Tai White was born in New York, yet raised and trained in St. Petersburg. Teacher of dance at John Hopkins Middle School Magnet Arts Program and a free-lance choreographer for passion and for hire, Tai has worked with top notch teachers such as Aubrey Lynch, Freddie Moore, Monica Richardson, Sherly Wong and Alenka Cizmesija among others. He has also choreographed various high scoring works for the Youth America Grand Prix competition. Tai is a natural born performer, despite his intense training starting in his mid-20's- thanks to Suzanne Pomerantzeff and Ferdinand DeJesus via full scholarship. Through a local St. Petersburg dance group, he won $500 and then later $5000 on BET's 106&park. In addition, Tai is the choreographer, director, and producer of his own production Shadows of the Mind, which is a divine display of countless dance styles and the areas rising artists, all blended into a show that brilliantly delves into our minds inner mechanisms. Tai White would like to thank God, his family, and all who have believed in him.

is the Co-Founder and Artistic Director for the Academy, a non-profit, pre-professional dance academy whose primary focus is to provide professional dance instruction to an underserved urban community known as Mid-Town in the heart of St. Petersburg, FL. In 1969 Suzanne, along with Lester Jacobsen, founded the Academy and led the classes and summer intensives for the next forty years. ABA is home to the St. Petersburg Ballet Company and the St. Petersburg Folk Ensemble (Russian folk dance). She established a ballet program at St. Petersburg Junior College, (now known as St. Petersburg College), and was responsible for the development of the dance department at the Pinellas County Center for the Arts (PCCA) at Gibbs High School. She currently serves as the Ballet Department chairperson and was instrumental in bringing about the first annual Florida Dance Assessment, which was hosted for its inaugural year at PCCA. Her background and training include the San Francisco School and the University of Utah, where she earned a BA in Ballet. She performed with the San Francisco Ballet, Ballet West, Tampa Ballet and Virginia Ballet. Many of Ms P's students have been chosen to compete in the finals of Youth American Grand Prix, and international ballet competition that has been running since 1999. YAGP awarded her the Best Teacher award in 2006 and 2007, and the Best Choreographer award in 2006. In 2003, she received a grant from the SURDNA Foundation to travel to Ireland and produce a ballet on Irish history. Dancers under her instruction have gone on to perform at prestigious ballet companies including Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, American Ballet Theatre, Ballet Met, Cirque de Soleil, Cleveland Ballet, Colorado Ballet, Dance Theatre of Harlem, David Parsons, Frankfort Opera Ballet, Houston Ballet, Kiel Opera Ballet, Lion King (Simba, Broadway Co.), Milwaukee Ballet, Moiseyev Dance Company, Mummenschanz, Pennsylvania Ballet, Repertory Dance Theater, Riverdance, San Diego Ballet and San Francisco Ballet.

Data Management Technician Pinellas County Schools September 2012 – Present (2 years 5 months)North Shore Elementary Student registration and maintaining school database for student records in compliance with state reporting to DOE. Setting up master schedules, teacher and student schedules, and entering in student demographic data. Coordinating transportation for students, assigning login accounts for parents. Providing support for faculty in grade reporting and attendance for state reporting. Keeping audit records and preparing student records for retention. Student Records Clerk Pinellas County Schools September 2009 – September 2012 (3 years 1 month) Expediting Customer (school) orders. Assigning and scheduling trip hours as per Union contract agreements for SEIU. Streamlining process to increase efficenecy of trips on time and completed, also resulting in a reduction in Union grievances and lost revenue due to missed trips.

Shanelle Amor is originally from Saint Petersburg, Florida where she began her classical dance training at John Hopkins Middle School for the Performing Arts at the age of ten, and later trained at The Academy of Ballet Arts. She is a graduate of the Pinellas County Center for the Arts at Gibbs High School where she studied under the direction of Suzanne Pomerantzeff and Patricia L. Paige-Parks. After graduation, Shanelle received a full dance scholarship to attend Florida Dance Theatre’s summer intensive dance program, and was later asked by Carol Erkes, director/founder, to join Polk County’s only professional contemporary ballet company in Lakeland, Florida. She danced for the company’s 2009 & 2010 Season under the direction of Carol Erkes and Freddie Dejesus. In addition, Shanelle has received two dance scholarships for Earl Mosley’s Institute of the Arts summer intensive dance program in 2009 & 2010, and later awarded a full dance scholarship at St. Petersburg College. Moreover, Shanelle had the opportunity to teach and choreograph at a numerous amount of dance studios. The Academy of Florida Dance Theatre, Troy University, VYB Dance Studio, Crystal’s World of Dance (Assistant Dance Director), The Studio Dance Company, Towers High School, Steps School of the Performing Arts, and The Lakeland Housing Authority outreach programs to name a few. Also, she has worked with choreographers such as Darrell Grand Moultrie, Erik Wagner, Marcus Cobb, Gary Beauford, and Lisa “L-Boogie” Bauford to name a few. She also performed excerpts from Robert Battle’s original work as well. In conclusion, she's been seen dancing with Iluminate at Six Flags Over Georgia, Busch Gardens Theme Park, Wild Splash 2013 & 2014, The Last Damn Show 14, Wild Wheel's Car & Bike Show, and her latest project which includes choreographing and dancing for recording artist Shyann Roberts on the B.E.T.-Rap-It-Up Concert in Atlanta, Georgia.