Founder/owner/teacher/director

MARGO DEAN has directed and taught ballet in Fort Worth for over fifty years. She is the founder/artistic director of Ballet Concerto. Her ballet training includes study with Olga Preobrajenska in Paris, Rosella Hightower in Cannes, and Michael Vernon in New York. She has taken ballet courses in Copenhagen, Rome, Rio de Janeiro, San Francisco and in Havana at the Ballet Nacional de Cuba. In January 1995 she was honored by the Dallas Dance Council for a lifetime committment to dance. She has choreographed many of the ballet segments for the Fort Worth Opera since 1955. In 2000 she was named Outstanding Woman of the Year by the City Council of Fort Worth and the same year honored as Founder of the Fort Worth Ballet on its 40th anniversary.

Resident faculty

WEBSTER DEAN (adult and advanced ballet) is a former soloist with Ballet West, the Royal New Zealand Ballet, and has danced seasons with Ballet Oregon, the Milwaukee, Colorado, and Richmond Ballets and also in musical theater at the Cleveland Playhouse, Casa Manana and Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacular. Teachers and choreographers he has worked with during his career include Bruce Marks, Toni Lander, Denise Schultze, Fernando Bujones, David Howard, John Butler, Malcolm Burn, Eugene Loring, Andre Prokovsky, Frederick Franklin, and Michael Vernon. He has staged works as a guest stager for Nevada Ballet Theatre, Ballet West, Orlando Ballet, and Kansas City Ballet. He holds a BFA from University of Utah. He has taught at this school for the past eighteen years and is Associate Artistic Director and Repetiteur for Ballet Concerto.

ROSE MARIE MILLER (children's ballet), a graduate of Notre Dame, has been with this school for twelve years and has performed with Ballet Concerto. She teaches the children's ballet camp each July for ages 3 - 6. as well as children's classes during the school year. This is her fourteenth year to teach at this school.

COURTNEY SEBASTIAN (ballet) has over twenty years' experience in her ballet studies, having won awards for her work. Additionally, she trained at the Boston Ballet during two summer workshops and has performed with Ballet Concerto. This will be her twelfth year to teach at this school and has a special gift for working with young students.

MICHAL CHRISTIAN (pre-school ballet) is a native of Nashville, Tennessee and received her early ballet training with the Centennial Youth Ballet, supplementing her studies at the Chattanooga Ballet and Ballet Tennessee.  In 2010 she graduated with a BA in Dance from Belhaven University, and had the opportunity to perform with the University of the South's dance ensemble, Perpetual Motion, as well as with the Belhaven Dance Ministry Ensemble. Michal has taught and choreographed for over five years and truly enjoys working with children of all ages. She recently relocated from Jackson, Mississippe to Fort Worth, and looks forward to her first season of teaching for Margo Dean.

MARGARITA BRUCE (flamenco) has performed with such prestigious dance companies as Jose Greco in Concert, Eudardo Montemayor Fantasia Espanola, Gisela Noriega's Ballet Espanol, Sara de Luis and La Chiqui's Compania de Arate Espanol. She has also been a featured performer with Ballet Concerto over the past ten years, excelling in the choreography of Spanish Dance Maestro Luis Montero, and she brings a great deal of knowledge and expertise of Spanish Dance. This will be her twelfth year to teach at this school.

ELISE LAVALLEE (ballet & jazz dance), is a former student of Margo Dean and a member of Ballet Concerto and was a member of the Bruce Wood Dance Company. She has also performed and choreographed in numerous productions at Casa Manana and has received awards for her choreography. She has taught for Margo Dean, Kids Who Care, and for the Arlington Heights High School Dance Program.

CARADEE CLINE, (ballet), holds a BFA from TCU and has trained with Ilya and Zoya Gaft at the New York Ballet Institute. Professionally she has danced with the Sarasota Ballet, the Montgomery Ballet, the Corpus Christi Ballet, the Nevada Ballet Theater, City Ballet of San Diego, and for Ballet Concerto. This will be her second year to teach at this school.

PERLA MONTOYA (flamenco) began her Flamenco studies at age 9 and has studied and performed Spanish dance with such notables as Jose Greco, Nana Lorca, Sara de Luis, Jose Molina, Antonio Granjero, Chiqui Linares, La Presy, Gisela Noriega, Eduardo Montemayor, and Teo Morca and has performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.

LIUBA KOZERVA PATERSON,  guest teacher (ballet) is a graduate of the Vaganova Ballet School in Leningrad in St. Petersburg, Russia, and has toured Europe and America with the St. Petersburt Classic Ballet. She has been associated with this school and with Ballet Concerto since 1993. Currently, she resides in Las Vegas where she teaches and coaches the company for Nevada Ballet Theater.

LINDA NELLE HUGHES, (secretary/office manager) began her ballet training at age 9 with Margo Dean and performed with Casa Manana Summer Musicals and was a charter member of the Fort Worth Ballet (now TBT). Having had a lengthy career as a school teacher in the US and in Germany, she brings a great deal of expertise to the school.