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Tina Certo
Tina Certo L.I.S.T.D., CSB, former Director of the Centre for Ballet, which she founded in 1978.
Her passion for the arts started at age of eleven when she began her ballet studies. She received her training in various parts of the world including the National Ballet School in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and in London, England, where she was most fortunate to have studied with some of the only surviving students of Maestro Enrico Cecchetti, founder of the Cecchetti method upon which the Centre based its training.
Ms. Certo has taught on the faculty of some of the most prestigious Cecchetti Based schools in the United States and Canada, and has been on the staff of many seminars and workshops across the country. She was a founding member of the New York State Ballet Teachers Association and has served as a committee member of the Cecchetti Society Inc., USA.
Ms Certo has also choreographed for many figure skaters.
Ms. Certo has performed lead roles in many classics that include Swan Lake, Les Patineurs, Nutcracker, Les Sylphides, and Les Pas De Quatre.
Living in the Buffalo area, she’s the proud mother of three adult children and seven beautiful grandchildren!
Molly Vine
Molly Vine was trained as a dancer and musician in Jamestown, NY and now resides in Buffalo, NY with her two children. She is a regular solo guest artist with the Greater Niagara Ballet Company, and has most recently performed with Torn Space Theater. Ms. Vine is a dance and music teacher in the city of Buffalo and very much enjoys choreographing and directing ballets and musicals, and writing music. She is thrilled to be a part of Playbill Productions and looks forward to a future in film!
Paul Mockovak
Paul Mockovak’s diverse background in Theatre, Musical Theatre, Concert
Dance and Music serves him well as an actor, dancer stage director,
choreographer, and educator in the classroom or studio.
With an MFA in Musical Theatre he has director/choreographer credits
ranging from Musicals to Shakespeare. His work has been seen from
summer stock to Off-Broadway, from the East Coast to the Gold Coast to
the Rockies in venues including Off-Broadway, Regional and Educational
theatre, concert dance, opera and video.
As an actor he has enjoyed flexing his acting chops in Main Street Studios
productions of The Tempest (Prospero), The Taming of the Shrew
(Petruchio), Much Ado About Nothing(Benedick), Twelfth Night
(Malvolio), Romeo and Juliet (Lord Capulet), and Hamlet (Claudius).
As a concert dancer he has performed with Chautauqua Opera (Macbeth,
Eugene Onegin and The Merry Widow,) Neglia Ballet Artists at Shea’s in
The Nutcracker, Romeo and Juliet and Giselle with the Buffalo
Philharmonic and also with Ballet Randolph, Ballet Oklahoma, Dance
Miami, Momentum Dance, Mary Street Dance Theatre, and the Greater
Miami Opera premiering dances by Anna Sokolow, Norman Walker,
Randolph Parrott and Layne Sayles.
Recent projects include serving as: director/choreographer for The Last Five
Years for New Buffalo Productions at the Alleyway Theatre, Love Letters
with Buffalo’s Mike Randall and Christina Rausa for the 1891 Fredonia
Opera House, The Impresario for Syracuse Opera, The Magic Flute for the
Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, la boheme for Buffalo Opera Unlimited,
and a teaching/choreography residency at the International School in Jakarta.
He has been a presenter for the Hawaii International Conference on Arts and
Humanities, taught Master classes staged, and performed in six productions
in Japan and Italy, Movement Instructor for the Santa Fe Opera, resident
Jazz specialist at the Vienna Ballet Konservatorium, Director/Choreographer
for students from the Moscow Art School Studio, judge for
SHOWSTOPPERS’ National Show Choir Competition, and teaching for
NYSTEA at Lincoln Center.
He is enjoying his collaboration with Playbill Productions.
Phil Wackerfuss
Phil Wackerfuss is a performer, teacher, and choreographer from Chicago, IL. He received his Bachelor’s Degree in Theatre Arts from Illinois Wesleyan University, graduated from the Chicago School of Massage Therapy, and earned his Masters of Fine Arts in Dance at The University at Buffalo, which focused on research of psychological flow states, ritual dance, and electronic dance art. He has taught dance at SUNY Fredonia, the University at Buffalo, Arthur Murray Ballroom Studio, and Center Dance’s contemporary series. Phil has performed with various theater and dance companies across the country including First Folio Shakespeare Festival in Chicago, VADCO Modern Dance, INASIDE Chicago Jazz Dance, and LehrerDance. He has been a guest artist for the American Academy of Ballet, Neglia Ballet, Configuration Ballet, and Niagara Ballet. Shakespeare in Delaware Park is a favorite performing
opportunity and he has played Puck in “Midsummer Night’s Dream” and Caliban in “The Tempest”, and Clown in “Winter’s Tale”. Local Buffalo shenanigans include fire dancing with Pyromancy circus troupe,organizing dance jams with Buffalo Contact Improv, and many creative projects at ArtPark.