Whatever your interests are, Dance Works Studios has both the professional staff and the facilities to make your dance experience rewarding.  We are structured to teach every age group from toddler to adult.  Our studio and its professional staff offer quality instruction at affordable prices.  

Please let me introduce myself and my multi talented instructors!
Lisa Allen --- President and Director.   Lisa has trained in Ballet, Tap and Jazz for over 20 years and been teaching for over 18 years.  She began her dance career at Marilyn School of Dance in La Crosse, WI, where she performed and choreographed as a corp dancer and soloist for their company ("Dance, Inc.").  Lisa continues her training traveling thoroughout the Southeast and NYC to study with top professionals.  She has choreographed for several local community organizations;  Camden Area Players and Camden Folk Life Community Performance, etc.  Lisa is very involved with the local public schools, choreographing several plays for Kingsland Elementary, Reading is Fundamental programs, CCHS  Drama Dept., and Band Auxilliaries.  An active member of our community she served on Board of Directors for the Chamber of Commerce for Camden County.
Lana "Lexie" Fortenberry ---- Lexie is a Graduate of DA School of the Arts and has traveled London, Scotland & France on talent scholarships. She has trained in the Art of Dance since the age of 2, assistant teacher at the age of 11 and student teacher/choreographer by the age of 13.  Lexie has won numerous awards for her initative choreograher style and is Dance Captain for the Dance Works "Dazzlers".  She currently teaches pre-ballet, ballet, lyrical, modern, tap, jazz & musical theatre.
Gianna Skates --- Yoga & Pilates Therapist & Wellness Coach
Gianna has a love for nature and the natural processes of life.  She inspires students who are young and young at heart.  Her teaching experiences and cerifications include:  Bikram Yoga, Vinyasa Flow Yoga, Peak Pilates, Polestar Pilates Physical Therapy, National Dance Institute, Meditation, Emotional Release Bodywork, Pre & Post-Natal Fitness, DONA training, Yoga meets Dance and KIDS Yoga classes over the last eight years.  Gianna is also a certified Lifestyle Educator, Wellness Coach and Massage Therapist.  Now as a mother, Gianna can relate to the budding and blooming family lifestyle.  This personal expericene has transformed her life, practice and teaching.  Her passion is to relate the health benefits of the mind/body work she so loves.
Where excellence comes to dance!
2010 Taste of Camden
Business Expo
CHRISTMAS TOWN & COMMUNITY CHRISTMAS EVENTS 2011
SHOWSTOPPER 2011 REGIONAL DANCE COMPETITION
Cathy Roe's Ultimate Dance Competition 2011
STARPOWER 2011 DANCE COMPETITION
Dina Barone - Dina is a professional musician and performer who has taught private voice lessons for over ten years and has performed in concert, opera, an music theatre for over 30 years.  She has Bachelor of Music in voice performance and history from Shenandoah Conservatory of Mucis, Shenandoah University, Master of Music of Opera - Voice from Hartt School of Music, University of Hartford and extensive post graduate studing in NY City.  Her professional singing career includes performances at Carnegie Hall & Lincoln Center in New York, NY, The Kennedy Center, Washington D.C., Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris, France, as well as tours throughout North and South America and Europe.  Locally, she performed at the Times Union Performing Arts Center and Camden's Summer Theatre "Beauty and the Beast".  She is a member of the Actors Equity Assoc., American Guild of Musical Artists, Nat'l Assoc. of Teachers of Singing, and Camden County Chamber of Commerce.  Dina has been a private voice teacher in Camden since 2006. 
Cerina Sapp - Cerina is from Camden County and graduated in May, 2011. She is the youngest of 4 children and her great passion is dance.   She has trained in dance since the age of 4 right here at Lisa Allen’s Dance Works; began assistant teaching at the age of 13 and is now a teacher on staff.   She attended Douglas Anderson School of the Arts her 9th grade year as a dance major.   Cerina attended Florida Ballet Summer Intensive when she was 10 years old and was asked, by the director, to be a part of Summer Scorchers which was not usually open to students her age.   She auditioned and was accepted to the Virginia Ballet School for a summer workshop at the age of 13.   Cerina was recognized by Cathy Roe for dancing from her heart and her solo was one of the call back numbers, which is rarely done for a solo, to be performed a second time in February, 2011. She is excited to be here working with her former teachers.
2011 Halloween
Showstopper Dance Workshop October 2011
Tim Brown - Welcome Back for another fabulous year of Hip Hop and Break Dance!
2012 Dazzler's Lock - In