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***Guest Instructor Miss Crystal***

Crystal Tkach brings with her a great deal of professional experience as a dancer and dance teacher of many forms. She is a certified teacher from the Royal Winnipeg Ballet teacher’s course and holds her Associate of Teaching from the I.S.T.D. and has currently completed her 3rd year , in obtaining ADAPT certification in Tap and Jazz . Crystal Tkach also holds a certificate in Applied Anatomy and Physiology for Dancers. In addition, Crystal has completed her CDTA exams at the Intermediate level in both Jazz and in Tap, and has also studied the advanced CDTA Tap and Jazz syllabus. She has completed her Advanced RAD Ballet exams and recently trained for her Advanced 2 Cecchetti exam this year in June with a mark of Highly Commended!!! She was accepted and went to train in the Royal Winnipeg Ballet Schools Professional program for 2 years. She has attended the Decidedly Jazz Dance Works intensive workshops, as well as the Cecchetti (Ballet) National Conference.
 
Crystal’s stage and professional and performance experience is just as extensive. From 2004 – 2006 she was on contract with Elite Model Management in Toronto, Ontario, working as an editorial and cover model. While in Los Angeles was cast to be a Host for MTV’s reality show “NEXT!” In 2006-2007 she danced professionally aboard the Caribbean Princess for Princess Cruise Lines. She was featured in a McMaster and James music video in 2003, and most recently in was the lead actress in the music video Hello Goodbye for LIVE ON ARRIVAL which had reach the top 10 charts in Canada and has been nominated for THE BEST NEW ARTIST at the CANADIAN RADIO MUSICAWARDS. July 29, 2007: LIVE ON ARRIVAL’s new single “Hello Goodbye” has been awarded the “CHUM Radio Emerging Artist Award” for August 2007!
 
Crystal was also a member of the Dare to Dance Company, where she performed solo and group work for a variety of numbers under the guidance of Emmy Award winning Artistic Director, David Connolly. As a Dare to Dance company member, Crystal Tkach also had the opportunity to do singing, television ads and voice-over work, and worked with Kelly Konno and Carolina Lancaster of Triple Threat. Crystal also performed with the RWB’s In Concert Hour series in the ballet productions of Coppelia and The Secret Garden as a professional division student. Crystal also played the role of “Charice” in the made for television mini-series “The Harp”, directed by Sarah Polley.
 
In the past months Ms. Crystal was a featured extra, 1980’s reporter, in the 2 part mini series “The Green River Killer, Chasing the Devil” for the Lifetime Movie Network directed by Norma Bailey, which has aired on LMN and on Showtime just this past month.
 
Crystal is very happy to be apart of Rising Star Academy of Arts and is also teaching dance within the Winnipeg School Division, and deemed a special educator and just completed her 5th year with Learning Through The Arts (LTTA) a Royal Dance Conservatory Program to bring the arts into public schools.
 
 

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