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Eric Ragan, Artistic Director promo video
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Eric Ragan, Director of Long Island City School of Ballet, trained at Dallas Ballet Academy, North
Texas State University, Kilgore College, Dallas Civic Ballet, and Natalia Krassovska School of Ballet.
In 1988 he was handpicked by the great Fredrick Franklin of the Ballet Russe De Monte Carlo to
dance the role of Johnny in Ruth Page Center’s Frankie and Johnny. It was the start of an impressive
career that has included recurrent roles in Paul Sutherland’s setting of Agnes de Mille’s Rodeo and
lead roles with the Tulsa Ballet, Eugene Ballet Co., Ballet Austin, Stadttheater (Switzerland), Dances
Patrelle, and Suzanne Farrell Ballet/Kennedy Center, and as a guest artist with American Ballet
Theatre. He has also performed in Balanchine’s Don Q, Slaughter on Tenth Avenue, Petrouchka, Our
Town, Sleeping Beauty, Zorro, Beauty and the Beast, Romeo & Juliet, Swan Lake, The Nutcracker,
Giselle, Cinderella, Carmen, Merry Widow, Billy the Kid, and many other productions. Mr. Ragan’s
choreographic credits include Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat, Grease, and Really
Rosie, and original pieces “The Clowns Goodbye,” “Love in a Bottle,” “Minnie the Moocher,” and
“The Squashed Fairies.”
Mr. Ragan is co-owner of Ragan Pilates (with Mary Weynand-Ragan); co-director of Ballet for Young
Audiences, which is the resident company at LICSB and stages condensed classical ballets for children;
and movement education director at the Queens Paideia School. He has also been chosen by Paul
Sutherland to take over the setting of Rodeo for the Agnes de Mille Foundation upon Sutherland’s
retirement.
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Heather Garbrandt, Instructor
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Heather Garbrandt trained at the New Jersey School
of Ballet, Joffrey Ballet School, and New York
Theater Ballet. She is a principal dancer with Ballet
for Young Audiences and soloist for the Staten Island
Ballet. She has danced with the Octavia Cup Dance
Theatre, lauded for its contemporary point work.
Prior to her role as beloved “Miss Heather” at
LICSB, Heather taught at other renowned NY-area
ballet schools, including Ballet Academy East and
Steps on Broadway. She has also been an instructor
for Sharing the Barre, a NJ dance and musical
theater program for children with special needs.
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Mary Ragan, Instructor
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Mrs. Ragan is the owner and operator of Ragan Pilates in LIC.
Her studio has been a staple of fitness in our community for over
5 years. She has more than twenty years of dance and movement
experience, from ballet to musical theatre. She truly loves
helping others fulfill their physical goals, joyfully guiding them to
a healthier way of life. She trained and worked for three years with
Master teacher Peter Vaillancourt in New York City where she
received her Pilates certification.
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Ericka Richcrick, Instructor
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Ericka Richcrick grew up in York, PA, on a farm. After years spent running
through cornfields, chasing cats, and picking mint leaves for tea, she took her
first dance lesson at 12. She trained at Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, Point
Park Univ., Washington School of Ballet Summer Intensive, and other
programs, and has danced professionally with Northern Ballet Theatre, Ballet
Theatre of Maryland, and Jennie & Co. Ericka danced her first season with
Ballet for Young Audiences in 2009-2010.
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Melissa Holton, Instructor
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Melissa Holton grew up in Florida and received her dance
training at the Palm Beach Ballet Center in Florida under
the direction of Joan Miller. She has studied at summer
intensives, including American Ballet Theatre, North
Carolina School of the Arts, and Alvin Ailey.
These days, in New York, Melissa performs with Ballet for
Young Audiences and teaches at Ballet Academy East
and, in the summer, French Woods Performing Arts Camp
in Hancock, NY.
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Directions to the studio
44-02 23rd street studio 216
LIC. NY. 11101
Eric@LICSB.COM
(718)781-1169
This site was designed by Eric Ragan Tzen Digital Archives
Copyright © 2007 LICSB All rights reserved
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