Auburn Dance Center  

The Director of Auburn Dance

Center, Mr. Robert Smith, is a life

member of Dance Educators of

America and is also one of the

charter members of Dance

Congress.  He has had extensive

dance training from some of the

finest teachers in the country,

including Caird Leslie, Nana

Gollner, Paul Petroff, Robert

Joffrey, Olga Ziceva, Joseph

Levinoff, Ruthanna Boris, Thalia

Mara, Dimitri Romanoff, Henry

Danton, Rochelle Zide, Alexandra

Danilova, Vassili Sulich, Valentina

Oumansky, Bill Martin-Viscount,

Andra Corvino, Gail Grant, and

Joseph Carow.

Mr Smith's tap training includes

classes with Dany Hoctor, Jules

tone, Louis Da Pron, Jack Stanley,

Ernest Carlos, Phil Black, Paul

Draper, and Violet Holmes (Radio

City Music Hall).

During jazz training he worked

with Eugene Loring, Matt Mattox,

Luigi, Stanley Hahn, George Jack,

Peter Gladke, Harry Woolever,

Danny Carroll, and Betsy Haug.