The Dance Place

Ari Dickinson studied classical ballet, modern, jazz and character dance on full scholarships at San Diego Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, School of American Ballet in New York and Centre Internatianale de Danse in Cannes, France. She performed professionallly with the San Diego Ballet Company, Columbia Artists and Theater Bristol, and danced in productions at Virginia Intermont College/Bristol Ballet Company and Brevard Music Center Opera Workshop. She holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Church Music from Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey. Since coming to South Carolina, she has been the ballet mistress for Florence Ballet Company and worked for Sylvia Seymour Davis at the original Dance Place in Bethune. She and her husband are the Ministers of Music at Bethesda Presbyterian Church in Camden.
Stephanie Hanley Caldwell is a former
student of Sylvia Seymour Davis and Ari Dickinson at The Dance Place. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Dance with an emphasis in teaching from Columbia College in Columbia, SC and a Masters in Christian Education from the Baptist Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. Stephanie has led state and national workshops on interpretive movement and liturgical dance. She is currently the Creative Ministries Consultant for the South Carolina Baptist Convention. She is married to David Caldwell, a teacher at Lugoff-Elgin High School.
Amy Shivar has studied ballet, pointe, jazz, tap and modern dance for most of her life. She was a company member in Gaston Dance Theatre, a civic ballet company in North Carolina, for six years and performed in numerous ballets and short works by choreographers from across the United States and abroad. She attended the 1986 NC Governor's School in Dance, and summer sessions at Queens College and Central Piedmont Community College in Charlotte, NC. While in college, Amy performed with the UNC-G Dance Company and the theatre department in musicals, operas, and short works by faculty and students, receiving a BFA in Dance Performance from UNC-Greensboro in 1991. She spent 1993-94 studying at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City. Following college, Amy appeared in a variety of ballets and musicals. In 1996 Amy began study at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, North Carolina, and received a MA in Intercultural Studies in 2000. Previously, she has taught at Elements of Dance in North Carolina and subsituted at the Dance Place. Amy's husband, Robbie, is the paster of Oakhill Community Church in Elgin.