Angela Casalino -
Ballet, Tap and Jazz Instructor
Angela Casalino has been a competitive dancer for more than fourteen years. Training in all aspects of dance including ballet, tap, jazz, hip hop, lyrical, adage, modern as well as vocal and drama.
She started training at the young age of two and a half at Jean Simon School of Dance. At eight years old Angela was honored to be accepted into the National Ballet School of Canada. Her hard work at the National paid off and she was offered a role in the Nutcracker! Angela performed on the famed Hummingbird stage as a mouse in 1999 with The National Ballet of Canada. The following year, 2000 Angela performed as a lamb with the National Ballet of Canada, and again was on the Hummingbird stage!
She then began to heavily compete with Vlad's Dance Company in 1999 winning countless awards in all areas of dance. These awards include; 1st place Jazz Solo Category, Best Overall Duet, Style and Choreography Awards, Rhythm Dance Cups for group and duet routines, 1st runner up at American Dance Awards for the title in 2004 as well as runner up for 2006 and many more!
In 2007 Angela earned the Dance Odyssey Intermediate Scholarships, as well as specialty awards for her professional presence on stage. Since then Angela has been a part of many award winning routines earning the highest marks of the entire competition and now passes her knowledge on to other competitive students at SWS.
Angela has had the privilege of being trained by Bryan Friedman, Twitch, Mandy Moore & Brandon Bryant –all choreographers/dancers from "So You Think You Can Dance" USA
Professionally Angela continues to be hired by companies for weddings, promotional shows and more, in a wide variety of dance styles due to her expertise and eye catching performance in all areas of dance. One of Angela’s favourite performing moments was during the 2010 Winter Games. Angela was one of very few selected from hundreds of dancers to perform on the 2010 Olympics Dance Team. Performing for thousands of on lookers Angela was highlighted in tap and jazz routines to represent Markham Ontario’s Olympic Torch Ceremony.
As a graduate of Step with Style’s triple threat training Angela is an extremely well rounded performer and instructor. Angela hopes very much that she can inspire young dancers to improve and maybe one day be a part of the competitive team and become an SWS graduate like her!