Ann-Marie Carlomagno is Associate Artistic Director and Choreographer of the Dance Company and has over 23 years of teaching experience. A former student of Charlotte Klein, Ms. Markarian later studied at the Gus Giordano Dance Center and at the 1990 Jazz Dance World Congress in Evanston, Illinois. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the New England Chapter of Dance Masters of America and has been a guest teacher for DMA New England Chapter #5 and at other dance studios in New England. She has directed the Teen Miss Dance of New England competition for over 10 years and has judged for the DMA Petite and Miss Dance of New York Scholarship Pageants and the Connecticut Invitational Scholarship Competition.