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FACULTY AND STAFF

Our friendly staff and talented Dance Instructors can help you realize your dance goals – and you’ll have lots of fun doing it! All of our instructors are experts in the genres they teach, with real industry experience, so your dancer will receive the best education and skilled instruction available in the area.  Browse this page to meet our team of certified Dance Professionals and learn about their qualifications and experience, then call us, and get started today!

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HAYLEY

CLOUD

Owner/Studio Director

Hayley Cloud is a native of Ascunsion, Paraguay, and was raised in Westfield, Massachusetts. Her training started at two years old at New England Dance Centers. After she graduated, she was asked to become a full time dance teacher. During this time, she auditioned, and was a featured dancer and made it to Vegas twice on “So You Think You Can Dance.” (Seasons 6 & 8) Soon, she realized her true passion was teaching dance. For over a decade, this has been her career. Today, Hayley is a nationally acclaimed choreographer, with awards and honors for contemporary, acrobatic, contortion, and jazz routines. She has trained students who went on to appear on the national tour of the Broadway show Newsies, CATS, Cinderella and many NFL and NBA dancers and cheerleaders. Hayley trained two students who have appeared on the Lifetime Network television show, “Dance Moms.” She is also a judge for many dance competitions such as Starpower and Elite Performance Challenge here nationally and internationally. 

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ashley

williams

Co-Director

Ashley Williams is one of the current directors at New England Dance Centers. She specializes in a variety of styles and works with dancers of all ages. Her choreography has earned numerous national titles and she has had the opportunity to train dancers who have gone on to professional careers in the dance industry. Ashley is a graduate of Pace University with a dual BA in Commercial Dance and Psychology.  She has choreographed for New York Fashion Week and an off-Broadway production of “Queens Boulevard” through Pace University. When she’s not teaching, she loves to make costumes and craft!

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Dance Teacher 

JADE

CLOUD

Jade began her dance training at NEDC when she was two years old. During her sixteen years of training, she won many awards such as Teen Outstanding Dancer at NYCDA and 1st Place Contemporary at YAGP. Some of her proudest moments were when she became a cast member on the Lifetime television show Dance Moms Season 4 and 4.5, along with the opportunity to travel to Bucharest, Romania to dance in the film High Strung: Free Dance. Jade is thrilled to share her love of dance with the next generation!

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GINA

KELLEHER

Dance Teacher 

Miss Gina has been a dance Instructor for over 40 years, she specializes in Recreational Dance.  She is the former cheerleading coach at St. Mary’s High School and a graduate of Holyoke Community College.

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HARVEY

STOCKHAMER

Acro Coach

Mr. Harvey grew up in Longmeadow and competed on the Longmeadow High school Gymnastics Team for 4 years, he competed on pummel hoarse and rings. He owned Stoney Hill Gymnastics Gym for 13 years and had gymnasts on the Junior Olympic team as well as compete for UCLA mens gymnastics team. He was assistant women’s gymnastics coach at West Springfield High School for one year, women’s gymnastics coach at Longmeadow High School for 17 years and women’s gymnastics coach at Westfield State College for 2 years. He was assistant director of Springfield College gymnastics camp for 3 years. He has been the gymnastics coach at Somersault Gymnastics Gym for 2 years and has been at NEDC for 21 years as an Acro Coach. 

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Karina

MarchENKO

Ballet Mistress

Ballet Mistress Karina grew up in a theater family, and she fell in love with ballet at a very young age and performed in professional ballet productions since age of 5. She studied classical ballet, character dance, choreography, piano and music history at Lithuanian National M. K. ÄŒiurlionis School of Art and graduated from Ukrainian L’viv State Choreographic School. As part of her studies she performed in classical ballet productions of “Sleeping Beauty”, “Cinderella”, “Nutcracker” in Vilnius and L’viv Ballet Theaters. After graduation she performed as a principal dancer at Odessa Academic Theatre of Musical Comedy where she danced solos and ensemble for classical operettas such as “The Merry Widow”, “Die Flittermouse”, “Die Bajadere”, “The Csárdás Princess”, “The Gypsy Baron” as well as contemporary musical favorites like “My Fair Lady”, “Pinocchio” and others. After moving to US Karina performed with Sonia Plumb Dance Company in the production of “Letting Go” and taught classical ballet by the Method of Vaganova (Russian School), point, modern and jazz at multiple dance studios and schools of New England. She has been a resident Ballet Mistress at New England Dance and Gymnastics Center since 1997, choreographed and trained many national winning routines and champions. Miss Karina is an active certified member of Dance Educators of America since 2001. She lives in Simsbury, CT with her husband, daughter and two cats, and when she is not teaching dance she works as a Software Quality Engineer.

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BRIANNA ROLAND

Dance Teacher

Brianna Roland is a professional dancer & choreographer, originally from Avon, CT.  Brianna began her dance training at New England Dance Center in Westfield, MA, She received her BFA in Commercial Dance from Pace School of Performing Arts in New York City. There she trained under Rhonda Miller, Lauren, Gaul, Scott Jovovich, Mandy Moore, Dee Caspary, Jess Hendricks, and more. Brianna’s performance credits include a "Ruelle" music video, The Young Choreographer’s Festival, the off Broadway show “Bridesmaids”, The “Today” Show, and many more. Brianna is now a NBA dancer for the Celtics Dance Team in Boston, MA.

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Gennaro Della Ragione

Dance Teacher

Gennaro is a professional dancer from Naples, Italy. His teachers included Carmela Pirozzi, Margherita Veneruso, and Ferdinando Arenella in Italy. Gennaro studied in Germany at the official school of the Semperoper Theater. He was chosen as a solo dancer for the show Una Voce for Padre Pio, a prime-time show on Italian TV.  In the US, Gennaro has been Principal dancer for Sonia Plumb Dance Company as well as Dimensional Dance. He is currently dancing with Ballet Theater Company in West Hartford. He also performed as a principal dancer in La Bayadere with Centro Danza  Sheherazade, at the Teatro Mediterraneo in Naples. Gennaro also apprenticed with the Mystic Ballet company directed by Goran Subotic.

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BARB

ROGERS 

Office Manager

Barb has been a part of the NEDC family since she can remember, she danced with Loree Cloud and Miss Gina when they were young.  Her daughter Kenzie is now an NEDC alumni and she started dancing when she was 2 years old.   Barb has worked behind the front desk at NEDC since 1999, but she does so much more than that!  Barb can answer (almost!) all of your questions about the studio and helps keep things running smoothly from day-to-day. She does so much behind the scenes and we wouldn't be NEDC without her! 

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NEDC ASSISTANTS
Meet our assistant teachers! We are so thankful for all of their hard work at NEDC.

 

They add so much to our classes. We are so grateful that they share their talents and kind hearts with our students.  

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