EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR | ALICE H. BOCK

Alice began her dance career in Jacksonville, Florida. She received extensive training from Bill Martin-Viscount at the Southwest Ballet Center in Arlington, Texas and The American Ballet Theatre. As a soloist with “Dance Alive”, she toured throughout the midwest and southeast in over 100 performances each year. Her performing credits include the Joffrey Ballet and the Bay Ballet Theater. While a soloist with Ballet Guild of Jacksonville, she became assistant to the director. She went on to choreograph for many regional ballet companies throughout Florida.

Alice has had many of her jazz and ballet pieces performed at the Southeastern Regional Dance Association. Throughout her career, Alice has worked with great choreographers and teachers such as Anthony Ferro, Carl Ratcliff, Ann Burton, Meredith Baylis, Richard Thomas, Maggie Black, Elizabeth Carrroll, Bobbie Barnette, Gus Giodano, Tom Pazik, and Robert Joffrey. After many years of dancing, teaching, and choreographing for different schools and ballet companies, she became the Artistic Director of The Dance Center and Brandon Ballet and currently Executive Director of the Brandon Ballet. She has brought many quality professionals together to help students build a solid foundation in all styles of dance. Alice takes pride in guiding Brandon Ballet into a ballet company that has professional, pre-professional, and training dancers, while at the same time, providing each dancer a complete education in where their dance can take them. She is excited to see the excellence of the art of dance that Brandon Ballet is producing.

REHEARSAL ASSISTANT | Courtney Moody

Courtney Moody began her professional dance training under Diane Partington, Rey Dizon and Martine Moore. She later studied with master teachers such as Richard Sias of the National Ballet of Canada, as well as Ariel Serrano, Wilmian Hernandez, and Delia Ballart. In 2014, she participated in an exchange program with the National Ballet School of Cuba and was later invited to be a trainee with BalletMet on scholarship. She has also been invited to programs with the Bolshoi Ballet School, American Ballet Theatre, and Ellison Ballet.

In 2018, she joined the Brandon Ballet as a Principal Professional Artist, and has also performed on various stages as a guest artist. She has performed roles such as Myrta in Giselle, the Pas de Trois in Auguste Bournonville’s Le Conservatoire, and the Lead Ballerina in the Paquita Grand Pas Classique. In 2022, she also began acting as Rehearsal Assistant for the Brandon Ballet and developed the Brandon Ballet’s Wellness Initiative for Dancers. As the Rehearsal Assistant, she has staged classical works such as La Bayadere’s Kingdom of the Shadesand the Prologue from Sleeping Beauty. Her original choreography has been featured in productions such as Brandon Ballet’s Cinderella and The Nutcracker. In 2023, Moody was selected as one of four choreographers to participate in Ballet 5:8’s Choreography Intensive in Chicago. She is excited to continue performing while sharing her love of dance with both company dancers and the community.