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ALETHEA BODINE
Artistic Director
School Director & Instructor
Arts in Education Coordinator
Dance for PD
Alethea (Lea) Bodine completed her BA in Dance Performance from Mercyhurst College in 1991 and has since been Artistic Director, Key Instructor and Chief Administrator of the Titusville Dance Conservatory, North Coast Dance, and the moving space. Between 1991 and the present Ms. Bodine performed as a principal dancer with Erie dance companies Dafmark Dance Theater, her own company Chronic Dance and most recently with Shen and Bones Performance Group. In 1997 Ms. Bodine was accepted and served as a Pennsylvania Roster Artist with the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts until 2006. During this time she collaborated with many leading visual and performance artists while conducting several residencies throughout the Northern Tier, thus shaping her directive to maintain a presence of the arts as a tool to better formal academic as well as service minded programs.
As School Director Ms. Bodine works closely with artists and staff to develop and administer the Children and Student Division Curriculums of the Lake Erie Ballet - Academy of Dance. As Arts in Education Coordinator for the Lake Erie Ballet, Ms. Bodine continues to conduct dance residencies at several Erie area public and private schools as well as other community based organizations that specialize in providing services for special needs, pre-school and elderly populations. Recently, Ms. Bodine was able to attend classes with David Leventhal of Mark Morris Dance Group to learn about the Dance for Parkinson's Disease Program.
Ms. Bodine is proud to be an active advocate of true collaborative ventures in interdisciplinary arts programming, intergenerational dance and arts education by proactively collaborating with Erie area schools and other community based organizations. In 2010 during its 63rd season, the Lake Erie Ballet collaborated with the Mercyhurst College Dance Department, Mercy Center for the Arts, Villa Maria Elementary School, the Mercy Center for Aging and the Erie Bayfront Dance program of the Martin Luther King, NATO Center.
Ms. Bodine has also been a member of the Erie Dance Consortium, a not for profit organization that conducts Master Classes yearly and Dance Festivals biannually, since its inception in 2000. In the Spring on 2011, Ms. Bodine was elected President of the Erie Dance Consortium.
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KIM LEWIS HOWELL
Artistic Advisor
LEAD Principal Instructor
Childrens Division Instructor
Dance for PD
Mrs. Howell began her dance training in Florida with Helen Salter, an early member of the New York City Ballet. She furthered her training at North Carolina School of the Arts (summer programs), and the Joffrey Ballet School. She became a member of the Joffrey II Dancers, touring and performing many original works in the United States and the Virgin Islands. Mrs. Howell danced with Berkshire Ballet, Ballet Theater of Pennsylvania, and the Lake Erie Ballet, as well as performing traditional roles as a guest artist for a few regional companies. Mrs. Howell began teaching in high school. While at the Joffrey Ballet School she worked as a teacher assistant and has since taught at the Tallahassee Ballet, the Johnstown Conservatory, the Lake Erie Ballet, as a substitute at Mercyhurst College, and as Director of the Erie Bayfront Ballet. Her current and most rewarding efforts include "co-directing" the Howell household with her husband, Dr. Allen Howell of the Department of Music at Edinboro University. They have five children; Isaac, Christiana, Seth, Ethan, and Emma. |
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CARRIE BURNS-FRASE
Artistic Advisor
LEAD Principal Instructor
Carrie Burns-Frase, an Erie native, began her training at the Erie Civic Ballet School under Arlene Hay. She spent summers dancing in the Chautauqua Dance Festival Company under the direction of Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux and Violette Verdy. She attended Goucher College in Baltimore, MD where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree and was honored with the Rosenberg Scholarship and Phi Beta Kappa Award in dance. After graduating, she danced professionally for seven years with the Lake Erie Ballet under various directors and performing numerous ballets. She has performed lead roles as a guest artist in Johnstown, PA and Baltimore, MD in ballets such as Nutcracker, Coppelia, and Sleeping Beauty.
Carrie began teaching in 1992 as a ballet instructor with the Erie Bayfront Ballet. She has held teaching positions at Central High School, Northcoast Ballet, Mercyhurst College, Westminster Ice Skating Association, Lake Erie Ballet and other guest locations. Carrie continues to enjoy choreographing and performing liturgical pieces for Erie First Assembly of God Church.
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CHRISTINA MARIA ADELHARDT
Artistic Advisor
LEAD Principal Instructor
Christina Maria is the former Artistic/Executive Director of Lake Erie Ballet, Erie. She began her early training in Detroit, MI at Charmaine's Studio of Dance before moving to Dallas to train with Madame Nathalie Krassovska. She continued training under scholarship with the Dallas Metropolitan Ballet, Honor Company of the Southwest Regional Ballet Association, San Francisco Ballet Summer School and School of American Ballet for summer training. Later, she joined Boston Ballet II and danced extensively with the company. Ms. Maria arrived in 1989 as a member of the first professional ballet company in Erie. As a dancer, Ms. Maria is widely recognized for her dramatic ability. Her style is attributed to her wide and varied background in many forms of dance other than classical ballet. In 1996, she was proclaimed Artistic Director of Lake Erie Ballet after many years of dancing various leading roles and choreographing original works such as "Old Time Religion," "Ballet in Silhouette," "DanceBodies," "Five O'Clock Shadow" and several children's ballets, "Beauty and the Beast," "Peter and the Wolf," "The Little Mermaid" in conjunction with the Erie Playhouse and Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Cinderella" which is the only production of its type to be granted permission. Also including through invitation, Greg Bach's "Legend" for the 1999 Summer Festival of the Arts and the full-length children's ballet, "Grimsby: The Great Lakes Sea Serpent" in 2002.
Ms. Maria's appreciation for the many forms of dance has contributed to her being instrumental in the formation of the Erie Dance Consortium, an organization comprised of local non-profit arts groups that produces the semi-annual Erie Festival of Dance, a performance event celebrating dance in the Erie community. Recently, she has been named the Fine Arts Coordinator for Erie First Assembly of God and has been involved in the formation of the Sacred Arts Academy for dance, art, drama and music, seeking to redeem the arts to bring glory, honor and praise to God.
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