Teaching Staff

Turning Pointe Dance Center Latham, New York

Tara O’Brien Director & Instructor
Tara has been dancing since 1990 and teaching since 1999. She has won many awards both locally and nationally in dance, and has taken master dance classes from some of the most renowned teachers and choreographers in the dance industry. She has a bachelors degree in child psychology from Alvernia College. She is the director of Turning Pointe Dance Center, and looking forward to another enjoyable year of dance!

Rose O’Brien Assistant Director & Instructor
Rose has been involved in the dance industry for over 20 years. She started dancing at the age of 10 and continued her love for Ballet as a teenager. In 1993 she resumed dancing. Along with Ballet, she also studied Pointe, Jazz and Tap. She started teaching in 1997. As a dancer and teacher she has taken master classes from different choreographers and has participated in dance teacher seminars.

Meghan Grabowski Instructor
Megan started dancing at the age of 6 at The Studio For Dance in Blue Ash, Ohio where she studied Clogging, Ballet, Jazz, Tap, and Lyrical. Soon after starting, Megan joined The Studio Company and began competing in regional and national dance competitions and taking extensive ballet training at CCM (Cincinnati Conservatory of Music) and with The Cincinnati Ballet. Megan holds a BFA in Dance Performance from Kent State University and was a member of the Kent State Dance Ensemble and the KSU Dance Team. After graduation, her training in Modern continued in NYC at Dance Space and in Boston at Green Street Studios. She has had the honor of performing with the Cincinnati Ballet, modern companies Bryce Dance and Kelley Donovan and Dancers, on NBC’s “Today Show”, and NYC’s world famous Carnegie Hall with Eric Kunzel and The Cincinnati Pops Orchestra. Megan is very excited to share her passion for dance with the students at TPDC and helping them grow as artists.

Contact us at 518.783.1800 or email: turningpointedancecenter@gmail.com

"I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself." ~ Mikhail Baryshnikov

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