: August 07, 2017
Categories: Staff
Macy Perry
Dance Instructor Macy Perry is from Ironton, Ohio, where she started her dance training...
Macy Perry
Dance Instructor
Macy Perry is from Ironton, Ohio, where she started her dance training in ballet, Jazz, Modern, Tap, Choreography, and even singing. She is currently a Dance Major at Wright State University. She has been a part of their Spring Concerts and Emerging Choreographer Concerts for the past three years. She has been teaching dance since 2017. Along side all of this she has had additional training with the Dayton Ballet, Los Angeles Contemporary Dance Company, and is a Certified Yoga Instructor. Her talents are endless and we are so excited to have her on staff here at Terre's Dance Workshop.
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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!
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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.
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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