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FACULTY
Meet our talented team of instructors at OFF BROADWAY. Focused on teaching exceptional technique and creating unforgettable experiences, our team is committed to our dancers’ satisfaction and success. Read through our instructors’ bios below, and if you’d like to set up an introductory meeting, don’t hesitate to reach out.
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Miss Susan has been instructing and choreographing dance in many genres, including Tap, Jazz, Ballet, Hip Hop, Broadway/Musical Theater & Lyrical for more than 30 years. She has studied in several cities across the USA and has taken master classes, conventions, and workshops from many dance experts in their field such as Al Gilbert, Mia Michaels, Frank Hatchett, Gus Giordano, and Joe Tremaine. Miss Susan has choreographed several musicals in Richmond Hill and in the West Michigan region, as well as award winning choreography for competition teams in MI and GA, not to mention hundreds of recital dances over the years! Miss Susan is super passionate about dance and watching the growth in her students, both personally and with their dancing, makes her heart smile! Her favorite things to do besides dancing are watching the NBA, road trips, reading (Miss Susan was the former Community Relations Manager for Barnes & Noble in Holland, MI, before moving to Savannah), and caring for animals (neighborhood cat lady!). Opening OFF BROADWAY has been a dream come true.
Mikayla Tillman is a Georgia Southern Alumni with her degree in Rehabilitation Science for Physical Therapy. She has been trained in ballet, lyrical, contemporary, hip hop, tap, character, musical theatre, and jazz. She has attended dance workshops with DMI and attended special dance classes taught by dancers featured on So You Think You Can Dance including Kathryn McCormick from Step Up Revolution. Mikayla has competed in dance competitions such as DMI, Celebrity, Revolution, Encore, Inspire, Adrenaline, Fusion, DTI, Access Broadway, Headliners, Showstoppers, IDC, Platinum and Nexstar. She has been in several productions of the Nutcracker and Dracula with the Columbia City Ballet and has danced in special performances throughout the Savannah area. Mikayla has been a part of the Off Broadway family for several yearsand can’t wait to be a part of many more!
Mina Vance grew her passion for dance as a young girl training in all styles with a specific focus in ballet. She grew to expand her knowledge and love for all styles when she was accepted into the dance department at her performing arts high school in Dayton, OH. Mina spent her summers training in New York with some of the countries best choreographers at Broadway dance center, Stage Door Manor and Pulse conventions. She then went on to discover her passion of competitive dancing and was hired to teach summer dance camps, and judge dance competitions with Showcase America, UDA, and Ameridance. Mina loved dance so much she decided to study Kinesiology (the study of movement) at the University of Kentucky with a special focus on enhancing dancer and gymnast performance. While In college Mina danced professionally with Movement continuum contemporary company in Lexington, KYÂ for five seasons. Minas love for dance and freelance choreography has taken her all of the country teaching and choreographing with a special focus in Hip Hop, Contemporary, Musical Theater and Jazz.
Ryley is currently a freshman at Georgia Southern University working towards a degree in Biology. She has been dancing with Off Broadway for nine years and has been dancing competitively for many of those. She is excited to start her final season as a senior dancer with OB's Competition Team this year. She has been an assistant teacher at OB for a few years and is now looking forward to teaching some classes of her own. Ryley has trained in tap, ballet, jazz, lyrical contemporary, modern and hip hop. She can't wait to share her love of dance with the younger dancers!
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