SCHOOL OF DANCE AND MUSIC
2018 NE 155th Street, North Miami Beach, Florida 33162 - (305) 940-3248
Arnold Quintane is a native of Nante, France. Mr.Quintane graduated from the Paris Opera Ballet School in 1983 after completing his five years of training. The Paris Opera Ballet school , which is three hundred years old, is one of the oldest and most prestigious schools in the world and has produced and continues to produce some of the best dancers in companies around the globe. There, Mr. Quintane trained extensively in Classical Ballet as well as Pas de deux, Contemporary, Jazz,Character, Mime,Folk Dances, Dance History, Musical Expression and Anatomy. His teachers included some of the finest dancers, instructors and historians of our time. Mr. Quintane went on to dance with Belgium's Royal Ballet of Wallonie where he gained prominence as a principal dancer, dancing many lead rolls including "Romeo" in "Romeo and Juliet". Mr. Quintane then danced as a principal dancer with the Miami City Ballet under the artistic direction of Edward Villella where he dance principal rolls in much of the repertory including Balanchine's "Rubies", "Who Cares" and "Themed Variations". He has been a teacher at the Miami City Ballet School as well as a  guest teacher at the Atlanta Ballet School. Mr. Quintane has retired from the Miami City Balllet and is currently teaching at New World school of The Arts in Miami and Peaches School of Dance. In 2010, Mr. Quitane graduated with a MFA in Dance from Hollins University.
Lovensky Jean-Baptiste was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. At a young age he moved to Miami, where he spent most of his childhood. As a high school performer he garnered numerous accolades, including a scholarship from the South East Theater Conference to study at Florida State University Drama Conservatory. Lovensky graduated cum laude from Florida State with a B.S. in Mass Media and minor in Theater in 2004. He continued his education by becoming one of eleven applicants admitted into the prestigious UCLA School of Theater Film and Television Masters in Acting program. Lovensky graduated with his MFA in Acting in 2007 and created a thesis solo performance documenting the "Rize" of Tommy the Clown and Krump dance/street Clowning movement. Based on his work at UCLA, Lovensky was offered a teaching position at UCLA, where he instructed freshman students in an acting basic process course. Lovensky is now a veteran stage, film and television actor with over a dozen professional stage productions and several television and film appearances under his belt. Lovensky has appeared in the title roll of"Victory" world renown playwright Athol Fugard's US premier, a role in the World Premier of "An Act of Love" byCosby show creator David Landsberg, and Kindred at the Ivar. When not on stage his has enjoyed screen time with a recurring guest appearance in TNT's hit show "The Closer" and has enjoyed an exciting role on ABC's comedy "Boston Legal", and a recurring role on the hit season of "24". He is also slated to appear on the big screen with the release of Bala Rajasekharuni's "Blind Ambition" where he stars as "Ciro" and "Shadow of The Ants" slated for release this fall.
Rosalyn Deshauteurs studied at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts,Perry Mansfield, The School of American Ballet and the Ailey School. After recieving her BFA in Dance at the Juilliard School in New York City, Roslyn was invited to joinAiley II by the Artistic Director Mrs. Sylvia Waters in 1999. In 2000 she joined the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and traveled around the globe performing principal roles with the company until 2011. Mrs. Deshauteurs is now married and has relocated to Miami where she will be joiningPeaches School of Dance as an instructor in Modern Dance.
Founder and Director
Leslie "Peaches" Gettis
Lovensky Jean-Baptiste
Imrovisational
Theater/Drama
Zedric Bembry Founder/Director of LIC and LIC Kids
Alison Aslaender
Jazz/ BabyFunk
    Ballet/Tap
Heather Vonzetta 
Hip Hop/Jazz
 

Hip Hop
Philip Wright

Piano-Guitar
Lucian Williams
Ian Rose
Glee Chor & Voice
Musical Theater Vocals
Carl Lauderman
Guitar-Piano-Voice
 
Arnold Quintane
Ballet
Elida "Toops" Wallack
Ballet/Jazz
Rosalyn Deshauteurs
Modern
Noah Kahn
Breakdancing
Paula Roque
Ballet
Alison took her first dance class at Peaches School of Dance at the age of 2. Alison attended Marymount Manhattan College and has trained with the Joffrey Ballet and The School of American Ballet. She has been a member of Live in Color Dance Collective for 11 years and has been in numerous music videos for pop artists Trina, Pitbull, DJ Laz and Flo Rida.  She was featured with Live in Color on "America's Got Talent" in Los Angeles, "Live at the Apollo Theater" in New York City and has been a guest artist on dance related shows for theater and television. She has been a teacher at Peaches School of Dance and Music for 6 years.
Zedric "Automatic" Bembry is the inspiration behind Live in Color Dance Collective (LICDC), a culturally diverse dance company. Under Zedric's direction, LICDC has taken urban dance to a new level with the creation of the "Urban Funk' dance style. Zedric's dynamic choreography has won them acclaim at MTV's Video Music Awards, Latin MTV's Video Music awards and made them $100,000.00 grand prize winners of the ABC Family's national hit show "Dance Fever" in 2003. Zedric's strong dedication to the art of dance is parallel to his dedication to the communities he serves.Reflection on his teenage years propels him to spread the joy of dance to young people as a positive alternative to many of the ills that the street offers. Zedric has been teaching at Peaches School of Dance and Music for 9 years.
Elida "Toops" Wallack has been dancing since the age of 5. She has studied with her sister, Leslie "Peaches" Gettis, Martha Mahr, Freddick Bratcher and many other amazing teachers at New World School of the Arts, Pennsylvania School of Ballet, The San Francisco School of Ballet, Ballet Aspen and at the Alvin Ailey School in New York City.  She performed as a soloist with the Miami Ballet Company for 6 years and as a soloist with Freddick Bratcher and Company for 9 years.  She has been teaching dance to children of all ages from the time she was 15 years old at Peaches School of Dance and Music and has recently taken over the dance department at Miami Country Day School.  She is looking forward to another wonderful year with her students!
Paul Anderson
Acrobatics/Circus Arts
Bio's/Pics Coming:
Lucian Williams is an alumnus of Berkely College of Music in Boston and a former faculty member of the Hartford Conservatory. He studied privately with world famous jazz guitarists George Benson and Chuck Wayne and has had a full time performing career of several decades as a guitarist, pianist, vocalist, bassist, arranger and orchestra leader. His vocal studies have been with Jacqueline Jarrett and David Baker in Connecticut, Jane Ellison at Loyola University in Montreal, noted operatic tenor Carmine Gagliardi in New York City, and Gina Moretta (whose students have included Gloria Estefan and Jon Secada) in Miami. Mr. Williams believes that by sharing his enjoyment of making mujsic with his students, he can give them confidence in other areas.  That is because to achieve that enjoyment, they must go through a process of physical discovery through practice.  They are empowered when they experience the connections between inspiration, work, and pleasure.  He hopes to expand the annual individual recital program at Peaches by scheduling more frequent student performances including ensemble presentations.
Miss Natasha
Musical Theater/Drama
Andy Sottilaire
Drama/Improvisational Acting