NORTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA PERFORMING ARTS

Meet the Owner

Justine began dancing at age 4 and never stopped.  She started instruction training at age 13 and interned throughout high school.  She opened her studio just shy of age 18 and has continued to teach lessons, workshops, choreography, weddings and specialty events in Studio Styles such as Tap, Jazz, Ballet, Lyrical, Pointe, Hip Hop, Modern, Contemporary, tumbling, and Pom as well as Partner Styles such as East Coast Swing, Jitterbug, Lindy Hop, West Coast Swing, Shag, Carolina Shag, Blues, Salsa, Mambo, Bachata, Inertia, Argentine Tango & Fusion internationally.

• Won over 100 awards in various dance competitions

• Performed several years in Mayfest

• Performed and acted as Relay for Life’s Artistic Coordinator

• Performed as a dancer with Tulsa Spotlite Theatre

• Performed several benefit shows including Salvation Army & Turn Tulsa Pink

• Past member of Zoots' dance troupe

• Past member of the Perpetual Motion dance troupe

• Past contract instructor for Zoots Motion Café

• Created a dance program for Tulsa Parks’ Kids

• Hired by Las Vegas’ Champagne Showgirls to perform a series of performances at Hard Rock Tulsa.

• Traveled eastern China performing in Guilin and teaching in Chongqing

• Choreographer and coach to pageant contestants

• Actor/Dancer featured in a Cain’s Ballroom commercial (tango)

• Actor/Dancer featured in a Zoots Motion Café commercial (swing)

• Performed with The Ruskettes on the historic Cain’s Ballroom stage

• Past Choreographer for the Mrs. Oklahoma pageant

• Member & choreographer of The Ruskette’s, who released an album and music video under record label Elefant Records

• Taught  weekly classes in San Diego while a resident

• Danced, acted and sang in the film Rock ‘n’ Roll Dreams of Duncan Christopher

• Performed in Lochran Theatrical’s Sophisticated Ladies

• Hired by Comedy Central’s, Drunk History to teach and perform with the host, Derek Waters

• Choreographed several weddings

• Performed Thriller in LA

• Choreographed and performed in several music videos

• Hired by Theatre Tulsa to choreograph their production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch

• Danced with founding father of Lindy Hop, Frankie Manning

• Choreographed, designed and orchestrated 20 recitals

• Past Instructor for The Oklahoma Swing Syndicate (TOSS)

• Performed in countless art pieces, including Heartbeat for Momentum, several projects with Geoffrey Hicks and Steve Cluck

• Choreographed Owasso Community Theater’s production of 100 Years of Broadway

• Performed in Theatre Tulsa's A Chorus Line

• Travels the country teaching and participating in various Dance Exchanges and Workshops

• Member of the Screen Actors Guild

• Founder/Instructor of Swing Out Downtown

• Official Choreographer/Instructor for the $30 million film, Starbright.  Working with John-Rhys-Davies, Diego Boneta & Alexandra Dowling