Meet Your Director

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 Ms. Renee  Burdick, owner and director of the Stephenville Dance Center,  is a native of Washington, D.C. where she trained on scholarship at the Fairfax Ballet under the tutelage of Thomas & Ilona Russell.  She graduated with a Bachelor's of Fine Arts in Ballet and a minor in Business in 2002 from Texas Christian University.  While at TCU, she trained with ballet legend Fernando Bujones, Elizabeth Gillaspy, Li-Chou Cheng, Christian von Howard, Susan Douglas Roberts and many others.  Upon graduation, Renee moved to New York where she danced with Mariana Beckerman Dance Company.  She has also performed with Contemporary Ballet Dallas, Ballet Frontier, Wild Goose Chase, Caroline Calouche Dance Company, at the American College Dance Festival, and the American Dance Festival.  She has traveled all over the country and Mexico performing with these companies. After hanging up her pointe shoes, she moved to Stephenville with her husband where she had been the director of the SPARD dance program for four years before opening the Stephenville Dance Center.  Ms. Renee holds an Masters in Education with an emphasis in Curriculum and Instruction from Tarleton State University. She has been an adjunct faculty member with the Tarleton Kinesiology Department for the past 12 years. She has also enjoyed being involved with the TSU theater department as choreographer. She has choreographed theater productions such as "Grease," "West Side Story," "The Boyfriend," and "You Never Know."  Ms. Burdick’s choreography has won 4 national Championship titles at the Showstoppers Dance Competition. She also is involved with the Ballet Frontier’s production of the ,Nutcracker where she is the children’s repertoire director for the Granbury Opera House productions.  She is excited to start her 19th year of teaching dance this fall!