Our Dance Instructors

Instructors

Christina Conrad		Lead Dance Instructor and Choreographer
Karma Butler		Hip-Hop and Tap Instructor
Jacob Reide Jennings		Ballroom, Latin and Rythm Instructor
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Christina Conrad - Lead Dance Instructor and Choreographer

Christina Conrad joined the Arts Enter staff as its lead dance instructor and choreographer in 2006 after an extensive job search among the top dance programs in the country. Her arrival signaled a change in direction of the Arts Enter Dance Department.

A recent honors graduate of Butler University in Indiana, Christina earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Dance Pedagogy, which is the specific study of dance education. She has performed and traveled throughout the US, and has been hired to dance premiere roles including Odette in Swan Lake. She performed the coveted role of Sugar Plum Fairy in the 2005 Nutcracker at Butler University with her long time dance partner Brandon Ragland who will be a guest artist throughout the year at Arts Enter.

Christina studied in St. Petersburg, Russia in 2005 and at the Julliard Summer Dance Intensive in 2001 and 2002. She has just returned this summer from a Summer Intensive in Poland and has performed and studied with Alberto Alonso of the National Ballet of Cuba. As the chapter president of Sigma Rho Delta, national Dance Fraternity, she has organized fund raising events for community outreach.

She is the recipient of the Butler Ballet?s Outstanding Performance Award and Butler Ballet?s Leadership Award. She impressed the Arts Enter search committee with her innovative ideas, upbeat outlook, and teaching skills during the intensive interview process for the position. Arts Enter is happy and proud to announce a new season and a rejuvenated Dance Program focusing on technique, fitness and high quality teaching.

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Karma Butler - Hip-Hop and Tap Instructor

Karma Butler was born in the city of entertainment, Manhattan, New York.  He is a credited Performing Artist in the areas of singing, acting, and dancing.  He is an honor graduate, and current faculty member of the Virginia Governor's School for the Arts, as well as a Dance Major from California Institute of the Arts. 

His debut recording artist album "Karma - Everywhere You're Going To Be" has been highlighted on radio promotions, and many concerts.  His first album was self produced by his production company, Karma Productions, from Chesapeake Virginia in 1999.

You may have seen Karma Butler on television shows and films such as; American Pie, Fame, FBI Files, Sister Sister, and The Dating Game. 

Butler is also a very talented national choreographer and dance instructor. Some of his choreography credits include; requested choreography from R&B recording artist, Mary J. Blige, Jesus Christ Superstar, and film work for Student Academy Award Winning Director, Waleed Moursi.

Butler has been blessed to have had his talent of dance represented by the highly accredited DDO Artists Agency of Los Angeles. 

He has danced with some of the dance industry's most famed celebrity dancers with career highlights; auditioning for Christina Aguilera, and Beyonce Knowles, and being called back for casting from Janet Jackson, and Prince auditions. 

Wade Robinson, a dance industry hip-hop super-star, was Butler's hip-hop instructor while he was on a dance scholarship at the "Dance Center" of Los Angeles, formally known as "Tremaine School of Dance." He enjoys traveling around the nation teaching aspiring entertainers with credits reaching "The National High School Dance Festival". 

Karma Butler is also a very talented producer.  He has produced events for a world-wide clothing designer "Duff Stuff".  Most notably he is the producer of the "All Star Dance Conference", becoming well known on the east coast, and a new television pilot "Fever", produced by his production company, "Dance Karma Entertainment".

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Jacob Reide Jennings - Ballroom, Latin and Rythm Instructor

Jacob is a native to DC.  He is obtaining his BA from Old Dominion University with a Major in Theatre and Dance and a Minor in Music: Vocal Performance. 

Jennings has performed throughout the country as well as overseas in Scotland, Tokyo, Germany and Italy.  He began dancing in middle school and continues to dance through college.  He has a classical background in ballet, modern, tap and jazz techniques and began teaching Ballroom in 2003, which quickly became his passion. 

Jacob Reide Jennings teaches social dances using communication theories and a safe and accurate kinesthetic approach.

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