Summer Instructors

JUNE POODIACK teaches creative movement classes, musical theater, tap, and jazz for beginners through adults.  June also directs the MC dance company JuMP! which has wowed audiences at several benefit and community performances.  She has a B.A. in Communications and Theater Arts and has choreographed and performed in many summer stock musicals.  

JEANNE NEU enjoys teaching creative movement.  She graduated from UVM with a B.S. and took graduate courses in education at UVM and University of So. Maine.  Before coming to Movement Center she worked with children for many years at summer camps and as a public school teacher.

HEATHER MORRIS entered the College of Wooster, Wooster, OH in 1990 with a Scottish Arts Scholarship and has been passing on her love of Celtic dance to her students ever since.  She is certified by the British Association of Teachers of Dance and the Scottish Dance Teachers’ Alliance. She has been studying Irish Step Dance for the past 5 years with Alice McNeish, T.M.R.F. and Moira McMahon, T.C.R.G.

CANDICE ALLEMBERT has a degree in Early Childhood Education and taught preschool through second grade for 14 years. During her years in the classroom, she continually incorporated Music and Movement into all phases of learning. While teaching in southern Vermont, she would frequently have her kindergarten classes perform songs and dances during assemblies. Candice has been choreographing various types of dance for 18 years. She was a gymnast for several years in her youth and taught dance/aerobics in college. For the past seven years, she has worked with middle/high schoolers teaching dance while incorporating sign language into the routines.

ALI ZURA has been training in hip hop dance for five years both at local studios in Vermont and around the U.S. and Canada with some of the industry's top choreographers. Ali has taught at several studios in Vermont for the past three years and has appeared as a guest artist at camps around the state. She is the director and lead choreographer for local hip hop dance company Cheeks Dance Co. and has produced three full-length shows in Vermont with this group.

ALEX POIRIER studies jazz, ballet, modern, tap, and hip-hop, her true love being jazz and hip-hop.  She danced with the Colchester High School Varsity Dance Team and is currently a student at the University of Tampa.

DANIELLE VARDAKAS-DUCKO studied dance at the Creative & Performing Arts High School in Philadelphia and graduated Magna Cum Laude from Temple University and the Tyler School of Art in 2001. Danielle was an intern with Rennie Harris Puremovement and she is a certified Hip Hop instructor through Dance Educators of America in Funk & Hip Hop and the University of the Arts.  She has trained in Philadelphia, NYC and LA with Mop Top Productions, Don Campbell and the Original Lockers, the Electric Boogaloos, RSC, Olive and Full Circle Souljahs.  She has performed and taught hip hop on both coasts and in Australia.  Danielle has judged dance battles and competitions through out the USA and she directed and choreographed for the all female hip hop / breakin company B-Tru.  She has also trained and performed Graham, Horton, Ballet, Jazz, Tap, Belly Dance & Group Motion style improv.  Danielle is certified in Yoga and Pilates.  Danielle & her family moved to VT last winter to raise their son Garnet.   She choreographed & performed Breakin' for the Quadricentennial Festival in Burlington and for the VT Dance Festival during this past year.