MARIANNE KYLER

Marianne has been dancing since she was 7 years old and has been teaching dance since 1987. She trained at prestigious dance academies in Chicago including Lou Conte, Stone and Camryn, Gus Giordanos and Joel Hall’s. She studied dance education at Illinois State University and earned a Bachelor of Arts in Elementary Education and Child Psychology. The innovative early childhood dance program she developed in 1996 continues to be successful for her students and was in use at The Dance Studio, Ltd. which she founded in 1989, and the program is still in use here at Momentum. Marianne cofounded the non-profit Children’s Performance Company in 1998 and teaches ages 3-7 beginning classes and special needs classes of all ages.