Leesa Csolak Leesa is the Director and Owner of the Star Maker School of the Performing Arts. Leesa is a graduate of The College of New Jersey formerly Trenton State College with a BS in Biology (Anatomy) and Math Education with minors in Business, Dance, and Art. She has taught at the Junior and Senior High levels in the public school system for Lawrenceville and at Hunterdon Central Regional High School. Teaching Dance and Baton for the past thirty-three years, she trains champion students who have won hundreds of State, Regional, and National titles and many who continued on to professional work in the arts. The "Entertainers Dance Company", Star Maker's resident performing units have repeatedly won World and National titles in both Dance and Baton Twirling. The non-profit organization registered with the State of New Jersey, has promoted youth performance to the World's Fair, Disney World, Universal Studios, Florida, Julliard School of Music, Tours to Denmark, Moscow and Leningrad, and to National contests at Notre Dame University in Indiana and Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Leesa's dance training includes Princeton Ballet Company, Broadway Dance Center's Frank Hatchett, Chuck Kelley, Steps, NYC's, Joe Lanteri, Susie Taylor, Don Sartell of the Wisconsin Dells, Lisa Lamolinara, Philadelphia, Pa., Joanie Lamina, Pa., Voice Training with Barbu Dumetrescu of the Metropolitan Opera, NYC., guard and drill work with the Bridgemen Drum and Bugle Corps of Bayonne NJ. She won the National Senior Women's Strutting title in 1978. A member of numerous dance and baton organizations including, DMA, DEA, PDTA, NBTA, DMA, AAU, USTA, NJTA, TU, Leesa has been instrumental in re-evaluating programs for major organizations including the National Baton Twirling Association and it's National Dance contests . She is one of three National Directors for the AAU Baton Twirling Junior Olympic Games and recently named to the NBTA National Corps committee. She continues to be a featured speaker at Regional and National conventions and a prominent National and World level judge. She has directed the Hunterdon County and Trenton State Miss America Preliminary Pageants, the Hunterdon County Dance Teen Arts, and the Hunterdon County C-Tec Talent Showcase television show. She has promoted young performers and choreographed halftimes for the Net's, 76er's, the Junior Olympics and various bowl games. She has choreographed for local junior and senior high and the Adult community theatre musical productions which have included Guys and Dolls, HMS Pinafore, Godspell, Bye, Bye Birdie, Fiddler on the Roof, The Music Man, Oliver, Grease, The Wizard of Oz, My Fair Lady and Into the Woods to name a few. Leesa continues to develop students technical dance abilities and choreograph age appropriate award winning dance numbers in all dance and baton areas. Her routines along with her special abilities to teach performance make for remarkable show routines with elaborate visual effects. Most recently Leesa has begun work writing and choreographing for educational and professional children's videos for major players in the industry. She can boast a recent release by Sony and Home Vintage Entertainment called "Hip Hop Homeroom" designed to teach children ages 3-8 math skills through Hip Hop dancing. She presently is working on her next video project, "Dolly Dimple's Dance School." All Miss Leesa's works feature students from Star Maker. Miss Leesa lives in Raritan Township with her husband Keith, her three sons Stephen, Kurt and Kevin and her now grown puppies, Tobie and Korrine. Go back
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