MANDI LUTZ - ANDERBERG
Owner/Artistic Director

email Miss Mandi:

mandi@artisticmotiondanceaz.com 

KATY FARRELL

Company Instructor

email Miss Katy:

katy@artisticmotiondanceaz.com 

Katy started dancing when she was 5 years old and has trained at various studios around the valley.  She attended Corona del Sol High School and was an honor society student.  Katy was also in the Advanced Dance Program and on the Pom Line at Corona.

Currently Katy is a student at ASU Polytechnic majoring in applied biosciences.

Katy is very excited to be a part of the teaching staff at Artistic Motion Dance.

NATASHA BROOKSHER

Ballet Instructor

Mrs. Brooksher grew up in Woodbury, CT receiving her training at Nutmeg Ballet.  She graduated Valedictorian of her class, both in ballet and academics. Mrs. Brooksher received honors in competition at the ARTS Recognition and Talent Search, New York International Ballet Competition, Paris International Ballet Competition, and the Prix de Lausanne. 

Mrs. Brooksher  enjoyed a long  professional career with Boston Ballet, Texas Ballet Theatre, and Ballet Arizona, where she worked with leading choreographers such as Paul Taylor, Twyla Tharp, Lyla York, & Trey McIntyre, performing leading roles in American Classics such as Rodeo, Billy the Kid and Company B.   Her extensive classical repertoire includes all the great story-ballets as well as many Balanchine masterpieces.  Mrs. Brooksher has worked with some of the world’s greatest instructors and coaches including; Sharon E. Dante, Anna Marie Holmes, Natalia Dudinskaya, Sergei Berejnoi, Bruce Marks, Eleanor D’Antuono, Tatiana Legat, Igor  Youskevitch, Suki Schorer, Vladimir Kolesnikov, Suzanne Farrell, Terry Orr, Tatiana Terekhova, Vicki Simon, Ben Stevenson, Francia Russell,  Sandra Jennings, Denise Warner, Caroline Llorca and Elise Borne.  Each of whom made an enormous impact on her stylistic sensibilities, especially in the classical repertoire.

Mrs. Brooksher has extensive teaching experience, having taught for Nutmeg Conservatory for the Arts and the New York International Ballet Competition. Most recently, she is co-founder and Artistic Director for Southwest Classical Dance Institute (click for available classes or to read more About Us), and is a Guest Faculty member at The Nutmeg Conservatory for the Arts. Mrs. Brooksher also serves as the AZ State Representative of Classical Dance Alliance, and is currently Ballet Mistress for Novaballet in Phoenix. She shares her passion for ballet and her life with her husband Joshua and two year old son Ian. 

JOSH BROOKSHER

Ballet Instructor

AMY MORRISON

Ballroom Instructor

RYAN ERONEMO

Hip Hop Instructor

JESSIE WADDELL

Ballet, Hip Hop, and Ballet/Tap Teacher

Jessie has had training in many different genres such as, ballet, jazz, lyrical, contemporary, tap, hip hop, flamenco, modern, and a little bit of ballroom. She received her early training from Dance Connection Too and Danceworks by Dannis before becoming a member of Ballet Etudes’ company for five years where she performed in many full length ballets including Cinderella, Peter Pan, and Nutcracker, in which she was honored to dance the role of Court Fairy. In her 2005-2006 school year, she was also a member of the Mountain View Pom Line. And following that school year, she was placed in the second highest level of the State Street Ballet Summer Intensive Program in Santa Barbara. The summer of 2007, she attended Fort Wayne Ballet Summer Intensive in Indiana, where she was placed in the highest level and had extensive training in many genres of dance. As a Provost Scholar, she is also attending ASU as a kinesiology major with a minor in dance and is a member of the Dancing Devils, a community service based jazz team. She is very privileged and excited to be a part of Artistic Motion.

BECKI WALSH

Company Instructor

Becki Walsh has been dancing since the age of three. She has studied all types of dance, as well as gymnastics. Becki danced n scholarship at the Jimmie Defore Dance Center in Costa Mesa, Ca., and has also trained at the Edge Performing Arts
Center, Millenium, and Tremaine Dance Studios. Becki has performed with Jazz Spectrum Dance Company, Disneyland, The Los Angeles Angels Dancers, and Angela Bassett’s Medical Research Foundation Gala. She has also appeared on Fox Sport Television Shows, Monday Night Live, Exercise Infomercials, and she was a featured dancer in an Australian Rugby commercial
with George Burns and Heather Locklear. For three years, Becki danced as a Los Angeles Clippers Dance Team member. During that time, she did choreography for the team, as well as for numerous high school & college dance & song teams throughout the United States.

Becki’s award winning choreography has garnered many national championships and overalls at top competitions throughout America. In 2003, Becki & Dennis Caspary worked together as the owners of Pulse Dance Studio in Irvine, Ca. Currently, Becki is attending Arizona State University where she is pursuing her Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing with a minor in Dance. She is a certified Pilate’s mat & reformer instructor and enjoys working with dancers and athletes of all ages. Her journey could not have been possible without her loving husband and four amazing children.

SHAUNA BENSON

Tumbling Instructor

Picture & Bio coming soon!