RDC - Key Persons
Brittany Klinger has been apart of the dance community for over 25 years. She has been choreographing, teaching, and inspiring young dancers for the vast majority of her life. Her journey as a dancer began at the age of 3 years old and has developed into her true passion.
She began dancing at a local Long Island studio where she focused on competitive dance and later branched out and studied both Russian and American ballet. She traveled into NYC to further her ballet education and study further at the School of American Ballet associated with the NYC Ballet. Both her technical training and Ballet training have led her to success, granting her to play various roles in the Nutcracker Suite and allowing her to achieve many titles such as Junior Miss Dance of the United States, Miss Legacy, Miss Starquest, & Miss On Stage America. She has performed numerous times at Radio City Music Hall, Madison Square Garden, & Walt Disney World while being apart of the United States Dance Team.
She furthered both her Dance & Academic education at Towson University where she was apart of their 16 time national championship Dance team. In addition to her dance career, Brittany is also an Adult Gerontologic Nurse Practitioner. She enjoys taking her knowledge of health and care of the human anatomy, by incorporating it into her dance classes to teach her dancers the importance of proper maintenance and care of both their physical and emotional health.
Brittany specializes in preparing her dancers technical abilities for on and off the stage, and enjoys teaching all styles of dance. Brittany cannot wait to prepare all the dancers at RDC to become the best technical & versatile artists they can be.
Nicole Dennehy has been teaching, performing and choreographing for over 25 years. She received her B.F.A in Fine Arts with a concentration in Ballet and Modern Dance from Marymount Manhattan College. During her time at Marymount she was fortunate to be able to perform works by Martha Graham, Jose Limon, Merce Cunningham and Twyla Tharp.
Upon graduation she performed with several modern dance companies in NYC before focusing her training on dance education. Nicole worked with a non-for-profit group Circle of Dance Repertory Company, providing Arts in Education programs in public schools throughout Long Island and Queens. Through this experience she decided to return to school to obtain her Masters degree in Early Childhood Education from Long Island University.