Celebrating 29 years!
Miss Laura Coté (Director)
Miss Laura has been the owner/operator of Laura Cote School of Dance for 25 years. In addition, she teaches classes and is always finding new opportunities for her students to grow as dancers. She organizes trips to dance performances, master classes and summer camps.
Miss Gina Huber (Competition Director)
Miss Gina has been teaching dance for over 20 years. She received her B.S. in Dance from Illinois State University where she was the recipient of a dance scholarship. She studied and performed work with guest choreographers from prestigious modern dance companies including Martha Graham Dance Company and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, was selected to perform a solo at American College Dance Festival and was awarded “Outstanding Dance Senior”. After graduating, Gina moved to the Chicago suburbs and began taking classes and performed at The Dance Center at Columbia College Chicago. She moved to southeast Michigan, began teaching, and continued studying dance at Dance Gallery Studio in Ann Arbor, MI directed by Peter Sparling, a principal dancer from Martha Graham Dance Company. She was exposed to choreographing for dance competitions in 2003 and her students and choreography have won numerous awards including top overall, choreography, technical excellence and most entertaining. She has been teaching for Laura Coté School of Dance since 2007 and looks forward to continue sharing her love of dance with the students and seeing their passion grow!
Miss Mary Leigh Sturino
Mary Leigh began taking ballet, tap and jazz at a local studio in her hometown of Racine, WI at the age of five. After four years of dancing there, she left seeking more reputable and technique based training. In Milwaukee, WI she found Isabelle Kralj and trained with her for two years and Renee Harris for five years. In the summer of 2002 Mary Leigh received a scholarship to participate in the 6 week summer intensive at the Milwaukee Ballet. After that she continued training extensively in Ballet/Pointe, until graduating from high school and moving to La Crosse, WI to pursue a BFA in Musical Theatre and Minor in Dance. Her most notable and recent professional credit is being a swing/understudy on the National Tour of "A Chorus Line" in 2012 and 2013. She was also seen as Diana Morales in "A Chorus Line" in Pagosa Springs CO. She also served as the assistant choreographer/Director of this production.
Miss Jessica Huber
Jessica Huber has been dancing since the age of 3. Originally from Michigan, Jessica moved to Illinois in 2007 and began dancing at Laura Coté School of Dance at the age of 9. She has attended summer dance intensives on scholarship at Inaside Chicago Dance Summer Intensive, Ballet Lab Chicago, Dancewerks, and Fuzion Dance Camp. She has also attended the Lou Conte Teen Intensive, Visceral Dance Center and Gus Giordano Dance to further her training. She was a competitive dancer for 13 years and also performed in several seasons of The Nutcracker while living in Michigan. Along with competing, she performed with Midwest Dance Collective, a pre-professional dance company, in Barrington, IL for 4 years. Jessica has had the opportunity to perform works on stage and featured parts from guest choreographers with Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Giordano Dance Chicago, River North Dance Chicago and Inaside Chicago Dance. She has performed live with the Elgin Symphony Orchestra in their Magical Holiday Concert for several seasons. She has won numerous Overall First Place Awards, Title Awards, Scholarships and Special Awards such as Most Entertaining, Highest Scoring Routine and Excellence in Dance for her competitive solo performances. Jessica attended Point Park University in Pittsburgh, PA and had the privilege of performing works set by Stefanie Batten Bland, John Heginbothom and Keisha Lalama. Jessica is focusing on choreography and has won numerous Choreography Awards, Overall Awards and Special Judges’ Awards for her dances at LCSD. Jessica’s passion is to perform, choreograph and teach and feels blessed to be able to share her love of dance with others.
Laura Coté School of Dance 11346 & 11404 Fox River Rd. Wilmot, WI
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