The Red Chair School of Performing Arts brings children's performing arts to the community. Our programs focus on children 18 months to adults. We inspire the young children of Burbank and surrounding communities to sing, dance, act and express themselves in ways only the arts can. As founders of The Red Chair School of Performing Arts we excited to work with each talented child as we open the door to their minds and hearts to explore the magical world of the arts.

Founders

 
Jennifer Bosco (Director of Dance & Teacher) has been dancing since she was three-years old.  A native Southern Californian Jennifer studied ballet, tap, jazz, pas de duex, adagio, and gymnastics in San Bernardino, CA at Vera Lynn School of the Dance.  There she trained under Laura Sitczer and Vera Lynn.  Later she danced in Montclair, CA at the California Dance Center where she trained with Lawrence Blake and Victoria Koenig.  She has many accolades for her dance performances including winning many southern California dance competitions. In 1988 Jennifer was selected to train at Ballet West in Aspen, Colorado. She also studied voice and piano and has performed with Junior University in San Bernardino, CA. Jennifer has taught dance through the Burbank Parks and Recreation since 2002.   Jennifer was also a Gymboree teacher for six years.  She received a BA in Political Science from the University of Southern California and currently resides in Burbank with her husband and three children.

 Gabrielle Edinburgh (Director of Theater & Teacher) is a graduate of  Cal State University at Northridge with a B.A.  in Theater Arts.  She has been teaching preschool for the past seven years and as a Gymboree music teacher for the past six years.   She studied acting under Ann Eldridge and voice under Victoria Cutler. Gabrielle was accepted into the Mark Taper Forum Musical Workshop in L.A. and has acted in children’s touring theater productions. She lives in Burbank with her son.

 Sylvia Kelman (Director of Business Affairs) is a graduate of Cal State University at Northridge with a B.A. in Humanities with a concentration in Film Arts and Art History.  She also studied Theatre Arts at Northridge as well as abroad, studying Shakespearean plays at the Royal Shakespeare Theater in Stratford upon Avon, England.  Sylvia has worked inboth  accounting and talent management for the film industry, bookkeeping for small businesses and worked as a Gymboree teacher.  She lives in Burbank with her husband and three children.

 Anna Smith (Director of Marketing) began her love for the theater as a child while at Boston Children’s Theater.  She started stage-managing in high school and while in college interned in the box office at the Lyric Stage in Boston, MA.  She worked as a stage manager and assistant director at the Academy Playhouse and as the resident stage manager at the Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater, both on Cape Cod, MA.  Anna was also a Gymboree teacher for 5 years.  She currently lives in Burbank with her husband and two children.

Faculty

Barbara Angier started her ballet training at the age of seven and began assisting with classes and recitals when she was eleven years old.   She received a scholarship with The San Francisco Ballet and First Chamber Dance Company of New York; attending college at the Cornish School of Arts, in Seattle.   Her own training consists of a well-rounded curriculum in ballet, pointe, jazz, modern, character, flamenco, dance history, music and choreography. As a company member of Ballet Tacoma, Anchorage Civic Ballet, LAVC dance productions and Myles Marsden's Dance Company; Barbara has been involved in the dance arena most all of her life, and considers the studio her second home.  Over the past thirty years she has taught and choreographed at The Academy of Ballet in Anchorage, Alaska; Burbank Parks and Recreation Department and Pasadena Dance Theatre; she is certified in Pilates with eight years of teaching experience and has her accreditations in early childhood development.

Alina Navar has been dancing with Miss Barabra for the last 12 years. She was a member of their Varsity Cheerleading Team at Burbank High School.  She currently is a camp counselor with Burbank Parks and Recreation.

Joanne Parada started her dance training at six and by age 18 owned her own dance studio. She studied at the San Francisco Ballet Company, the American School of Dance, and studied stage dance in London.  She has a degree in Theatrical Arts from Fresno State University. During a three-year international and nationwide tour, Joanne was the lead dancer, starring as “Cinderella” and “Snow White” in “Disney on Parade”.  She has appeared in numerous television shows for NBC and Walt Disney Productions.  She is a member of the National Association of Dance and Affiliated Artists and AGVA. “Miss Joanne” has taught at Bailey’s Dance Studio, Huntington Beach (25yrs); Garri Dance Studio, Burbank (25yrs); was the Dance Director for children at the Los Angeles Athletic Club (22yrs) and has taught dance at Sonshine Preschool, Glendale for the past 10 years.

Monica Sorce was born and raised in New Jersey. She started her dance training at the age of six. Later she studied with such notables as Phil Black, Lulgi, Donald Wessler, Peter Genaro and Ballet Arts in Carnegie Hall in New York City.  She was the Founder of the Master Art Dance Co. in New York before moving to Los Angeles in 1993.

Johnna Allen Tavianini has been a teacher of music and/or theatre for twenty years. Her experiences vary from private vocal and piano instruction to coaching professional singers to working as an artist in residence in the New York City public school system. Additionally, Johnna has spent well over ten years as a professional singer/actor herself, performing at theatres all across the country and Canada.