Faculty

Heidi Christensen

Heidi is the owner and director of Fusion Dance. She is a graduate from the University of Iowa with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Dance. In Iowa City, she was a captain and member of the Iowa Hawkeye Dance Team. Since graduation, Heidi danced professionally with the Denver Nuggets Dancers in Colorado. She choreographs and judges for various high school and college dance teams and previously was the coach for Millard North. Heidi attends classes throughout the United States to keep current on education and choreography. She recently became a member of Dance Masters of America. She is very excited to be a part of the Omaha community!

Timaree Alt

Timaree has been dancing for over 20 years, training in tap, jazz, ballet, lyrical, hip hop, and contemporary. She was born and raised in Norfolk, NE where she danced at Paulyn's Dance Studio and was part of their competition team for eight years. Timaree received her degree in exercise science from Creighton University, where she was a four year member of the Jays Dancers, serving one year as captain. In 2007, her choreography was featured at the Norfolk Arts Center "Spotlight on the Future". When not teaching at Fusion, Timaree works as Associate Director at BravO! National Dance and Talent Competition. She has recently been accepted into the 2010 Summer Internship in New York City.

Chelsea Alt

Chelsea has been dancing for 17 years, training in jazz, ballet, tap, lyrical, hip hop, and contemporary. She grew up dancing at Paulyn's Dance Studio in Norfolk, NE where she was part of their competition team for 10 years. She was a member of the Norfolk Catholic High School dance team for four years, serving as captain for three years. Chelsea currently attends UNO where she is on the dance team which placed 4th in the nation at NDA Collegiate Nationals in 2009. She was chosen as an All-American Dancer by the National Dance Alliance in 2009. Chelsea is currently the assistant coach for UNO dance team.

Hannah Nelson

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Makayla Person

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Alex Pearson

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Sarah Trimble

Sarah was raised in Lincoln, Nebraska. She studied under the direction of Tracy Hart of Hart Dance Academy, where she received 17 years of classical ballet and jazz training and was a member of the Lincoln Midwest Ballet Company. She attended UNL and was a member of the Nebraska Scarlets Dance Team. Sarah was a head instructor for 4 years for Universal Dance Association where she taught throughout the country and abroad. In 1999, Sarah graduated from UNL with a B.A. in English. That year she took a job as coach and choreographer for Lincoln Lightning's High Voltage Dance Team. Sarah then moved to Omaha to open her own studio, Dance Attitude, formerly Elite Dance. She also joined the Omaha BEEF where she began to build the Prime Dancers into the outstanding team that they are today. While in Omaha, Sarah has continued to be active in the dancing community, coaching or choreographing for teams locally and around the nation. She has continued to train young dancers at Fusion Dance and is happy to be back to work with the BEEF Organization. She prides herself in passing on her love of dance and believes this quote from George Balanchine says it all..."I don't want people who want to dance, I want people who have to dance."

Ellen Jackson

Ellen has been dancing for over 20 years training in ballet, tap, jazz, lyrical, hip hop, and musical theatre. Ellen grew up in Council Bluffs dancing at Mickey Pospisal's dance studio and the Bellvue Dance Academy competing for four years. She then joined her high school dance team as member, captain, and choreographer at the Iowa State Dance Team competition. Ellen was a Universal Dance Team instructor. In college she became a four year member and senior year captain of the Iowa Hawkeye Dance Team. She competed at the College National Dance Team Competition. She also choreographs for various high schools around the area and judges local competitions.

Alberto Liberatoscioli

Alberto received his professional training in Vaganova and Balanchine styles as well as in modern dance with Adriana Posta, Iride Sauri, V. Destnitsky, M. Zubkovskaja and Wiebe Moeys at California Dance Center in Milano. He was a member of National Theater in Brno-Czech Republic and Slovak National Ballet where he performed in all classical Russian repertory works including Le Corsaire, La Bayadere,Ivan the Terrible,The Merry Widow,Romeo and Juliet and Swan Lake. He also danced in many neoclassical works and opera premieres (Aida,Turandot,Nabucco,Rusalka,Boris Godunov,Don Carlos). Alberto joined Columbia Classical Ballet in South Carolina in 2008, where he danced solo roles in productions such as Tryptich, Rite of Spring, Streetcar Named Desire, Wizard of Oz,Nutcracker and George Balanchine’s Scotch Symphony. After joining Omaha Theater Ballet as soloist, Alberto also appeared as a guest artist at Boulder Ballet, Ballet Fantastique and Lincoln Midwest Ballet dancing principal roles in Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty as well as Lando in As YouLike It. Most recently, Alberto performed principal roles in Momentum, Nutcracker and A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Ballet Nebraska where he is proud to be a founding member. During the 2010-11 season, Alberto received his teaching certification from American Ballet Theater in New York City. He has taught master classes in Omaha and Lincoln-NE; more recently in Rome-Ials during the summer. In addition to his dance career, Alberto holds a law degree and a master in Human Resources. He also recently won a first prize in a 2010 literature contest "Una Manciata di Lettere" in Taranto, for his book " Ombre alla Ribalta".