Alecia Good-Boresow
Alecia Good-Boresow is a ballet instructor with over 40 years of teaching experience. Formerly a principal dancer with the Kansas City Ballet (State Ballet of Missouri), under the directorship of Todd Bolender, she danced numerous lead roles by choreographers George Balanchine, Todd Bolender, Lew Christensen, and more. While with the Kansas City Ballet, Alecia also served as a Rehearsal Assistant and faculty member. Alecia received her early training at the Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet (CPYB), with founding director Marcia Dale Weary and spent sum-mers at SAB, the Joffrey Ballet and two years on full scholarship with the Pennsylvania Ballet.
After retiring from the stage, Alecia was on faculty at Miller Marley School of Dance where she founded the MidWest Youth Ballet which eventually became the Kansas City Youth Ballet at KCB. While directing the youth ballet, they participated in RDA festivals and also traveled to Austria twice to perform in the Young Tanzsommer Festival. Alecia and her family moved to Pennsylvania in 2011 where she became a faculty member and School Principal for 8 years at Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet. Most recently Alecia held the Studio Company Manager and Upper Division Coordinator at the School of Ballet Arizona. Alecia has been a guest teacher at numerous schools across the country including; Central Indiana Dance Academy, Port Angeles Ballet inWashington, True Dance Academy in Nebraska, Littleton Ballet Academy in Colorado, BalletNova in Virginia and Sonoran Dance Academy, in Tuscon, Arizona just to name a few. Currently, she is a freelance guest teacher who travels around the United States sharing her pas-sion and knowledge of ballet as well as being a rehearsal director for Convergence Ballet Com-pany in Phoenix, Arizona.
Jennifer Cafarella Betts
Jennifer Cafarella Betts, BS Business Administration (Rivier College), MFA Dance (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), Founder and Artistic Director of Convergence Ballet, is a passionate educator, choreographer and dancer who is certified in the ABT National Training Curriculum Primary-Level 5, Progressing Ballet Technique, and Power Pilates Mat. Her teaching methodologies are rooted in somatic exploration and neuro diversity. Her research background allows for individual analysis and a custom training program for each student to become the best dancer they can be. In 2016, Cafarella Betts founded Ballet Theatre of Phoenix and since then, has molded the culture that defines the school. She is dedicated to understanding more about the brain and body connection, therefore updating a traditional method and creating a training program for each dancer to reach their highest potential.
Cafarella Betts’ approach to dance pedagogy is influenced by her experiences at Walnut Hill School for the Arts where she trained under Sydelle Gomberg, the School of Ballet Arizona, and SUNY Purchase. Her professional career has taken her as far as Ballet de Cali in Colombia, Granite State Ballet where she performed soloist roles in the Nutcracker and Cinderella, Portland Ballet as a summer guest artist, and Jose Mateo’s Ballet Theatre. Her observations of the ever-changing movement patterns developed by technological advances, motivates her to explore and strengthen developmental movement for healthier dancers. She regularly presents her findings at the National Dance Educator’s Organization on creating better pedagogical practices through a neuro athletic lens within the scope of Classical Ballet. She has served on the faculties at School of Ballet Arizona, Arizona School for the Arts, Mesa Community College, Scottsdale School of Ballet and Plumb Performing Arts Center.