The Faculty
Based In Manhattan, Education In Dance has a faculty of twenty-six experienced educators, trained aesthetically in the arts and child development.
Elizabeth Bernard Pettit is the creator and director of Education In Dance and the Related Arts. She attended Columbia University and the New School (Psychology, Early Childhood Education) and trained with Martha Graham and other leading New York professionals in Dance and Creative Arts. Earlier she founded and taught at Holiday Hill for the Arts in Gladstone NJ. Elizabeth is co-founder of Viewpoint Gallery (NYC) which offers an extensive collection of rare and out-of-print books and art exhibitions for gifted, emerging painters and sculptors.
Jo A. G. Frederiksen, Director, is currently in the doctoral program in Art Education at Columbia University. She received her MFA in Dance from Sarah Lawrence College, and a BA in Environmental Science and Geology from Gustavus Adolphus College. She has danced nationally with Cherry Creek Theatre, Big Wave/NYC, Detroit Dance Collective, Sullivan Dance Project, and numerous original performance art collaborations, and taught at Wayne State University, Oakland University, OCC, Albion College, and Lawrence Woodmere Academy where she chaired the Visual and Performing Arts Departments.
Amanda Stevenson, Lead Faculty since 2006, received her BFA in Dance from the University of Arizona and is continuing her training with the Paul Taylor School and the Joffrey Ballet. She has performed and choreographed professionally with various New York and Arizona Modern Dance artists, and has taught creative movement, focusing on collaborations between Dance and Visual Art, at the University of Arizona and HiArt in New York City.