Carrie graduated cum laude with a B.F.A. in dance and choreography from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2000. During her time at VCU she performed in faculty pieces by Chris Burnside and Audrey Jung, and trained with an amazing faculty and guest artists such as: Chris Burnside, Barbara Grubel, Arnott Mader, Judy Jacobs, Audrey Jung, Melanie Richards, Nicolas Leicter, Judy Steel, Martha Curtis, Scott Putnam, Taylor 2 Dance Company, BeBe Miller, and many others. She was selected to attend American College Dance Festival in 2000 for her piece “Phantasm”, and again in 2001 for her performance in "Reel Elements".  In 2002 she moved to NYC to study with Skip Costa and other NYC based dancers. While there, she realized that her true passion in dance was with her students. She returned the following year to continue teaching and has built a modern department at CDC that cannot be matched, and in 2006, she became the owner of CDC.   

The founder and artistic director of CDC's acclaimed contemporary company, dELIRIUM (est. 2006), she  has received numerous awards for her choreography including Outstanding Contemporary, Outstanding Partnering, Choreographic Distinction Award, Outstanding Concept and her personal favorite; "Most Interesting Use of Music". In 2008, her piece, "The Fly" won 1st place Overall High Score, the "Judge's Choice Award", and a Choreography award and "Apologize", a piece she co-choreographed with Lauren Myers, won 2nd place overall at NYLA Dance competition. Carrie has also done choreography for Cosby High School's dance team, Titania.

Most recently, Carrie has been performing around the Richmond and D.C. area with rva dance collective, co-founded by CDC's own Jess Burgess and CDC's dance company in residence. In their first season, rva performed at the Jack Guidone Theater (D.C.), Artworks Studios (RVA) and Grace Street Theater (RVA).  Their evening length show, 'breakthrough', received rave reviews by a critic for the Richmond Times Dispatch and they were the 2010 recipients of the Theresa Pollak Excellence in Arts Award in dance.   

Carrie is thrilled to be in her 6th year as Chesterfield Dance Center's owner and director, and proud to say that this is her 14th year teaching at CDC. She is overwhelmingly grateful to be able to do what she loves every day.

Having grown up in Florida and North Carolina, Katherine has had the opportunity to train at multiple places throughout the east coast. She began her extensive training with Mrs. P’s Dance and Acrobatic Studios in South Florida where she joined the company at the age of 6. While traveling to conventions, Katherine’s earliest influences were Barry Youngblood, Mallory Graham, and her jazz teacher, Scott Benson. When Katherine was entering the sixth grade her family relocated to Cary, North Carolina and began dancing at North Carolina Dance Institute and Cary Ballet Conservatory. She finally found her home at Cary Dance Productions under the direction of Tondalaya Pearson and became a member of the company.

Katherine continued her training throughout high school where she focused on Jazz, Ballet, Contemporary, Musical Theater and Hip-hop. On the competitive circuit, Katherine was a scholarship finalist at West Coast Dance Explosion and won a hip-hop scholarship to Los Angeles from Adrenaline Dance Convention. She was also very involved in high school by being a member of the dance team, and in school musicals; playing "Bonnie" in Anything Goes and choreographed Guys and Dolls her junior year. After high school, she attended East Carolina University and recently graduated with a BFA in Dance Performance. During her time at ECU, Katherine was in multiple faculty and student productions. Her own choreography was well received by her professors and peers due to her high-energy style that focuses on attention to detail and character.

Throughout college, Katherine continued to attend conventions so that she could soak up as much knowledge from a variety of teachers and provide fresh and stimulating techniques to her students. While teaching at a local studio, she also commuted back to Cary to choreograph for her old studio. Due to her success in dance team, Katherine was asked to lead and judge auditions for two high schools in the Raleigh Area and is now the assistant coach for the Manchester Lancer Dancers here in Midlothian.

Katherine prides herself on being a teacher who keeps her choreography and teaching styles fresh and challenging, while maintaining a very strong focus on the technique and athleticism of dance. To her being a dance teacher is an extraordinary opportunity to share her passion of this art form and to motivate students the way that her teachers have motivated her. This is Katherine's second year teaching here and is thrilled to be part of the CDC family!

Bryan was born in and raised in Honolulu, HI, and trained at the Hawaii State Ballet from the age of 12.   In 1997, Bryan joined the Richmond Ballet. He spent seven seasons there dancing different roles in many ballets such as; Cinderella, Nuevo Tango, Coppelia, Three Preludes, Vestiges, and the Nutcracker.  

In 2004, Bryan joined Ballet Theatre of Maryland as Ballet Master, Principle Dancer, and Faculty member. In his four years at BTM, he choreographed four ballets for the professional company, as well as staged classical works and new choreography for the school. Among these pieces were, Don Quixote Suites, Sleeping Beauty, Giselle, and Prince Igor.  Both he and his wife retired in 2008 and moved back to Richmond where they continue to teach dance and spend time with their son, Ethan. This is Bryan's 3rd year teaching at CDC.

Jamie Skates, a native of New York, began her dance training at Coupe Dance Studio under the tutelage of Nenette Charisse.  She continued her training at the North Carolina School of the Arts and went on to dance with the Richmond Ballet for four seasons. While in Richmond, she performed in ballets such as Colin Connor's Vestiges, Mauricio Wainrot's Now and Then, Vladimir Angelov's Bouncing Light, Macolm Burn's Cinderella, and Balanchine's Serenade, Valse Fantasie and Who Cares. 

Jamie continued her career with the Ballet Theatre of Maryland in Annapolis. She performed roles such as Hester in The Scarlet Letter, Carmen in An American Southwest Carmen, Jo in Little Women, and the Snow Queen and Dewdrop in The Nutcracker. Jamie was Ballet Mistress to the professional company for four years and a Faculty Member in the school teaching ballet, acting for dancers, dance histroy, pre pointe, and pointe for five years. She staged and rehearsed works on the company as well as staged and choreographed works for the school and local high schools.

In 2008, Jamie retired from dancing and moved back to Richmond where she continues to teach dance and spend time with her two beautiful children...and one on the way! This is her second year teaching for CDC.

Catherine Faszewski began her dance training at the age of three at Royal Dance, and at the age of six, moved to Chesterfield Dance Center, where she continued her dance training, for the next 12 years, in modern, jazz, tap, ballet, pointe, lyrical/contemporary, and hip hop.  Catherine excelled quickly and soon became the youngest member of CDC’s first competition team, Jazzworld.

In 2006, she became one of the original members of CDC’s esteemed competition team, dELIRIUM, winning several awards for performing and choreographing group and solo pieces. Traveling the Virginia and D.C. area with the team, she was privileged to take class from artists such as: Marvin Millora (CDC alum on tour with Justin Bieber), Scott Jovovich, Danny Wallace, Stacey Tookey, Ivan Koumaev, Jaime Goodwyn, Mark Meismer, Barry Lathers and Travis Wall.

While a student at Clover Hill High School (2010 alum), Catherine was a member of the Cavalette Dance Team and was the Captain her junior and senior years. While on the team, Catherine was chosen to be a member of the National Dance Alliance Dance Team to perform at the Thanksgiving Day Game in Hawaii and the Eastern Dance Association All-Star Team to perform at the Orange Bowl in Florida. She was also a member of both the All-girls and Mixed Show Choirs at Clover Hill and was chosen Dance Captain her sophomore, junior and senior years. As a member of the show choirs she was selected Best Female Performer each year.

Catherine currently attends Virginia Commonwealth University in pursuit of a BFA in Dance and Choreography and was selected to be in several senior and junior projects. As part of the freshman showcase, Catherine was one of five students selected from a class of over 40 to be in a special faculty piece. At VCU, she has been able to study under amazing faculty and guest artists such as: Judith Steel, Martha Curtis, Scott Putnam, Melanie Richards, Christian Von Howard, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar and Stefanie Batten Bland. Catherine is excited to be back at CDC and to be part of an extraordinary faculty.

Charlie Maybee began his dance training at Chris Collins Dance studio in Alexandria Virginia starting with classes in creative movement and tap dancing at the age of five. After taking a few years away from dance to persue other intests he came back to Chris Collins and enrolled in more tap class. Eventually, he also took up ballet, jazz, and contemporary and joined the Chris Collins Dance Company in 2003. In 2006, he auditioned and was accepted to Woodbridge Senior High School's Center for Fine and Performing Arts program (CFPA), where he was under the instruction of Nancy Gross in modern, ballet, and jazz classes. In his sophomore year of high school he became one of the founding members of the Metropolitan Youth Tap Ensemble (MYTE) with whom he performed locally and nationally, and worked with several world reknowned choreographers such as Derrick Grant, Michelle Dorrance, Dormeshia Sumbrey-Edwards, Lane Alexander, and Jason Janas. In 2009, he attended the residential Governor's School for the Visual and Performing Arts hosted by Christopher Newport University. In 2011, he taught as a guest artist at Henrico High Schools Center for the Arts teaching classes in rhythm tap and ultimately setting a piece for the students spring showcase. Charlie currently attends Virginia Commonwealth University in persuit of a BFA in dance and choreography where he was been in several student works and choreographed pieces of his own for informal student concerts. This is Charlie's first year teaching for CDC.

Kirsten began dancing at the early age of three, in West Virginia with Randy Lamb at Bluefield Dance Theatre. It was there she found her love of dance. She began competing nationally at age 8 and won overall high score at her very first competition. She continued to compete nationally and traveled the east coast dancing with many choreographers and participating in summer intensive programs. She also performed leading roles in several ballets including The Nutcracker Suite, Copellia, and Swan Lake while in high school.

Kirsten attended Radford University and graduated with a Bachelors of Fine Arts degree with a concentration in contemporary and classical. While there, she studied with Dagmar Jelincic, Margaret Devaney, Dr. Peggy Hunt, Inessa Plekhanova, Ben Archangel, Natalie Marone and danah bella and also worked with danahbelladanceworx, a modern company based in Southwest Virginia. Kirsten participated in Dancing on the Edge, Fall Dance Fest, and several student choreography shows and performed in The Nutcracker and Copellia with the Radford University Ballet Theatre.

After college, she traveled the east coast teaching master classes, judging nationally, and dancing as a guest artist with several modern dance companies and now stays busy choreographing for competition teams in Virginia, West Virginia, Georgia, and North Carolina. Kirsten excels in all forms of dance including hip-hop, ballet, modern/contemporary, jazz, and musical theatre and is very excited to become a part of Chesterfield Dance Center.