| Faculty |
| Margaret Carlston is the owner and Artistic Director of M. C. Classical Productions. Mrs. Carlston was born in Rochester, New York and is a graduate and faculty member of the Orcutt/Botsford School of Dance, and affiliate training school of The American Ballet Theater. She was also faculty member and director of the Fisher/Botsford School of Dance as well as Adjunct Professor for St. John Fisher College. Her principal teachers were Luba Gulyava, former soloist with the world renowned Kirov Ballet and Jurgen Schneider, former ballet coach of the American Ballet Theater. Mrs. Carlston has taken master classes with Mikhail Baryshnikov. Other teachers include Yehuda Maor, Denise Warner Limoli, Fernando Bujones and Miguel Lopez. She has also trained with the Fort Worth Ballet and with the San Francisco School of Ballet. At Orcutt/Botsford, she was part of the original cast of Peter and the Wolf. She also danced a variety of roles in The Nutcracker, Giselle, Les Sylphides, Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake and Four Seasons. Mrs. Carlston has taught classical ballet to both children and adults as well as directed, staged and choreographed a number of productions. Some of her students have studied at the San Francisco School of Ballet, The Joffrey Ballet, Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, New York State Summer School of the Arts, Walnut Hill School for the Arts, Ballet Regents, Nazareth Summer School of the Arts, Geva Theater Summer Program, as well as have been accepted to dance programs at Mercyhurst, S.U.N.Y. Brockport and Wells Colleges. Her students have also danced in performances with the Moscow Ballet, Rochester City Ballet, North Carolina Dance Theater, Geva Theater Productions, Monroe County Fair, New York State Fair as well as various school and community productions. |
| Miriam Lerner has worked with M. C. Classical Productions since 2006, and has been dancing since she was three years old. She has studied ballet at Orcutt/Botsford School of Dance, Draper Center for Dance Education, and Mercyhurst College, as well as at the Ballet Regent and Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet summer programs. She has performed with North Carolina Dance Theatre and Rochester City Ballet. Miriam is a nurse at Strong Memorial Hospital. |
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| Krissy Chan has danced with M. C. Classical Productions since 2002 and is pleased to be back teaching. She began dancing at four years of age and has studied at Lynn Scott School of Dance and Botsford School of Dance. In 2006, she was accepted into the dance program at SUNY Brockport and studied all typed of dance such as ballet, jazz, African, and modern. Krissy is trained in many modern techniques including Bartenieff Fundamentals, Laban Movement Analysis, Horton Technique & Release Technique. Her principal teachers were Bill Evans, James Hansen and Mariah Maloney. In 2010, Krissy received a Bachelor of Science degree in Dance and Finance. Krissy is currently a New York Life Insurance Agent in Fairport, NY. |