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2010-2011 Faculty
Joy
Joy Abdon has been part of The Gold School family for 17
years now. Throughout the years Joy was trained in ballet,
pointe, tap, jazz, lyrical and modern. In 2002, Joy was a
member of the USA Tap Dance Team where she traveled to
Riesa, Germany to compete in the World Tap Dance
Championships; she and the team took home the 1st place Gold
medal. She graduated high school in 2004 and was
further accepted to Roger Williams University. Throughout
her 4 years at RWU, she was part of and performed with the
Roger Williams University Dance Theatre each semester. Joy
graduated college in 2008 with a Bachelor of Science
Degree in Business Management and a Minor in Dance.
Joy also loves taking Zumba classes at her gym and is
looking forward to the new Zumba classes at The Gold School.
Jean
Jean Amos has been instructing group exercise and personal
training for over 25 years. Jean holds numerous
certifications in the field, including AFAA and ACE. She has
recently received her license to teach Zumba. Jean’s
favorite pasttime is watching comedies and eating dark
chocolate.
Deanna
Deanna Aurelio has been with the Gold School family for the
past twenty four years. Deanna has been trained as a well
rounded dancer in ballet, pointe, tap, jazz, acro, and
modern. She has also trained at the Toronto School of
Cirques Arts in Canada.
Deanna has traveled the world dancing. She was in the
Pennsylvania Ballet Nutcracker at the age of 6. In 1997, she
traveled to the White House to perform at the President and
First Lady's Annual Easter Egg Roll. In 2000, she was part
of the USA Tap Dance Team that won a Gold Medal in Germany.
She also won the USA Solo Dance Challenge in 2001. At the
age of 19 she went professional and started working for
Disney Cruise Line. She was in both character and main-stage
performances. After four years of performing Ms. Deanna
returned to college to get her Bachelor of Science Degree at
Johnson & Wales University.
Jen
Jen started taking dance lesson at the age of 3. It wasn’t
until she was 7 that she started taking ballet with Kathy
Kozul. She knew from the very first class that she loved it.
During high school, she continued dancing and started
competing in numerous dance competitions where she won many
awards such as the Gus Giordano Award for Excellence in
Ballet and 3rd runner-up Miss Junior Dance of New England.
Jen continued her dance training in college at The
University of Missouri. During her freshman year in college
she was asked to travel to Albany, New York to perform in
The Nutcracker for the Albany Berkshire Ballet Company—it
was the first year they ever asked a freshman to go. She
graduated in 1998 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree.
Jen moved back to Boston after graduation and started
teaching at numerous dance studios in New England. She began
teaching at The Gold School in September of 2005 and has
loved every minute of it.
When she’s not teaching and taking care of her two sons, Jen
loves to read and watch reality TV. She also has an
addiction to buying expensive shampoo.
Stacy
Stacy is the Co-director of Gloria Jean’s Studio of Dance
and has been dancing at the studio since she was 2 years
old. She has received many awards for her choreography and
is very proud to be carrying on her aunt's tradition of
training some of the finest students in the New England
area. Stacy has traveled to Germany as a competitive dancer
and is now one of the USA coaches as well as being named
Miss Dance of America in 1995 for DMA. She is a member of
Dance Masters of America CT and NYC Chapters. She is a
highly sought after master teacher and judge across the
United States and Canada. Stacy is also on faculty at The
Gold School in Boston, MA. & Perkins School of the Arts in
Norwich, NY. She loves working with children and hopes to
continue to pass her love of dance onto her favorite people
in the world, her students.
Stacy also loves to shop, listen to all different music, and
go to concerts. She is addicted to the tv shows CSI and NCIS
and is also addicted to sneakers, Ugg boots and handbags!
Rennie
Rennie Gold is the director of the GOLD School in Brockton
MA. He began
his dance training at the age of 3 with his mom Sherry Gold.
He later studied in both New York and Los Angeles
with many of the leading educators in the country.
At 11 he received his actors’ equity card that
started a long performing career that led him around the
world.
In 1992 he became resident choreographer at Walt Disney
World creating many productions for the Magic Kingdom, MGM
Studios, Pleasure Island and more.
With vision and wisdom Mr. Gold and his extraordinary
faculty have lead numerous alumni to unprecedented artistic
success.
Graduates have been accepted to prominent summer programs,
dance colleges/universities and are recipients of the
National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts highest
scholarship awards.
Rennie takes tremendous pride in the achievements of alumni
touring with major companies, Mikhail Baryshnikov, on MTV,
on Broadway, in movies and enjoying thriving careers
throughout the artistic and entertainment industry.
Kellie Grant
As the only girl in a family of three older brothers, Kellie
began dancing at The Gold School at the age of 3 as an
activity while her brothers went to karate class. Twenty
years later, she is immensely proud to be on the faculty at
The Gold School. After graduating high school in 2006,
Kellie began assisting and training as a teacher with Rennie
Gold while working on her B.A. in Writing, Literature, in
Publishing and minoring in Hearing and Deafness at Emerson
College. In addition to The Gold School, she also works as a
guest teacher and choreographer at several studios and
organizations in the area.
Kellie is a two-time nominee for the Evvy Award in
Outstanding Choreography and is a three-time recipient of
American Dance Awards’ Young Choreographer of the Year
award.
Almost equal to Kellie’s love of dance is her love of
reading—she is a bit of a nerd who is somewhat embarrassed
to admit she often will read an entire novel in a day.
Kathy
Kozul is a former member of Boston Ballet and Boston
Repertory Ballet who has danced leading roles in the
Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake, Concerto Borocco,
Allegro Brillante, and Tarantella. In addition to The Gold
School, Kathy is also a faculty member at Walnut Hill
School. She has served as a guest artist for America’s
leading dance organizations and her students have achieved
success at the Youth America Grand Prix and are the
recipients of the Capezio Award for Excellence in Ballet,
and the Gus Giordano Award. Kathy has been teaching and
choreographing at The Gold School since 1993.
When she’s not teaching ballet, Kathy enjoys spending time
with and spoiling her granddaughter, Avery.
Alissa
Alissa Marshall began dancing at age three. She went
on to become a dance major at Adelphi University in New
York. She has performed professionally for Prescott Park
Arts Festival's summer stock production of West Side Story,
The Flamingo Club in Tokyo, Japan and The Sands Hotel and
Casino in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She has also worked
on several industrials while appearing in television
commercials. She has done extra work on films as well as
the daytime soap opera, Loving. While between
jobs, Alissa enjoyed taking classes with Roseanne Ridings in
Boston, The Hubbard Street School of Dance and at the Gus
Giordano school in Chicago as well as with many amazing and
inspirational artists at Broadway Dance Center and Steps in
New York City. She has taught all ages of dance at various
levels and finds teaching to be far more rewarding than any
applause she has received on stage. When Alissa is not
dancing, her favorite thing to do is to look for seashells
on the beach with her three daughters. She is thrilled very
proud to be a part of The Gold School family!
Nailah
Nailah began her training in ballet, Dunham, and modern jazz
techniques at the Inner City Cultural Center in California.
Her performance career began with Gerald McCall and Raymond
Johnson and extended to company work with Fast Feet Inc.,
directed by Jamie Nichols; Karen McDonald’s New Age Dance
Workshop; The Haitian American Dance
Company; and Fatou N”Dyiaye’s African Dance Company.
Nailah is an Assistant Professor of Dance at Dean College in
Franklin, MA, where she teaches Horton and Dunham techniques
as well as dance history, film survey in dance, and dance
composition. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in
Franco-African Literature and a Masters degree in
interdisciplinary studies from Lesley College.
Nailah is the co-founder and artistic director of JANBE, a
non-profit organization program which offers a summer dance
intensive program to youth in Haiti. She has been teaching
and choreographing at The Gold School since 1995.
Larry
Larry Sousa is the choreographer of the upcoming Broadway
musical “Merry Go Round” by the composers of “Mary Poppins”
starring Florence Henderson in her long-awaited return to
Broadway.
A nationally recognized Director/Choreographer/Designer,
Larry is the recipient of the prestigious Los Angeles Drama
Critics Circle Award, the L.A. Ovation Award, the
Backstage-Garland Award, 6 TAMY awards, and he is an NAACP
Theatre Award and Los Angeles Weekly Theatre Award nominee.
Larry has directed and choreographed productions at
professional theatres from coast to coast, performed in
numerous Broadway companies, TV sitcoms and commercials, and
he has designed scenery and lighting for more than 40
professional productions.
Larry is on the faculty of Bridgewater State University, was
recently a guest professor and director at the University of
Southern California, and has taught at Boston Conservatory,
Ithaca College, University of Missouri/Kansas City, Walnut
Hill School, and numerous dance studios and conventions
across the USA and Canada. He is a frequent
contributor to Dance Studio Life magazine, and has served as
a "Special Awards" judge at top-level dance competitions for
nearly 20 years.
Larry holds a BFA in theatre from Ithaca College, and
pursued a unique interdisciplinary MFA in theatre at the
University of California at Irvine.
Rachel
Rachel White graduated high school from the North Carolina
School of the Arts as a Ballet Major and trained with some
of the most prestigious schools in the country for ballet.
She went on to perform with the Boston Ballet BBII, before
leaving the stage to pursue teaching. Currently, Rachel
teaches Master classes and conventions across the country
and continues to take class to further her own knowledge in
ballet. Rachel is certified by the New York City Ballet as
an instructor for the NYCB Workout and also by Dance Masters
of America. Rachel lives in Central Massachusetts and is
self described shopping addict. She hopes that her love and
passion for ballet translates to her students and hopes to
continue sharing the magic of ballet far into the future! |
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