Kerry Youngstrom

Kerry Youngstrom, Founder and Artistic Director of the GOTTA Dance Studio, is thrilled to be living her lifelong dream of teaching and performing with all her wonderful and supportive students. She has been teaching dance for over 20 years.  Majored in dance at Colby-Sawyer College in New Hampshire, she did a summer internship in Illinois with Gus Giordano, a pioneer in jazz dance.  Also, since 1983 she has been teaching and performing with the Dance Forever Studio, in Braintree, under the direction of Polly Feinberg.

Kerry is the Artistic Director and Founder of the CentreStage Dance Company which each summer performs at the Pembroke Arts Festival and Children’s Hospital in Boston.

She makes her home in Pembroke with her husband and 3 children.  She would like to thank her family for all their encouragement, love and support through the years and for always being her biggest fans.

 

Professional Experience

1993 - Present    Kerry Youngstrom’s GOTTA DANCE ! 

Duxbury, MA

Owner/Artistic Director

Specializing in dance for Children through Adult

 

1983 - Present      Dance Forever 

Braintree, MA

Choreographer/Instructor

Specializing in Adult Musical Comedy, Jazz, Ballet and Tap

 

1989 - Present      CentreStage Dance Company

Pembroke, MA

Artistic Director

Perform at the annual Pembroke Arts Festival

Recipient of Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant (1990-1999)

 

1988 - 1992       Dancer’s Studio

Duxbury, MA

Choreographer/Instructor 

Specializing in Jazz and Ballet for children and teens

 

1989 - 1997       Wee Care For Tots

Pembroke, MA

Choreographer/Instructor 

Creative movement for pre-schoolers

 

1982 - 1984       Joy of Movement

Milton, MA

Weekend Manager 

Supervised dance studio on weekends

 

Dance Training

1973 - 1977       Florence Duval Dance Studio

Scituate, MA

Instructor

 

1982 - Present      P. F. Flyers Dance Company

Braintree, MA

Polly Feinberg, Artistic Director

 

1977 - 1979       Colby-Sawyer College Dance Co.

New London, NH

Paula Frasz Johnson, Artistic Director

 

1978                 Gus Giordano Dance Studio

Evanston, IL

Gus Giordano, Artistic Director

 

 

Additional Training

Danny Sloan, Joy of Movement

Sherry Gold, Dance Unlimited

Carolyn Wells Williams, Marshfield Academy of Ballet

Maureen Ruff, Garden School of Ballet

Boston Repertory Ballet

Boston Conservatory of Music

 

Education

1977                  Colby-Sawyer College

New London, NH

Dance and Theatre Arts

 

1976                 Dance Teacher’s Club of Boston

Boston, MA

Graduate of The Dance Teacher’s Training Course 

 

Volunteer experience:

 

Annual performance at Children’s Hospital

Boston, MA

Member of the P. F. Flyers Dance Company

Braintree, MA

 

 

 

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