Beverly F. Spell
Director

Annie W. Spell, Ph.D.
Child Psychology Consultant

Beverly F. Spell
Director

Beverly F. Spell has taught ballet for over 30 years, and has been a studio owner since 1998. As a dancer, she trained with many great teachers, including Gwynne Ashton, and was a scholarship student at the School of the American Ballet and Harkness Ballet. She is a graduate of the National Academy of Arts in Champaign, Illinois. In 2003 Beverly began sharing her knowledge and experience with other dance teachers through Leap ’N Learn™. In 2004 she co-authored and released, with Annie Spell, Ph.D., Leap ’N Learn - A Comprehensive Early Childhood Dance Syllabus. In addition to creating a program taught by teachers worldwide, Beverly has written several DANCEcamps for studios to use during the summer season, designed dance coloring books, collaborated with composer Scott Killian and producer Finis Jhung on two children’s dance class CDs based on the Leap ’N Learn™ Syllabus, developed many dance classroom teaching props, created two arts-in-education syllabi that have been implemented in public schools locally and nationally, and with her husband, Carrol, designed The Ultimate Barre,, a portable ballet barre used by studios worldwide. In July, 2010, Beverly and child psychologist, Dr. Annie Spell released a series of five teacher training DVDs so that teachers would have the opportunity of learning how to teach dance in an education based format with an emphasis on a child’s cognitive, emotional and physical development.

Beverly has also written and produced several original children’s ballets for the students of The Ballet Studio, including Abigail’s Dream, Anne in Rhymeland, Deep Inside the Forest, Hope’s Journey and The Princess and the Pirates. In 2005, she worked with composer, Scott Killian of New York City to write the original musical score for the production of the ballet, Hope’s Journey.

Along with running her own successful studio and Leap ’N Learn™, Beverly serves as a guest teacher for student master classes and ballet workshops throughout the United States. Beverly has also presented her teaching methods at The Dance Teacher Summit, Rhee Gold’s Dance Life Conference, Finis Jhung’s Teacher Training Seminars, The Ailey Extension Teacher Workshop, Oklahoma City University, Dance Teacher Web Expo and various Dance Master Chapter Workshops, and at numerous other dance organizations and private studios throughout the United States. In May of 2007, Dance Magazine and Dance Teacher Magazine featured Beverly in their teacher training issue, which highlighted her Leap ’N Learn™, program and her teaching methods at The Ballet Studio. In 2010 and 2011, Beverly and Dr. Annie Spell co- authored a series of articles for Dance Studio Life Magazine. Beverly has also served as an early childhood dance authority and has been interviewed for an article to appear in an upcoming issue of Dance Teacher Magazine. Beverly is recognized in the dance world as a leading authority on children's dance education. Teachers worldwide are using The Ballet Studio as a model for their dance programs. Through Leap ’N Learn™, Beverly’s goal is to continue to share her experience by providing resources and teacher training for dance teachers so that they may easily provide safe, effective, and enjoyable dance training for their students.