Transplanted from San Antonio,Texas, where she owned and operated three ballroom venues, Fritzi Pesti was an American Style Ballroom, Country, Salsa and East and West Coast Swing instructor. Fritzi was a registered Interior Designer when she decided to take up Swing dancing as a hobby. Dancing became an obsession. She studied ballroom with several top level pros and started teaching. She opened her first studio which boasted over 50 youth students. They earned winning placements in Texas ballroom competitions. Fritzi was the Tampa area Homeschool Coop Ballroom teacher for several years and loved teaching children. She taught seniors at Highland Lakes. From absolute beginners to competitive level students, Fritzi was patient and intuitive to her students skill levels and served to inspire and motivate growth and confidence. And most important, Fritzi believed dancing should be fun!

Jane Baginski was a figure skater from a family of classical musicians who studied music in college and graduated with a B.A. in philosophy and English. She went on to become the director of a community theater in Boston and worked as a technical writer and trainer. In 2001, Jane was introduced to ballroom dancing and started as an unlimited student at Paul Pellicoro’s Dancesport in Manhattan, learning most of the Rhythm and Club syllabus in two years. After moving to New Jersey, she began dancing with the Mount Laurel School of Ballet and studied International Latin and Ballroom under Sandra Fortuna at Universal Ballroom Dance Center. The family moved to Florida in 2017 and Jane began dancing with Eddie Rivera of Dance It Studio in Orlando whom she competed with for four years in pro-am, dancing at the Championship Level with high placements. Jane turned professional in 2022. Having started the ballroom journey as an adult, Jane can communicate technique to adults that most top pros learned as children and take for granted. Her greatest passion is teaching technique, musicality, and dramatic expression. Jane is certified by the USISTD in Assoc. Latin and DanceVision in Bronze Smooth.

Tim Allen began his dancing at the age of 9 in a small town named Coventry Connecticut. He tapped and jazzed and learned some of the best introductory technique while in ballet class. At age 24 after a small break to learn new things in life he found an ad in the newspaper that read “Do you like to dance and stay up late” Answer.. Yes! and never looked back and from that point on life has been about dancing. Tim has extensive training in American and International styles of dance and theatre arts, choreography and syllabus training, social dancing. He is looking forward to passing some of this information to any students who wish to learn properly.

Lindsay Clark began dance training at age 3 in Asheville, NC. She studied classical ballet, jazz, tap and lyrical ballet and furthered her classical and contemporary/modern dance training at the Greenville Ballet school and company in SC. She was accepted into the School of American Ballet, NY for summer studies and graduated from the North Carolina School of the Arts. Lindsay studied at the American Ballet Theatre, NY, began teaching and dancing professionally at North Carolina Dance Theatre. Her professional dancing and teaching career led her to Florida. In 2008, she founded Tampa Bay Ballet and from 2012-2020 was the Artistic Director of Tampa Ballet Theatre. For over a decade she choreographed and/or staged many classical and neoclassical ballets for TBB and TBT including The Nutcracker, Coppelia, Alice and Wonderland, Dracula, Giselle, Les Sylphides, Beauty and the Beast, Sleeping Beauty and excerpts from La Bayadere, Don Quixote, Swan Lake and many more. Lindsay has trained many professional dancers as well as children and adults of all levels and enjoys educating students in ballet and yoga. She is excited to share her knowledge with the dance community through private lessons, adult ballet, yoga classes and master classes for all ages.

Keila began dancing at the age of 7 at the School of Ballet in San Juan, Puerto Rico and studied ballet exclusively for the next 8 years. She won a scholarship to the School of Fine Arts of Carolina where she was educated in Jazz, Lyrical, Bomba y Plena, Ballet and Salsa. Keila competed at the World Salsa Open in the Team Division, placing in the Top 3 in 2013 and 2014. She moved to Tampa, FL in 2015 to follow hr dream of becoming a Latin dance instructor and performer. She has taught and performed in studios and Latin Dance Congresses both inside and outside of the U.S. Ms. Soto has a B.A. in Marketing and loves sharing her enthusiasm for dance with other performers and students.

Rachel Schoeller has been working as a professional photographer in the local community for ten years, doing commissioned work for private clients. Schoeller first discovered and fell in love with the medium as a child, cutting her teeth with the Nikon point and shoots and disposable Kodak cameras. For five years, she photographed hundreds of local private school children for their annual school picture. She joined the teaching staff at the inception of the studio as a trainee.