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Bill and Lynn Balderson
Lynn is the program director at Dance
Express. She is a 1979 graduate of Atlantic
Christian College with a degree in Deaf
Education. She brings 21 years experience
of teaching with her to Dance Express. With
her love of children and dance, she provides
Wilmington with an award-winning
Performing Arts Studio. Bill is a member of
USA Gymnastics and has experience
coaching competitive gymnastics. Bill as
been teaching at Dance Express from the
beginning in 1997. He instructs the
Acrobatics program at Dance Express.
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Danielle Poulos
Danielle trained in Long Island, New York
and took classes regularly at BDC in NYC.
She moved to Wilmington in 1993 and has
taught locally since that time. Danielle
taught the dance team at East Columbus
High School (the Gator Girls), which was
ranked Nationally for six years, receiving 3rd
Nationally and 1st in North Carolina. She
has also choreographed and directed
numerous musicals. Danielle has her
degree in Dance Education from ECU. She
has been with Dance Express since 2000.
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Cammi Jones
Cammi is a native of Wilmington and has
been teaching clogging for 15 years. She
has won several awards for choreography
and has led many teams to victories
including 4 Competition "Top Scores," and 2
Junior Olympic Gold Medals. She is also a
member of the All-American Clogging Team.
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Trey McCaskill
Trey has been competitively coaching and
performing with the Dance Express
Cloggers since 1997. In 2003, he was
inducted to the All-American Clogging Team
at the National Clogging Championships.
He is a member of the North Carolina
Clogging Association. Trey's had the
privilege of teaching for the NCCA and other
regional workshops. His clogging teams
and dance productions have won numerous
achievements and include the 2002
Starquest Odyssey Award (Most
Entertaining Routine).
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Amanda Dew
Amanda is a native from Wilmington, NC
and has been competitively clogging for
seventeen years. She has danced in
clogging competitions up and down the
East Coast. Amanda is also a member of
the North Carolina Clogging Association.
She has been teaching at Dance Express
since 2002. Amanda graduated in summer
of 2006 from Cape Fear Community
College and is planning to attend UNCW to
continue her education.
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Tia Hazel
Tia Hazel is a 2004 Business Management
graduate of UNC Wilmington. She has
been training and competing in dance for
the past 21 years, and has taught for six
years. She has choreographed routines for
dance competitions, pageants, productions,
dance team, and Best Foot Forward. She
was also a preliminary talent winner at the
Miss North Carolina Scholarship Program.
She brings with her experience a strong
background and passion for tap, as well as
a love of being on stage.
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Morgan Butler
Morgan Butler is attending UNCW majoring
in Early Childhood Education. She comes
from Morehead City, North Carolina, where
she was a dancer for fifteen years. She
also assisted for two years before
graduating from high school. She brings
with her to Dance Express experience in
ballet, pointe, tap, jazz, lyrical, and tumbling.
She has a strong background in music from
high school Color Guard, children's church
musicals, amd community-sponsored
theatre productions.
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Su Sirianni
Su Sirianni, a native North Carolinian,
studied ballet with Jean Harris and John
Walker in her hometown of Wilson. She
trained professionally at North Carolina
School of the Arts and with Lee Harper and
Anthony Ferro in Atlanta. She danced with
Lee Harper and Dancers, a professional
contemporary company. She worked for
several years with Opera House Theatre
Company. Su has taught dance here in
Wilmington for 13 years.
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Maggie Moore
Maggie Moore is originally from Roanoke,
VA and has been dancing for 20 years. She
earned her BFA in Dance from George
Mason University in 2004. She has been a
dance instructor for twelve years and has
worked in Virginia, Florida, and Maine.
While she specializes in contemporary,
Maggie also enjoys and instructs ballet,
jazz, hip-hop, lyrical, and tap. Fairly new to
Wilmington, she looks forward to continuing
her teaching career at Dance Express.
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