Faculty
Christine Fendley, Artistic Director and Founder, has taught children and adults dance for over 30 years. As an educator, performer and choreographer, Ms Fendley has taught for the Aesthetic Education Institute in Rochester and Albany, The Rochester AEI/Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning, through the artist-in-residence program of Project U.N.I.Q.U.E. and the Rochester City School District, and through Young Audiences of Rochester. She was on the faculty at Nazareth College in the Graduate Studies Program and at Wells College, NY. Ms Fendley has developed programs for children in private and public schools.
Her choreography has been presented at Kilbourn Hall at the Eastman School of Music, Wells College, Pyramid Arts Center's Dance Series, MCC Choreographer's Series, the Finger Lakes Community College Composer's Forum, RochesterInk Poetry Festival, Park Avenue Dance Company's concerts, and as part of the Rochester Contemporary Dance Series. She is the recipient of choreography grants for her interdisciplinary collaborative work in video, dance, music and theater from the New York State Council on the Arts, from the Wurlitzer Foundation and from the Wilmot Foundation. She holds a BA in English, Drama and Dance from the University of Maryland and an MA in Choreography and Perfomance from State University of New York at Brockport.
Marina Peters is from New York City where she studied with Thalia Mara, Carmen de Lavallade, Sophie Maslow, Donald McKayle, and Rod Rodgers, among others. She has performed and choreographed with Park Avenue Dance Company since its inception and is Assistant to the Director. Further performances, along with workshops in Rochester City Schools and other counties, have been with Kinecore Dance Circus and the Elizabeth Clark Dance Ensemble. Currently, she studies with and recruits master class instructors for Park Avenue Dance Company from the Toronto companies of Dancemakers, Toronto Dance Theater, and Danny Grossman Dance Company.
Linda Goebel has been teaching dance for 25 years. She is on the faculty in the Dance program at Rochester Institute of Technology. Linda has choreographed numerous musicals in schools and community theater. She is known as the "tap teachers' teacher". She has a B.S. in Dance from SUNY Brockport. Linda is a certified aerobics instructor and personal trainer. Linda also creates stained glass jewelry through her business Goebel Glass.
Cora Kannel is a Licensed Massage Therapist and company member of Park Avenue Dance Company. She is currently teaching Orthopedic Assessment at the Onondaga School Of Therapeutic Massage and Ballet and Parent Toddler workshops with Park Avenue Dance Company. She began teaching at The Rochester City Ballet in 1995 and continued exploring movement education in Tucson, AZ with Orts Theatre Of Dance. Here she expanded her teaching from ballet to creative movement, aerial, and parent/toddler dance classes. Cora uses her experience and education to integrate function and movement in both classical and contemporary movement education.
Jennifer Clausen is a math teacher at Eastridge High School and a member of Park Avenue Dance Company. She has substituted for creative movement classes and jazz dance classes. Jen previously taught creative movement, ballet, tap, jazz, hip-hop and musical theater to students ages 3 years old to 18 years old at Pittsford Academy of Dance. At Elmira College, Jen was president and a choreographer for Orchesis Dance Company. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Elementary Education and a Master of Science in Mathematics, Science, and Technology Education.