Artistic Directors
  Alice Holden Bock - Artistic Director
 

Alice began her dance career in Jacksonville, Florida. She received extensive training from Bill Martin-Viscount at the Southwest Ballet Center in Arlington, Texas and The American Ballet Theatre. As a soloist with "Dance Alive", she toured throughout the mid-west and southeast in over 100 performances each year. Her performing credits include the Joffrey Ballet and the Bay Ballet Theater. While a soloist with Ballet Guild of Jacksonville, she became assistant to the director. Her responsibilities included choreographing ballets and teaching company classes. She went on to choreograph for many regional ballet companies throughout Florida.

Alice has had many of her jazz and ballet pieces performed at the Southeastern Regional Dance Association. Throughout her career, Alice has worked with such great choreographers and teachers as Anthony Ferro, Carl Ratcliff, Ann Burton, Meredith Baylis, Richard Thomas, Maggie Black, Elizabeth Carroll, Bobbie Barnette, Gus Giodano, Tom Pazik and Robert Joffrey. After many years of dancing, teaching and choreographing for different schools and ballet companies, she became Artistic Director of The Dance Center and The Brandon Ballet. She has brought many quality professionals together to help students build a solid foundation in all styles of dance. She takes great pride in guiding and watching the Brandon Ballet grow to a professional ballet company. She is also excited to see the quality of talent that Brandon Ballet is producing.

  Claire Andrews, MFA - Associate Artistic Director
 

Born in Shoreham-by-Sea, England where she began her dance training and raised in Bermuda, Ms. Andrews furthered her dance training by graduating from Walnut Hill School for the Performing Arts in Boston where she majored in ballet. After completing her BFA in Dance from Adelphi University in Long Island, New York, she went on to the University of Oklahoma where she was offered a graduate assistantship position and received her MFA in Dance. Since completing her master's degree she has taught at various studios, professional companies and universities, including the University of Kentucky, Transylvania University, Eastern Kentucky University, University of South Florida and Hillsborough Community College.

Prior to joining us here at the Brandon Ballet, Ms. Andrews taught advanced academic classes and choreographed works for the professional company, Kentucky Ballet Theater. Throughout her studies and career she has trained with Rochelle Zide Booth, Norman Walker, Sharon Randolph and Mary Margaret Holt to name a few. Ms. Andrews is a knowledgeable and gifted teacher and we are pleased to have her on staff at the Brandon Ballet. .

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