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Susan Filipiak, Director & Teacher
Susan Filipiak is celebrating her sixteenth year as Founder,
Director and Lead Teacher of Swing City Dance Studio. She opened Swing City as a hub for the American vernacular dance
styles of tap, jazz, swing and ballroom. Susan emphasizes serious fun in all her dance classes and brings the joy of dance
to all her students from the smallest preschoolers, to the most advanced pre-professionals, to the simply recreationally-minded
adults. Dance is physical, dance is mental, dance lifts the spirit!
Susan has intensive training in multiple dance styles: ballet,
tap, jazz, modern, ethnic, swing and ballroom. Her tap dance mentors include: Brenda Bufalino, Dianne Walker,
Barbara Duffy, Heather Cornell and LaVaughn Robinson. Her jazz dance mentors include: Billy Siegenfeld, Frankie
Manning and Ed Kresley. She has choreographed for many area theater companies including Jeff Daniel's Purple
Rose Theater, The Croswell Opera House and the UM Gilbert & Sullivan Society. She continues to work as
a dance educator in local elementary schools as a teaching-artist partner with University of Michigan's University Musical
Society with training from Washington DC's Kennedy Center for the Arts. She has developed training programs instructing
regular school teachers on how to bring dance into their daily curriculum.
Susan is also faculty at the University of Michigan's School of
Music, Theatre and Dance. She teaches all levels of tap dance in the celebrated Musical Theatre Department at UM.
"Bring the joy of dance into your life." - Susan Filipiak
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Andrea Rose Bergstrom, Teacher
Andrea has been dancing since she was just a young girl and has
always had a passion for teaching others. She has been trained in ballet, tap, jazz, modern, pointe and hip hop.
Andrea was a part of the California performing arts group, The Young Americans - with the Young Americans she
traveled around California performing and teaching children of all ages the importance of music and dance. Andrea was
also a dance and music instructor for the Cheboygan Youth Center and the Cheboygan Opera House. Andrea is a student
at Eastern Michigan University studying psychology.
"There are three things I cound not live without: Loving, Laughing
and Dancing!" - Andrea Rose Bergstrom
Angela Corradin, Teacher
Angela Corradin has been dancing since the age of seven.
She is trained in the Cecchetti ballet method, tap, jazz, modern, contemporary and pointe. She began competing locally
and nationally with Spotlight Dance Academy out of Grand Haven, MI. She was fortunate to learn from many famous dancers
and choreographers including Debbie Allen, Mia Michaels, Gus Giordano and multiple others in New York City, Chicago, Las Vegas
and Detroit. She taught all forms of dance at Spotlight Dancee Academy and worked as a chorus dancer with the Cherry
County Playhouse. While earning her Bachelor of Science in Architechture at the University of Michigan, she was the
director/choreographer for the UM student-run dance group, Pure Dance Extreme. She is currently working as
an architect with a historical renovation architecture firm (the firm that renovated Hill Auditorium!).
"The body is made for the soul to express itself" - Angela Corradin
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