ACADEMY OF BALLET

DeLane Califf

DeLane Califf began her dance career as a young child in Jacksonville, Florida, studying classical ballet with Mr. Frank Polar at the Jacksonville Ballet. She studied with him until a family move took her to Atlanta, where she studied with the Atlanta Ballet and also with a private instructor for several years. Another move took her to Nashville, where she studied under the tutelage of Mrs. Albertine Maxwell; a well-known doyenne of the ballet world in the South and the founder of the Nashville Ballet.

Mrs. Maxwell had a dance compound in Maine where she would invite certain dancers to come for summer intensives, one of the first of its kind. Mrs. Califf was fortunate to be one of those issued an invitation. She later added private dance classes in Tap, Jazz and Musical Theatre with Mr. Nick Lambos, also of Nashville.
 

Mrs. Califf has continued with her instruction as an adult taking classes in modern dance, jazz (specifically the Fosse technique), and ballet, and also has attended dance teacher workshops in New York, where she has taken classes under Bob Rizzo, Daniel Lewis, Rhonda Fleming and various instructors from the Broadway Dance Center.

She has been married to Lee for 25 years, and has four children, two of whom are dancers.


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