Denee Bannister

Director / Founder / Teacher

“Miss” Denee has a BA from Indiana University and MA from U of L.

She danced with the Louisville Civic Ballet and Starlight Theatre in Kansas City. She received additional teacher training in New York and Chicago. She was named “Dance Educator of the Year” for KY in 2005.

She also teaches Dance & Drama at Noe Middle School

Donna Richards

Instructor

A graduate of the LASPA School at  UCLA  with  a BFA in  dance.

She danced in NYC with Twyla Tharp and then in touring Broadway productions (Chicago, West Side Story, A Chorus Line & Oklahoma). In New York, Donna taught for the David Howard Studio & Broadway Dance Theatre.

She is also on staff with Governor’s School for the Arts teaching Musical Theatre. Donna was the director of her own dance studio in WV & is certified in RAD and Vagonova ballet methods.

Lindy Ayers

Pre-Ballet Instructor

Bio coming soon...

The studio is located at 5907 W. Hwy 22, just East of the 3-way stop-sign by Crestwood Elementary and just West of the Hwy 329 bypass.

Village Dance Theatre began in 1974 in the Little Colonel Playhouse in Pewee Valley. It was originally a branch of Lyndon Ballet School, directed by Pat Hale Gano. For several years it was the ballet school for Waldeck Academy of the Arts. We've had a full time home since 1997 and opened the new, bigger studio space in August 2010.