Timothy Rinehart Yeager (Ballet Technique) is currently serving as ballet master for the Nashville Ballet and Terpsicorps Theatre of Dance. Prior to that he spent one season as ballet master for Charlotte’s Moving Poets Theatre of Dance after having performed with the North Carolina Dance Theatre for ten years. While with NCDT, he starred in ballets by Salvatore Aiello, Alvin Ailey, George Balanchine, Agnes DeMille, David Parsons and Paul Taylor among others. He has been a guest artist with the Dancer’s Ensemble, the Chautauqua Ballet and the Tampa Ballet. Mr. Yeager received his training at Sally Miller Dance, Third Street Music School Settlement, Syracuse University and the North Carolina School of the Arts. He has taught master classes and led intensive arts residencies throughout the eastern United States and is also an agent of the Salvatore Aiello estate, having staged Aiello’s works since 1996. In 2007 he helped to found “Nashville In Motion” a contemporary Summer dance company.
Jennifer Cavanaugh (Ballet Technique, Body Conditioning) was born in Portland, Maine and studied at Portland School of Ballet and the North Carolina School of the Arts. For nine years Jennifer was a soloist with the North Carolina Dance Theatre, where she was featured in many of Salvatore Aiello’s most popular works including Satto, Notturno and The Turn of the Screw. She was also featured in the premiere casts of Heather Maloy’s ballets Wayfaring Stranger and T.V. Dinner. Jennifer has spent four summers as a member of the Chautauqua Ballet Company as well as making guest appearances with the Tampa Ballet and Ballet Metropolitan in Columbus, Ohio. Jennifer has danced for Terpsicorps for five years and is currently a principal dancer with the American Repertory Ballet in New Jersey. She is also a certified Pilates instructor.
Heather Maloy (Ballet Technique) began her career as a choreographer shortly after joining the North Carolina Dance Theatre as a dancer in 1989. A graduate of NCSA, Maloy began her association with Salvatore Aiello, then director of NCDT, while still a student. He hired her at 17, making her at that time the youngest full company member in NCDT’s history, and she stayed for 13 years, dancing principal and soloist roles. She was featured in works by such choreographers as Aiello, George Balanchine, Alonzo King, David Parsons, Paul Taylor, William Forsythe and Alvin Ailey. She began choreographing on the company at the age of 19 and created a total of six works for NCDT. Maloy has created works for the Chautauqua Ballet and the Nashville Ballet, participated in Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet’s Choreoplan and set a work for NCSA’s Summer Performance Festival in Manteo, NC. In 2008, Maloy finished first in round one and third overall in the Ballet Nouveau Colorado 21st Century Choreography Competition and created a work for the Universtity of North Carolina School of the Arts’ Spring Dance performance. This Fall she created new works for the Wake Forest Dance Department and the Jacksonville Community College Dance Department. She has been living in Asheville, NC since 2003, where she founded the multimedia dance company Terpsicorps Theatre of Dance, acting as the artistic director and choreographing the majority of the work performed by the company. Heather Maloy is a full time faculty member of Center Stage.
Dayna Fox, Ballet
From 1977 through 1985, Dayna Fox was a featured dancer with the North Carolina Dance Theater, having performed extensively throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe including appearances at The Kennedy Center; Brooklyn Academy of Music; the American Dance Festival; the Spoleto Festival in Charleston, S.C.; and the Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, Italy. During her tenure, Ms. Fox performed soloist and principal roles in an eclectic repertoire including such works as Aiello’s Piano Concerto #1; Balanchine’s Pas de Dix, Allegro Brilliant, and Scotch Symphony; Bournonville’s Napoli; Driver’s Resettings; and Nebrada’s Pentimento. Ms. Fox holds a BFA in Dance from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and currently serves as the director of the School of Dance’s Preparatory Program, a position she has held since 1989.
Diego Schoch, Contemporary
Diego Schoch currently teaches contemporary technique, composition, improvisation, contemporary partnering, dance history, and choreographs as a member of the Contemporary Dance Faculty of the School of Dance at the University North Carolina School of the Arts. Diego began his dance studies under Victor Moreno, Paul Maure and Louise Frazer in North County, San Diego and attended UNCSA 1984-1986. Mr. Schoch danced at the Fort Worth Ballet and North Carolina Dance Theater. In 1991, he joined the Milwaukee Ballet (MBC) and remained there for 12 years, achieving the rank of Principal dancer. He has a BFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and received his MFA from the University of Iowa in 2005.
Emily Gotschall received her training at the school of the dance company, Balletmet in her hometown of Columbus, Ohio. She spent seven seasons as a member of the Dayton Ballet, where she performed many principle roles, ranging from Odile in Septime Weber’s Swan lake to Ophelia in Stephen Mill’s Hamlet.Emily is currently back in Columbus, having in her third season as a company member with Balletmet.