Adult Ballet Instructor Bio
Kimberly Maniscalco
Kimberly Maniscalco, professional teacher and choreographer, trained at the Toledo Ballet School and was a scholarship student at the San Francisco Ballet. Ms. Maniscalco was principal dancer with the Toledo Opera and Springfield Ballet Companies and also performed with Pittsburgh Dance Alloy and the Mary Miller Dance Company. She was the Director and on the faculty of the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre School, while also serving as Children’s Repetetrice for Balanchine’s Nutcracker. Ms. Maniscalco was ballet mistress for the Wilkes-Barre Ballet Theatre and taught on the dance faculty of the Pennsylvania Governor’s School for the Arts. She established the first children’s dance program, The Muhlenberg College Dance Center for Children and Teens, at Muhlenberg College while serving on the faculties of Cedar Crest and Muhlenberg Colleges. Ms. Maniscalco holds a degree in Integrated Arts from Cedar Crest College. She is the former Artistic Director of Dance at the Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Arts, creating and leading a department of excellence for 20 years. Ms. Maniscalco currently serves on the Advocacy Committee of the Pennsylvania Dance Educators Organization.
