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Our Faculty
Joey Ortolani, JM Dance Company Director, Co Owner
Born and raised in Long Island NY, as a competitive student, Joey won many regional and national titles. As a professional dancer, Joey worked for many years for Royal Caribbean Cruises, Regional Equity Theatre, and the Broadway First National Tour of Susan Stroman & Woody Allen's Bullets Over Broadway. Joey has also been seen on your television screen on shows like Saturday Night Live, Gossip Girl, Last Week Tonight with Jon Oliver, and Good Morning America with Disney Channel's Freaky Friday. Joey is also a Judge for many of the USA's top dance competitions, including a Judge on an episode of the 8th season of Dance Moms.
Joey has been a resident choreographer and teacher at JM since 2012. His students & choreography have won top awards in Advanced, Intermediate, and Novice divisions in all ages and genres of dance across Long Island regional dance competitions.
In 2019 he became the studio's Competitive Director, and in 2023 became Co Owner of JM Dance Studio. His hope and priority for his classroom, and Studio, is that it always be a place the dancers LOVE coming to. That he & the rest of the staff be mentors in dance and life for every student who walks through the doors.
Becky Robles
Becky brings to the studio over 20 years of dance experience. Having studied dance on scholarship at the Roger Williams University in Rhode Island and at C. W. Post, she would graduate from Binghamton University with a degree in Business Management. While at Binghamton she continued to dance and was the President of the BU Kickline as well as the International Flag Dancers. She also was a teacher’s assistant for a college level jazz class taught by professional dancer and Professor Fred Weiss. In addition, she has performed at concerts including KTU’s Dance Factory Live with Coro and Tymz2, BLI Rising Stars and was the lead dancer for the opera "Carmen" at the Tri-Cities Opera House. After college, she continued teaching at local dance studios and worked for a children's theater arts program located at St. Patricks in Huntington where she choreographed for the productions of Beauty and the Beast, The Jungle Book, Aesop's Adventures and Stone Soup.
Currently, Becky is a dancer for N.Y.C. Jazz Roots Dance Company under the artistic direction of Sue Samuels. When she is not teaching you can find her performing at various prestigious venues around New York City such as Peridance Center, New York City Center, 92 Street Y, Dixon Place, Manhattan Movement Arts Center, Alvin Ailey and The Works Studio to name a few. More recently she had the opportunity to travel with Jazz Roots Dance to LA to dance at the Tri-Arts Festival and to Japan to perform and teach workshops. Becky is very excited to be a part of Jan Martin Dance Studio and can't wait to share her passion of dance with others!
Denise Blair
Denise took her first class at the Jan Martin Dance Studio at the age of three…and she never left! Denise has also studied with the Eglevsky Ballet Company. Now the mother of three girls, Denise teaches Tap and Jazz, as well as Combo classes for the younger students.
ALISSA CAMHI
Alissa began dancing at JMDS at age 4. She continued dancing until graduating from
L.I. High School for the Arts. She taught tap, jazz, lyrical and ballet at Jan Martin Dance Studio at age 16 and continued to teach all through College. Alissa has attended many workshops and conventions in New York City with Broadway Dance Center, Alvin Ailey and Tremaine. Her passion for dance continues and she hopes her students will grow to love dance as much as she does.
GIANNA FINGERLE
Gianna began dancing at age two and competing at age seven. She trains in all types of dance and is a Senior majoring in dance at Long Island High School For The Arts. She began as an assistant teacher at age fourteen and a teacher a few years later. Gianna is excited to be teaching at JMDS!
TAMMY JOHNSON
Tammy has been teaching dance for over a decade. Her credits include Singing In The Rain, La Cage, My One and Only and 42nd Street at the Carousel and Neil’s New Yorker Dinner Theaters.. She enjoys sharing her passion and love for the art of dance with her students and thanks them for being a great source of inspiration. Tammy is so excited to begin another year at JMDS!