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Joanne Brillant

Joanne is the Founder and Director of the Master’s SFCA. She has been trained in many forms of dance: Ballet, Jazz, Tap, Modern, Interpretive, and Hebrew Folk Dance. She has used her dance background to express her love for the Lord, glorifying Him in worship ministry in the church for the last 24 years.  Joanne’s heart passion is to see anyone desiring to dance be released to do so, regardless of age or gender. She has traveled all over the East Coast doing workshops and conferences, releasing people in the gift of dance for the Lord. She has also taught Worship dance at The Genesis Project, a Christian Arts studio in Greenville area, for the three years.

The last eight years, Joanne has been the dance leader at Mt. Zion Christian Fellowship in Greenville SC. She has also served in ministry with Restoration Ministering Services and Hosanna Dancers with Pastors Rob and Jami Crisman.

Joanne also co-founded The Worship Dancers Alliance 6 years ago with Pastor Jami Crisman. This is an organization that unifies dancers from numerous churches in the SE for the purpose of fellowship, prayer, encouragement and training.

Jami Crisman

Jami McNeely Crisman is a graduate of Gardner Webb University in Social Science and Clemson University with a Masters of Education in Counseling.  She has been in dance over 36 years and has been teaching Worship dance in several capacities through a traveling dance drama of Restoration Ministering Services, as Director of Hosanna Dance  for the city of Greer based at First Presbyterian Church of Greer and now through the Master’s School Greer Location at River of God Worship Center. Her dream is just to impart what God has given her through worship in dance for them to take with them wherever they go. She is married to Dr. Robert Crisman who is both a Pastor and Chiropractor in Greer and the mother of Torry and Matthew, who both worship the Lord in the dance. She is also a counselor at the Greer Christian Learning Center and Co Pastor of River of God Worship. She also is the Co-Founder of the Worship Dancers Alliance with her dance partner and sister in Christ--Joanne Brillant. 

Rebecca Moore

Rebecca began studying dance in 1974 and teaching in 1981. She has had a majority of her training at Evergreen Ballet Center under Erika DeLap, former soloist with the Paris Opera Ballet. She has taught in schools in Oregon, Washington, and New York. Rebecca has attended teacher trainings with Ballet West in Utah, National Ballet of Canada in Ontario, and Ballet Magnificat in Mississippi. She has also held a position of Adjunct Professor in the Physical Education department of Houghton College, Houghton NY and currently holds this position at Southern Wesleyan University.

Mae Hagerty

Mae is the Creative Movement and Children's Worship Dance teacher.  She has had a passion for worship dance since she was a little girl and has been a member of a church dance team since the age of 15. Mae now serves on the Mt Zion Dance Team where she’s been for the last 4 years. She has had an equally strong passion for teaching and has been a teacher at Mt Zion Christian School for 10 years, where she now currently teaches K-4.  God has allowed these two wonderful experiences to merge into an opportunity to teach children how to worship the Lord through dance. 

Shanah Keyes

Shanah Keyes started dancing in the competitive arena but soon found that worship dance was what she was created for.  She has been teaching various forms of worship dance in Greenville for 5 years, first at the Genesis Project and now at her home church, Crossroads Community Church. She is happily married to Adam and has a son, Abe, born March 2007.

E-mail: evusa1@aol.com

Jeff is 24 years old and has been playing the guitar for 10 years, teaching for 4 of them. He uses the principals from the Bible to help teach his students. “I believe God has given me a gift to teach and I hold it a high calling to be able to teach such a powerful tool as music to any student.”

 

Jeff Lindsey

Nicole Mabe

Nicole’s passion for dance started when she was six, as she studied Ballet, tap, and jazz.  At the age of 14 she started in dance ministry with Celebration Company at Dominion Christian Church. Nicole took Ballet and Jazz classes at Emmanuel Arts in Inman, SC, for 6 years, where she also taught hip hop classes.  Nicole has choreographed hip hop dances for many students in the area, and has been on the Greenville Greyhound Groovers semi pro dance team. She has taught numerous workshops in the area and is now a part of the dance team at River of God Worship Center, under the direction of Jami Crisman. Nicole is also involved with The Worship Dancers Alliance with  Joanne Brillant and  Jami Crisman. 

Sylvia Buttery has a B.S. English education with a minor in music with a piano proficiency from Christian liberal arts university from Bob Jones University.

She has eighteen years of classroom and studio experience, including  serving on the music faculty and teaching private lessons at Southside Christian School in Greenville; played in contemporary praise and worship teams in upstate area churches for eleven years and worked with various upstate ministries to further the vision of reclaiming the arts for God's glory. She is currently serving in local church in music and women's ministries. Sylvia adores children of all ages!

Sylvia Buttery

Kelli has been dancing for fifteen years, her experience includes training in Ballet, Pointe, Hip Hop, Jazz, Tap, Lyrical, Modern and Worship dance.

Kelli has taught all ages in Ballet, (beginner and advanced) Jazz, Tap and Hip Hop.

She has performed with The Atlanta Ballet Theater, The International Ballet Academy, Praise Him with Dance, The Genesis Project and The Master’s School for Creative Arts.

Kelli is a wonderful addition to our teaching staff this year and we our excited to have her joining us.

 

 Kelli Ibarra