Jenn Eisenberg (Co-Founder) 

is the Co-Founder of BOLD Arts, a leading creative dance and arts program based in the tri-state area. Jenn has been involved in the dance education world for over two decades, as a teacher, trainer, presenter, curriculum consultant, and performer. 

Jenn has a BA in Dance Education from Marymount Manhattan College. As a professional in the arts, she is known for her energetic, positive, entertaining, and empowering approach to working with children. 

Through BOLD Arts, Jenn has led programming at The Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan, The Shefa School, All Saints Day School, The Village Electric, and Reeves-Reed Arboretum, to name a few. She is proud of the development of the BOLD Pop curriculum, which fuses jazz, hip hop, fitness, creative dance and storytelling, and has loved training and supporting BOLD teaching artists in teaching this style. 

Jenn is the Performance Coordinator and Dance Teacher at All Saints Day School in Hoboken, NJ, where she has worked for 13 years, and where BOLD began. Jenn taught with National Dance Institute (NDI) in NYC for over 10 years. While with the organization, Jenn developed programs for early childhood, as well as sequential programs for all grade levels, and created virtual content throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. She presented on behalf of NDI at conferences like NDEO and Face to Face, and led trainings for teachers at ABT, DEL, Community Word Project, and more.  

Jenn has consulted with Worldwide Orphans Foundation, Carolyn Dorfman Dance, and for the children’s television series, Creative Galaxy.  Jenn and Chelsea worked together with House of the Roses, an outreach program that serves homeless children in NYC, to co-write a curriculum that has been successfully used by volunteer teaching artists for years. 

She danced with Spark Movement Collective, Bianca Johnson and Dancers and Undertoe Dance Project, as well as many musical theater productions throughout the tri-state. A personal favorite performance experience was performing as a dancing doll, with blonde hair, on a raked stage! 

Jenn loves sharing the magic of dance and the arts with her students!

Chelsea Koenig (Co-Founder) 

is the Co-Founder of BOLD Arts. She is the Performing Arts Coordinator and Dance Specialist at The Town School in New York City, where she teaches Nursery-2nd Grade Dance. Chelsea received her BS in Arts Administration and Dance from Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana. While attending Butler, she developed a dance outreach program for the Butler Community Arts School that served over 1,000 underserved children a year in the Indianapolis area. Chelsea also created a dance mentorship program linking children at the Kaleidoscope Youth Center with Butler Ballet dancers as part of Butler’s Center for Citizenship and Community programming.

After moving to New York City, Chelsea worked with the National Dance Institute as a teaching assistant, co-wrote curriculum and led House of the Roses with Jenn Eisenberg, and taught dance at various studios and schools. Chelsea gained valuable experience while managing New York City Center’s dance and musical theater programming from 2009-2012.

In 2012 and 2014, Chelsea traveled to Kampala, Uganda to work with deaf children at the Uganda School for the Deaf. 

Chelsea’s training also includes participating in Creative Dance Institute's Summer Dance Institute for Teachers focusing on BrainDance and Brain-Compatible Teaching, National Dance Institute (NDI) Teacher Training Certification, Dance Education Laboratory (DEL) Foundations of Dance program, and a multitude of New York City Center workshops.

Chelsea is the Artistic Director Emeritus and founder of Spark Movement Collective, a contemporary modern dance company, and the former NY Producer of NACHMO (National Choreography Month). www.sparkmovementcollective.org

SOFIA
BLASCO

Sofia Blasco (Dance Teaching Artist) 

is an alumna of Marymount Manhattan College with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance Performance and a Concentration in Classical Ballet. She is a certified Pure Barre Teacher in NYC and has been performing, teaching, and studying dance on a professional level for many years. In College she studied with and performed pieces by a multitude of well known choreographers including Katie Langan, Adam Barruch, Chase Brock, Trebien Pollard, and Fredrick Earl Mosley. 

Sofia is the Co-founder and Executive Director of the Company The Dancer Movement Corp: reimagining dance for people with disabilities. Sofia currently teaches around the NYC area bringing the joy of dance to both children and adults. Sofia has a passion for teaching all people and is excited to join the BOLD Arts team!

SAMANTHA
BLOSSEY

Samantha Blossey (Music Teaching Artist) received her Masters in classical voice performance from Manhattan School of Music and her Bachelors in music education from The College of New Jersey. She is a certified music educator in the state of New Jersey having led distinguished programs in
Bergen, Middlesex, and Union counties. These programs spanned from teaching elementary, middle and high school students. For eight years Ms. Blossey taught early childhood music for
the company Music Preludes. Her experience included leading students age 6 months through 6 years in general music lessons.
Currently Ms. Blossey is a choral specialist for the Children’s Chinese Book Garden in New York City. She collaborates with the full time teachers to provide opportunities for seven classes to develop their singing and understanding of music making. She has also taught private voice and piano for over 10 years. As a teacher, Samantha strives to combine a fun and positive atmosphere to give students an outlet for creativity and self-expression.
 

Ms. Blossey is also an accomplished performer having shared her talents in concert, opera and musical theater up and down the U.S. east coast. Her experience also extends to the sports
arenas as she is a regular soloist at the Prudential Center for the NHL’s New Jersey Devils. She has performed leading roles with opera companies in Delaware, Maine, New Jersey, New York
and Mississippi. Samantha has performed at Carnegie Hall, the Trenton War Memorial, Don’t Tell Mama, Symphony Space, 54 Below, and the United Nations. Additionally she acts as a
soloist and concert producer for non-profit organizations such as the Susan G Komen foundation.

Bryce Colby Vaewsorn (Dance Teaching Artist) is super excited to be teaching with BOLD Arts! Born and raised in Northern California, Bryce graduated from the University of California, Irvine where he studied musical theatre & choreography. As a performer, Bryce has worked Off B’way at The York Theatre Company, The Argyle Theatre, Mill Mountain Theatre, Abilene Opera, and more. Some of his recent show credits at these theatres have included Legally Blonde, Fiddler on the Roof, West Side Story, and creating new works. A career highlight for him was dancing in Pixar Play Parade at Disneyland while in college.

As a teaching artist, Bryce has been teaching students of all ages for almost a decade. He has coached high school competition dancers, trained college students studying performing arts, and curated recitals for toddlers and younger children. He has worked as an assistant to instructors at Broadway Dance Center as well as teaching ballet, jazz, tap, theatre styles, contemporary, and hip hop at various dance studios and private lessons in the the Tri-State area.

Bryce is currently a working actor-singer-dancer and teaching artist in NYC. He hopes to inspire curiosity in young minds through art and spark each student’s own creative spirit and unique imagination. 

MELISSA
GALANO

Melissa Galano (Dance Teaching Artist) 

was born and raised in Shrewsbury, New Jersey. She studied dance at Towson University where she obtained a BFA in Dance Performance and a BA in Mass Communication. She is also a 200 HR certified yoga instructor. Melissa has had the privilege to perform professionally at various venues in NYC. In 2019, she founded Manasquan High School’s dance program in NJ. Melissa is excited to dance with BOLD!

FLORENCIA
GUZMAN

Florencia Guzman (Dance Teaching Artist) was born in Monterrey, Mexico, and comes from a family of professional musicians where she represents the fourth generation of pianists.

Florencia has a masters degree in piano performance from NJCU and has 18 years of experience in teaching piano, choir, and music appreciation. She believes in the power of music and that every child should have the opportunity to be exposed to a musical education not only to develop a love for music but also to enhance the child’s abilities to think, process, interact, and reason through the process of musical stimulation. She also believes that music is fundamental for the emotional and personal development of the child.

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Florencia is also the founder of “Hunter Hall” music studio, a space for the performing and visual arts, in Roxbury Township, NJ.

Luiza Karnas (Dance Teaching Artist) 

Luiza Karnas (she/her) is a dance artist and educator originally from Brazil. She received her M.F.A in Performance and Choreography from SUNY The College at Brockport, NY, and graduated from Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul – UFRGS (Brazil) with a degree in Dance Education. A tap enthusiast by heart, Karnas has presented choreographic works at renowned venues in NYC, including Dixon Place, Triskelion Arts, Center for Performance Research, Symphony Space, Spoke the Hub, and more. She is also a leading tap dance performer and collaborator of kamrDANCE company.

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An advocate of dance education, Karnas is an experienced Teaching Artist, and has worked for well-known dance programs such as WR Arts, Notes in Motion, Breaking Ground Dance Center, Downstage Studio, Brooklyn Independent School, and Garden House School. She is also a veteran in virtual dance teaching and is a Teaching Artist for Virtual Babysitters Club.

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Karnas is thrilled to be part of the BOLD team and to continue sharing her passion for dance.

Dana Panepinto (Dance Teaching Artist) 

is so excited to join the team of BOLD Arts, a company that gives students a full exposure to all the Arts through dance! Dana is a teaching artist with an MFA in Theatre Performance, emphasis on Movement from the University of Florida and a BFA from the University of Southern Mississippi in Theatre, minoring in Dance and studying Visual Arts. Throughout graduate school, Dana taught theatre and movement classes to major and non-major undergraduate students.

A native of New Orleans, she considers herself a New Yorker after 13 years of city living. Prior to moving to New York City, she worked regionally in musicals and plays with The Hippodrome State Theatre, Tulane Shakespeare, Southern Rep, and Carey Dinner Theatre to name a few. Throughout her time in New York, Dana has balanced teaching Theatre, Dance, and Visual Art with performing in such classics as Macbeth, Trojan Women, A Winter’s Tale and The Man that Came to Dinner as well as other contemporary and original productions.

Teaching the arts has become her greatest pleasure starting with working with the award winning Stages of Learning, bringing sequential theatre training to public school students, in her early years of training. Dana has a passion for teaching all the arts and continues to discover how to incorporate theatre, dance, visual art, and music in her work with children. She currently works for the renowned Nation Dance Institute, as well as Wingspan Arts, Artsconnection’s Broadway Junior and LeAp (Learning through Expanded Arts Programing). Dana has worked with a diverse population of students in the public school system in Brooklyn, Manhattan, the Bronx and Queens, including leading Professional Developments with classroom teachers and Parent Workshops. The most exciting part of her work has been when working with eager performers to create something that has never existed before, writing original scripts, lyrics, choreography, and thinking up costumes and sets. The arts all together on one stage! She will be adding the Brooklyn Children’s Theatre to her resume this summer, creating new musicals with children in need.