Turning Pointe Studio

Ricci has established himself as one of the most exciting and entertaining members of today's dance world.  He started dancing at the Larkin Dance Studio where he trained for 12 years.  Since then, he has performed for the NFL, NBA, NCAA, Disney, PBS, Target, Compaq, Best Buy and Opryland.  Ricci is also a master teacher.  He has taught everywhere from Vienna, Austria to Venice, California.  He currently teaches for a number of regional and national conventions, workshops and studios. 

Ricci's passion and ability have given him the honor of performing with the likes of Jason Samuels, Savion Glover and Kirk Franklin.  He is co-creator and co-choreographer of the award-winning international touring company Ten Foot Five.  The group has entertained with great reviews across the globe.  He was also the featured soloist in "One", showing at the Alabama Theatre in Myrtle Beach, and "Tap Happy" showing at Tokyo Disneyland.

Lindsay Renae Lundgren is a highly talented and recommended dancer with extensive experience in the use of movement, gesture and body language to portray a character, situation and abstract concept to an audience, to the accompaniment of music; interpreting the work of choreographers, sometimes requiring improvisation. Lindsay possesses a remarkable background in a variety of genres: from classical ballet and tap to contemporary dance and jazz.  She has more than twenty years of experience in dancing and now in dance instruction. Lindsay grew up in the Midwest in Nebraska where she studio danced competitively for 14 years. She then moved to California to pursue her love of dance.  Lindsay spent 7 years in Chula Visa and attended Mesa College where she taught, performed, choreographed, and created dances, costumes and lights for performances. She is also trained in injury prevention and nutrition for dancers. She has prepared for and attended auditions and casting sessions as a dancer, often leading and supervising these sessions. She was also responsible for direct instruction of  students aged 3-adult in jazz, ballet, lyrical, modern and tap classes which included warm up, stretching and strengthening, and cool down segments.

During part of her stay in California she spent from 2005-07 working at Scripps Performing Arts Academy, in San Diego, California where she led students aged 3-adult in jazz, ballet, lyrical, modern and tap classes which included warm up, stretching and strengthening, and cool down segments. She assisted in the development of the dance curriculum to meet dance teacher education certification. Lindsay was responsible for generating fresh new ways to present material to keep students interested and involved. She also taught dance classes and lesson for Fine Arts Academy in California before recently relocating to MN. She taught classes for the "Mommy and Me" preschool dance curriculum and worked to develop those lessons at the studio.

 Lindsay will be team teaching with Brittany Radke this year on Thursdays with the competition and recreational jazz numbers and Musical Theater piece choreographed by Jeff Quast and working with Turning Pointe's preschool music program and develop a "Mommy and Me" classes well as serve as an outreach instructor for TPDS in neighboring preschools bring music and movement classes to the students there!

Miss Tammi has been teaching at WDC since 1996. In her 14 years with the studio she has taught a wide variety of classes. Primarily a ballet instructor, she believes ballet technique in many forms is the foundation of dance. Tammi grew up dancing from the young age of 3 in local dance studios around the metro. In addition to dance studio training as a child, she was part of the alpha class dance program at The Perpich Center for the Arts, a ballet and modern based Arts High School. Upon graduation from Arts High, Tammi continued advanced instruction and dance composition class at Zenon Dance Company and School. An apprentice and scholarship program participant she performed pieces choreographed by Danny Buraczeski, Cathy Young and Paula Mann. It wasn’t long before Tammi realized that the joy of dance came from teaching, and decided to become a full time dance educator and instructor. Sharing her knowledge of many forms of dance, her creativity, and positive energy, she continues to educate and inspire dancers of all ages. Her inventive choreography has won many top awards over the last 18 years in both regional/local and national dance competitions. Her favorite memories involving dance is the time she spends teaching her own daughters the joy of dance. Tammi recently owned her own studio and gave it up to come back to her first love-teaching! Tammi will be on staff here at TPDS as a ballet instructor, and technique instructor for some of the punch card classes. She will be the primary ballet instructor for our home school ballet program, and to provide help with the fine arts and competition details for the studio. We are lucky to have someone with this well rounded background and experience to complete the “ packages” for the competition and recreational dance students here at TPDS!!