Ms Emily Behtz

Dance Teacher

Emily Behtz

Emily is a product of 2 decades of dance training. She began her dance career at Medina Centre for Dance Art in Medina Ohio in 2000. She had the amazing opportunity during middle school to dance with both The Cincinnati Ballet and The San Jose Ballet for their Nutcracker seasons. When her family moved to Athens, Georgia, in 2009, she attended Alice DePass Studio of Dance for a year before continuing her studies at The Studio Dance Academy. During her senior year of high school, Emily auditioned for and was accepted into the dance programs at both The University of Georgia and Kennesaw State University. After visiting both departments, Emily decided to further her education with The Department of Dance at Kennesaw State University. The summer after Emily graduated from high school, she spent the summer training in The Atlanta Ballet’s advanced summer intensive, where she honed her ballet technique.

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During her studies at Kennesaw State University, she was a part of the KSU Dance Company for 5 consecutive semesters and performed works set and choreographed by Christine Welker and McCree O’Kelley. She had the opportunity to perform a work set by Christine Welker at the Cobb Energy Center in 2015 and a work choreographed by McCree O’Kelley at the Alabama Dance Festival in 2016. During her senior year, Emily was a part of the stage crew for Metamorphosis, an evening-length work by Ivan Pulinkala, which opened the new dance theater at KSU. Her last semester at Kennesaw State University, Emily had the privilege of choreographing and setting her own work on 5 members of the KSU Dance Company which was performed in the new dance theater. Emily graduated Cum Laude from Kennesaw State University in May 2017 and earned her Bachelor of the Arts in Dance with a concentration in Ballet and a minor in Management.

Emily returned to her hometown of Athens, Georgia, after finishing her BA to teach at Premier Twirl Dance Cheer as their Senior Dance Instructor. In 2018 Emily moved to Cumming to start her Masters in Christian Leadership through Dallas Theological Seminary and graduated in 2020. During this time, Emily also started teaching at a local studio where she was the lead ballet instructor. After 5 years of helping the dancers at that studio strengthen their ballet and lyrical technique, she has happily decided to join ADA!

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