Maygan Wurzer, Director & Owner
Maygan founded All That Dance in 1994 and has grown the studio from a handful of classes at the Laurelhurst Community Center to the beautiful, inviting and enriching studio it is today. Maygan has more than ten years of experience as a dance instructor, specializing in Tap, Jazz and Ballet. She received her early training at Pacific Northwest Ballet, where she performed in their annual Nutcracker production for four years. She also studied at Cornish, recently completed the Summer Dance Institute for Teachers and has taken intensive tap workshops in New York and Seattle. She has performed locally in various musical productions at the Fifth Avenue (Brigadoon, Here’s Love, 42nd Street) and Civic Light Opera and Village Theater. Maygan holds a B.A. in Speech Communication from the University of Washington and taught sixth and seventh graders in public school for six years before moving her attention full-time to All That Dance. Calling on teaching expertise, performance experience and - most of all - a joy of sharing dance, Maygan is appreciative of the wonderful support she has received from all of you over the years and thrilled to have you and your children be a part of the new and improved All That Dance -- today and well into the future!

Celia Boarman
Celia has been dancing for about as long as she’s been walking. As a child, she was mesmerized by the dancing duo of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, imitating their every move. She has been trained in modern dance, jazz, ballet and, of course, ballroom. Celia studied acting and dance on scholarship at Cornish College of the Arts. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in theater from the University of Washington. She went on to perform in numerous professional theater productions in the Seattle area. Her training in ballroom dancing consists of coaching by some of the top national and international competitive dancers in the industry. Having formerly competed, she is now involved in competitive dancing through her students. As a choreographer and ballroom dancer, Celia has entertained audiences all along the West Coast. Celia enjoys teaching all ages and all levels of dance -- from 8-year-olds to 85-year-olds; from those taking their first timid steps on the social dance floor to polished competitive dancers. Gotta dance!

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Teresa Beery
Teresa has taught Parent-Toddler and Creative dance for the past several years at Spectrum Dance Theatre and the Secret Garden Preschool. She thoroughly enjoys sharing her love of dance with the little ones. Another great love is musical theater and she has combined the two by choreographing The Sound of Music, The Wizard of Oz and other musicals at the elementary school level. Teresa grew up in Federal Way and later attended Brigham Young University, receiving her B.A. in Dance with an emphasis in Modern and Creative. She studied with Alwin Nikolais and Murray Lewis at the Nikolais/Louis Dance Lab in New York.

Rachel Stewart
Rachel has been teaching children for more than seven years. Her repertoire includes Ballet, Tap, Jazz, Creative Dance and Drama (during our summer camps). She received her dance training at Cornish College of the Arts and the University of Washington. She founded and directed the dance program at the Perkins School for children and has worked in the Seattle Public Schools at Ingraham High School, teaching and choreographing musical productions. She currently is teaching dance at Billings Middle School, where she also is creating a program for adolescent girls. This program builds on work she began at the UW, where her education included several years researching and writing a thesis regarding girls, body image and self-esteem.

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Karyn Bracilano
Karyn Bracilano is a native of Detroit, Mich., where she began teaching at the age of 16 and soon after was choreographing for local theater companies. She graduated with a B.F.A. in Musical Theater from Point Park University in Pittsburgh, Penn. At Pittsburgh's Civic Light Opera, Karyn served as the choreographer's apprentice and was part of their 50th Anniversary celebration "The Richard Rodgers Award Gala -- A Tribute to Andrew Lloyd Webber". She has received her certification to teach tap, jazz and ballet from Dance Masters of America and is an active member of the National Dance Week organization. Locally, Karyn has worked with the Village Theatre, American Dance Institute, Tim Hickey's Dance Studio and Seattle's Civic Light Opera. For the past six years, Karyn has worked as the Department of Contemporary Dance Chair for the Washington Academy of Performing Arts, where she taught Jazz, Tap, and Musical Theatre and choreographed more than 15 musicals.

Vera Bullen
Vera Bullen started dancing in her living room at an early age. Her mother enrolled her in dance classes at the age of 3. She studied with Ivan Novikoff for a few years and at Pacific Northwest Ballet School through Level VII. She attended the University of Washington where she choreographed and performed constantly, and received her B.A. in Dance in 1992. She taught at her former high school, Seattle Academy, for two years and then moved to England. In 1996, Vera received her M.A. in Dance Studies from Laban Centre, London. Her areas of concentration were dance history, dance education and choreology, a Laban-based dance analysis system. She married an Englishman in her spare time. Upon her return to Seattle in 1996, she attended the UW and received a B.A. in Drama. Vera has taught at various studios in the Seattle area, choreographed, and founded the Seattle Youth Ballet Seminars. Vera is a member of the International Association of Dance Medicine and Science. She has a young son, named Winston.

Amanda Morrison
Amanda has been dancing since the age of four and has studied ballet, tap, jazz, modern, pointe, and Spanish dance. She has been teaching children ballet, tap, and jazz for the past five years at Burien Dance Theater. She enjoys musical theater and has choreographed "Tangled Tales" and "How to Eat Like a Child," two youth productions for Puget Sound Musical Theater. Performing experience includes the University of Washington Dance Major's concerts and SPIN concerts, and the American College Dance Festival (ACDF). Her choreography has been showcased at the University of Washington and the ACDF in Bellingham. In the winter of 2004 she was awarded the Sterling Munro Public Service Fellowship to teach creative dance to elementary school students in the Seattle Public School District. She graduated from the University of Washington with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Dance and English.

Krissy Girardi
Krissy taught at all that dance since 1997 after returning from Italy where she was a member of a ballet company. Krissy has extensive training in ballet and tap and has been dancing her entire life. A mother of two, Krissy works well with children of all ages. A more detailed biography is coming soon. All That Dance -- and many dancers and parents -- are thrilled that Krissy has returned to ATD after a short absence.

Wayne Wurzer, Co-owner
Wayne, husband of Maygan, can't dance. Oh, he used to hit the local clubs (anyone remember Celebrity Bar & Grill in Pioneer Square in the early '90s?) and drop some serviceable funk moves. And Celia babied him through a few privates so he would be able to execute a respectable foxtrot with Maygan at their wedding. But for the most part, Wayne can't dance. What he can -- and does -- do is help with studio operations, everything from finance, facilities, management, marketing, Web site production, performance planning and more. You also may have seen him as emcee of All That Dance's annual Spring Performances. He also serves as Communications Manager for Ronald McDonald House Charities of Western Washington & Alaska. Before that, he worked in a variety of media jobs, including Editor-in-Chief of CitySearch.com and as a reporter and editor for the Seattle Times. Along the way, he's also developed skills in the social services field. He has a bachelor's in Communications from Cal State Fullerton and a master's in counseling from Bastyr University, Seattle. He has worked to strengthen families as a Child & Family Therapist and has worked and trained in the arena of domestic violence, serving as an advocate for victims and a group counselor for perpetrators (now, there's a tough crowd!). In his spare time, he coaches his twin boys in T-ball and soccer and is co-coordinator of the Wedgwood Elementary School Chess Club.