WHO WE ARE
From your child's first steps to fouette turns, Dancing Through Life is the premier dance studio, of the Jersey Shore area. We offer ballet, jazz, tap, hip hop, breakdancing, musical theater, acrobatics, lyrical, and contemporary. We are very involved in the Long Branch community, and our students have many opportunities to perform at community events. We produce our holiday show, L. B. Home for Christmas and our annual recital. We are a proud member of the Applaud Our Kids foundation, the Associated Dance Teachers of New Jersey, and the Greater Long Branch Chamber of Commerce. We are the winner of the Next Generation Leader Award, through the Chamber of Commerce. We cannot wait to Dance Through Life with you!
What Makes
Us Different?
01 CURRICULUM.
We have created the Dancing Through Life curriculum, which unifies our classes and teachers. Every class at DTL follows our syllabi, goals, lesson plans, and playlists. This, not only, builds an excellent foundation for young dancers, but it makes classes fun and filled with traditions. Each year, we evaluate students and provide dancers and their parents with a personalized written evaluation and our recommendations for next year.
02 HIGHLY QUALIFIED TEACHERS FOR ALL.
Our teachers are highly qualified with college degrees in dance, education and/or professional experience. Even our youngest dancers have a highly qualified teacher. We continue to learn and grow as teachers with courses and workshops.
03 SPRUNG FLOORS.
Our "Marley" dance floor is cushioned and gives when landing from jumps and tumbling, saving joints from injuries.
04 WE SUPPORT THE COMMUNITY.
When you pay tuition at Dancing Through Life, everything goes to support the arts. We rent our space from the New Jersey Repertory Company. We are working together with NJ Rep to provide our community with a high quality arts center.
05 FAMILY.
We are more than just classes, Dancing Through Life is a family. Throughout the year, we hold parties and special events for dancers and their friends and families to socialize. We are very involved in our community and perform at events throughout the year. We have an audition-only dance company for serious students, and seasonal dance teams for recreational students.
Join the Dancing Through Life
FAMILY!
Ballet, jazz, tap, hip hop, breakdancing, contemporary, acrobatics, musical theater, and parent/child (mommy & me) classes Classes for all ages: Toddlers, Preschoolers, Elementary School Age, Teens, and Adults
Event Calendar
L. B. Home for Christmas 2024
December 8, 2024 Long Branch Portuguese Club
Holiday Parent Observation
December 16-22, 2024
Closed for Holiday Break
Happy Holidays!
December 23, 2024-January 5, 2025
Closed for MLK Jr. Day
January 20, 2025
Winter Break
February 14-20, 2025
Priority Summer 2025 Registration
March 1, 2025
Spring Parent Observation
April 10-16, 2025 Family and friends are invited into classes to watch.
Spring Break
April 17-26, 2025
Meet Our Teachers
BRADY CEPPALUNI
Brady Ceppaluni is the owner/director of Dancing Through Life. She has been dancing since age two and teaching since 2007. Brady has a BFA in dance from Montclair State University and alternate route NJ public schools teacher certification for K-12 dance. Brady is a member of the Associated Dance Teachers of New Jersey and is an ADTNJ certified ballet teacher, as well Brady’s articles on dance classes for autistic children, master class etiquette, and audition do’s and don’ts are published in Dance Magazine and Dance Teacher magazine. Brady has trained at Broadway Dance Center, Steps on Broadway, Ballet New England, and the Pineapple Studios in London. She continues her education, as a teacher, through coursework and workshops from Acrobatic Arts, Rhee Gold, and more. Brady Ceppaluni started Dancing Through Life to give young dancers a safe place to learn, grow, and make life lasting friendships. Brady's classes are packed with diverse rhythms, movement challenges, and strength building. Most importantly, dancers leave Miss Brady's classes thinking. "That was so much fun! I can't wait to come back next week!” Brady lives in Long Branch with her husband and three daughters.
INGRID PEARSALL
Miss Ingrid is an American Ballet Theater certified teacher. Her first serious ballet training was with Alfredo Corvino. A well-respected teacher with Julliard in NYC, his training was based after Enricho Cechetti. Later she trained with School of American Ballet which teaches the methods of George Balanchine. There she studied under Helene Dudin, Richard Rapp, Elise Reiman, and Antonina Tumkovski. She continued her studies with American Ballet Theatre, as a full scholarship student. Fellow classmates included Susan Jaffe, and Gaby Brown. Dancers such as Baryshnikov, Nureyev, Makarova, were often in the halls and rehearsing in the studios. Her professional career was with the Basler Ballet in Switzerland and Israeli Ballet. She participated in the filming of several of Heinz Spoerli’s ballets for European television and other repertoire pieces which include The Nutcracker, Giselle, La Fille Mal Gardee, Serenade, Tangos, Squares, Brahms, Carmina Burana, Jeu de Carte, and others. Locally, she has performed soloist and principal roles at the Count Basie and Strand Theaters.
CYNTHIA PEARSALL
Cynthia Pearsall is a dancer, choreographer and teacher who received her education from Rutgers, Mason Gross Schools of the Arts. She graduated in May 2022 with a BFA in Dance and Minor in Human Resource Management. Since the age of three, Pearsall grew up taking dance classes in all sorts of styles such as contemporary, lyrical, ballet, pointe, jazz, acro and tap. During her time at Mason Gross she deeply focused on contemporary/modern, ballet, and improvisation techniques and was able to broaden her dance education by taking classes such as yoga, pilates mat, gaga, African fusion, classical Indian styles (Kathak and Odissi), bollywood, Laban movement, and pointe. While also at Rutgers, she has been a part of works choreographed by Pam Tanowitz, John Evans, Chien-Ying Wang, Sean Currán, Lynn Neuman and other undergraduate students. She is currently working on dance projects with both PDE and Malped dance companies. Pearsall hopes to use her dance training to continue performing, collaborate with other artists on projects and share her passion and love for dance through teaching.
DANIELLE DEMPSEY
Danielle started dancing at the age of three and has never looked back. When she was nine she was invited to join a highly competitive dance troupe in Colchester, Connecticut and quickly fell in love with the world of competitive dance. She has won numerous national awards and title awards both individually and as a team. She also competed in the World of Dance competition in 2016, and won the "crowd pleaser" award. Danielle began assistant teaching dance classes at the age of 13, and was given her own classes to teach at 16. For the last six years, she has pursued her passion of teaching dance to all ages and levels of students as well as expanding on her own education. Danielle recently graduated from Monmouth University with a Psychology major and Child Development concentration. There is nothing that brings her more joy than dancing and working with kids, and she is so grateful to have the opportunity to bring her two passions together and pass them on to the next generation.
DORIELBA ROMERO
Miss Dorie was born and raised in Caracas Venezuela. At the age of seven, she began training with the Fundación Gustavo Franklin. She trained in classical ballet and belonged to the school's company. During her time in the company, she performed in their annual ballet productions, including The Nutcracker, Coppelia, and Les Sylphides as a corps de ballet and soloist. In her professional career, she had the privilege of dancing with the Ballet Classico de Venezuela. Miss Dori performed in several classical repertoire ballets, including Giselle, Swan Lake, and Don Quixote. At the same time, she earned a bachelor's degree in education from the Universidad Central de Venezuela. Later, she became an elementary school teacher and founded her own ballet studio, Petruska, where she taught for almost a decade and served as the artistic director. Miss Dori lives in Long Branch with her family and is super excited to be teaching and working at the front desk, at DTL!
AMANDA ADDOTTA
Amanda has been teaching dance for nearly 21 years. Growing up in the Paterson area, her main focus has always been the community. Amanda initiated an inner city dance program through the Girl Scouts when she was 19, and six years later she co-founded an arts-based non-profit organization, Art in Motion Inc, that brought affordable arts and dance programs to the youth in and around Paterson. Her passion is HipHop. As a student in her class, you will not only learn choreography, but also learn about and appreciate the Culture, which will become evident in your dancing- all while having fun! She instills this approach in all of her classes, whether it be: Latin Dance; Creative Movement; Tap/Ballet; Breakin, etc. As a new townie, who has just moved to West End from Ocean Grove, she is excited to be working at Dancing Through Life, share her talents with her students, and leave her footprint on the community.
TAYLOR FAGLIARONE
Miss Taylor is the daughter of former Red Bank dance studio owner, Melissa Marion. She is classically trained and learned to teach from her mother. Miss Taylor has an associates degree in early childhood education.