Faculty

Corinne Glover-Academy Director, received her early training in Northern California in a credentialed Royal Academy of Dancing Ballet School. Her advanced training was studied in Canada. She began teaching as the Director of the English Ballet School in Los Angeles in 1974 and taught there until opening the Academy in Santa Clarita 1992. Many students have benefited from her careful training and supportive personality. She is a member of the Royal Academy of Dance, London and is Executive Director of the Santa Clarita Ballet Company.

Carol Guidry joined the teaching staff in 1994 and is the Artistic Director of the Santa Clarita Ballet Company. She received her R.A.D. training and Advanced 2 Certificate at the Audrey Share School in Long Beach, CA. She was a soloist with the Minnesota Dance Theatre appearing in works by Balanchine, Ashton, Tetly, Loring, and Limon. She danced, taught and choreographed in Germany for eight years with the Heidelberg City Ballet and the Gelsenkirchner Musiktheater im Revier. She has also appeared with the Los Angeles Chamber Ballet and the Santa Clarita Ballet Company.

Danica Primo brings to our school an extensive dance background.  She trained at the Boston Ballet School, Marin Ballet and the West Coast Conservatory of Ballet. She performed with the Portland Ballet Company, Marin Ballet in San Rafael, California, and Ballet Unlimited in Orange, California. She has been teaching with our academy since September, 1998. Danica is a member and registered teacher of the Royal Academy of Dance.

Pamela Sosa has been a teacher at the Santa Clarita Ballet Academy for four years. She is a certified Royal Academy of Dance teacher and has been entering students in exams for nine years. Before moving to Santa Clarita, she studied RAD with Patti Ashby in Bakersfield for 8 years. There she began teaching and completed her Advanced 2 exam with Distinction. In Bakersfield, Pamelly was also a memeber of the Kern Classical Ballet Company. While with KCBC she had the opportunity to perform many roles including the Ballerina in The Steadfast Tin Soldier, Tiger-lily and the Caterpillar in Alice in Wonderland, and the Autumn Fairy in Cinderella. Pamela has been a guest artist with Cerro Coso Community College productions performing lead roles such as the Sugar Plum Fairy, Snow Queen and Arabian in The Nutcracker. She also performed the lead Mirliton as a guest artist with the Santa Barbara Festival Ballet. Pamela has had a wonderful time working on Alice in Wonderland and is looking forward to many more years with the Santa Clarita Ballet Academy.

Jerry Kokich came to dance relatively late in life, taking his first ballet class the week he graduated from high school. Born into a theatrical family in New York (both parents were Broadway perfromers) Jerry studied with Tina Youskevitch, Gabriela Darvash, Stanley Williams and Andrei Kramerevsky before joing the Joffrey II Dancers. After 1 1/2 years, he was promoted to the main company where he remained for 8 years, touring internationally and dancing in such ballets as Rodeo, The Green Table, Round of Angels (Original Cast), Suite St Saens, and the rock ballet Billboards among others far too numerous to list. Jerry's athletic background includes long distance running, cycling and swimming (yes, while he was dancing) martial arts, weight training and stage combat. He has choreographed for the Joffrey Ballet School Summer workshop and is looking forward to working with the wonderful dancers at Santa Clarita Ballet.

Anna Navarro Originally from Ireland, Anna studied ballet for many years as a child. She has recently enrolled in the Certificate Ballet Teaching Studies program offered through the Royal Academy of Dance and once completed will be a fully registered teacher. She is a graduate of London Montessori Center. She owns and operates New World Montessori Preschool in Canyon Country, where dancing is incorporated
into the curriculum. She will bring a wealth of knowledge and vast experience into the classroom at Santa Clarita Ballet where she will be teaching Pre-Primary through Grade 2.

Lennon Hobson has been dancing at the Santa Clarita Ballet Academy for twelve years. She holds her RAD Advanced 1 certificate. A Company member for six years, Lennon is proud to say that she has performed in The Nutcracker eleven times and in every June show since 1997 including Coppelia, Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, Dvorak's Serenade, the 2005 Ten Year Anniversary Gala. In the 2007 Nutcracker danced the roll of Rat King. Last June she danced in Alice in Wonderland, Kingdom of the Shades, G Song/B Side. A Senior at Valencia High School, Lennon also choreographs and has danced in school productions of Annie and Guys and Dolls. This summer in addition to SCB workshop she took Holly Johnston's Modern Intensive with Ledges and Bones Dance Company in Los Angeles. She teaches Creative Movement,Pre-Primary, Primary and Grade 1.

Denise Plummer (Jazz) was trained at the Westside School of Ballet in Los Angeles for eight years and at the Milwaukee Ballet School before changing her focus to musical theater. Credits include the national tour of Showboat, regional tours of Mame, The Will Rogers Follies, regional shows including Evita, She Loves Me, Paint Your Wagon and Sugar Babies. She has also appeared as a dancer in film and television as well as many industrial shows.