Faculty
NICOLE BIBBY(Director/Instructor)
Nicole is a well known dancer and choreographer residing in Warwick, Rhode Island. Nicole has extensive knowledge in ballet, jazz, tap, hip hop, and lyrical dance. Her training includes Kelly Cannone, Gerianne Genga, Dante Sciarra, Myles Marsden, and Michael Taylor. Throughout her career, she has performed across the country in various shows and competitions. Some dance titles won include Starquest, American Dance Awards, Dance Alliance, and Tremaine dancer of the year. Over the years she has performed for the Helping Hands Foundation, Dancers Responding to Aids, Miss Rhode Island Pageant, and United We Dance in association with the Alvin Ailey Dance Theatre. She was a choreographer/teacher for All Star Dance Academy (Portsmouth, RI), Extensions School of Dance (Bristol, RI), Jean Deluca Dance Studio (Johnston, RI), Paula Coffee Dance Center (MA), Falmouth Dance Academy (Falmouth, MA), and Greta Lemming Dance Studio (Ottowa, CA)
More recently, she has graduated from Salve Regina University receiving her bachelors degree in marketing in May 2007. While at Salve she earned the position as senior captain of the dance team.
JAMIE GIUSTI (Instructor/Office Manager)
Jamie has been dancing for over 25 years and has been teaching for 10 years. She grew up studying various styles of dance including Ballet, Tap, Jazz, Lyrical and Acro. She spent many years competing at various regional and national competitions. After graduating Cranston High School West she continued dancing for the UFL team, Hartford Colonials. In 2016 Jamie graduated from Johnson & Wales University receiving her Bachelors degree in Business Management. She enjoys sharing her passion and love for dance while creating a positive and fun environment for her students. Outside of dance, Jamie is the proud mom to Jaxon (3) and Vaeda (1).
TALIA LAURITO (Choreographyer)
KAREN PARE (Acro)
LAUREN DIFEDE (Ballet)
Lauren Difede was born on St. Croix of the U.S. Virgin Islands, but primarily grew up in Houston, TX. She began dancing at age 8 at North Harris Performing Arts (Spring, TX) and is grateful for her versatile training in Ballet, Contemporary, Jazz, and Tap. Difede graduated from the High School for Performing and Visual Arts (Houston, TX) and then went on to receive her Bachelor of Liberal Arts in Psychology from the University of St. Thomas (Houston, TX).
In 2012 and 2014 Difede attended the Nederlands Dans Theater’s Summer Intensive and had the honor of working with Paul Lightfoot, Sol Leon, Marco Goecke, and Natalie Horecna. Difede has danced for Revolve Dance Company (Houston, TX), Dominic Walsh Dance Theater (Houston, TX), Untitled Collective (NYC, NY), Infinite Movement Ever Evolving (Houston, TX), and Spindle City Ballet (Fall River, MA). Difede is currently a Company Dancer with Newport Contemporary Ballet (Newport, RI).