Andrea earned a Masters of Science degree in Kinesiology from A.T. Still University where she studied as a strength and conditioning specialist. She also holds a BA in Dance and French from the Pennsylvania State University where she performed as a member of the Orchesis Dance Company. She is a current member of the International Association for Dance Science and Medicine and previously completed 2 certification sessions of Zena Rommett Floorbarre®. She has appeared in 2regiona television commercials and the Curtain Call Costume Catalogue. She has been practicing pilates-based exercises for 30 years and utilizes this knowledge in her teaching. She is a certified Level 1 Progressing Ballet Technique teacher.
Andrea grew up dancing at the School of Music and Dance in Hanover, PA and performed there with the Nebula Performing Company. She also studied ballet at the Pennsylvania Ballet in Philadelphia, the School of American Ballet (SAB) in NYC, the Governor’s School for the Arts in Erie, and at Steps in NYC. She attended Shenandoah University’s Master of Dance Performance program where she studied Dance Performance and was a member of the Conservatory’s Dance Ensemble.
Andrea has held the title of New York City Dance Alliance’s Capezio Dancer of the Year under Joe Lanteri and the Miss Central Pennsylvania crown. Both included scholarship awards and she had the opportunity to perform at the Miss PA pageant. Andrea has also been a judge for the Miss America pageant organization. She previously assisted Marcea Lane (who was in Michael Jackson’s Thriller video) as Marcea’s assistant at Joe Tremaine Dance Conventions. While living in Philadelphia, Andrea performed with and was a member of the modern dance company TIDE. She also choreographed and performed as a member of the La Vie Dansante dance company.
Andrea enjoys spending time with her family, going to the beach, reading evidence-based dance articles from the IADMS journal, playing with her cats Sassafras and Moonshadow and gardening. Andrea endeavors to share her passion for dance through teaching. She has been teaching for 28 years.
Chrissie Boshinski Restrepo grew up dancing all over Central PA. She began her training at 3 years old with Cumberland Dance Company, now known as Pennsylvania Regional Ballet. She transferred to Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet before her Freshman year of High School. She danced at many summer camps including Dayton Ballet, Pennsylvania Ballet, Kaatsbaan Ballet, and CPYB. She expanded her training to include dancing in Heidelberg, Germany at the International Dance Festival and was a choreographer for Craft of Choreography Conference. Chrissie participated in many Regional Dance America NE festivals throughout her youth. After high school, she received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance from The Ohio State University. She danced briefly after college in Puerto Rico with the Western Ballet Theatre of Puerto Rico under Nana Badrena. Chrissie has her Pilates certification as well.
Outside of dance, Chrissie enjoys Pilates, Yoga, summertime, traveling, and enjoying time with her two daughters.
Heather Foley has been dancing since the age of four. Miss Heather attended West Chester University and received a degree in Elementary Education and a minor in dance.
While at West Chester, she participated in Dance Production Workshop as a dancer, choreographer, Treasurer, and President.
Miss Heather graduated Magna Cum Laude in 1995 and is currently a 6th grade English Language Arts teacher at Commonwealth Charter Academy. She has been instructing and dancing with Studio ’91 since September 1996. Miss Heather also helps with the competition team. She has choreographed several dances. Miss Heather has won two awards including an entertainment award and an outstanding choreography award.
Miss Heather and her husband have two daughters who both danced at the studio. Alexandra is now a nurse at a local hospital and Juli is in college. Juli also participated with the Studio ’91 competition team.
Jacqueline Wolford was born in Harrisburg, PA, where she began her dance training at the age of four. She studied at the Pennsylvania Regional Ballet, formerly the Cumberland Dance Company, under the direction of Sandra Carlino. Throughout her youth she attended summer programs at The Joffrey Ballet in New York City and performed at numerous Regional Dance America Northeast Festivals attaining several scholarships and awards. In summer 2004 Jacqueline participated in a cultural exchange in Heidelberg, Germany before attending college at SUNY Purchase.
As part of the Purchase Dance Corps, Jacqui trained with teachers such as Rosanna Seravalli, Ted Kivitt, Bettijane Sills, Richard Cook, Kevin Wynn, Megan Williams, Stephanie Tooman, Larry Clark, Neil Greenberg and Kazuko Hirabayashi. While there she performed principal roles in Purchase Dance Corps’ production of The Nutcracker, William Carter’s Bach Concerto, Bronislava Nijinska’s Les Noces, Merce Cunningham’s Duets, Helen Pickett’s 15 parts of memory, Jeffrey Gribler’s Bones and George Balanchine’s The Four Temperaments. Upon graduating Ms. Kilgore has performed with The Metropolitan Opera in La Gioconda: Dance of the Hours, choreographed by Christopher Wheeldon as well as The Pennsylvania Ballet in George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker.
Jacqui has been teaching all ages of contemporary, jazz, ballet and pointe at Studio ’91 since 2010. She hopes to continue inspiring our dancers to become strong, disciplined and confident individuals through the art of dance.
Jaime Thompson is a native of Central Pennsylvania. She is an alumnus of the Pennsylvania Regional Ballet, formerly Cumberland Dance Company. As a student Ms. Thompson attended summer intensives at Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, The Rock School of the Pennsylvania Ballet, and Boston Ballet.
She spent two years at Point Park University in Pittsburgh, PA and then finished her college education receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance from The Boston Conservatory in 2003. Upon moving to New York Ms. Thompson joined Laura Ward/ Octavia Cup Dance Theatre. She performed many original works choreographed by Ms. Ward at venues in and around NYC as well as at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland.
In 2008 Ms. Thompson joined Ballet for Young Audiences/Ballet Repertory NYC under the direction of Harriet Kinter and Ned Kinter. While with the company she performed principal roles including the Sugar Plum Fairy and Cinderella. Her final season with Ballet for Young Audiences she was the acting Ballet Mistress.
After moving to Florida in 2013 Ms. Thompson became a member of Tampa Ballet Theatre, directed by Lindsay Clark, and danced soloist roles in Les Sylphides, The Nutcracker, Paquita, and Coppelia.
In 2015 she gave birth to her daughter Weslynn and moved to Asheville, NC where she became a member of the Asheville Ballet, founded and headed by Ann Dunn. In conjunction with her work as a performer, Ms. Thompson has also taught at dance schools including Ballet Academy East, Lighthouse Dance Project, East End Performing Arts Studio, Long Island Academy of Dance, Elsa Pardo Dance Center, Tampa Bay Ballet, and WNC Dance Academy.
Jennifer Webb grew up & resides in Camp Hill, PA, where she began dancing at the age of 3 through the Cumberland County YWCA led by Anita Kissinger. Her dance education continued a few years later through high school graduation at the former Capital Area Dance Theater & as a member of the former Cumberland Dance Company. Upon graduating from East Pennsboro Area High School, she went on to receive a Bachelors of Art in Art concentrating in Graphic Design/Visual Communication with a Dance Minor from Salisbury University in Salisbury, MD, & was a member of the Salisbury University (SU) Dance Company as a Dancer, Choreographer & Officer Member.
While a member of the SU Dance Company, her tap-choreographed student work was awarded a formal adjudication, & it was the 1st time in the history of the company tap had received this honor. She also performed in the cast of SU’s West Side Story. Locally, Jennifer performed as a dancer in the Tempest with the Harrisburg Shakespeare Festival. After graduating from Salisbury, Jennifer returned to the area & began teaching with Kinderdance. She has also taught dance & movement with various local groups including Capital Area Dance Theater, Prazon Dance in Harrisburg and with Studio ’91. Since joining Studio ’91, Miss Jen has helped with the Competition Team & has created award-winning choreography. She is also the resident Studio ’91 Show Program Coordinator & a photography contributor.
Miss Jen is a full-time graphic designer working in marketing. She has one son, Alex, who is a top salesman for Guitar Center, an entrepreneur & a budding comedian.
Miss Kathy Furr graduated Magna Cum Laude from Allentown College in 1988 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in dance. Miss Kathy joined the studio in 1992.
Her studies included daily technique classes in modern and ballet, choreography, performance, history of dance, pas de deux / pointe, Kinesiology, Effort/Shape, and Labanotation.
In addition to these required classes, she performed with the Theater Department inEvita, George M!, and The Boyfriend as well as taking audition and acting classes.
Kathy has choreographed and performed in professional theatrical productions in Ohio, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Nevada.
Outside the studio, Miss Kathy and her husband perform locally in the band “The Quitters.” They also write and produce their own shows with their production company, “Soft Touch Productions.”
She also has extensive experience in music performance as a singer and musician. Her favorite instruments are piano/keyboard, trombone, harmonica, tambourine and the COWBELL!
Instructor and Office Manager
Madison Ritter was born in Camp Hill, PA and attended East Pennsboro Area High School. She danced at Studio ’91 up until her senior year of high school for a total of 13 years. Madison then furthered her education at Bloomsburg University where she majored in Business Management with a minor in Sociology.
She was a part of the Bloomsburg University Dance Ensemble all four years of college and became the lyrical teacher for the Dance Ensemble her senior year. This gave her the opportunity to teach anddemonstrate her own choreography for the Ensemble’s annual Fall and Spring Showcases.
Madison was also a part of the Bloomsburg University Dance Team all four years where the team danced a variety of styles including Jazz, Hip Hop and Contemporary. Madison’s senior year she became the Captain of the Dance Team. The Dance Team had the opportunity to preform at many events around campus including sporting events, fundraising events, and annual showcases.
Miss Madison is our office manager as well as a staff instructor at Studio ’91.
Michelle Ackerman grew up in Mechanicsburg, PA where she attended Cedar Cliff High School. She began dancing at age of four, attending Studio ‘91 until her high school graduation.
Furthering her education she attended Indiana University of Pennsylvania to major in Exercise Science with a minor in Dance. She was apart of the IUP Dance Theater, under the direction of Holly Boda-Sutton where she has the opportunity to perform in multiple modern productions. She also had professional dance opportunities with many dance companies such as, Koresh, Martha Graham, Rioult, and Kun-Yang Lin.
She has had courses in child psychology, motor development and behavior, anatomy and physiology, biomechanics, yoga, pilates, music theory, ethnic dance, choreography, along with her daily Modern and Ballet technique dance classes. After her college graduation she is working on her Strength and Conditioning Coach Certification through the National Strength and Conditioning Association.
Angel Torres is from Lebanon, PA and graduated from Lebanon High School in 2022. He has been dancing at Movement Laboratory (under the direction and training of internationally acclaimed professional dancer, actor, choreographer and director Mrs. Judy Williams Henry) since 2018.
Angel’s dance training is in modern, jazz, ballet, tap and of course hiphop.
Angel likes spending his time playing football, going to the gym, singing, playing drums/guitar and spending time with his family and friends. He is looking forward to joining the Studio 91 family and can’t wait to get started.
Jason Reed is the Competition Advisor to Studio 91 and began his first dance class at the age of 18. By age 21, he was attending The Juilliard School, where he received his Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree (in Dance) in the year 2000. Since graduating, he has expanded the scope of his fine arts expertise. He produces, directs, choreographs, teaches and performs for different companies, various shows, schools and ensembles.
Mr. Reed has worked and choreographed under the direction of the late international ballet star Rebecca Wright, and Eliot Feld at Ballet Tech in conjunction with the New York City Public School for Dance and the NYC Department of Education. Jason has worked with schools in the Arts and Education programs (Teacher Artist Partnership and Artist In Residence) in 12 different schools (in Cumberland and York Counties) since 2010 (in conjunction with the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts). Additionally, Mr. Reed worked for companies such as Kamen Entertainment Group (for over 15 years); a full scale independent record label and entertainment company in NYC who have amassed over 140 awards since 1987. Under the tutelage of MARINA (Kamen) and Mr. Roy Kamen, Jason honed his skills that span the entertainment spectrum.
Jason is also the founder of ReachUSA, Inc. Organization: Through a variety of programs spread across the Central Pennsylvania region, REACH! engages youth in performing arts activities to promote and teach the life skills necessary for success. In these programs, students learn to apply the same discipline and work ethic required in those programs to their academics, employment, extracurricular activities, and the maintenance of a healthy lifestyle (www.reachusainc.com)