About the Director
Kelly (Stocke) Carson took over as director in 1995 when Marcia Cuzzo retired after 35 years of teaching. Kelly has 31 years of dance experience and has taught dance to all ages for 19 years. She attended UMD where she received a BAS degree in Elementary Education. Her training includes tap, ballet, jazz, hip hop and lyrical dance. She also continues to further her dance education by attending workshops.
Kelly has been a member of the Motion Choir, a Christian dance group, since it was started in 1984. Kelly is a committed Christian and has been involved in several different Bible Studies. She has choreographed several of the Motion Choir dances. These dances are not just movements put together by a trained dance teacher, but an expression of praise and worship to a loving God.
Erin Wourms (Dance Teacher)
A Duluth native, Erin Wourms trained at the School of the Minnesota Ballet for eleven years. She spent two summers studying at the Milwaukee Ballet School and North Carolina School of the Arts. At age 17, Erin was asked to join the Minnesota Ballet as an apprentice and a year later was promoted to a full company member. While with the company, Erin taught in the ballet school occasionally and danced such notable roles as Marie and the Sugar Plum Fairy in the Nutcracker and Odette in Swan Lake , Act II. Erin left the company after dancing with them for five years to start a family. She is now married and has a young daughter.