Callahan Dance Academy

Teachers

Mallory Carter	With more than 15 years of dance experience, Mallory has trained in tap, jazz, ballet, hip hop, clogging, and gymnastics. She has been a member of Callahan Dance Academy for 16 years and continues her dance career as an instructor and student at the studio. Mallory was also a member of Buddy Sherwood School of Dance in Jacksonville, Florida where she trained in tap, jazz, and clogging. She has participated in the Junior Roar half time program with the ROAR of the Jaguars for two years. Mallory has attended several dance conventions throughout Florida, including two of which were strictly hip hop. At Callahan Dance Academy, she began student teaching at a young age and from there continued on to be an assistant teacher. At the age of 16, she became an instructor teaching tap, jazz and hip hop. Mallory looks forward to continuing her dance career and has high hopes of owning her own studio in the future.
Ashley Lankford	Ashley has been dancing with Callahan Dance Academy since the age of three. She began her training in tap, ballet, and gymnastics following with jazz, clogging and hip hop. At 11, she became a student helper and continued on to be a student teacher, an assistant teacher and is currently an instructor in tap, ballet, jazz and clogging. Ashley is also a student at Buddy Sherwood School of Dance and is a member of their competitive dance team, "Rhythm Express". She has competed in numerous national dance competitions all over Florida and Georgia along with attending several dance conventions through out the state. She is currently a full time student at the University of North Florida majoring in Elementary Education. Ashley looks forward to continuing on at Callahan Dance Academy for many more years to come.
Tara Libby	Tara Libby has been dancing at Callahan Dance Academy since the age of four. She began with tap and ballet then added jazz and clogging. At 12, Tara became a student teacher. Later, she became a teacher of tap and ballet for young ages. She expanded to become a teacher of advanced ballet and clogging. During high school, she danced and performed with Buddy Sherwood School of Dance. She trained in tap, jazz, ballet and clogging. She traveled and competed with their competition team. She had the opportunity to compete in several clogging competitions with The Jacksonville City Stompers, a clogging group. After high school she earned her Bachelors Degree in Elementary Education and is serving as a 5th grade teacher at Hilliard Elementary. Tara retired from performing at the end of 2007 and became a full time teacher at the studio. She is expecting her first child in the summer of 2008 which will require her to take some time off at the beginning of the 2008-09 dance year. She will be returning to teaching for Callahan Dance Academy shortly there after.
Cammie Orme	Cammie started taking ballet and tap at Francesca's School of the Arts in California when she was two years old. She continued lessons in jazz, tap and ballet at Karen Christianson's Company and Dance Concepts Company in Utah. When she was 13, she moved to Florida where she began attending Callahan Dance Academy and started helping with younger ballet and tap classes. Last year was her first year teaching the Preteen's jazz and tap class. She continues to teach them along with advanced ballet while taking advanced tap, jazz, ballet, hip-hop, and clogging. While in high school, she choreographed the Drama class' production of "Footloose" her junior year and her self written play "Broadway Bound" her senior year. She was awarded a scholarship from the Junior Miss Pageant during her senior year for a dance she performed for the talent competition. She has also participated in hip-hop conventions in Jacksonville and a community production of "Grease" in Fernandina. Along with her classes at Callahan Dance Academy, she is currently taking ballet and jazz classes at FCCJ. After obtaining her AA, she plans to transfer to New York University to acquire her Bachelor's Degree with majors in Dance and Theatre.
Tammy Stone