Teachers
Gabrielle Angle
Associate Artistic Director of Ensemble
Marlina Bugler
Gabrielle has been dancing since the age of three, training in ballet, contemporary, jazz, lyrical, modern, and tap. She has performed the roles of Clara, Dewdrop, Hot Chocolate, Lead Flower, and Snowflake in The Nutcracker, Big Swan and Mazurka Soloist in Swan Lake, and the Lilac Fairy variation from Sleeping Beauty. She danced pre-professionally as an Apprentice with the Loudoun Ballet Company, and toured Austria in 2001 as a part of the Tanzsommer Stars of Tomorrow International program, performing in several cities over two weeks. She was also a member of Loudoun Taps and Loudoun Jazz & Co, receiving the Malone Foundation Award for Dance in 1999, and performing in the National Tap Dance Day celebration in Washington, D.C. twice, including with honored guests Gregory Hines, Peg Leg Bates, and Mya Harrison. She received her B.F.A. in Dance Pedagogy from Brenau University in Gainesville, Georgia, before graduating from the William S. Boyd School of Law, UNLV in 2010. In 2011, she created and directed the ballet program at Winchester Cultural Center, under the Star Catchers Dance program, growing the ballet classes from three to five, and enrollment from 20 to 75 over the span of six years. As dance is always her balance from the legal analytical world, she is beyond excited to return to teaching and choreographing!
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Marlina Bugler began dancing at the Alvin Ailey School in New York City and upon moving to Vega continued her training at the Academy of Nevada Ballet Theatre. She has learned many different styles of dance including Character dance, Modern, Jazz, Hip Hop and Lyrical. During her training she performed with the Academy in Spring concerts and three different versions of NBT's The Nutcracker, the last one opening the new Smith Center for the Performing Arts in Las Vegas in 2012. She graduated from the Las Vegas Academy for the Performing Arts as a dance major. After graduation she joined the competition team at The Base Dance Center and helped the team bring in many medals in Regional and National competitions. She performed with them during the halftime show for the Harlem Globetrotters at the new TMobile Arena on the Las Vegas Strip. Professionally, she’s performed with AfroSexy at the Baobob Theatre, with The Collective for the opening of Moderno Dance Center, Tuesday Blend Spring of ‘18, as well as performing for Las Vegas Dance Ensemble at the Starbright Theater, Ballet Nights at Tivoli Village, and Dance in the Desert at the Summerlin Library. Marlina also follows in her father’s footsteps as a dance instructor. She has taught for The Base Dance Center, Sole Intensity Dance Academy, Moderno Dance Center, and Kingman Dance Factory among other studios in Las Vegas. She is also an instructor NBT’s Go! Move! Dance! program, and teaches grades 3rd through 5th at two elementary schools. She also teaches Jazz, Ballet and Hip Hop for LVDA. She is proficient in Ballet, Pointe, Jazz, Hip Hop and Contemporary as well as Character and other dance styles.
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Miss Aly has been dancing since she was five years old. She performed in Legends in Concert with her high school dance team for four years. Aly has studied many styles of dance including ballet, jazz, contemporary, modern, and hip hop. She has performed with Best Agency at the Downtown Summerlin Parade of Mischief and Holiday Parade for several years. Aly has had numerous dance gigs in Las Vegas, including with Alchemy Breaking Academy and Kiesha Wright, a Tina Turner impersonator. Aly has won many awards with competition teams including 5 photogenic awards. She has choreographed many award-winning competition solos and duets, as well as for LV Dance Academy’s Ensemble. Outside of dance, she practices martial arts and has her brown belt in Shaolin Kempo. She is also on her journey to becoming a sports chiropractor.
LJay Luevanos
Lucinda (L.Jay) Luevanos has been dancing since she was four, and started her training with the Ballet Folklórico de Mexico Company. She is trained in the techniques of hip hop, contemporary, ballet, jazz, lyrical, improv, ballet folklórico, and modern. She has a B.F.A. in Dance Performance & Choreography from the University of Nevada Las Vegas as well as graduated with UNLV Department of Dance's "Outstanding Performer Award". She has experience training, teaching, choreographing, and performing all throughout Las Vegas, as well as performing as a backup dancer at the T-Mobile Arena for the Calibash Music Festival. She has performed in Arizona, Indianapolis, New York, Sacramento, and South Korea. Her choreographic works have not only been premiered in four UNLV Dance Concerts, but also in concerts for dance studios and companies throughout Las Vegas. Her love for videography is shown through the visual choreographic art projects that she has choreographed, released, and has also been featured in. Her choreography draws inspiration from mixing the genres of contemporary, modern, jazz, and hip-hop.
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Marcus Bugler
Bio to come
Edith Gillespie
Bio to come!
Makenna Gillepsie
Alexandra LeVanway
Having a dance knowledge covering a wide range of techniques, Marcus Bugler teaches master classes, gives workshops, adjudicates and choreographs in dance schools, camps, and conventions across the country. Marcus has been a dancer with the Muny Opera in St. Louis, the Harkness Youth Dancers (performing at the White House), the Harkness Ballet (with whom he toured Europe), Joffrey II, the Eglevsky Ballet, and the New York Metropolitan Opera where he was Dance Captain, Ballet Rehearsal Assistant, and finally Repetiteur in 2001. In 2003 he joined artistic management team of Cirque du Soleil, opening the production of Zumanity. He has been invited to choreograph multiple times for the Japanese Ongaku-Juku production of the opera Dia Fledermaus, and for the Saito-Kinen Matsumoto production of Queen of Spades; all conducted by the brilliant Seiji Ozawa. He was also brought in as a guest artist with the Chicago Lyric Opera. Home in Las Vegas, Marcus created dance movement in the Insurgo Theatre production of Lysistrada and Opera Las Vegas’ Don Giovanni. Marcus teaches privately and internationally. In addition to his teaching he also performs in the Academy of Nevada Ballet Theatre’s productions. We are so blessed to have Marcus on our faculty!
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