Carissa Havrilko

Carissa Havrilko has been teaching multiple styles of dance technique at Backstage Dance Studio for over 12 years. She is a committed instructor and mentor and works hard to bring out the best in each of her dancers. Carissa is honored to choreograph and instruct for Show Troupe for the 11th season. Her choreography has won several overall awards at regional and national competitions on the East Coast including first overall at Groove Dance Nationals and first overall at Beyond the Stars Dance Nationals. Carissa is Backstage’s certified acrobatic dance instructor and has recently been certified in acro adjudication through AcrobaticArts. She has been proud to introduce Backstage to acrobatic dance. Carissa is certified in flexibility training through Alixa Flexibility method and has her certification in injury prevention in dancers through NYU. As well as teaching the competitive dancers at Backstage, she routinely teaches and choreographs for various schools and universities in the Maryland area.