​Dawn started her early ballet training with Irine Fokine in Ridgewood, NJ.  She then went on to train at the Joffrey Ballet School in the trainee program.  Following her studies in Government and Sociology at Cornell University, she trained at the Princeton Ballet School with Douglas Martin, Mary Barton and Kyra Nichols.  She was then invited to dance with the American Repertory Ballet under Septime Webre and later Graham Lustig.  Among her favorite ballets she performed with ARB, were Romeo and Juliet, Serenade, Paquita and Midsummer Night's Dream.  Dawn started her teaching career at Princeton Dance and Theater under the ownership of Susan Jaffe (upon her retirement from ABT) and Risa Kaplowitz (of Houston, Dayton and Pennsylvania Ballet).  She has experience teaching all levels and is super excited to start teaching again in the Bay Area.