Bryanna Dean

Dean earned a BFA in Dance from Florida State University. She directed a dance department of David Mason School of the Arts, in Tallahassee. Dean guest taught for Florida State's summer pre-professional intensive and MASDI summer program (a California based company) once located here at JMU. After graduating, Dean moved to NYC teaching dance at The Movement Studio in Brooklyn and instructed movement classes in Montessori schools across the boroughs with UGOT Active Kids: a company based in Toronto, Canada (2018-2020). Bryanna has studied at the American Dance Festival, Doug Varone and Dancers Workshop, and George Mason Summer Program. She's performed in dance projects with esteemed choreographers Tiffany Ryhnard (2018), and Donna Uchizono Co. (2019, premiered at the Joyce Theater).

While directing the studio she is also currently the Operations Associate and teacher for a dance company based in NYC called "Dances for a Variable Population", for seniors