Alisha Cardenas

Pre-Pro Ballet Instructor

Alisha originally hails from Atlanta, GA. Her training includes the Georgia Ballet, The Bravo Dance Centre and The Kennesaw School of Dance. Cardenas was accepted and attended the Cobb County School of Performing Arts majoring in Dance and minoring in Drama/Theatre. After high school, she was accepted to the University of Georgia’s performance company The UGA Ballet Ensemble. While attending The University of GA, she danced the role of Myrtha and Demi-Soloist from the romantic ballet Giselle, was a member of the Corps de Ballet and danced many of the companies repertory pieces. Past mentors include, Marina Levasheva from the Georgia Ballet and Bravo Dance Centre, Janet Robertson and Joan Buttram from the University of Georgia and Mary and Karen Rau from The Kennesaw School of Dance. Cardenas also attended the Second City and The Improv Olympic in Chicago, where she performed, produced and choreographed numerous shows in the Chicago area. Students that she has trained have gone on to programs such as The American Ballet Theatre (ABT), Joffery Ballet NYC, The Rock School for Dance Education, The Rockettes Summer Intensive, American Musical and Dramatic Academy (AMDA), Towson University Dance Major program, Kennesaw State University Dance Major Program, Stockton University Dance Major Program, The Bolshoi Summer Intensive. Her students have also received high scores and praise at the Philadelphia Youth America Grand Prix, including Top 12. During her tenure at The Central NJ Ballet Theatre, founded by her, she trained hundreds of students. Full length Ballets that she has set, reconstructed, produced, choreographed and directed have been a few of the following: The Sleeping Beauty, Giselle, Coppelia, Don Quixote, The Nutcracker, Swan Lake, The Wizard of Oz, Stars and Stripes, Cinderella, La Bayadere and many repertory works. She has been invited and presented works at the Asbury Park, NJ Baliar Al Sol Dance Festival, The Philadelphia and The Palm Springs Dance festivals. She currently resides in Atlanta and is an instructor and the pre professional levels for City Springs Theater, Sandy Springs, Ga and Fleetwood Dance Studio., Alpharetta, GA.