Jennifer Lawrence, PhD.  

As the owner and artistic director of Artistry House, Jennifer has 20 years of experience teaching dance and fitness, including Ballet, Pointe, Pre-Pointe, Jazz, Leap 'N Learn, Conditioning, Phusia, and Stretch & Strengthen. She began her training at Annabel Timms School of Ballet in Bridgeport, WV where she studied ballet, pointe, and jazz under Annabel Timms, Marcy Mossburg, and Cindy Timms-Pulice. Jennifer has served as faculty at Annabel Timms School of Ballet, Morgantown Dance Studio, and The Ballet Studio Lafayette in Lafayette, Louisiana, which is owned and operated by Beverly Spell creator of the nationally renowned Leap 'N Learn early childhood program. During the 2009-2010 dance season, Jennifer founded the Morgantown Youth Ballet Company, a junior division of the Morgantown Ballet Company, and served as artistic director of both companies from September 2010 through June 2013. She has also directed and choreographed productions of The Sleeping Beauty, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and The Butterfly Lovers. Jennifer has training in Pilates Mat and holds certifications in Progressing Ballet Technique, Acrobatic Arts, and Leap 'N Learn. She is also a certified Fascial Stretch and Stretch Life Practitioner.

Jennifer also holds a PhD in French Language and Literature from the University of Pittsburgh, where she worked as a graduate teaching fellow during her coursework. She taught as adjunct faculty at West Virginia University and served simultaneously as coordinator of the graduate teaching assistants and adjunct faculty in French and the director of the beginning and intermediate French language program. She currently serves as adjunct faculty for Southern New Hampshire University's College of Online and Continuing Education.

Kaylar Moser

Kaylar Moser graduated summa cum laude from Clarion University in 2020 with majors in History and Political Science. She is currently a Master’s student at WVU. From her toddler years in beginning ballet classes through captaining her high school dance class and Clarion University’s jazz dance team, to teaching classes at a local studio, dance has been an enduring passion for Kaylar. From the time she began walking Kaylar was twirling down grocery store aisles and tapping around the kitchen. Her lifelong love of dance was fostered from a young age when she was introduced to ballet, tap, hip hop, and jazz at her local studio. Those early years in dance really showcased the importance of a dance education, helping her grow her self-confidence and love of dance. Through all the ups and downs of life, dance is a consistent creative outlet where emotions can be worked out and joy expressed. Kaylar feels that teaching dance is incredibly important. She is so thankful to have the opportunity to introduce others to the wonder of dance and to show them all of the exciting ways that dance can impact one’s life — including building confidence, teamwork, creativity, and self-expression. Dance education is about much more than learning the steps — it’s about working hard, trying your best, learning from mistakes, and staying positive through the entire process.

Liz Rossi

Liz Rossi trained with Berle Davis & Jayne Zaban in California (Stanley Kahn & Joe Tremaine technique) and received a B.F.A. from the University of Michigan’s prestigious Musical Theatre Program. ★ Out of college, she worked as an intern to Susan Stroman on the original Broadway production of big, the musical. ★ Around the country she directed and/or choreographed such musicals as: Crazy for You; 42nd Street; Fiddler on the Roof; Annie Warbucks; Pippin; Guys and Dolls; West Side Story (4 times!;) Mame; Camelot; The Wizard of Oz; Once on this Island; Godspell; The Full Monty, Little Shop of Horrors; Oliver, Annie, Christmas Carol…and many more. ★ Performing credits include: "Small Purple Panda" on Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood, “Elmo/Small Understudy” with the Sesame Street Live international tour, various character roles with West Virginia Public Theatre such as the tap dancing "Jennyanydots" in Cats (twice,) “Shirley & Old Woman track” in The Producers, “Female Authority Figure track” in Hairspray, and “Aunt Em” in The Wizard of Oz. ★ Ms. Rossi has over twenty years experience teaching tap, jazz, musical theatre styles, and ballet for studios, theatre companies and theatre camps and working as a Musical Theatre coach, readying students for auditions and professional careers in New York. She also taught music for four years at the Morgantown Learning Academy, a Pre-K through eighth grade private school. ★ Trained in the nationally renowned Leap ’N Learn™ program, she created the Tap ’N Learn™ syllabus for Beverly Spell, sold to hundreds of teachers around the world, which is now being reworked and transformed into Happy Tappers, a teacher training program. She has written a CD as a companion to her tap program and continues to write songs and musicals with her writing partner Matthew Smedal.

Olivia Allen

Olivia Allen holds a Bachelor of fine Arts degree in dance from the Florida State University, where she graduated Magna Cum Laude in 2017. A native of Morgantown, West, Virginia, Allen has performed original works by Rick Mcollough, Andre Zachary, Anthony Morgan, Robert Steele, Dan Karasik, Keisha Lalama, Josephine Giribaldi, Pearl Ubungen, Lauren Slone, Cecil Slaughter, Sharone Price, Peter Mertz and Valerie Bailey at the Florida State University Dance department, the Morgantown Dance Studio, Artistry House and the American Dance Festival.  Allen has attended numerous dance intensives and summer programs throughout her training, including Pittsburgh Youth Ballet, Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, University of North Carolina School of the Arts, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, Alvin Ailey, Joffrey Ballet New York, Studio Harmonique (Paris, France), and the American Dance Festival. Allen joined and performed with the Tinkered Dance collective for the 2019-2020 season. Ms. Allen previously taught beginning to advanced level dance classes at Morgantown Dance before joining Artistry House in 2021. Olivia has been certified in Balanced Body Pilates Mat since 2017 and teaches locally. Allen has worked within the healthcare system at Stonerise Morgantown for 6 years as an activities aide. Olivia is currently pursuing her doctorate in occupational therapy at West Virginia University. Creatively and professionally, Allen is most excited to investigate the integration of occupational therapy and somatic practices such as Pilates and dance for the purpose of enriching the lives of everyone she meets. 

Sevanna Kisko

Starting at a young age, Sevanna Kisko has always shown a keen interest in dance. At the age of five, she began taking ballet classes and as she grew older, her passion for dance grew along with her. From excitedly trying new styles at the studio such as hip-hop, jazz, and modern, to expressing her desire to one day teach dance even in elementary school; Dance quickly became an integral part of her life. Sevanna began training at Artistry House in 2017, which not only broadened her horizons to consistent training in many styles of movement but also gave her peers and faculty to work with that cultivated a love for dance education even further. She is currently pursuing a major in Dance at WVU and maintaining a passion for dance is extremely important to her. Dance provides one with a means of self-expression, a way to connect with others, get through difficult times, and make the best times even better. If not for the enthusiastic and passionate teachers that guided Sevanna through her education of dance, her love of dance would likely not be where it is today, and so she’s excited to use the opportunity to teach to instill a love of dance in new students as well. 

Stacey Romano

Stacey Romano graduated summa cum laude from Radford University in 2010 with a BS in dance education. She has had extensive training in ballet, jazz, and modern, and has participated in numerous workshops and intensives at Dance Alloy Theater, Pittsburgh Ballet Theater, Point Park University, WV Governor's School for the Arts, American College Dance Festival, and West Virginia Dance Festival. She was an apprentice for the Kitchen Sink Dance Company, under the direction of Michael McGowan, and danced as a company member with d a n a h b e l l a DanceWorks, a modern dance company based in Radford, VA. After graduating college, Stacey briefly served as the artistic director at Momentum Center for the Arts in Clarksburg, WV and taught at studios throughout north central WV. Stacey has spent the last 6 years in Baltimore, MD performing as a company member with Full Circle Dance Company as well as teaching dance at numerous studios and public schools in Maryland. She is extremely excited to be back in her home state sharing her passion for dance with others!