Laurie Flaherty

Co-Owner One Studio Dance and Yoga

Dance Instructor and Dance Program Director

Laurie's passion for dance started as early as she can remember and she has been dancing ever since. She started lessons in ballet and gymnastics at 4 years old and she started dancing competitively at 9 years old. While growing right outside of Boston, Laurie had had the opportunity to study dance with many outstanding teachers, but she received most of her technical training and inspiration from talented dancer and choreographer, Kerry Smith at the Academy of Performing Arts. Laurie went on to perform with an award winning jazz dance company directed by Smith for 6 years. She has studied many forms of dance but has extensive training in jazz, hip hop, ballet and creative/modern dance. In 2005, Laurie was finally able to combine her two passions in life, dance and working with children, into her full-time career. She taught over 80 students through her private dance program "All That Dance" and she also taught dance at Harwood Union High School. Laurie continues to further her own study of dance by taking master classes from well known choreographers around the country, attending teacher training workshops and working on developing and writing her own syllabi for classes. She loves to teach and she enjoys working with students of all ages and abilities. Laurie strongly believes that dance in all its forms is incredibly beneficial to the body, mind and spirit and that the study and mastery of movement can help children and adults to feel better and gain more confidence in their daily lives. Laurie lives in Waterbury with her very supportive husband and their four wonderful children. 

Indy Ewald

Co-Owner One Studio Dance and Yoga

Yoga Instructor and Yoga Program Director

Worksite Health Promotion Specialist

Indy has been a student of yoga for over 20 years and an instructor for 11 years. Her yoga training is an eclectic mix of Iyengar, Astanga, Vinyasa, and Ana Forrest yoga. Indy's teaching began with pre-natal yoga. She developed a unique class blending her background in homebirth midwifery, her own personal homebirth experiences and her yoga practice that helped to empower and prepare women mentally and physically for childbirth and motherhood. This teaching experience was so satisfying that it naturally led to teaching adults of all ages and abilities. Indy loves connecting to people through yoga. The focus of her instruction is helping students use the mind body techniques of yoga to release tension, connect with their true spiritual selves and strengthen their mind and body. Her classes are a mixture of centering techniques, stretching and strengthening postures, breathing and core development. The atmosphere in Indy's classes are relaxed, non-competitive, supportive and fun. Beginners and experienced students both will benefit from her yoga classes. Recently, Indy has become a Certified Worksite Health Promotion Specialist.  Indy is happily married to Mark and together they have two children, Will and Mimi.

Laura Goodman

Ballet Program Director & Instructor

Laura has been teaching classical ballet for over 10 years at acclaimed ballet schools around the country.  She has studied with the School of Minnesota Ballet, the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School, the North Carolina School for the Arts, and the American Ballet Theater in NYC.  She has studied with renowned ballet dancers David Howard, Melissa Hayden and Wilhelm Burmann.  Laura has danced professionally with the Minnesota Ballet, the City Ballet of San Diego, Canyon Concert Ballet of Colorado and the Metropolitan Ballet of Minnesota. She was also a finalist in the New York International Ballet Competition in 2003. Throughout Laura's professional career she has taught and coached ballet dancers of all ages and skill levels. Laura is excited to have the opportunity to share her passion for ballet with the students of One Studio Dance and Yoga. Her teaching style encompasses the art of ballet while instilling confidence, discipline and respect through a positive learning environment believing every child is a capable dancer.

Faith Bieler

Yoga Instructor

Faith is a Kripalu certified and YogaKids certified instructor and teacher trainer. She has many years of experience in teaching yoga to children and adults.  Faith is passionate about bringing personal health and well being, strength, peace and loving kindness to all through yoga.  In addition to the physical and spiritual benefits of yoga, she wishes to bring the happiness, joy and fun of yoga to all participants.  Faith loves guiding students into a deep connection with themselves as well as a deep connection with nature.  Faith lives on a farm, has 3 children and 4 grandchildren.

Bob Brookens

Music Instructor

Bob is a performer, music educator and music therapist.  He attended West Chester University in PA where he studied music education and then performance, earning a BA in music performance.  Bob also attended Temple University in Philadelphia, PA studying music therapy.  He earned a second Bachelor’s degree and a Master’s in music therapy at Temple.  Bob has been teaching privately for 20 years on an assortment of instruments including guitar, cello, bass, percussion, piano, saxophone, flute, clarinet, mandolin and voice.  He has been practicing music therapy for 9 years and is currently starting a private practice in Vermont.  Bob has performed and recorded with many local bands in the Pennsylvania region and has toured nationally and internationally with Cubby Checker.  Bob and his wife, Colleen, created "Kids Creating Music" over 8 years ago and have brought music to young people all over PA and now to VT for the past year.  Bob also created and has been facilitating "Music Explore" for several years, which is a more hands on approach to exploring musical instruments for older children.  Bob is now offering both of these classes at One Studio for the first time.

Alan Erdossy

T'ai Chi Instructor

Alan Erdossy began studying this moving yoga of China in 1970 and has taught at businesses, dance studios, and art centers throughout the Northeast.  Mr. Erdossy earned an MFA from California Institute of the Arts in 1972 and while in LA studied T'ai Chi with master Marshall Ho'o. Marshall is a member of Black Belt magazine's Hall of Fame, was chairman of the National T'ai Chi Ch'uan Association, and founder of the Aspen Academy of Martial Arts.

Molly Estey

Yoga, Pilates & Health/Wellness Instructor

Since her first Ashtanga yoga class with Scott York in 2003, Molly Estey has actively been investigating the many shapes of yoga in our Western world. From Estes Park in the Colorado Rockies to Yoga Vermont on the banks of the Winooski River to the rural farmlands of Central America, she has had the opportunity to study with many great teachers and has attained the knowledge and confidence to share her love of Yoga with others. Molly has been inspired by such esteemed teachers as Seane Corn, Nicky Doan, Patricia Walden, Baron Baptiste, Judith Hansen-Lasater and Don Stapleton. She teaches classes in the styles of Vinyasa Flow, Ashtanga and Restorative/Theraputic. Molly has been a guest speaker at Women in Business Events in Denver, CO. She was the 2008 Cherry Creek, CO ambassador to the yoga inspired clothing line "Lululemon" and has had the pleasure of teaching yoga to native Mayan women in rural sections of Guatemala. Yoga has been a vehicle for not only geographical exploration but also deep investigation of herself. Molly is a certified 200 hour Kripalu yoga instructor working on her 500 hour certification.  She is also trained in YogaFit and the PoleStar Pilates Method (Mat only). Molly teaches a wide variety of classes including Yoga Sculpt, Mommy & Me Yoga/Pilates, Detoxification Retreats and many other specialized workshops.

Katie Flindall

Ballet Instructor

Katie started taking dance classes at the age of 5 from Studio 3100 (now ArtisTree). She continued her professional ballet training at The National Ballet School in Toronto, Canada, and at the Virginia School of the Arts in Lynchburg, VA. Katie has been teaching classical ballet and modern-lyrical for 9 years. Her classes emphasize technical strength and agility, later developing expression on a strong and solid base. She believes that each student can achieve confidence through the movements of the body and that finding that strength can be an uplifting experience. She is devoted to the arts, offering quality teaching in a fun, supportive, and creative environment to all ages. Katie is also a professional visual artist and is the owner of Moon House Art (www.moonhouseart.com). She lives in Waterbury with her husband, Sandy and their beautiful new son, Luca.

Sidra Hoffman

Ballet Instructor

Sidra began her ballet training at the age of five at the Adams School of Dance in Rutland Vermont. At the age of twelve she began as an apprentice with the Vermont Chamber Ballet.  After attending the 2001 Summer Program at the Jose Mateo Ballet Theatre in Cambridge Massachusetts, she was promoted to the rank of principal dancer with the Vermont Chamber Ballet at the age of fourteen. She performed featured roles in Tchaikovsky’s the Nutcracker and originated feature roles in multiple other ballets. In 2004 Sidra competed in a regional Dance Educator’s of America (DEA) competition and after winning a gold medal and an award for an exceptional performance, she advanced on to the National competition in New York City where she was awarded gold medals for both solo and group performances. During the years of 2002 and 2005, she spent her summers training under Marcia Dale Weary of the Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet. Sidra attended the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, and continued to perform with the Mountain West Ballet. She graduated in May of 2009 with a Bachelors of Science and is currently pursuing a graduate degree in Pathology at the University of Vermont.  In addition to teaching ballet, Sidra also headed up the dance program for U-Fit, a Utah based adaptive dance program. 

Hailee Laidman

Dance Instructor

Hailee grew up in St. Albans, Vermont and danced from the time she was three years old, first with Debbie White's Dance Academy, then with Electric Youth.  She was also a member of the BFA Dance Team.  Hailee was first trained in ballet, tap, and jazz and became interested in hip-hop and modern dance while in her teens.  She has been teaching dance for six years.  Hailee graduated from Johnson State College with a degree in Early Elementary Education and was a member of the JSC Dance Ensemble throughout her four years of college.  While at JSC, she also gained experience in Irish Step and in many traditonal cultural and religious dances from around the world.  In 2005, Hailee brought hip-hop to the Johnson After School program (JASP) where she taught after school dance for 2 years, as well as summer workshops.  In addition to teaching ballet, jazz and hip hop, Hailee loves to teach Creative Dance and Movement to preschoolers.  Dance is something that has always brought Hailee a lot of happiness and she is very excited to share that passion with younger students now as a dance instructor at One Studio.  

Annelies McVoy

Dance Instructor
Sharing the joy of dance and music is a passion for Annelies. Tap, modern, jazz, ballet, folk-dancing, body percussion and Music Together round out her world of movement and song. She studies dance as avidly as she teaches, and loves to share what she learns with people of all ages and abilities. Essential to her teaching is the desire to help develop strong, musical bodies while avoiding injury. She is thrilled to be developing the tap program at One Studio. Improvisation games are included in all of her teaching, as are opportunities for each student to share what they have discovered. This year marks the start of the Adaptive Dance program at One Studio as well, which brings special excitement for Annelies. Her entire family volunteered at the Challenge Aspen Music & Dance camp in Snowmass, Colorado. The vitality of the "special abilities" community is truly inspiring to Annelies, and she looks forward to developing the Adaptive Dance community here in Waterbury.  

Heather Morris

Celtic Dance Instructor

Heather has studied many forms of dance since the age of 4 but has a particular affinity for Celtic dance. A Scottish Highland dancer since the age of 7, she decided to take up Irish Step dance as an adult and is now instuctor of both dance forms. For the past 10 years Heather has been developing programs in Celtic dance across the state of Vermont, from Chittendon County to the Northeast Kingdom. She trains her students to participate in local performances, national and international competitions and examinations. Heather is a Fellow with the British Association of Teachers of Dancing (BATD) and a Member of the Scottish Dancer Teachers' Alliance (SDTA). 

Taryn Noelle

Dance/Theater/Vocal Instructor

Originally from Toronto, Canada, Taryn studied dance and gymnastics from an early age. After relocating to Vermont for high school, she included theater, theater dance and music to her repertoire. Taryn spent two years studying in New York City at the Circle in Square Theatre School, furthering her studies in dance, acting, music and movement. Taryn returned to Vermont in 2005 and since then she has been performing  and choreographing for musicals, teaching Latin and Ballroom dance, and teaching modern and lyrical dance. Taryn also teaches private Jazz/Pop/Broadway style vocal lessons in the area. 

Kelly Sturgis

Dance Instructor

Originally from Vermont, Kelly Sturgis has spent the past six years dancing professionally in the Washington, DC area, where she was a member of the X Faction Dance Company.  She has appeared on BET and worked with Grammy-winning recording artist Mya.  Kelly currently teaches hip hop, street jazz, and gymnastics throughout the state of Vermont, and enjoys sharing her passion for dance with students of all ages.

Chris Thomas

Breakin' Instructor

Chris Thomas, aka "B-Boy Hybrid," has been breaking for 10 years.  He is a member of the well known Burlington based breakin' crew, The Rhythm Riderz.  Chris treats breaking as an art; he is an artist.  His focus with the dance is to combine innovative movement and consistency in style with stylized self-expression.  His goal is to be highly dynamic and completely original with his interpretation of the music each time he performs.  "Movements" rather than "moves" are what make his dance an art and he feels that these combinations of movements help sooth the mind, body and soul.  Chris would like to share the art of breaking with all who are willing to learn. 

Beni Watson

Breakin' Instructor

Beni Watson, aka "B-Boy Bangerang," has been breakin' for almost five years now but he has been tapping into the deeper meanings and approaches to the life style surrounding the dance form known as Rhythm Riding for about three.  B-boying is a major passion in his life and will continue to be for many years to come.  Beni believees that there are many lessons to be learned from this dance far beyond the simple challenges of spinning on your head or balancing on your arms.  Despite his advances in these skills, he is always learning something new from riding the rhythm.  He is always pushing himself to improve in the different foundations of b-boying such as freestyle, power, choreography, and musicality through various disciplines and philosophies that he and his crew have developed.  Live good, feel good, dance good!

Becky Widschwenter

Fitness Instructor

Becky has 6 years of experience teaching group fitness classes. She is a former tri-athlete, aerobics instructor and personal trainer with a Bachelor's Degree in Health Science and a special interest in body/mind connnection fitness. 

One Studio is always looking for inspiring teachers to join our team. If you are interested in teaching, please call us at 802-244-8600.