Turning Pointe Studio

Brittany is a 2006 graduate from the U of M- twincities with a BFA in Dance.  Her dance training began at her mother's dance studio in Detroit Lakes, MN where she trained for 15 years.  She has attended the Dance Masters of America teachers training seminar, where she was educated in many different teaching styles.  Currently she is on staff as a choreographer at the Youth Performance Company in Minneapolis.  For the past four years she has been an assistant director of the International Dance Challenge dance competition.  Brittany is also currently teaching dance at various studios, preschools and grade schools.

She has worked with many local choreographers including, Karla Grotting, Joe Chvala, Zoe Sealy, Toni Pierce-Sands and Uri Sands.  She has toured with YPC's "Sky Blue Matter" an original musical.  When not dancing Brittany has been seen in hair shows, commercials, and various print work.  

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!!

Bryson has been dancing for as long as he can remember. While in high school Bryson was
Co- Captain of his high school hip hop dance team Deeply Royals. Since then Bryson has been performing all around the the Twin Cities at various events such as Minnesota Art Museum, Celebration Of Lake Street, Virgin Islands celebration, Minnesota Vikings Games, Timberwolves Games, Hopkins Performing Arts school, Visage Night Club, Karma Night Club,Epic Night Club, Excape night club, Along with several out of state and country shows. Bryson has also taught at several dance studios such as Art Of Dance, Zenon, Fairview Park, Hopkins High, and North Point Dance Studio. Bryson Continues to choreograph and perform in shows for various major recording artists and local artists.

Bryson will be joining TPDS this year as a team teaching instructor with Bruce DeMorrow for Boys Hip Hop ages 7-12 and also Girls Hip Hop ages 9-16. He will attend the Older Boys competitive hip hop choreography sessions with Ricci Milan here at TPDS and team teach that class with Bruce DeMorrow also!