Dance Instructor Profiles

Carole Conn - Abbinanti's

Action Tap classes instructed by Carole Conn - Abbinanti, CDE.
Carole is a certified dance educator in tap, ballet, jazz, acrobatics, and fitness. She has over 25 years of experience in the field. She has taught all ages from toddler to seniors, customizing each of her classes to fit the needs of the students. Her innovative approach makes her class uniquely appropriate for all ages and levels. She is a comprehensive, focused and spirited educator who has performed nationally and abroad.

Michelle Nascimento- Fiesta Flamenco Workshop

Michelle Nascimento “La Caoba” has been studying, teaching and performing around the world. As the artistic director of her group “Flamenco Triana” she has been a featured soloist in the Opera Carmen (NY and Ravinia), Dance Chicago and many other dance festivals, theaters and tablaos in New York, Miami, St. Louis, Milwaukee, Minneapolis as well as in Spain, Switzerland and Northern Africa. She is now a sought after teacher in the Chicago area and keeps receiving invitations to teach and perform nationally and internationally.

Heidi V. Malnar- Youth & Family Tap Class

Heidi V. Malnar hails from Clarksville, Tennessee. Upon graduating from Columbia College Chicago with a Bachelor of Arts in dance, she began performing with the Chicago-based Jump Rhythm Jazz Project - Billy Siegenfeld, Artistic Director. Among fellow company members, she is the proud recipient of an EMMY Award for her performance in Jump Rhythm's documentary- "Jump Rhythm Jazz Project: Getting There," which was produced by HMS Media. She has also had the pleasure of being a company member of Chicago Tap Theatre, directed by Mark Yonally. After choreographing/ performing in the short film, "Seduction in C-Sharp," directed by Anne Peterson, she looks forward to the film's appearance in International Film Festival England. Her choreography has also been seen at Bailiwick Repertory Theatre in the "Barenaked Lads" series, The Roxy Regional Theatre in Clarksville, TN; Sioux City, IA; Wheeling High School Orchesis, and various independent music videos and commercials. She is currently teaching in Chicago at Le Ballet Petit School of Dance, and The Galaxie; she also teaches in Wisconsin at Kenosha Academy of Dance.