Our Staff
The staff at Edge Performing Arts are among the very best in the industry. With worldwide experience both on stage and on screen, our teachers have danced for and taught with some of most prestigious companies in the industry and have studied under many of the world’s top industry professionals.
The EDGE Instructors
The staff at Edge Performing Arts are among the very best in the industry. With worldwide experience both on stage and on screen, our teachers have danced for and taught with some of most prestigious companies in the industry and have studied under many of the world’s top industry professionals.

Kerrie-Anne Sparks
As a youth, Kerrie-Anne Sparks trained at the Lynchburg Fine Arts Center, where she was a member of Lynchburg Regional Ballet Theatre under the direction of Colin and Sylvia Worth.

Sara Havener Miller
Sara (Havener) Miller is originally from North Carolina where she began dancing at the age of five. Sara trained and competed at Dancers Edge and went on to graduate from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts in 2010.

Sam Jones
Sam specializes in jazz, musical theatre and acro… and is equally well-versed in lyrical, contemporary, and many other dance styles.

Christine Spizzo
Christine began career under the guidance of Petrus van Muyden in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She later received a Ford Foundation scholarship to the San Francisco Ballet School where she began dedicated training with Harold and Ruby Christensen.

Sam Shapiro
Sam Shapiro hails from Winston-Salem, NC. He began his ballet training at Wake Forest University under the direction of his mother, Brantly Shapiro.

Rebekah Downing
Rebekah Downing, originally from Charlotte, trained at North Carolina Dance Theatre before attending North Carolina School of the Arts.