As Director of Ada Dance Academy, Miss Vizurraga has over 40 years of dance teaching and choreographing experience. At age 5 she started her training at Gremore Dance Studio under Lois Gremore in Oberlin, Ohio. Lois was classically trained under Serge Nadejdin from the St. Petersburg Imperial Ballet, Alex Martin from the Saddler Wells Ballet, and John Begg with DeBasil Ballet Russe Metropolitan Opera as well as on Broadway. Lois was a huge inspiration, like a second mother, remaining close until the day she died in 2011 Miss Margie studied various forms of dance including ballet, tap, jazz, modern, ballroom, musical theater, and Spanish/Flamenco throughout her career. Classical ballet was always her main focus and foundation. She attended annual classes in New York City at ABT and Steps. She also studied under Alex Martin and Jose Greco and at the Cleveland School of Ballet and Fairmont Center for the Arts. At 16 she won the only Teacher's Training Scholarship for the state of Ohio from Dance Masters of America. Her dance instruction started at age 15 with the Gremore Dance Studio and she performed with the Oberlin Performing Arts Club. She was a Ballet Major at the University of Cincinnati and helped form a dance company at Cleveland State University. She was also a principal dancer with Chagrin Valley Dance Company and toured briefly with a Spanish company as a solo Flamenco dancer. In 2001 Miss Margie moved to Grand Rapids and began teaching at Ada Dance Academy under the direction of Marlene Kenneway.

Stephen started his training at Southold dance theater in South Bend, Indiana. He then went on to North Carolina School of the Arts where he trained under Melissa Hayden, Duncan Noble, and Warren Conover he later went to Ballet Chicago Studio Company and was mentored by Dan Duell and Patricia Blair. Stephen has attended numerous summer courses including School of American Ballet, Houston Ballet, and Hartford Ballet Stephen. has had a strong performing career with the Grand Rapids Ballet Company. He joined in 2001 and has been the lead man in many productions. As principal dancer, he has had the opportunity to work with famous choreographers from all over the world such as Mario Radacovsky, Kirk Peterson, and Oliver Wevers to name a few. Stephen has performed as a guest artist for the New York Theater Ballet, Tulsa Ballet, St. Louis Ballet, Chicago Ballet, Geiger Ballet, Southold Dance Theater, and Ohio Theater Ballet. He has been teaching ballet since 2000. He was a professor at Grand Valley State University and also taught at Grand Rapids Ballet School. He currently teaches at Ada Dance Academy where he is part owner. Stephen is a family man with five children Julia, Andrew, Elaina, Nathan, Lucy and wife, Jennifer.

Laura Berman, is an Artistic Director with RPM Productions in Chicago. She has been performing, teaching, choreographing, and staging works for over 43 years. She began her career dancing professionally with the Garden State Ballet and subsequently danced with Boston Repertory Ballet, Chicago Ballet, and for seven years with the Pacific Northwest Ballet in Seattle where she danced as a soloist with Mikhail Barishnikov and Gelsey Kirkland. She has toured as a guest artist throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. Ms. Berman served as an Artistic Director of the Grand Rapids Ballet Company from 1997-2010 and was also Director of the School, having previously served as the company’s ballet mistress from 1992. She conducted two capital campaigns for the GRBC one to renovate the old North Star Bus Terminal into four beautiful studios and office space and the other to build the LEED certified Peter Martin Wege Theatre and costume shop. At that time she was also Director of the School of the Grand Rapids Ballet Company establishing the school's curriculum, syllabus, faculty and performances. As a master teacher and coach her students have gone on to dance professionally with New York City Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Joffrey Ballet, Royal Danish Ballet, Hubbard Street Dance Company, Ballet Antwerp, Semeroper Ballet, Philadelphia Ballet, Washington Ballet, St. Louis Ballet, Kansas City Ballet, as well as the Grand Rapids Ballet Company. Laura is a freelance choreographer and regularly stages full length ballets in addition to choreographing original work. She has a masters degree in Theatre from Northwestern University where she graduated with honors.