Inwood Performing Arts Company Faculty
Denna Smith - Artistic Director- Graduate of Shenandoah College and Conservatory of Music with graduate study at American University. Studied at the Royal Academy of Dancing in London, England and Toronto, Canada.
Winston Smith - Managing Director- Trained
in International and American Social Ballroom Dancing. Holds an Associate Teaching
Certificate from the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing.
Shan Dai - Assistant Director-Principal
dancer with the Central Ballet of China and taught at the Bejing Dance Academy.
Came to theUnited States in 1986 to teach at University of Rochester.
Mary Ann Mallott - Ballet- Graduate of Penn
State with a B. S. in Rehabilitation. Studied under Tom O'Steen for 9 years.
Student at Inwood Performing Arts Co. for 12 years
Nancy Stevens - Irish Step Dance- Placed
17th in World Championships as a Junior Competitor. A IPAC faculty member for
over 5 years.
Sidney Stephens - Irish Step Dance - Student at the IPAC for 10 years. Studied at Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet last summer as well as attended the Jazz Fance World Congress in Chicago.
Amelia Thomas - Tapp and Jazz - Amelia has
studied dance at the IPAC for 11 years. Member of the Inwood Dance Company for
4 years. Attended South Carolina Dance Conservatory last summer.
Erin Conefrey - Irish Step Dance-Student
at Shenandoah University