Hello, my name is Erika, I am 27 and I have been teaching for almost 5 years at the studio that I grew up dancing in. I teach mostly ballet and I studied under AnneMarie Sarazin who was a principle dancer with the Boston Ballet. She was an amazing dancer and a great teacher. She expected her students to work hard but at the same time enjoy dancing. I hope I do the same for my students.

I love teaching this year because the past two years I have been pregnant!!! I love my 2 year old daughter and my 7 month old son, but dancing while pregnant was very hard on me. I had problems with my SI joint rubbing and it killed me to not be able to use my body like I was accustomed to. If anyone wants advice on dancing while pregnant, let me know, I tried so many streches, physical therapists, and chiroprators.

This year my daughter started coming with me to my 2.5 - 3 year old ballet class. She is a little younger than most kids, but she follows along very well. She knows plie, tendu, and passe! And she is the reason for my nickname, ballerinabear. When she was learnging to talk, that was one of her first words. It came out more like 'ballalalala' but so cute!

Enough about my kids! I really like this website and any teaching advice or info, please pass along!