Dancing Arts Center Welcomes International Faculty for Summer Program

Dancing Arts Center is excited to announce its participating faculty for the upcoming summer program.

Professional ballet dancers and instructors Eyla Jeschke and Stephanie Roig will join current DAC faculty and DAC Co-directors, Gregg Saulnier and Patrick Noatro, for DAC’s six-week summer program.

Eyla Jeschke received her ballet education in Berlin with Tatjana Gsovsky, at the Royal Ballet School in London with Marian Lane, and at the John Cranko School in Stuttgart with Heinz Clauss. She began her professional career with the Hamburg Ballet, where she worked with John Neumeier. She also danced with the Royal Ballet of Flanders in Antwerp, and at the National Ballet of the Netherlands in Amsterdam. Jeschke has trained with Truman Finney, Woytek Lowski, Alexander Prokofiev and Maria Aradi amongst many others.  In 2012, she moved to Boston, and currently teaches at Jose Mateo’s Ballet Theatre and the Brookline Ballet School.



Stephanie Roig received the Friends of the Hartford Ballet Merit Scholarship award and a National Foundation for Advancement award at age 17, and was asked to join Hartford Ballet that same year.

She trained under Alla Osipenko, former Prima Ballerina of the Kirov Ballet and student of Agrippina Vaganova; Maria Youskevitch, former ballerina of American Ballet Theatre; and Kirk Peterson, former ABT Principal Dancer and Hartford Ballet Artistic Director.

Her repertoire with Hartford Ballet includes much of the company’s performances from 1994-2000, where she performed at the Hollywood Bowl as well as Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, Brazil. She also has performed at Jacob’s Pillow.

In 2000, Roig joined the Cincinnati Ballet, where she had dance soloist and principal roles in Frederick Franklin’s Swan Lake, Masinne’s Gaite Parisienne, and Seventh Symphony, Morgan’s Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Cinderella, Caniparoli’s Nutcracker, Peterson’s Sleeping Beauty, Don Quixote, Coppelia, Burning Dreams, Simmons’ Beauty and the Beast, and Aliev’s A Thousand and One Nights.  

From 2009-2013, Roig helped create Northern Cincinnati Youth Ballet. In 2012, she received the Youth America Grand Prix’s Outstanding Teacher Award.

DAC is still accepting registration, but space is filling fast, for its Preliminary (ages 3 – 5) Preparatory (ages 6 – 9) and Intensive summer program, which begin June 30 and extends to August 15. Preliminary and Preparatory students have the opportunity to take 1 - 3 weeks of exciting camps.  Beginner through Advanced levels have the opportunity to take up to six weeks of world-class instruction.

This summer, DAC will include the American Ballet Theatre® national training curriculum, a program that combines high quality artistic training with the basics of dancer health and child development. It consists of a comprehensive set of age-appropriate, outcome-based guidelines to provide the highest quality ballet training to dance students of all ages and skill levels.

“Our summer program promises to be filled with exciting dance classes and thoughtful supplemental education designed to provide an exceptional well-rounded experience - all led by DAC's amazing staff,” says DAC Co-Director Gregg Saulnier.

He says the summer is also an excellent time for current upper level students to teach younger students. DAC student, Sara Knapp, is currently training with Mr. Saulnier and Ms. Karen Edison, and will be Mr. Saulnier's assistant teacher for the Preliminary and Preparatory programs.