​Madeline’s early training began at the age of 10 with the Toledo Ballet where she trained in classical ballet, contemporary, jazz, and voice. She attended Joffrey and ABT summer intensives and placed top 12 contemporary for YAGP in 2017. In addition to her studies, training, and performing, Madeline enjoyed working as an instructor and Rehearsal Director. In 2018, she left for Ohio to continue her training at The University of North Carolina School of the Arts. At UNCSA, Madeline studied ballet, Limon, Cunningham, Graham, counter-technique, and other styles of dance. In 2022, she graduated UNCSA with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. Following graduation, Madeline accepted a traineeship with New Orleans Ballet Theatre and had the pleasure of learning more about life in a professional company. This past summer, she enjoyed working as a teacher at the Toledo Met and became certified in Progressive Ballet Technique. In her free time, she enjoys reading, exploring the outdoors, trying new foods and activities, and spending time with loved ones. She is excited to continue honing her teaching skills and sharing her passion for dance here in Columbia.

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​Rachel Mooney was born in Albany, New York and began dancing around the age of three, when she was enrolled in dance classes at a local studio. She started dancing competitively around the age of six and from here her love of dance grew. At the start of high school Rachel moved to Syracuse, New York, where she continued training in numerous styles at Tawn Maries Dance Centre. Here she danced under the direction of Tawn Lombardo, with teachers Tami Zerillo and Sherri Campagni. At this studio Rachel worked with choreographers such as Michael Minery, Aaron Parkhurst, Brea Perdue, and Kevin Tate.

Rachel graduated high school and continued her dance education at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. She obtained her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Contemporary Dance under the direction of deans Susan Jaffe and Endalyn Taylor. While Training at UNCSA her performance highlights include works by Robert Battle, Igal Perry, Shen Wei, José Limón, Merce Cunningham, Gaspard Louis, Juel Lane, Ashley Lindsey, and Mariana Oliveira. Rachel now is looking forward to teaching, choreographing and performing professionally.

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​Ginny Burt is a junior at USC, originally from Virginia Beach, Virginia. Growing up she competed in all styles of dance from age 13 to 18. She was a company member of Denise Walls Dance Energy’s national winning company traveling to conventions like NUVO, Jump, 24/7, NYCDA, Radix, the Dance Awards and more. She also is featured in 2018 Netflix documentary “I Dream of Dance” which followed her company’s season in 2017/2018. She is the recipient of Break the Floor scholarships and awards and was granted the opportunity to attend the Joffrey South Ballet & Jazz summer intensive. Ginny is passionate about health and fitness and loves conditioning for athletes. She is studying retail with a Minor in English and is a member of Tri Delta where she helps to choreograph and compete in the homecoming Spurs & Struts dance competition every fall. She loves the water, concerts, reality tv and cooking healthy meals!

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Hope Wilberger is a senior at the University of South Carolina majoring in Music Industry Studies. Hope is from Florence, South Carolina and she grew up in Buford, Georgia where she took dance classes for eleven years and competed for four. Hope moved to South Carolina at the age of 13 where she continued her competitive and artistic dance career. In high school, Hope was a varsity cheerleader and was awarded MVP her senior year when she was the captain. She also participated in musical theater and assisted in choreography. In Hope’s freshman year of college, she attended Stetson University and made the Division I Cheerleading team for both game day and competitive. Since moving to Columbia to finish her undergrad degree at UofSC, Hope has decided that her dance career is not over, and she is so excited to begin teaching at Bailey Fine Arts!​

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​Karlyn McLeod grew up in Georgetown, South Carolina where she began taking dance classes at the age of 5. Karlyn continued dancing in Georgetown until her Junior year of High School when she attended the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities to study classical ballet and modern. After graduating in 2014, Karlyn attended Winthrop University both for her undergraduate degree in French and her master’s degree in education. During her time at Winthrop she choreographed 3 musicals including 2 children’s musicals for Rock Hill Community Theater and a student directed play of Rag Tag Theatre’s Rapunzel. She also taught dance fitness classes for Winthrop students and faculty throughout her undergraduate and graduate years. Last year Karlyn moved to Columbia to begin teaching French at Ridge View high school where she also choreographed Willy Wonka Jr. Karlyn is very excited to begin teaching at Bailey Fine Arts this year!

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​Ryanne Fogarty has been dancing with Bailey Fine Arts for 15 years, where she has studied many different styles, such as ballet, pointe, jazz, tap, theatrical, lyrical/contemporary, and hip hop. She is a senior company member of the Bailey Fine Arts Competition Team, and had the opportunity to perform in Disney World, where she got to take classes from professionally trained instructors. Ryanne has also participated in Dance Theatre of Columbia since she was seven years old, and has performed in Alice In Wonderland, Red Riding Hood, Wizard of Oz, and Babes In Toyland. Ryanne has been assisting for many years, and is looking forward to sharing her talents as a teacher this year!

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Blair Kirkland is a student in the South Carolina Honors College at the University of South Carolina majoring in Dance Education and has many years of experience in the styles of ballet/pointe, tap, jazz, theatrical, hip hop, lyrical, and contemporary. Blair has participated in the Joffrey Summer Musical Theatre Intensive in New York City. She has attended the SC Summer Dance Conservatory Contemporary and Ballet Intensives. She is a member of the Bailey Fine Arts Competition Company, and had the opportunity to perform with the company in Disney. While there the company had the opportunity to train with working Disney professionals. Blair has performed her solos at competition and received Elite Platinum scores, along with many other accolades, including scholarships and judge’s awards for Technique and for Showmanship. She was also honored to be selected to compete in Platinum National Dance Competition’s Ultimate Invitational. Blair has performed for many years with Dance Theatre of Columbia. She has performed in DTC’s Wizard of Oz (Glenda), Red Riding Hood, Babes in Toyland (Bo Peep), and Alice in Wonderland (Alice). Blair was also a captain of the inaugural competition dance team at her high school, Gray Collegiate Academy.

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Carrie Eberhardt is in her eleventh year of teaching at Bailey Fine Arts. She loves teaching dance, especially tap! Carrie grew up in Hamburg, NY, just outside of Buffalo. She began dancing at Hamburg Dance Center at age 4, and danced there for 14 years, training in ballet, tap, and jazz. She attended college at SUNY Fredonia, where she earned her BS in Mathematics with a Theatre minor. Next, she moved south, to pursue her MS in Mathematical Sciences at Clemson, but also found many opportunities to participate in community theatre, and met her husband Mat! Carrie has 3 children, Nick (age 15), Emmie (age 12), and Lily (age 7). All three of them love dancing at BFA!

In the last few years, Carrie has also found a new theatre home at Town Theatre, where she has gotten to use her dance and theatre training in shows such as “Big Fish,” “Catch Me If You Can,” and most recently, “Mary Poppins”. Carrie has lived in Columbia for 17 years, and is so glad to have found a dance home at Bailey Fine Arts Centre!

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Lisa grew up taking lessons in tap, jazz, theatrical, ballet and pointe, studying with Joel Ruminer in Arkansas and Gil McNaughton in Iowa. In her senior year of high school, she was invited to dance with Wren Cook and Friends Dance, where she was introduced and trained in the genres of Contemporary and Modern. Dancing with this company also allowed her the opportunity to travel to local schools and teach in their after school dance programs. Deferring college to dance professionally with Wren was an easy decision and dancing all day every day grew her knowledge exponentially. Lisa then went on to spend several seasons with Carolina Gymnastics teaching ballet technique for their competition team and later on opened her own small homeschool dance company called “Happy Soles”. In 1997, she took a step back to have a beautiful baby girl and in 2003, came back to dance by joining the Bailey Fine Arts Staff. For over a decade, Lisa has also enjoyed being a choreographer and leader for the award winning BFA competition company, with her pieces and dancers bringing home many judges awards and top scores every season. Lisa is ecstatic to be celebrating her 20th year teaching at Bailey Fine Arts and has loved the family she has met there. Lisa also works for Columbia Children’s Theatre where she is heading into her 11th season as the Youth Theatre and Main Stage choreographer. She feels incredibly blessed to get to spend every day teaching and getting to know and invest in so many fabulous children of all ages. Relationships are her absolute favorite part of her job!

Lisa is excited to step into a new role this fall as “Lolly” to her grandson arriving this November!

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Bailey Larkin first found her passion for dance from her Mom, and fellow staff member, Lisa Sendler, and began dancing at Bailey Fine Arts at the age of 5. During her 21 years at BFA, Bailey has gotten to both study and teach ballet, tap, jazz, lyrical, pointe, hip hop, theatrical, contemporary, and conditioning classes. In addition to her time as a student and teacher, Bailey has also spent time as both a Bailey Fine Arts Competition Company member and is in her 6^th year as a choreographer for the award-winning company where she has brought home many top placements and judges awards over the years. Bailey loves to share her passion for the art of dance and hopes to pass along the same joy of learning and performing to her students!

When not teaching dance, Bailey works as a Speech-Language Pathologist after recently graduating with her master’s from The University of South Carolina in 2022. Bailey and her husband Cameron are also excited to be welcoming their first child in November of this year and look forward to watching him grow up surrounded by their Bailey Fine Arts family!

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Chevis Fogarty grew up dancing at Bailey Fine Arts Centre where she studied tap, ballet, pointe, jazz and theatrical, alongside owner Cari Kirkland. Together they performed in numerous Dance Theatre of Columbia productions, including “Alice in Wonderland”. Chevis started teaching dance as a junior in high school, and continued teaching at a studio in Charleston while attending college. She later returned back to Columbia and has been on staff at Bailey Fine Arts for nearly 20 years!Chevis is happily married to Marc Fogarty and they have two girls, Ryanne and TaylorAnne, who also dance at Bailey Fine Arts and are a part of the BFA Competition Company. Chevis has worked for AstraZeneca as a Pharmaceutical Sales Specialist for the past 20 years, but her passion is teaching dance!

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