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SIERRA MEDWIG
Owner and Artistic Director
Born and raised on Long Island, Sierra has been dancing since she was 4 years old. Her Grandmother had taken her to a local competition studio, and she ended up dancing there until she graduated high school in June of 2018. During her high school years, she assisted with the younger classes at her studio. She also was a coach for a local gymnastics team as well. After high school, she had joined a ballet company and is continuing her journey with them through her college times. Sierra currently studies at Southern New Hampshire University working on a Bachelor's Degree in Creative Writing and English Literature.
Since she was 12, she knew that dance was going to be in her life for a long time. She had fallen in love with choreographing and teaching young dancers and watching them grow. Now, after 8 years of dreaming, Sierra has finally decided that now is the time to start her own dance studio.
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SARAH BLAKE
Choreographer/DDP Member
Sarah began dancing locally at the age of 3 in ballet and then added jazz, tap and modern by the age of 6. At the age of 12, she auditioned for New Jersey School of Ballet’s summer intensive program and by that fall she enrolled in their year-round pre-professional training program studying ballet, pointe, partnering, variations, and jazz. She performed with the New Jersey Ballet Company in their Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Don Quixote, and La Esmerelda. Additionally, throughout high school she was a member of the West Essex Dance Team, serving as captain of the varsity team her senior year and assisting with choreography. She began teaching ballet and substituted for jazz and contemporary classes at Theatre NextDoor in her senior year of high school and is a dance/theater instructor at Carousel of Progress Academy (a school for special needs students).
Currently, she is an upcoming senior, double majoring in Dance and Psychology with a minor in Business Management at Manhattanville College in Purchase, NY. She studies modern, contemporary and ballet learning from Shawn Bible and Andrei Kisselev. She has performed in every fall and spring dance concerts working with guest choreographers: Alex Olivieri, Michael Trusnovec, Bonnie O’Rourke, Judi Jaekel and Brad Beakes, as well as many student choreographers. In the Fall 2020 Virtual Dance Concert, her choreographic piece Arachna was presented alongside professional choreographers. She also serves as an officer for the Manhattanville Dance Ensemble/Performance Team, as well as Publicity Chair for the Manhattanville Chapter of the National Society of Leadership and Success and is a member of the PSI CHI Psychology Honor Society. She hopes to one day dance professionally while also presenting her choreography professionally around the country while getting her master’s in arts administration hoping to open her own professional company.