Meet the Editors

Reanne Rodrigues
Editorial director
Reanne is the editor in chief of Dance Teacher and Dance Business Weekly. Having lived in Mumbai, Dubai, London, Toronto, and now New York, she has worked at several leading performing arts organizations including The Joyce Theater and New York City Center. During her tenure as an international editorial member of Dance Gazette magazine, Reanne helped shape the publication’s creative vision, feature content, and marketing and membership framework for over 13,000 dance teachers and students across 90 countries worldwide. She holds a Master of Arts in Education (Dance) from the University of Bath and the Royal Academy of Dance, UK, a Master of Arts in Media, Culture, and Society from the University of Birmingham, UK, as well as Certified Registered Teaching Status in classical ballet from the Royal Academy of Dance, UK.

Madeline Schrock
Senior Managing Editor
A native of Floyds Knobs, Indiana, Madeline is the senior managing editor of Dance Media, where she oversees the production of Dance Magazine, edits health coverage for Pointe and is the project manager of DanceTeacher+. She studied ballet at Southern Indiana School for the Arts and was later introduced to modern dance by Bill Evans. While completing her BFA in Dance Performance and Choreography at Ohio University’s Honors Tutorial College, she was cast in a historical reconstruction of Alwin Nikolais’ Noumenon celebrating his centennial. Prior to joining Dance Media in 2011, she worked on dance videography projects for Bates Dance Festival and served as marketing and education manager for Lar Lubovitch Dance Company.

lydia murray
Managing Editor
Lydia holds a B.A. in philosophy and an M.A. in integrated marketing communication from Marist College. In 2018, she served as an education intern at American Ballet Theatre. The following year, she became the intern program fellow/assistant to the deputy director at Jacob’s Pillow, where she managed the intern program and coordinated the 2019 National Dance Presenters’ Forum.
Lydia is a graduate of the Nutmeg Ballet Conservatory and attended summer intensives at Dance Theatre of Harlem and Ballet Hispanico.

Amy Brandt
Senior Consulting Editor
Amy has been the editor in chief of Pointe magazine since 2014, following a 19-year dance career. She danced professionally with the Milwaukee Ballet and The Suzanne Farrell Ballet, among others, and performed in honor of Ms. Farrell at the 2005 Kennedy Center Honors. While pursuing her college degree part-time, she began writing extensively for several dance publications, including Pointe‘s “Ask Amy” advice column. Amy graduated summa cum laude from Marymount Manhattan College with a BA in English and World Literatures, and currently serves on its advisory board.

Courtney Escoyne
Senior Editor
A native of Lafayette, Louisiana, Courtney danced with Lafayette Ballet Theatre before matriculating to New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, where she graduated with a BFA in dance. She has performed in works by Karole Armitage, Netta Yerushalmy, Septime Webre, Vita Osojnik, Cherylyn Lavagnino, Giada Ferrone and Fairul Zahid, among others. She continues to take class, create and perform in the city. She is also a senior editor at Dance Magazine.

Nyamekye Smith
Social Media Editor
Nyamekye is a social media editor at Dance Spirit and Dance Teacher. She competed on school dance teams from middle school through college, dabbling in a multitude of styles from hip hop and jazz to modern and contemporary. She graduated from Florida Atlantic University, where she majored in communications, and was one of the first students in the history of the college to minor in dance. She continues dancing and training professionally alongside some of the commercial industry’s top talent, as well as choreographing and teaching her own works.
Advisory Board
Jody Gottfried Arnhold
Founder, Dance Education Laboratory; Executive Producer, PS DANCE! Dance Education in Public Schools, PS DANCE! The Next Generation
Nigel Campbell
Co-founder and Artistic Director, MOVE|NYC|; Artistic Director, Gibney Center
Bob Dagger
Founder, Harlequin Floors
Chanel DaSilva
Co-founder and Artistic Director, MOVE|NYC|; director, choreographer and dance educator
Diane Duggan
PhD, BC-DMT; NYS licensed psychologist; board-certified dance/movement therapist; dance educator
Rima Faber
PhD, MA, BA; Founder, Primary Movers; co-founder NDEO; Chair, Core Standards for Dance Education
Joan Finkelstein
Executive Director, The Harkness Foundation for Dance
Charla Genn
NYC–based professional dance coach and rehabilitation specialist
Nan Giordano
Artistic Director, Giordano Dance Chicago
Brinda Guha
Teaching Artist & Choreographer; Curator, Wise Fruit NYC; Director, Kalamandir Dance Company; Arts Administrator, Dance/NYC; Co-Founder, Soles of Duende
Rennie Harris
Founder of Rennie Harris Puremovement and Rennie Harris University
Misty Lown
Founder, More Than Just Great Dancing™ and Misty’s Dance Unlimited, LLC
Kitty Lunn
Founder and Artistic Director of Infinity Dance Theater; Master teacher of Dance and Disability Artistry
Dr. Nyama McCarthy-Brown
Assistant professor at Ohio State University; author of Dance Pedagogy for a Diverse World: Culturally Relevant Teaching in Research, Theory, and Practice; 2021 Dance Teacher Awards honoree
Marika Molnar
PT, LAc; Founder and President, Westside Dance Physical Therapy; Health and Wellness Coordinator for the New York City Ballet and School of American Ballet
Shelly Power
Executive Director of Philadelphia Ballet; former artistic director and CEO of Prix de Lausanne; former director of Houston Ballet Academy
Lynn Simonson
Creator of Simonson Technique and Simonson Method of Teacher Training
Peter Stark
President and Director of The Rock School for Dance Education
Monica Stephenson
Director of Community Engagement, Miami City Ballet; Former Head of School The Washington School of Ballet SE Campus
Deborah Vogel
Movement analyst, neuromuscular educator, director of The Body Series
Eva Yaa Asantewaa
Independent curator, arts writer, and editor; Founding Director, Black Diaspora; Founder, Black Curators in Dance and Performance; Founding Editor, Imagining: A Gibney Journal
2022 Dance Teacher Awards Committee
Nigel Campbell
Co-founder and Artistic Director, MOVE|NYC|; Artistic Director, Gibney Center
CHANEL DASILVA
Co-founder and Artistic Director, MOVE|NYC|; director, choreographer and dance educator
CHARLA GENN
NYC–based professional dance coach and rehabilitation specialist
DR. NYAMA MCCARTHY-BROWN
Assistant professor at Ohio State University; author of Dance Pedagogy for a Diverse World: Culturally Relevant Teaching in Research, Theory, and Practice; 2021 Dance Teacher Awards honoree
PETER STARK
President and Director of The Rock School for Dance Education