Rachel Cyr
Rachel is a graduate of the University of Connecticut with a BFA in Theatre Arts. She comes to us with a strong theatre background. She was the acting coach during the 2009 Broadway Intensive at Experimental Movement Concepts. Due to rave reviews of the program, she has joined the Musical Theatre Department. In addition to the theatre, she is also a skilled dance instructor and will be teaching several different levels of dancers at EMC this fall.

Ashly Hamilton
Ashly received her A.A. degree in Dance performance from Cecil College and is currently enrolled at Towson University as a Dance Performance and Education major. She has trained with numerous instructors in ballet, jazz, tap, modern and hip-hop for the past 10 years. While attending Cecil College she was awarded a Scholarship for excellence in dance from the Cecil County Arts Council. Ms. Hamilton has received additional training from Goucher College Summer intensive, Maryland Dance Festival, and Co. Dance Competition in which she was recognized out of over 200 girls with a Red Ribbon from Maryanne Lamb(original cast member of Broadway’s “Chicago”) for excellence in dance. She was also the recipient of various scholarships while attending Maryland Dance festival including one week summer intensive at Kinetics. In 2008 she was given the opportunity to dance in the film Step Up 2 as a background dancer. Other performances include title roles in Chrous Line, Nutcracker, Beauty and the Best, Aladdin, and Little Mermaid.

Kristen Tirocchi
Kristen began her dance training at the early age of 3 years old. Since then, Kristen has developed a dance background that consists of Ballet, Pointe, Jazz, Tap, Modern, Hip Hop, and Competition Jazz Dance. In 2008, Kristen graduated from Towson University with a B.F.A. degree in Dance Performance and Education, along with a minor in English. While at Towson, Kristen had the opportunity to study with various faculty and guest artists, to perform in many concerts, and she also choreographed a dance for the camera piece which won second place in the 2006 Student Media Arts Festival. Also, during her time at Towson, Kristen had the opportunity to attend various dance and art conferences, such as Bates Dance Festival, American College Dance Festival, Arts Advocacy Day 2007, and the Florida Dance Festival. In 2007, Kristen received a position to perform professionally with the Baltimore Lady Blackbirds dance team during the football league's inaugural season. Kristen’s main passion is teaching dance to children of all ages, and she has done so for the past 5 years. Currently, Kristen enjoys being a dance teacher at EMC and also a dancer of Impulse Movement Project in Baltimore, Maryland.

 
At times, advanced EMC dancers will teach in the Dancin' for Fun! Program as a part of EMC's teacher training program. They are always under the close supervision of the Director, Robin Snyder-Wiencek.

Each instructor has been dancing since early childhood and is currently dancing in EMC's most advanced level of technique. They study dance for 15 hours per week. They are members of an  EMC student dance company and many aspire to pursue teaching as a career.