Christina Leonard is a lifelong dancer and Massachusetts based director, teaching artist, choreographer, and mentor who has worked with hundreds of young dancers from studios and training programs in Greater Boston over the past 2 decades.   Working primarily with the youth with instruction in classical Ballet, Tap (her first-love) & Jazz, Lyrical & Contemporary, and children’s specialty classes.  Her unique teaching style comes from connecting the deep history of dance styles to the lessons of today in the classroom.  Christina received her fundamental dance training and mentoring through her mother, Donna Leonard and is a second-generation Studio Director. Since the early 2000s, her professional career blossomed as a performer, dance teacher, guest artist, and choreographer at local & regional studios, including the inspirational Tony Williams Dance Center at which she worked for nearly a decade. Christina held the position of Rehearsal Assistant, Assistant Director, and Co-Director with Melrose Youth Ballet for 9 years; producing and co-directing full-length ballets including The Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty, Alice in Wonderland, Coppélia, and more. She was co-founder of Middlesex Ballet Project in 2018, in which she produced and curated performance and workshop opportunities for Massachusetts ballet dancers seeking versatile opportunities to perform and work with guest choreographers & artists. She maintained an 18-year membership with the Dance Teacher’s Club of Boston and worked with BalletROX as a teaching artist in Boston Public Schools throughout her career. Christina acquired certification in Adaptive Dance from the Boston Ballet in 2019 and continues to focus on her work in the classroom where she applies life experience and well-rounded perspective of dance to foster healthy leadership, strong technique, and goal-oriented training to her students. She continues to apply the core principles of learning as a lifelong student of dance on a never-ending pursuit of dance education. Today you can find Christina working as Programs & Special Initiatives Associate at Boston Dance Alliance, training within the Boston Krump community, and teaching this Fall at TWDC & Studio 28.