Jessica Lynne Lavorgna has studied dance since age seven and ballet since age twelve. Her first classical ballet training was with Debra Sayles (New Jersey Ballet). Since then, she has performed in over thirty different ballets. She has performed in such classical ballets as La Bayadere, Les Sylphides, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Giselle, The Nutcracker, Hansel and Gretel, Raimonda, Paquita and such contemporary ballets as Earth's Lament, Temptation, Dracula, and Evening of Romance. She has also performed the Krakoviac, Chardish, Bolero and Mazurka character dances.

She was a soloist with the Greater Lansing Ballet Company, has performed the role of Clara, a leading role in the New Jersey Ballet's Nutcracker and numerous ballets with the Roxey Ballet Company. She has also performed as a soloist in the Mid-west Regional Dance Festival in a piece choreographed especially for her by Robert Estner of the Joffrey Ballet in Chicago.

Ms. Lavorgna attended the North Carolina School of the Arts and studied with such notable teachers as Maria Gribovna (Ballet Mistress, Vagonava School, St. Petersburg Russia) and Melissa Hayden (New York City Ballet). She has also studied acting and musical theater with Joel Robertson (Jekyll & Hyde, Les Miserables, the original Broadway cast of Cats and Fiddler on the Roof).

Ms. Lavorgna has been teaching dance since age fourteen. She taught advanced and professional classes at the Mill Ballet School and she joined the faculty of the Roseland Performing Arts Company in March of 2004. In 2005 she took over as Director, now in its nineth year. During the last three years Ms. Lavorgna has expanded the schools programs to include a year long Saturday workshop program, a traveling dance program, a Summer Intensive class and Master Class Workshops.

Currently, Ms. Lavorgna studies privately with Carolyn Brown, formerly of American Ballet Theater and Phantom of the Opera on Broadway.

Ms. Hancock hails from southwestern Vermont, where she first began her dance training. She continued on at the Walnut Hill School of the Arts in Natick, MA - a preparatory school that blended the art and academia worlds.

After graduation, Maya packed her bags and moved to NYC where she earned a BFA in Dance at the Fordham University/Alvin Ailey School. Under the tutelage of Anna Marie Forsythe and Denise Jefferson, Maya experienced a bigger world of dance which included the Martha Graham, Lester Horton and Paul Taylor styles of modern dance along with a varied curriculum including West African, Hip-Hop and of course, Ballet.

One of Maya's most inspiring moments was performing Revelations choreographed by Alvin Ailey, at the African Burial Salute outside City Hall in New York City preceding a reading by Maya Angelou.

Geraldine Bianco was born in Philadelphia, PA and attended the Temple University Esther Boyer College of Music. She received a Bachelors degree in Voice Performance and was awarded an Opera Scholarship to continue there as a graduate student. She received a master's degree in both Opera and Voice Performance and performed in both Opera Productions and concerts. She continued her training under the wing of the late Jerome Hines. Jerry, the last of the Impresarios of the opera world, has left a lasting impression on her both vocally and personally. "I will always be grateful to him for his energy, drive, and love, to help me and other aspiring opera singers. He will be missed by all of us."

Some of the Opera roles she has performed are, Violetta in "La Traviata", Musetta in "La Boheme", Nanetta in "Falstaff", Frasquita in "Carmen" Eurydice in "Orpheus in the Underworld" , The Fire in L'Enfant et les Sortileges", and Sister Constance in "Dialogue of the Carmelites". Some of the Musical Theater roles she has performed are, Joanna in "Sweeney Todd", Cinderella and Rapunzel in "Into the Woods", Claudia Nardi in "Nine", Tuptim in "The King and I" and Kitty in "Where's Charley".

She made her Carnegie Hall debut in the "Gift of Music" series alon side of Soap Opera Star Vincent Irrizarry of "All my Children" fame. She has sung with the Montclair Chamber Ensemble in their "Tribute to Bernstein" concert, and with the Livingston Symphony. She has performed concerts and recitals throughout the North Jersey area including , The Montclair Women's Club, The Upper Montclair Women's Club, The Van Vleck House and Gardens, The Montclair Library, The Madison Library, and various area churches. This past spring she sung for the Newark Chapter of the New Jersey State Opera Guild on two separate occasions, and performs regularly with the Coro D'Italia, a traditional Italian singing and dancing troupe.

She currently teachers musical theater classes at the Paper Mill Playhouse, and is the musical director at the Rand Elementary School in Montclair NJ for their yearly musical presentation. She also has a private voice studio in Montclair, NJ.