Kathy Chamberlain | BALLET INSTRUCTOR

Recognized for her high caliber training standards, each year Ms. Chamberlain's students are accepted and awarded scholarships to nationally recognized dance academies and have been accepted to many prestigious institutions of higher education. A Texas native, Ms. Chamberlain began her training in Dallas at the Etgen-Atkinson School of Ballet, where she later began her teaching career. She received a Ford Foundation Scholarship to study at the School of American Ballet in New York before ultimately returning to Texas to teach. Since 1977, her focus has been to lovingly teach and work with young dancers whose dreams are based, like hers, on a love for the art and beauty of dance. Ms. Chamberlain has served as an adjunct faculty member at Southern Methodist University Meadows School of the Arts. She is actively involved in supporting the arts within North Texas. Altrusa International Inc. of Richardson, Texas recognized Ms. Chamberlain as one of the Outstanding Women of Today in Small Business for 2006 and she was a nominee of ArtCentre of Plano’s 2008 Love of Arts award. Ms. Chamberlain worked with HIT Entertainment, Inc. as a consultant for the Angelina Ballerina® animated television series which premiered on PBS in the fall of 2009. Ms. Chamberlain is the recipient of the ArtCentre of Plano’s 2010 Central Market’s Arts in Education Award. During the 2010 winter season, she was among a select group of twenty dance instructors who were invited to attend The School of AmericanBallet’s Teacher Conference in New York City. In August 2011, Ms. Chamberlain was named one of the Top Ten Women of Collin County by Neiman Marcus Willow Bend for her contributions to the community. In February 2014 the Richardson Arts Alliance presented Ms. Chamberlain with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Heart for the Arts Gala. In October 2017 the Dance Council of North Texas awarded Ms. Chamberlain the Mary Bywaters Award for Lifetime Achievement in Dance. As Founder and Artistic Director, she originally established Chamberlain Ballet in 1984 as a non-profit organization dedicated to giving dance students professional training and performance experience. Ms. Chamberlain is proud of the growth of her school and non-profit company and looks forward to the many more years to come.

BECCA SIGMUND | BALLET AND MODERN INSTRUCTOR

Becca Sigmund graduated from The University of Iowa in just three years with her BA in Dance and a minor in Theatre Arts.  She performed professionally with both ballet and modern dance companies including Upstate NY Ballet Company (aka Syracuse City Ballet), San Diego Dance Theater, Ballet Theatre of Maryland, and Kinetics Dance Theatre's Professional Company.  She received her year-round training from both The Rock School West and Nolte Academy of Dance, and attended summer programs such as ABT, Joffrey Ballet, Malashock Dance, Nashville Ballet, and City Ballet of San Diego.  She trained extensively in all styles of dance including ballet, pointe, modern, lyrical, jazz, tap, musical theater, and hip hop.  Becca has been teaching dance and fitness classes for the last 13 years at studios throughout Iowa, Pennsylvania, New York, Maryland, and now Texas.  She is also a PBT certified instructor.

From 2013 to the start of 2019, Becca was the School Director at Kinetics Dance Theatre in Ellicott City, Maryland.  She built a curriculum, trained students for YAGP, and had students go on to receive a full-ride scholarship to study dance at University of Maryland Baltimore College, an invitation and scholarship to study at Boston Ballet's Pre-Professional Program, as well as acceptance into Fordham University's and University of the Arts BFA programs.

She recently moved to the Dallas area with her husband and two young boys and looks forward to sharing her passion and enthusiasm for dance with the DFW community.