Staff
Our staff at Music General is not only made up of talented performers and instructors, it consists of caring individuals who are concerned with their students dancing abilities and general well being. Each member of our staff brings their own expertise into our studio, gained from many years of teaching and performing, creating the best possible learning experience for our students.
Sue Kuhn read more...
Sue and her husband, Dan, have owned and operated the Music General since 1979. Sue began her dance education in Minneapolis. She studied Tap, Jazz and Ballet at Sivanich School of Music and Dance in Hopkins and at the University of Minnesota’s MacPhail Center for the Performing Arts in Minneapolis. In 1974, she received her BA degree from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis Campus.
Her choreography and teaching skills have made her highly requested by local theatres, dance studios, colleges, elementary and high schools. Sue has also served as a judge for regional dance competitions. She has developed a successful Summer Dance Camp with guest performers/instructors brought in each summer from all over the United States. Sue and her students have won several regional and national dance awards.
Mabel Tamasy read more...
Mabel studied Classical Ballet, Spanish dance, and Folk dance at the National Ballet School of Panama. At age sixteen, she was selected to study at the Royal Ballet of London, England by famed ballerina Dame Margot Fontaine. She left England to become a member of the Cosi Stefanescu Ballet Company in Italy, where she then performed throughout Europe with them. She came to Minnesota in 1979 to dance with the St. Paul City Ballet and the Minnesota Dance Company. Mabel has been teaching ballet and Pointe classes at the Music General since 1990.
Amy Borash read more...
Amy is a native of the Brainerd area. She has been teaching at the Music General since 1983. Her dance background includes high school dance line, the Music General, and Theatrical choreography. Amy majored in Theatre at St. Cloud State University and has choreographed dozens of musicals for theatres here and in South Dakota, where she lived and ran a studio for six years. In addition to theatre direction and choreography, Amy also taught gymnastics while living in South Dakota. She is glad to be “home” at the Music General.
Wilor Bluege read more...
Wilor Bluege, has taught classical ballet and character dance since 1969, and has been choreographing since 1978. Ms. Bluege is the author/illustrator and artistic director of the hour-and –a-half long ballet, The Golden Bough, a Fairytale for Children. Wilor has a comprehensive knowledge of Vaganova syllabus and possesses the additional (and rare) specialty of being an accomplished teacher and choreographer of character dance.
During her 25+ years as a dancer, she worked with Andahazy Ballet, St. Paul Civic Ballet (Jo Savino), Children’s Theater and Branitski Ballet, performing corps, soloist and principal roles in Giselle, Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, Les Sylphides, Pas de Quatre, Nutcracker, Don Quixote, Scheherazade, Legend of Love, and in many other classical, character, modern and jazz works created by contemporary choreographers.
Roseanne Reed read more...
Roseanne began dancing for fun and fitness with her five daughters over 20 years ago. She has attended a variety of dance, yoga and Pilates studios throughout the Southwest, Washington and Minnesota. Roseanne has been teaching classes since 1984 and currently trains competition dancers in Ashtanga yoga and Pilates to develop core stability and balance.
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