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For me, the journey of where I am now to many years ago has been very organic. Dance has always been apart of me and quite frankly will never leave. 6 years ago, I got the opportunity to work with an incredible dance theatre company in Houston, TX called Open Dance Project. They will always be family to me. With that said, fitness was always by side. For me though, fitness has now become a crucial part of my training and where I am. It wasn’t until this past year when quarantine took away our ability to come together in person that I began to start teaching my virtual classes. It’s almost like the universe pulled me in closer and deeper to fitness naturally in different seasons of my life. All that is to say, is that dance and fitness has become integrated for me and in a very organic way. I continue to teach dance and choreograph whenever I get the chance. On this platform, you get to know a little bit about me more and hopefully come experience my dance and sweat world as well!
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Founder & CEO,
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Stacy Skolnik
MEET STACY
Stacy Skolnik was born in Houston, Texas; began dancing at the age of three at Margo Marshall’s Ballet Studio in Houston. She continued on at the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts where she continued to focus on dance and their different styles. Stacy graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance in May of 2014. She has studied with Lyn Wiltshire, David Justin, Holly Williams, Grace Holmes, Tina Curran, Andrea Beckham and performed works by Yacov Sharir and Charles O. Anderson. She has also performed works by Ohad Naharin, Robert Battle, Mark Morris, Lar Lubovitch, and Andy Noble. Through out the summers, she has also studied at Point Park University’s intensive, Joffrey Contemporary/Jazz intensive in NYC, Joffrey Ballet Intensive in San Antonio, TX and the American Dance Festival. Stacy was a former company member of Gaspard&Dancers in Durham, NC. We showcased a new work at Duke University, which led to being apart of the APAP conference held at the Lincoln Center in NYC. In 2016, Stacy moved back to Houston, TX where she became a founding member of Open Dance Project. She also became Stotts certified Pilates teacher during that time. She has been teaching all forms of group fitness and focused on Pilates training at the Houstonian Club and other places in the greater Houston area. Performing with ODP for over 7 years, she decided to pursue a freelance career and recently has choreographed/performed her own work in Dance Source Houston's: Mind the Gap. Her works have been showcased twice through Dance Source Houston’s, Mind the Gap. She continues to teach and share her dance/Pilates knowledge for all ages and is in the midst of creating and new projects to hopefully be performed!