Staff/Faculty

Andrew Brader was born and raised in New Orleans, LA, and began his training with Karen Hebert and at the New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts with Jan Miller and Miguel Lopez. He attended The Harid Conservatory in Boca Raton, FL, on full scholarship and the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School at American Ballet Theatre, also studying privately with Susan Jaffe.

He was invited to join American Ballet Theatre as an apprentice, dancing with the company at The Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center, and then joined the Houston Ballet performing in ballets by Stanton Welch, Ben Stevenson, Jiri Kylian, John Cranko, Kenneth MacMillan and George Balanchine.

He danced with the Los Angeles Ballet for four seasons performing principal roles in George Balanchine’s Agon, The Four Temperaments, Stravinsky Violin Concerto, Serenade, Kammermuzik No.2, Lar Lubovich’s The Evangelist, Bournonville’s Napoli Pas de Six and original works by Josie Walsh, Sonya Tayeh, Olivier Wevers, and Melissa Barak’s Scrying presented as the first dance installation performed at NYC’s Modern Museum of Art.

Andrew was a Lester Horton Award nominee for Outstanding Achievement in Performance and spent two seasons with BalletMet Columbus before joining Stadt Theater Chemnitz as a Soloist in Chemnitz, Germany. Andrew joined Complexions Contemporary Ballet in 2014 under the direction of Dwight Rhoden and Desmond Richardson and is an instructor for Complexions’ intensives, as well as Joffrey Ballet School summer intensives.

Andrew has danced on the stages of The Metropolitan Opera House NYC, The Kennedy Center DC, The Music Center Los Angeles, The Tel-Aviv Opera House Israel, and The Kremlin Palace Moscow, Russia. He’s performed alongside international dance stars in the galas of Laguna Dance Festival, World Ballet Competition Gala, City Dance Gala DC, The Golden Swan Gala, and The Monterrey International Ballet Gala Mexico.

Andrew has appeared in music videos for Jill Scott and music legend Nile Rodgers and has also worked as a model for Los Angeles Fashion Week, New York Fashion Week, and New York Men’s Fashion Week.

Andrew has been a judge for competitions such as the Youth America Grand Prix and Icon Dance. He has also taught for Break The Floor productions at Dancerpalooza.

Born in Houston, Texas, Roderick George studied dance at Ben Stevenson’s Houston Ballet Academy. Roderick continued to develop his skill by exploring other techniques at The Alvin Ailey School, Miami City Ballet, LINES Professional Program, and the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Houston, TX.

Before starting his professional career, he was a bronze winner of the Youth American Grand Prix in 2005. He was elected as a Presidential Scholar under the YoungArts Foundation in 2003, where he performed for the US President. Roderick joined Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet in 2005 and was soon offered the opportunity to work with Basel Ballet/ Theater Basel in 2007 and later to guest with the Goteborg Operan DansKompani. After that, Roderick joined
The Forsythe Company in Frankfurt, Germany.

He learned and shared his greatest moments with William Forsythe and the artists of TFC. His career has embraced the collaborations of his work and other great choreographers such as Peeping Tom, Jorma Elo, Jerome Bel, Jacopo Godani, William Forsythe, Johan Inger, Jiří Kylian, Sharon Eyal, Ohan Naharin, Benoit Swan-Pouffer, Richard Wherlock, Tino Seghal, and many others.

When Andrea was 15, she left her home in Midland, Texas, to attend the National Academy of Arts in Champaign, Illinois, and pursue her dream of becoming a professional dancer. Andrea lived that dream dancing professionally for 25 years. She danced for 13 years as a ballerina with Nevada Dance Theatre and Ballet Austin. After retiring from ballet, she danced jazz and tap for four years with Tapestry Dance Company and modern for five years with Kathy Dunn Hammrick Dance Company. Recently, Andrea has freelanced as a dancer and an independent choreographer and has been invited to perform in many dance festivals in the Austin area. Her choreography has been well received on professional stages as well as at student competitions; always striking an emotional chord in her audiences through pure joy and musicality. Although she retired from the stage in 2015, she continues to share her love and passion for this marvelous artform as a teacher, rehearsal director, coach and choreographer.   

As a teacher, Andrea’s philosophy is that with proper strength and body alignment, a dancer can have effortless power and ultimately tons of fun dancing. One of her greatest talents as an instructor is her ability to spot the weaknesses or alignment issues in each dancer and offer corrections tailored to each dancer’s specific needs.  Andrea also has a vast understanding of body mechanics to promote the best coordination and ease of movement. Her motto is, “I’m not going to teach you to have great technique, I’m going to teach you to use great technique.”

Born and raised in Russia, Sasha started to pursue her career in Ballroom Dance at age 17. Her 10 Dance World Champion Titles were earned not so long afterwards. Her passion for teaching kids drove Sasha to start Kids Ballroom Programs at the various dance studios of Austin. She was also invited by The University of Texas to be the Ballroom Dance instructor for competitive students. Sasha has been involved in many dance projects including Dancing With The Stars Austin. Besides International Ballroom Style of dancing, she has experience in American Smooth Dancing and competing in Show Divisions. Currently, Sasha is back on the competition floor with 5 dance Standard Program.