Deborah began her dance training in Central PA with Marie Shaw, Sharon Morey, and The Harrisburg Dance Conservatory.  She has continued her training throughout the country with such notable teachers as Dennis Daniels, Marcea Lane, Juan Dinzey, Suzy Taylor, Gus Giordano, Thommie Walsh, Robert Christopher, and Bob Rizzo.  Through her strong belief in continued training she has presented Master Classes with guest teachers such as Bob Thomas, Travis Breen, and Bonnie Slawson. 

Before becoming a studio owner Deborah was active as a performer.  Her performance credits include numerous recitals, The Young Peoples Talent Festival, The Women's Club of Reading, Hershey Lodge and Convention Center, Albright College Festival of Trees, and The Hershey Hot Air Balloon Classic.  Believing that performing is a valuable addition to ones dance education she formed Crickets Performing Arts Repertory Ensemble in 1994 to provide her students with the opportunity to participate in community performances and dance competitions. 

Her choreography has been recognized in regional and national competitions and her students have been acknowledged for their participation in community events.   Deborah has also been recognized by Dance Teachers Now Magazine, Who's Who in-- Education, Entertainment, Young American Professionals, and Emerging
Leaders in America.  In 1997 she formed ArtsReach to provide dance education to at risk and underprivileged children. 

When Deborah decided to become a full time teacher she did so with the same passion she had as a student and performer.  Prior to founding Crickets Performing Arts she was on staff as a teacher at Jackie Lynn's Dancing Steps, and Dance Center of Manheim, manager/teacher Sharon Morey School of Dance, Hershey Academy of Gymnastics, former co-owner of D& D Connection and B's Performing Arts, and Dance Center of Manheim.  She has also been guest choreographer for Baron Stage Productions, Boscov's, choreographic advisor to Roxanne Quinn, Stiegel Elementary Arts Days. Additionally she was asked to be dance assistant to Juan Dinzey, dancer/choreographer for C&C music factory, during his seminars in PA, NJ, and MD.  In 1993 B's Performing Arts was renamed Crickets School for the Performing Arts in Manheim where she continues to share her love of dance with children. 

She is a member of AAPHERD, Professional Dance Teachers Association, and International Teachers of Dance. Deborah is committed to providing her students with quality dance education through motivation, education, and passion.

She soon added to ballet, jazz, lyrical and tumbling to her resume and continued to study at Carol's until 1994. An original member of Dance Inc., Kristin competed for many years earning numerous regional and national awards for groups and solos alike. She performed on WGAL's News 8 Live at Noon and cheered with the Central Penn Piranha. She continued her dance education at Betsy Daily School of Performing Arts in Berwyn, PA where she also competed and performed.

With years of training under her belt, Kristin joined the staff of Willow Street Dance-Steps in 1995 teaching all techniques. Soon thereafter, she formed a dance company, and has graciously watched it grow from 10 to 60 amazingly talented dancers. Kristin's choreography and technique classes have taken her competition students to win national titles, and many awards including the Tap Excellence award and top group awards at both the regional and national levels.

Kristin has furthered her education with classes at Broadway Dance Center, and numerous conventions including Manhattan Dance Project, Wild, Tremaine Dance Conventions, NYC Dance Alliance, West Coast Dance Explosion, Dance Olympus, and Dance Power Express. She has completed two years of the Broadway Dance Center's Teacher Workshop and a year of the winter intensive classes. She has had the pleasure of training with tap masters Jason Janus, Danny Wallace, and Gregory Hines and looks forward to furthering her dance training in the
future.

Kristin is a graduate of Conestoga Valley High School and Millersville University with a BS in Speech Communication and International Studies. Her career ventures have landed her at Willow Valley Resort as the Marketing Manager. Dance is a welcomed and essential part of Kristin's life that she will continue as long as her feet and legs will allow. She is excited to begin her classes here at Cricket's and cannot wait to meet everyone.

"Whoever says sunshine brings happiness, has never danced in the rain."

Along with volunteering her talents to local organizations and community events, she was a guest performer with the Donetsk Ballet. In addition to her classes at Crickets she has studied with Robert Christopher (completing both the student and teacher programs), Professional Dance Teachers Association, Dance Power Express, and IDTI.

In 1999 she joined the staff at Cricket's teaching Lyrical, Combo, Jazz & Hip Hop. She loves to choreograph routines and make dance a fun experience for everyone. In addition to dancing, Sapphira also works at Hats Off a Vous Salon and works at th Pennsylvania  Renaissance
Fair. She is a graduate of Annville Cleona High School as well as a graduate of the Lebanon County Career and Technology Center. In May of 2007 she had an adorable little boy named Pierce. We hope to have a future star on our hands to perform at Crickets. She plans on
continuing in her mothers footsteps and dance her heart out for the rest of her life. Sapphira is very special and we all love her very much.

Dancing since the age of seven, Miss Sarah has taken ballet, tap, jazz, lyrical, pointe, acrobatics, and hip-hop during her many years of dance training. She has also recently studied ballroom and Latin dancing. Outside the studio, Miss Sarah has taken many master classes including the Robert Christopher Seminars, Dance Power Express Workshops, and ITDI Seminars in addition to studying choreography under Travis Breen.

As a teacher’s assistant in middle school and high school, Miss Sarah helped in creative movement, juvie lyrical, combo, juvie tap, acro, and beginner/teen tap. Working with Ms. Cricket, she learned how to communicate in different ways to reach out to each child’s method of learning. Although every child can learn to dance, not every child can learn to dance the same way.

In the performing world, Miss Sarah has performed at various competitions along the east coast including nationals with the trio “Here Comes the Sun” where the dance was one of ten dances chosen to perform at the end in the best of show showcase. She has also performed at Six Flags, the Mrs. Pennsylvania Globe Pageant, Zoetropolis, the ABC/Boscov’s Thanksgiving Parade as a part of FanTAPulous, and at the USADANCE Lancaster Chapter.

Miss Sarah is a 2005 graduate of Warwick High School and resides in Lititz. She is engaged to Crickets Company alumni Craig Casey and will be married in June of 2010. Miss Sarah continues to study dance, and is planning to dance until she can’t move anymore. “Dance is not just a part of life, it is life. It is a passion.”

Since high school Alyson has studied in the dance program at Moorpark College in Moorpark CA and Stockton State College in Stockton New Jersey, during and after which she taught for Encore Productions where she grew up dancing.

Alyson continues to help with intensives and substituting at Encore Productions and to perform in the Atlantic City area in different shows, the most recent performance “Reflections of Woodstock” at Caesars. She currently resides in Ephrata with her husband and daughter and is excited to be joining the staff at Crickets!