Harmonetiks turned to Irene to help the team to coordinate our programs. Her expertise in communicating and teaching is exactly what Harmonetiks needed for this project

 

An accomplished instructor, performer, and choreographer, Irene trained in New York at the Neubert Ballet Institute, the International Dance School and Ballet Arts at Carnegie Hall, Steps, and Broadway Dance Center.

 

Her studies included both the Vagonova and Cecchetti methods and she holds a brown belt in NIA.  In addition to her extensive ballet training with such luminaries as Stephan Hoff, Sandra Balestracci, Lisa Danias, Primavera Boman, David Howard, George Tomal, Michele Assof, and Susie Taylor, Irene also studied jazz with Lillian Heitzman. Irene’s performance credentials include dancing New York City Opera Ballet, New Jersey Ballet (The Nutcracker), and Dig-Pointe Ballet Company.

 

She has toured extensively and appeared in The Music Man, My Fair Lady, Oklahoma, Annie, Little Shop of Horrors, and West Side Story. In addition to her teaching, Irene has choreographed and directed local musical theatre productions.  

 

Irene has taught children for more thirty years. She has raised 2 daughters, both of whom have non-for-profits to help others.

 

Tessa Zimmerman: www.UpstreamEdu.org

Olivia Zimmerman: www.EmbodyDanceConference.com