Professional Faculty and Staff

Sara Charles, Ballet Instruction, PBT

Sara received her BFA in dance from SUNY Purchase where she danced in the Purchase Dance Corps. Some of her favorite parts include Lead Marzipan in the Nutcracker and the Scotch girl in Balanchine’s Scotch Symphony. After graduating she danced professionally with The Columbia City Ballet and Connecticut Ballet Theater. Sara later went on to get her Masters in Elementary Education from Fordham University. She currently teaches dance in a NYC public school and studios throughout Long Island.
Sara began dancing at a young age and studied ballet, jazz, and modern at Northern Westchester for the Arts, Scarsdale Ballet, Ct Ballet Center, Hartford Ballet, Joffery Ballet, Steps, and Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet. She is excited to begin another year at Integral Ballet.

Michael Buoni, Ballet Instruction

Mr Mike hails from Philadelphia and trained with Pennsylvania Academy of Ballet and Brandywine Ballet. He was contracted with Ohio Ballet, North Carolina Dance Theater, and Dayton Ballet. He has guested with Eglevsky Ballet, Maryland Ballet,Pennsylvania Ballet and Michael Mao Dance.
Mr Mike is an actor and has appeared in many national and local commercials as well as in TV and film projects.

Rachel Corsini, Ballet Instruction

During her first ballet class, Ms. Rachel stood with her arms in fifth position and declared herself a pretty pink princess. From that day on, she pirouetted her way from class to class, eventually landing herself at the prestigious Professional Performing Arts School where she trained in mostly the Cecchetti technique. Looking to expand her horizons, she began taking classes at Broadway Dance Center under Kat Wildish. Rachel spent her summers training under Gloria Bowen who introduced her to the Vaganova technique (she finally learned to fold in her thumbs). She likes to joke she is a mixed bag of ballet. Rachel is a New York State certified ELA (grades 7-12) and literacy teacher (grades 5-12) with extensive experience in special education.

Amy Eileen, Tap and Jazz Instruction

Ms Amy, originally from Northern Pennsylvania, is a studio owner, choreographer, performer, model, and a dance educator. She holds degrees and credits in education and the performing arts from Misericordia University, St. Joseph’s University, and New York University Tisch School of the Arts. She is a board member for the National Dance Education Organization National Awards Committee. She is the choreographer for Conestoga Valley High School Drama Department in Lancaster, PA. She is the founder of The Tap Intensive which brings some of the best tap training on the East Coast to Pennsylvania. Amy also sits on the faculty for the 2023-2024 season with Collide Dance Experience. In her free time Amy models, does print work, and commercial work under the agency Professionally Pretty, Central PA Talent, and Apex Studios NYC. Amy has trained dancers that have performance careers on cruise ships, national tours, Broadway Show credits (Hamilton, Rock of Ages, Saturday Night Fever, and Finding Neverland), Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Miss American Organization, Nickelodeon, Sesame Street Live, and numerous productions/musicals for schools and regional theaters. Amy travels doing guest teaching and teacher training to share the performing arts in PA, NY, NJ, and beyond. She has served as an adjudicator for NDEO Dance Scholarship Program. She has been awarded Who’s Who Among America’s Top Dance Educators and Who's Who Among Leading Small Business Owners . Amy has worked with community outreach programs and organizations in bringing singing, dancing, and acting to children that do not have the ability to attend a dance studio or financially can not afford it. Dance is her passion and music is her heartbeat. Amy is thrilled to share her love for dance with the students and join the staff of Integral Ballet!

Lisa Rudin, Theatre Playground

Lisa Rudin is the Executive Director of Theatre Playground. She has worked in the industry in both Los Angeles and NYC, and in a variety of different roles: as an actor, director, choreographer, casting director, arts administrator and teaching artist. She is currently on staff as an actor, choreographer and teaching artist at the Long Island Children’s Museum Theater. Career highlights include performing at Madison Square Garden, working at The Pasadena Playhouse on pre-Broadway runs including Sister Act, and casting for indie films in LA. She has taught at professional acting studios, after school programs, summer camps, and workshops from toddler to adult. She holds a BFA in Acting from NYU Tisch School of the Arts.

Victoria O'Shea, Tap and Jazz Instruction

Bio coming soon!

Danielle Field, Ballet Instruction, PBT

Ms. Danielle began her dance training at 5 years old, studying ballet for most of her life. She is an alumni of Integral Ballet and has also studied with Joffrey Ballet School and with ABT soloists Irina Dvorovenko & Maxim Beloserkovsky. She is currently studying dance at Hofstra University where she is a member of MoVoM, a club for dance majors to display one another’s choreographic work. Danielle has danced in multiple roles in the Nutcracker including Toy Soldier, Older Cousin, Polichinelle, Clara, Chinese Tea, Snow Corps and Flower Corps. Danielle will debut as the lead in Sugarplum Fairy in the 2021 2022 Merry Mini Nutcracker. Danielle is very excited to share her knowledge and passion of ballet with her students and loves working with our young dancers.

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