Last Updated Saturday August 22, 2009

	Jodie McMillan Artistic Director began her dancing career at the age of 5 in Grimsby Ontario. She pursued her love of dance throughout high school in Hamilton, and graduated from Ryerson University's Theater Dance Program. Teaching for over a decade, her passion for dance, skilled abilities and dynamic personality have established her as a highly respected teacher and choreographer throughout the province. Jodie has had the pleasure of teaching Jazz, Hip Hop, Ballet, Acro, and Swing at both recreational and competitive levels throughout the city of Toronto. Continuing to push her artistic abilities and creative limits, she has recently branched out into the educational system teaching numerous workshops and master classes. Her choreography has been viewed by thousands, and has always received raving reviews! Jodie's dancing credits include performing in shows with Karen Kain, Frank Augustyn, and Robert Desrosiers at Hamilton Place. She has also appeared in several music videos, television specials, films, festivals, and appeared on court at the Air Canada Center.
	Erika Serbu Co-Artistic Director is a graduate of the Ryerson University Theatre Dance program and has trained extensively in Los Angeles and New York. Selected dance works include Toronto Raptors Dance Pak, NBA halftime shows, World Cruise with Princess Cruise Lines, Romeo and Juliet Remixed, Fashion Cares and several live industrials for Nike, Shoppers Drug Mart, The Outdoorsman Show & More. Television and Film credits include; CBC, TSN, ESPN, Bravo, Much Music, City TV and Canadian Film Centre. Videos for 5440, Boomtang Boyz, Howie Beck, The Swallows and Big Kenny, to name a few.
	Jerome Bobb is a dynamic, passionate; performer, teacher and choreographer! He has been performing since the age of 14 and has been dancing and teaching for 10 years. He offers intensive choreography and a high energy class with an emphasis on the love of dance and performing with a positive attitude! Jerome has performed for exciting projects such as, Bud Light commercial “Square Dancers”, the film “Ruby’s Bucket of Blood” and Muchmusic Canada. He has also choreographed and performed for various industrials and events for Paramount Canada’s Wonderland, Sauza Tequila, Jack - Astor’s Bar & Grill Annual Bar Competitions, Carrasauga, Mississauga Arts Awards and The Sunshine Foundation Cancer Society. In addition, Jerome has had the opportunity to work and perform along side Angela Bassett, Montel Williams, Gavin Hope and Martha Wash. Jerome’s has also created funky works for Toronto pop group I.C.6, and r&b vocal group ORA. Most recently, his choreography has been featured in the “State Street Stomp” music video for The Canadian Brass. This spring, “State Street Stomp” quickly climbed to the #3 spot on The Bravo Network. As a dance instructor, Jerome has been working with and teaching children, teens and adults in various studios in the Toronto Area, and provides master classes for various workshops throughout North America. Jerome is very excited to be to be part of the Front & Center Dance Academy staff!
	Lauren Collis began her training in gymnastics and dance at the very young age of two. Shortly after, she was competing in gymnastics provincially and by the age of ten was intensely training for the '94 Olympics. She pursued her education at Claude Watson School of the Arts and kept up her training and competing in dance competitions all over North America. Some of her professional credits include dancing for the The Toronto Raptors Dance Pak. As well as choreographing for gala events and live industrials shows for Bell Canada. Television and film credits include commercials for Milk, Pizza Pops and most recently a video for British pop star Robbie Williams. Lauren is also the talent coordinator for the Mandell Entertainment Group. She loves to dance, teach and most of all perform.
	Emily Getz has been studying gymnastics and dance since the age of five. Throughout her secondary schooling she continued to study ballet, jazz and hip hop at well established studios in the city such as Metro Movement. She is a certified gymnastics coach with five years teaching experience at various gym clubs around the GTA. Selected dance works include Toronto’s Fashion Cares-Hollywood Bollywood, Little Shop of Horrors and Urban Dance Company in Hamilton. Recently, Emily has returned from a summer internship in New York City at the Broadway Dance Centre and is now continuing her training at Randolph Academy for the Performing Arts.
	Kate Hutcheson Coming soon....
	Christine Moore has been dancing since the age of four. She received her formal training at the Royal Winnipeg Ballet. She studied ballet, jazz, tap and musical theatre in the professional division of the school. She graduated with a B.F.A. from the University of Utah majoring in Ballet with an emphasis in teaching and performing. Christine performed as a soloist with the Utah Ballet in "Cascades, Bride's Tree and Vivaldi's Concerto." She also performed as a soloist with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet in "Paquita". Christine continued her training at Steps through their scholarship program, and Broadway Dance in New York City. She has taught ballet, jazz, tap, hip hop and musical theatre in various dance schools in Winnipeg, as well as Salt Lake City area, and is thrilled to be a part of the faculty at Front & Centre!
	Cleopatra Williams is a graduate of the Randolph Academy for the performing arts. Theatre credits include Grease (Stage West Calgary), Oklahoma and South Pacific (Sunshine Festival), That’s Debatable (Stage kids), West Side Story (J. Spetter) and Anne of Green Gables (City Playhouse Theatre), Dance works include On My Way Home (DuDat/Luther Brown), Choreographer’s Ball (M. Kimelman), Fashion Cares (J. Conley) and Toronto Raptors Dance Pak (Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment). T.V and Film Credits include commercials for Pop Stars, “Say NO”, Quest Personals and Class Act (Life Network). Various industrials for Bell Mobility, Wella, The Bay and more. Cleo is thrilled to be joining the faculty at Front & Centre.
	Stacey Gonder began dancing at the age of eight and has danced competitively at Theatre Dance Academy in Oshawa. After completing her training at TDA, Stacey went on to study dance at York University. She has continuously performed professionally throughout her twenty-two years as a dancer and choreographer. This has included live dinner theatre shows, Canada’s Wonderland, The Canadian National Exhibition, Electric Circus and the Toronto Raptor’s. Also, she has performed on tour with the Living Legends Impersonators, Prairie Oyster and was a featured performer with Wilson Dance Projects. Stacey has taught with the Canadian National Ballet School, and is a guest choreographer for many Studios and High School Productions as well as Independent Works through her experience with Modern Dance. For more than 10 years, Stacey has taught both recreational and competitive dance in Tap, Jazz, Ballet, Lyrical, Musical Theatre, Hip Hop and Pre-Dance. Many of Stacey’s students have successfully completed their B.A.T.D. exams with exceptional marks. As well, Stacey owns and operates a successful Costume and Apparel business, Flash Design Company that specializes in custom design for competitive dancers. She attended the International Academy of Design and Technology to study the art of Costume Design. She has constructed costumes and clothing for many films, theatre productions and independent works.
Photo coming soon....	Mario Castillo currently performing with Canadian Artist Shawn Desman, Jungle has also toured all over North America with recording artists Dream, alongside N'Sync, Destiny's Child, and 98 Degrees. From all his experience and success as a dancer, he was given the opportunity to work with Robbie Williams, choreographing his music video "Radio", one of his singles off his latest album playing worldwide. You can also catch him dancing in the successful film "Honey", which stars Jessica Alba, Mekhi Phifer, Lil' Romeo, Missy Elliott and many others. In addition to performing live, choreographing, and appearing in movies, Jungle can also be spotted in many commercials such as the fresh "Milk Rap" that aired across Canada and "Coca Cola" starring Christina Aguilera. Being ranked among the very top professional dancers, he's superiorly qualified having over ten years of experience and training in almost all forms of dance. His busy schedule also involves teaching Hip Hop classes in Toronto, as well as conducting numerous workshops around the world.
Photo coming soon....	Jill Rubenstein-Saltzman for the past fourteen years, Jill has turned her passion for fitness into a joyful and rewarding career. This career began in her hometown of Winnipeg Manitoba where she entered the fitness industry as a group exercise instructor while concurrently studying for her B.A. at the University of Manitoba. In 1997, upon the completion of her degree, Jill decided to move to Toronto where she could build upon her wide-ranging group exercise and personal training experiences and turn her love for fitness into a full-time profession. While teaching group exercise for clubs such as Mayfair and Sports Clubs of Canada, Jill obtained her certification in Pre and Post Natal Fitness to complement her earlier certifications in Group Exercise and Personal Training. She also broadened her knowledge base in order to provide full lifestyle coaching. In 2000 Jill branched out from the fitness clubs and formed her own in-home personal training business. This exciting decision allowed her to focus on and create flexible, individualized fitness plans that meet the specific desires of her many clients, ranging from older adults to young teenage girls. Jill takes great pride in offering her clients and class participants a motivating and effective style of exercise and she continually attends conferences and workshops where she keeps up with all that's hot and not in the industry. Lastly, as a full- time mother of three young children, Jill knows how difficult it can be to maintain an active lifestyle in this 24/7 world. Through it all though Jill has always been motivated to stay as active as her kids keep her and she is dedicated to offering both fun and inspiring workouts to people of all fitness levels so that each individual may achieve his or her goals.