Our Talented Staff

While all of our instructional staff come from a variety of backgrounds,
they all have one thing in common -
professional experience and the love of dance.

Artistic Director - Penni Greenly: Jazz, Tap, Child Ballet,
Pre-Combo,  Dance Movement
Artistic Director - The Dancer's Edge Company

Ms. Penni Greenly is the founder & Artistic Director of Southern Dance Theatre (SDT). She takes great pride in establishing a school which, for over 25 years, has dedicated itself to education and achievement in the arts. She is a former Jazz Soloist and member of the Palm Beach Ballet Company. She is most noted for her award winning and innovative choreography, which has been seen across the U.S. and abroad. Penni has been very instrumental in the development of dance programs in the public school system. She is also the Director of the Dancer's Edge Company and teaches pre-combo classes as well as tap, ballet, jazz and dance movement.

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Ballet Director - Julie Bravata
Julie Bravata is from Honolulu, Hawaii, where she received her early dance training from Barbara Theusen. She continued her studies on full scholarship at the National Academy of Arts in Champaign, IL, and in New York City at the School of American Ballet, the American Ballet Theatre Scholarship Program, and with Madame Darvash. At the age of 15, Julie became a member of the American Ballet Theatre II. Three years later, Mikhail Baryshnikov invited her to join the American Ballet Theatre under his artistic direction. During her six years there, she was privileged to work with some of the world's leading choreographers, such as, Kenneth MacMillan, Antony Tudor, Roland Petit, Jerome Robbins and Twyla Tharp. While with American Ballet Theatre, Julie appeared in several Dance in America and Live from Lincoln Center television special presentations. She then went on to dance as a soloist with Ballet Du Nord in France and with the Feld Ballet in New York City. Since retiring from her performing career in 1988, Julie has taught all levels of ballet from creative movement through professional classes in New York, Oregon and South Florida. Julie joined the dance faculty of Southern Dance Theatre in 1994 and in January 2000 she became the director of the ballet department. In April 2002, Julie received a certificate of recognition from the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts for inspiring young dancers, and her commitment to the arts.

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Instructor - Tracy Mozingo - Ballet
Mr. Mozingo was born in North Carolina and graduated from North Carolina School of the Arts. He then continued his studies at Pacific North West Ballet and the Houston Ballet Academy. He joined the Houston Ballet Company where he was able to perform a diverse repertoire from classical to modern under the direction of Ben Stevenson. Tracy then found a new home with Ballet Florida. He loves the company because of the innovative new work, wide range of choreographers and the extraordinary group of people he considers his family. Some of the choreographers he has worked with include; Peter Martins (Waltz Project), Mauricio Wainrot (Libertango, Anne Frank and Beyond Memory), Daniel Ezralow (Read My Hips and Spark), Mark Godden (Threshold), Alvin Ailey (The River), Vicente Nebrada (Romeo & Juliet, Cinderella, Firebird and Gemini), Ben Stevenson (Four Last Songs, Three Preludes and Five Poems) and Marie Hale (Spring Waters). In his free time he is both a teacher and choreographer with Palm Beach Ballet Center and The Academy of Ballet Florida. In addition, he has created works for Ballet Florida's Step Ahead program and Houston Ballet Academy. Tracy also enjoys spending time at the beach surfing, golfing and working on his computer.

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Instructor - Jean Louisa Bradford - Tap Dept Director; Pre-Combo;
Dance Movement
Jean Louisa or “MisWesa” as she is known by hundreds of dancers across the Southeast…eats, sleeps and breathes dancing and music.  She began her early dance training at Age 4 in Charleston, South Carolina.  Her early teachers were Cecelia Vaughn, Trudy Oltmann and Joan Simmons.  In 1979, her mother, Jean, an accomplished dancer herself opened DANCE UNLIMITED STUDIOS.  Jean Louisa was her mother’s assistant and began traveling to various studios, seminars, workshops and conventions to study with professional instructors and choreographers from all over the United States. She has studied with Luigi, Gus Giordano, Joe Malone, Joe Tremaine, Frank Hatchett, Mia Michaels.  She considers her training with Tap Dance legends Al Gilbert, Henri LeTang and Debbie Dee her most rewarding experiences of her career. She began teaching her own classes at age 18 and was the founder and coach of the “JAZZ UNLIMITED DANCE COMPANY”. This talented group delighted thousands in audiences all over the state and won local, state, regional and national awards.  Graduates of her classes have gone on to dance and receive dance degrees from OCU, ECU, The College of Charleston, Winthrop, Clemson, USC, U of U and UNLV.

Professionally, she has danced in the mini-series “QUEEN”.  She served as the choreographer for the Showtime Movie “THEY WATCH” and she served as the dance consultant on the remake of the classic “THE YEARLING”.  All of which were filmed on location near her hometown.  She served as the choreographer for the MISS SOUTH CAROLINA USA PAGEANT FOR 3 years and THE MISS NORTH CAROLINA USA PAGEANT FOR 2 years.  She has choreographed and danced in numerous local and regional theater productions.  Her love for music led her to a dual career for several years as an on-air radio personality. Then she taught herself how to “beat mix” music and has thousands of hours “in the booth” and “on the turntables” at numerous SC clubs.

In 2001 “MisWesa” obtained her certification from the SC ARTS COMMISSION to teach, direct and choreograph in any state supported fine arts program.  She has worked with dozens of schools as a “DANCE ARTIST IN RESIDENCE”.  From 2001 to 2004 she taught for the “PROJECT ARTISTIC” Fine Arts Grant program as well as the other fine arts programs such as the “SC CREATIVE TEACHING INSTITUTE” and the “PICCOLO PROJECT” in conjunction with “SPOLETO” the “Festival of Two Worlds”. 

Before moving to South Florida in 2005, she taught in excess of 15 classes a week for DANCE EXPRESS CHARLESTON which is a mobile dance program that reaches over 200 students in classes at 22 facilities in the Charleston area.  Since moving to Florida “MisWesa” has taught for BRAVO! ACADEMY FOR PERFORMING ARTS, SUMMIT MONTESSORI SCHOOL, UNITY SCHOOL, PALM BEACH BALLET CENTER and will begin her 2nd year on the distinguished faculty of SOUTHERN DANCE THEATRE.

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Instructor - Stacy Marzullo - Tap, Jazz
Stacy has been dancing since the age of seven, training in ballet, tap and jazz. While in high school, she danced on scholarship at Joe Tremaine's in Hollywood, CA, and also received a Fine Arts recognition from Eastern Washington University. Other jazz artists she has studied with are Doug Caldwell, Gus Giordano and Luigi. Some of her professional career credits include performing with The Greg Thompson Follies aboard the M/S Song of America, with Dennis Levinson Productions at Harrah's in Atlantic City and a Tribute to Broadway in Miami Beach. Her TV credits include a national commercial for RCCL and as a featured performer for the Miss. WA. USA Pageant. Along the way she has been blessed with the opportunity to meet many star performers such as Ben Vereen, Sammy Davis Jr., Rita Moreno, Suzanne Summers and Linda Carter. Stacy is currently the Dance Team Director for St. Marks Catholic School and the Dance Enrichment Instructor for American Heritage in Delray Beach.

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