North Central Ballet

 Ballet Mistress

 

A professional dancer and teacher for 15 years, Mrs. Buyskes has performed and taught all over the world. She began her ballet training in D allas, with Dallas Metropolitan. At the age of 16 she joined Hartford Ballet in Connecticut where she spent seven years dancing many principal and soloist roles in ballets by George Balanchine, Choo San Gogh, Jean Grande Maitre, Graham Lustig, Anthony Tudor and the company’s artistic director Kirk Peterson.

After her tenure at Hartford, Nicole accepted a scholarship to attend Benesh Institute of Choreology in, England. She is now a certified Benesh notator, noting ballets of renowned choreographers all over the country. She has since returned to Dallas and danced with the Texas Ballet Theater under the direction of Ben Stevenson, O.B.E., until this past year when she retired. While with TBT she enjoyed dancing in such ballets as Cinderella, Peer Gynt, Swan Lake, Serenade and Nutcracker. Nicole teaches at several local ballet studios including North Central Ballet where she has been Ballet Mistress for eight years.

Ballet, Acting and Musical Theatre Instructor

Beth Allen trained at School of American Ballet and American Ballet Theatre in New York, the recipient of multiple scholarships starting at age 13.  She learned from renowned dance masters Myrtha Rosello, Arthur Mitchell, Leon Danielian, Fernando Schaffenburg, Igor Youskevitch, Edward Villela and Violette Verdi among others.  As a teenager, she was a soloist with the critically acclaimed Texas Civic Ballet where she shared the stage with a youthful Fernando Bujones.Expanding her performing arts experience beyond dance, Beth studied music, theatre and directing at Southwestern University, earning the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree.  She went on to teach acting, script analysis and theatre literature at Northlake College, and has directed plays and musicals for numerous colleges, community and professional theatres.

Beth is passionate about kids and the performing arts, and approaches teaching and directing youth as an opportunity to channel their exuberance and creativity, adding the elements of discipline and teamwork to build character through shared creative expression, resulting in emotional awareness and maturity.

Away from dance and theatre, Beth plays wife to Bruce, a former professional actor/singer/dancer, and home schools their three talented and unique children.

 

Ballet Instructor

Taylor discovered a passion for ballet shortly after four years of theater in high school.  She has been with North Central ever since. She is thrilled to be teaching this year.  She is also currently apprenticing to become a Crossfit Kids coach and is also studying tutu building.  She hopes to someday be a costumer for a ballet company.

Ballet Instructor

Joli Drain embraced a love for dancing as a young child.   Motivated by receiving a ballet scholarship from her local studio she became passionate about classical ballet and began training at the Fort Worth City Ballet with William Martin-Viscount and later continued with the Texas Ballet Theatre (formerly Fort Worth Ballet) under the artistic direction of Paul Mejia.  She moved to St. Louis and fulfilled a childhood dream of dancing on the stage of the Muny Opera by performing with Italy’s La Scala Ballet Company in its tour of Swan Lake.  Having a zeal for working with children, she started her career in teaching dance in 1988.  In 2002 she formed a Christian dance program in Louisville, Kentucky named Grace In Motion.  The program started with 15 children as a trial and grew to over 60 students in it’s second year.  Since returning to Texas in 2004 she has taught in local schools and has volunteered by teaching tap and ballet lessons to the residents of Christ’s Haven for Children. 

Joli has a degree in early-childhood development from the University of North Texas where she also took ballet and modern dance classes.  She is a former kindergarten teacher and homeschool mom.  Joli has been married for 18 wonderful years to her high school sweetheart and has four amazing children.