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Ali Peecher is originally from Woodstock, Georgia, and has been training, working as a professional dancer, choreographer, and teacher for nearly three decades. Through her younger years in the competition and convention circuit, she gained extensive style and broadened her opportunities for growth. From 2009-2010, Ali attended Kennesaw State University as a Jazz Dance Major. During her time in Atlanta, she was a member of Project 7 Dance Company, under the direction of Cherrise Wakeham. With a passion to broaden her horizons, Ali relocated to New York City to study in Broadway Dance Center’s Professional Semester and comprehensively throughout NYC. She studied most directly with renowned teachers, such as Joe Lanteri, Joshua Bergasse, Sheila Barker, and Tracie Stanfield. While in New York, Ali quickly landed herself in Industrials for NYC’s Fashion Night Out, Calvin Klein, and OfficeMax, to name a few. She also worked alongside the Radio City Rockettes teaching original Rockette choreography to children worldwide. With an interest in the business side of the industry, Ali joined the New York branch of Bloc Talent Agency, one of the country’s top talent agencies as in intern. Ali then became the Manager of the world renowned Broadway Dance Center and oversaw the daily operations of BDC. Ali eventually returned to Atlanta where she graduated Summa Cum Laude from Georgia State University with a BBA in Marketing. While in college, Ali began teaching in the Atlanta area and developed a competition company that tripled in size in just 3 years. After graduation, Ali worked full time at Brown Bag Marketing in Buckhead as a Project Manager while directing a competition company in her spare time. During her time in her professional career, Ali discovered her calling for teaching and leading, and worked tirelessly to develop a studio unlike any other in the in-town Atlanta area. In September of 2017, Ali opened Elite Studios to provide dancers with the opportunities to reach their highest potentials and create a generation of kind, talented, hard working, and humble youth. Ali brings together all of her experiences and lessons with an ecstatic energy and incredible passion. She teaches and leads her students, and all of the students at Elite Studios, to inspire greatness, enable growth, instill kindness, and spark passion in and out of the dance studio.
Sarah Allen found her passion for dance at the age of ten. Two years later, she joined the world of competitive dancing where she won numerous scholarships and awards. After graduating high school, she began studying at Kennesaw State University while also furthering her dance training. She joined Project 7 Dance, an Atlanta professional contemporary dance company, in 2012 under the direction of Cherrise Wakeham. Through her, she has performed shows in Atlanta, New York City, and Los Angeles. Sarah has also the opportunity to dance in various film projects in Atlanta. To further her career in dance, Sarah plans to share her unique sense of musicality and expression with others through teaching dance.
Autumn Allen began her journey with dance at the age of 3. After falling in love with the art, she decided to further her commitment with dance. At age 6, she was accepted into the competition company at her studio. Studio and Company 23, under the direction of Shannon Childers, soon became her second home and is where she won many for her awards and acknowledgements. She has received numerous scholarships and won top soloist at various dance competitions and conventions including Nuvo, Hall of Fame Dance, League of Champions, 24/7 Dance, Star Systems, and Jump. In 2015, Autumn was an understudy for the show, SHE Untethered, under the direction of Cherrise Wakeham in Long Beach, California. She then performed in her first professional show in the Fall performance of SHE Untethered in Atlanta, Georgia. In the summer of 2016, she performed in the show Mutual Core, under the direction of Jon Carr. That same year she danced and acted in various film projects with director Janlatae Mullins. In the fall of 2017, she performed in Jon Carr’s show Bouquet dancing in the pieces choreographed by Jon Carr and Sarah Allen. She then performed in the show Union also under the direction of Jon Carr in June of 2018. She is currently attending Kennesaw State University to obtain a degree in psychology, so she can later study the healing qualities the art of dance has to offer.
Hope received her training from Dance Dynamics Studio in Macon, GA. She grew up dancing competitively in all styles, and at the age of 14 fell in love with choreographing. Her senior self-choreographed solo won many first overalls and choreography awards through the season. Hope is now a dance major at Kennesaw State University where she trains and broadens her knowledge of dance through an academic lens. Since recently moving to Atlanta, she has choreographed for Dance 411’s Choreography Showcase, worked on projects with Rachel Truitt and Jon Carr, performed with the KSU Dance Company, secured a spot in Cirque Du Soleil’s dancer database, and danced on CW’s T.V. show “Legacies.” She hopes to continue to grow as a versatile dancer, choreographer, and teacher while sharing her love for dance.
Tally Frieder is a former member of the SanFrancisco Ballet under the esteemed direction ofHelgi Tomasson. Ms. Frieder-Balakirskyhas danced soloist and principle roles in a wide variety of choreographic styles. These include many ballets such asHelgi Tomasson’s “Swan Lake”, Anthony Tudor’s”Dark Elegies”, and Balanchine’s “Serenade”. While at the San Francisco Ballet, Ms. Frieder-Balakirskyworkedwith numerous choreographers during the creation of new works. Most notably, she worked with choreographer Val Caniparoli who created two leading pas de deux for her. In her earlier years, Ms. Frieder-Balakirskydanced with OaklandBallet where she performed numerous roles including the title role of Giselle.Ms. Frieder-Balakirskywas born in Haifa, Israel. As a child she moved to the United States and received many dance scholarships, including Jofferey Ballet School, the school of American Ballet, and the National Academy of the Arts boarding school. Ms. Frieder-Balakirskyhas taught adults and children at various schools in Maryland, Virginia, andD.C. since 1994. Since moving to the Atlanta area, she has taught company and pre-professional classes at the Georgia Ballet under the direction of Fiona Fairrie and the Atlanta Ballet’s fellowship program under the direction of Gennadi Nedvigin. Ms. Frieder-Balakirskyholds a BA in Creative Arts Therapy from The George Washington University.
Marina Salama is a dancer/choreographer based in Atlanta, Georgia. She graduated from Elite Studios in 2022 and attended the CLI Conservatory, where she spent nine months training to become a professional dancer/choreographer! She graduated from CLI in May of this year and is so happy to be back at Elite Studios as an Alumni teaching where she was once trained!