Drennan Dance Project
So You Think You Can Dance
Wednesday
June 25TH
6:30PM
at Amato Center For Performance Arts
Who We Are
This is a place of dance for those who choose or cannot help but put their body and heart and mind to the test above all. Remember it is your own test, do with it what you will, take it to the world or keep it here, just for yourself know that to dance alone, is enough. The rest are choices, we are all connected here. Young and old, expert and novice, famous and aspiring in all dances, various styles and faces connected by a common thread.
Respect the dance. Respect its dancer. Respect yourself
Move with US Like the clouds Do the sky,
And Beyond the clouds of reality,
Lay the wonder of Imagination.....
Dance is your pulse,
your heartbeat,
your breathing.
It’s the rhythm of your life.
It’s the expression in time and movement,
in happiness, joy, sadness and envy.
A Dance Studio with a Mission to for-fill your Dancers Needs, Dreams and Desires. TMBDS offers students a creative and encouraging environment that nurtures all abilities while emphasizing technique, discipline and artistic education. We provide private and group classes at both the recreational and competitive levels. Our highly trained instructors teach children and young adults beginning-to-advanced ballet, tap, jazz, Hip-Hop,Contemporary,Musical Theater, Competitive Dance, Baby Programs, Acro and Lyrical Dance.
DREAM...BELIEVE...ACHIEVE…
Play Bill
OPENING NUMBER
Dancers: Ariana Burke,Hilary Bruynell, Elliana Domings, Marley Justinvil, Melody Justinvil, Eliza Lee, Olivia Pelletier, Sadie Rodney, Kora Rose, Myla Santana, Oaklen Santana, Mika Shosa, & Maci Sullivan
1: A Dream Is a Wish
Dancers: Alexander Kelley, Amelia Kitsis, & Madelyn Vanderpool
2: Shine Bright
Dancers: Ryleigh Diaz
3: Like You
Dancers: Sadie Rodney
4: Chee Hoo
Dancers: Ivy Almeida, Emerie Buckley, Charlotte Cahill, Ryleigh Diaz, Elliana Domings, Kalista Fish, Melody Justinvil, Caroline Kobzar, Mia Jean Maxwell, & Oaklen Santana
5: Heaven
Dancers: Maci Sullivan
6: A Woman's Work
Dancers: Hilary Bruynell, Eliza Lee, Olivia Pelletier, Sadie Rodney, Kora Rose, & Mika Shosa
7: When I Grow Up
Dancers: Charlotte Cahill & Ryleigh Diaz
8: Poor Unfortunate Souls
Dancers: Allyson Crowther & Myla Santana
9: Circus
Dancers: Hilary Bruynell, Ariana Burke, Marley Justinvil, Eliza Lee, Olivia Pelletier, Sadie Rodney, Kora Rose, & Mika Shosa
10: Believer
Dancers: Oaklen Santana
11: Anchor
Dancers: Mercy Fish, Caroline Kobzar, Mia Jean Maxwell, & Ora McKerley
12: Pixie Dust
Dancers: Edith Colby, Ryssa Costa Laia, Mia Leni, Alexander Kelley, & Eleanor Poliquin
13: Rainbow Connection
Dancers: Emerie Buckley, Charlotte Cahill, Ryleigh Diaz, Elliana Domings, Jade Grant, Melody Justinvile, Sadie Rodney, & Myla Santana Oaklen Santana
14: Bad Habit
Dancers: Hillary Bruynell, Marley Justinvil, Olivia Pelletier, Kora Rose, Eliza Lee, & Mika Shosa
15: Clown
Dancer: Caitlin Scott
16: Soda Pop
Dancers: Arianna Burke, Charlotte Cahill, Ryleigh Diaz, Elliana Domings, Sadie Rodney, & Oaklen Santana
17: A Little Party
Dancers: Allyson Crowther, Myla Santana, & Maci Sullivan
18: Make Me Beautiful
Dancers: Hilary Bruynell, Eliza Lee, Olivia Pelletier, Kora Rose, & Mika Shosa
19: Come Fly With Me
Dancers: Arianna Burke, Charlotte Cahill, Ryleigh Diaz, Elliana Domings, Mia Jean Maxwell, Sadie Rodney & Oaklen Santana
20: Chasing Shadows
Dancers: Allyson Crowther & Maci Sullivan
**50/50 RAFFLE**
21: Blue World
Dancers: Hilary Bruynell, Eliza Lee, Olivia Pelletier, Kora Rose, Sadie Rodney, & Mika Shosa
22: Lights, Camera, Action
Choreographer: Jennafer Lynn McNutt
Dancers: Scarlett Sexton
**Why Do You Like To Dance?**
23: Rich Man’s World
Dancers: Hilary Bruynell & Caitlin Scott
24: Thy Will
Dancers: Kora Rose
25: Drive
Dancers: Myla Santana & Maci Sullivan
26: Hopelessly Devoted
Dancers: Eliza Lee
27: Like a Bird
Dancers: Charlotte Cahill, Ryleigh Diaz, Elliana Domings, Mia Jean Maxwell, Sadie Rodney, & Oaklen Santana
28: Rule The World
Dancers: Mika Shosa
29: The Prayer
Dancers: Olivia Pelletier
30: Paquita: Variation 1
Dancer: Kora Rose
31: What’s My Name
Dancers: Makenna Arnold, Ariana Burke, Melody Justinvil, Sadie Rodney, Myla Santana, Oaklen Santana, Scarlett Sexton, & Maci Sullivan
32: Audacity
Dancers: Mika Shosa
33: It's All About Me
Dancers: Elliana Domings
34: Wildflower
Dancers: Hilary Bruynell, Eliza Lee, Olivia Pelletier, Sadie Rodney, Kora Rose, & Mika Shosa
The Creators of Drennan Dance Project
Phyllicity Drennan
PAULA DILL
CAITLIN SCOTT
MAILLE ZELKO
ANYA KELLEY
Hilary Bruynell
Coming Up This Summer!
DDP Pre-Professional Training Program
Jazz Funk/ Broadway Jazz /Tap/Musical Theater
Auditioning, Resume, and Headshot Guidance
With Phyllicity Drennan
Join us this Summer for Private or Open Class 2025
Transitioning from recreational or competitive dancing to a professional dance career can be intimidating at first, but many dancers have successfully made the transition, and you can too.
Pre-professional programs provide an excellent opportunity to significantly enhance your training, establish new connections, and gain a portfolio of work experience before your professional debut. Many dancers attend these programs even after beginning their professional careers, seeking consistent advanced training and networking opportunities.
DDP >A haven for passionate artists to train and grow into resilient legends.
A Few Words From Mrs. Phyllis
I hope you are enjoying our show! A big thank you to our staff members, parents, and volunteers that make this day possible! A special shout-out to Mrs Anya Kelley for creating this wonder recital program for our studio and Ms Caitlin for taking on the role of administrative assistant! I appreciate everything everyone does and thank you again!
Phyllicity Drennan
Phyllicity Drennan is the Founder and Artistic Director of Drennan Dance Project, located in Concord, New Hampshire. Born and raised on Long Island, New York, she relocated to New Hampshire 22 years ago. As a competitive coach and instructor, Phyllicity has garnered numerous awards for her exceptional choreography and outstanding dancers throughout the competition scene. Her expertise spans various genres, including Contemporary, Jazz, Tap, Lyrical, Musical Theater, Acro, Pre-Professional Program, and Fitness. Phyllicity is a certified teacher for Child Growth Development and Learning Center at Inspiring Minds Learning Center in Concord, New Hampshire, and Kitchen Manager at The White Birch Center in Henniker NH. She is also CPR certified. Phyllicity emphasizes the importance of having fun while perfecting skills to succeed in the dance world. She has trained with renowned dance masters in the industry, including Lynda Gache, Phil Black, Michael Owens, Debbie Dee, Gus Giordano, Bob Rizzo, Frank Hatchett, Celia Marta, Anastasia Brusnitsyna, Nadia Zhivotenk, and Robert Christopher. Phyllicity has taught workshops and master classes nationwide and has judged various competitions, including Miss America Organization beauty pageants in New Hampshire and New York. She credits Lynda Gache for most of her dance training. Phyllicity has also trained dancers at St. Paul’s Academy School in New Hampshire and BOCES Cultural Art Center on Long Island, New York. Her professional experience includes working with DEA, DMA, and touring with Art Stone’s Dance Olympus. Her stage credits include Hello Broadway and 42nd Street. Phyllicity has choreographed for the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and a portion of the 1996 Super Bowl. She also choreographed the opening act for Selena Gomez and the Scene’s concert at the Meadowbrook U.S. Cellular Pavilion in 2011. Phyllicity’s students have gone on to perform professionally in various Broadway shows, including Stomp, Swing, Tap Dance Kid, Tap Dogs, The Gene Kelly Story, Disney World Japan, and High School Musical Disney World Florida. Her students have also performed in the Broadway tour of Revolutions Tap Show, as Rockettes in New York and on tour, and in the Broadway show Legally Blonde. Currently, one of her students is featured in Jersey Boys, playing one of the lead roles of Joe Pesci and Frankie Valli.
PAULA DILL
Paula started dancing at the age of five at your dance studio. She picked up quickly on the steps, vocabulary, and technique. At the age of ten, Boston Ballet accepted Paula to train at their studio because Paula was born with natural abilities and was never shy of hard work. Paula studied at Boston for a couple of years where she studied under some of the most talented instructors of our time. At the age of thirteen, Paula and her family moved away into another State where she continued her dance training at the highest level. In College, she received a Bachelor of Science at Framingham State University. Today, Paula is a mother of two wonderful adult boys, works as an consultant for non profit organizations, and teaches adult ballet at Drennan Dance Project.
CAITLIN SCOTT
Caitlin has been dancing since she was three years old. Her first ten years of training were spent at N-step Dance Center, where she was a member of the competition team for 7 years. While at N-Step she trained in numerous styles including ballet, pointe, jazz, tap, lyrical, and contemporary. She had won numerous high score awards and was Miss Teen Emerging Arts at Starquest. She also attended many conventions including Jump, Stars, Nuvo where she received a scholarship in jazz and contemporary, and Rebel where she received a performance scholarship. At the age of 13 she began to train and compete at New England School of Dance and Theater. Caitlin had the honor of training under the instruction of Alison Hart, Rachel Bobek, Kelly O’Brien and Peter Pawlyshyn. She also attend many dance competitions with NESD&T including American Dance Awards where she was 3rd overall for a 17 year old, Youth American Grand Prix, and Headliners. She also had the opportunity to dance for Boston Community Dance Project as a Teen Apprentice. Caitlin was a faculty member at NESD&T working in their office and substitute teaching. She still continues to train in dance by taking as many dance classes as she can including company class with N-Squared Dance. She is excited to start working with these amazing students and cannot wait to see what the future holds.
MAILLE ZELKO
Maille has been dancing since she was four years old. She is an alumni of Southern New Hampshire Dance Theater in Bedford, NH. She has a love for choreography and has trained at the National Choreography Intensive twice as an emerging choreographer. Maille has performed roles such as Dew Drop and Spanish soloist in The Nutcracker, and Pigtails Girl in Grad Ball. She has also performed in several works by Ashley Pabst including The Ugly Duckling, Cinderella, Princess and the Pea, Snow White, and several contemporary pieces. Maille performed with SGDE in a suite of Jose Limon's "There is a Time" and performed the solo "A Time to Laugh". Maille recently presented a piece of her own work in several SGDE performances entitled "Blue Rain Forest".
ANYA KELLEY
Anya Kelley has spent most of her life studying dance, and has a rich and varied background in the art form. In her younger years, Anya trained under some of the most accomplished ballet dancers of our time. She studied at Ballet New England under Angela Carter and David Drummond, Northeast Ballet Theater with Edra Toth, Portsmouth School Of Dance with Susan Ingraham Endrizzi, and Southern New Dance Theater with Patricia Lavoie, Doug Davis, David Sun, and Marina Van Winkle.
She also spent five summers at the Russian Kirov Academy in Washington, DC and three at the Bossov Ballet Academy in Maine in the pursuit of the Russian Vaganova Ballet method, while studying under famous dancers such as Angelina Armeiskaya, Andre Bossov and Ludmila Morkovina, all graduates of the Vaganova Academy of St. Petersburg, Russia and former principal dancers of the Bolshoi Ballet or the Kirov Ballet.
During the regular season, Anya studied with former principal dancers of American companies like the Boston Ballet and Ballet West, and was a member of the Southern New Hampshire Youth Ballet Classical Company. She performed in countless local ballets and musicals, including The Nutcracker, Don Quixote, West Side Story, Greece, Giselle, Les Miserables, and Sleeping Beauty.
Anya’s experience is not limited to ballet however. An accomplished jazz and tap dancer, Anya was a member of a competition company for many years and placed in the top ten at nationals with her senior solo Contemporary entry. She was also a member of the Senior Jazz and Tap companies, and studied with well known local teachers like Mary Beth Marino, professor of dance at UNH, and Sue Harrington, and Drika Overton, who is the Director of Clara's Dream. After high school she spent a season with The Gulfshore Ballet in Florida working with a former New York City Ballet principal dancer, and then went on to study Fine Arts-Ballet at Utah Valley University. There, along with ballet, she studied advanced Jazz, Character, Modern, Choreography, Dance Composition, and Ballroom, she was a member of the Repertory Ballet Ensemble, and performed at Regional Dance America.
In her college years, she was one of only four freshman dancers invited into the Utah Valley University Ballet Company where she performed professional classical and contemporary pieces. Anya returned to New Hampshire after college with a great deal of training and performing experience, and feels privileged to share her experience and love of dance with the next generation. Recently her company pieces have scored high awards and titles at competitions, and she has entered pieces in the Youth America Grand Prix, the most notable classical pre-professional ballet competition in America.
From 2015-2017 Anya was the Artistic Director and head teacher of Ballet North and led the competition team by choreographing all their routines for the competitive teams, pageants, and recital dances. She taught classical ballet, tap, jazz, lyrical, modern, hip-hop, contemporary, and combo classes. In addition, she choreographed, directed, and produced the entire recital production of the Little Mermaid.
Currently, Anya is a mother and wife, works full time at City of Manchester, and teaches baby combo classes on Saturday mornings at Drennan Dance Project. She is also a substitute for DDP and enjoys helping Phyllis with any admin work. Her goal is to nurture each student to maximize his or her fullest potential and to assess and support their individual learning style. She utilizes differentiated instruction to support all students according to their accommodations and learning needs ensuring a culture of rigor and discipline. She is sensitive to handling students’ emotional needs, giving constructive criticism, encouragement and confidence is always on the forefront creating a welcoming, healthy and safe learning environment for all students to grow and learn. She believes this is achieved by setting class-based rules and boundaries that are centered on mutual respect and understanding of core values.
Hilary Bruynell
Hilary started dancing at the age of 5 at Young World Dance Studio in Quincy, MA where she fell in love with tap and jazz. Her love for dance and performing continued to grow as she took every opportunity she could to be on stage including productions of Music Man, Wizard of Oz and Anything Goes. She spent six years in the cast of the Annual Variety Show sponsored by the Eastern Massachusetts Show Committee where she eventually help out as assistant choreographer. She also enjoyed being part of the highly competitive Weymouth High School Dance Team where she furthered her training in Jazz, Pom, Hip-Hop and Kickline. In 2010 she was the recipient of a scholarship from the Greater Brockton Dance Teachers Association and received the All American Award from the Universal Dance Association. Hilary eventually joined the school dance company in college where she danced recreationally. Since moving to New Hampshire in 2021 she has rediscovered her love for dance at Drennan Dance Project.
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