GMPA Board & Administration
Jenna Companion & Katie Decker, Interim Co-Directors
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GMPA welcomes two new interim co-directors in October 2019-- Jenna Companion and Katie Decker.
Jenna has been connected to this studio in all of it's forms since she was a young dancer herself. Her passion and commitment to this craft and this community can be seen in her relationships with students and in the size of her ever popular classes. GMPA will be lucky to benefit from her historical knowledge, well established relationships, passion and incredible work ethic. She looks forward to learning and growing as a professional while she continues to pass down her passion of dance to her students.
Katie has almost 20 years of experience as an educator and administrator- most recently as Director of Centerpoint School, where she concluded a 17 year commitment to educating students with emotional and behavioral challenges. She has taught students from ages 3 all the way up to college age students across a variety of skill levels and content areas. In 2018, Katie and her partner Chatch incorporated Ballet Vermont, a ballet company with a social mission. Ballet Vermont produces multiple ballet productions a year (including the Farm to Ballet project), hires amateur and professional dancers and musicians and runs several kids camps- and Katie coordinates and manages the whole thing: soup to nuts. Above all things, she values relationships and community. Getting the students off the bus each day is one of the things she loves best at GMPA. She looks forward to helping GMPA to be a place where kids can feel valued, seen and cared for while they pursue passions and interests.
Jenna has been connected to this studio in all of it's forms since she was a young dancer herself. Her passion and commitment to this craft and this community can be seen in her relationships with students and in the size of her ever popular classes. GMPA will be lucky to benefit from her historical knowledge, well established relationships, passion and incredible work ethic. She looks forward to learning and growing as a professional while she continues to pass down her passion of dance to her students.
Katie has almost 20 years of experience as an educator and administrator- most recently as Director of Centerpoint School, where she concluded a 17 year commitment to educating students with emotional and behavioral challenges. She has taught students from ages 3 all the way up to college age students across a variety of skill levels and content areas. In 2018, Katie and her partner Chatch incorporated Ballet Vermont, a ballet company with a social mission. Ballet Vermont produces multiple ballet productions a year (including the Farm to Ballet project), hires amateur and professional dancers and musicians and runs several kids camps- and Katie coordinates and manages the whole thing: soup to nuts. Above all things, she values relationships and community. Getting the students off the bus each day is one of the things she loves best at GMPA. She looks forward to helping GMPA to be a place where kids can feel valued, seen and cared for while they pursue passions and interests.
Richard Pritsky, MLS: Board President/Treasurer
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In his current retirement, Richard Pritsky is Assistant Director of the Carpenter-Carse Library, Hinesburg; treasurer of the Hinesburg Community Resource Center (HCRC); technical leader of the Vermont Organization of Koha Automated Libraries (VOKAL) consortium; and a new and dancer at GMPA. His 20+ years of professional library experience was bisected by 20+ years at IBM in positions ranging from Systems Engineer to I/T Architect. He has an A.B. in philosophy from Bucknell University and an M.L.S. from Rutgers. Richard is also a student of arts enjoying dance, song and theater through adult lessons at GMPA.
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Annie Allardyce, Secretary
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Annie grew up dancing in New York City and Los Angeles. Her first love was ballet, but also dabbled in jazz, tap, hip hop, and theater. Annie has been an elementary school educator for the past 10 years, and it has become a priority for her to help provide opportunities for children to be involved in the performing arts. She joins the board as an educator, a community member and a parent of GMPA dancer. She and her husband, Dagan, have lived in Waterbury for the past 14 years and cannot imagine a better place to raise their daughter, Isla.
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Karen Cormier
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Karen is a performance/visual artist and former resident of Vermont living in Santa Fe, NM, and working as a bilingual educator at Momentum Bilingual Preschool. She remains committed to GMPA and to bringing the arts to rural populations. She was formerly an educator and office manager at The Children's Early Learning Space. Karen considers herself ever a representative of the creative energy of New York City and has offered arts education to all ages in the U.S and abroad. She began her stage life on tour with the Greenwich Ballet Workshop in Germany at 14, and assists GMPA with choreography coaching, curriculum development, marketing and grant seeking.
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Pamela Lord
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Pam is a retired educator, who taught Health and Family & Consumer Science. She was born and raised in Burlington, VT., and has been interested in the arts all her life. Upon retiring she started her own business, Pamela Creations, using her background in fashion design.
She is currently a member of South County Chorus, All Souls Interfaith Choir and In Accord, an A Capella group. She has danced with the Green Mountain Cloggers, a performing group, since the 80's. She is an avid hiker, walker, Tai Chi practitioner, gardener, kayak-er and motorcyclist. In the past she was a member of the Essex Players and practiced Martial Arts for many years, before teaching the art with her husband, for another ten years. She would like to see all children exposed to a variety of Arts, and is concerned that support needs to be both local and national. |
Kathy Kort
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Kathy was a high school special educator, transition specialist, who after a career of 42 years made her own transition from South Burlington High School in 2014 to enjoy Vermont in retirement. She started sewing quilts, artfully matching colors and patterns in symmetrical design. A life long church choir singer, she also has a passion for Celtic music and diverse forms of dance. Kathy has volunteered in her community and served on multiple church committees. Her adult daughter Kelly was a student of Heather’s as a Highland dancer for many years and she continues to perform and compete in the Boston area. While Kelly was actively dancing in Vermont, Kelly’s dad Bob led the St. Andrew’s Highland Dancers and Kathy volunteered in support tasks. Practicing wellness through exercise and yoga is her daily priority while checking in with both daughters and her four young grandchildren in Massachusetts. Green Mountain Performing Arts Board is a good match for Kathy’s love of children, performing arts, organizational skills, and experience
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GMPA is looking for new board members!
This is an extraordinary opportunity for an individual who is passionate about GMPA's mission and who has a track record of board leadership or community involvement. Selected Board Members will have achieved leadership stature in business, government, philanthropy, or the nonprofit sector.
This is an extraordinary opportunity for an individual who is passionate about GMPA's mission and who has a track record of board leadership or community involvement. Selected Board Members will have achieved leadership stature in business, government, philanthropy, or the nonprofit sector.
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