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4295 Cromwell Road

Suite 512

Chattanooga, Tennessee 37421

423-296-0282

Meet Our Instructors

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Denny Lennon

Denny has been an instructor of partnership dancing in Chattanooga and Birmingham for more than 20 years. During his dancing career, he has been a trainer, coach, and studio owner.  He has also specialized in social dancing, show dancing, competitive dancing, theatrical dancing, and choreography.

Denny is Qualified To Teach the Following Areas

 

American Style

 

Bronze Smooth, Rhythm, and Advanced Theory & Technique
Silver Smooth, Rhythm, and Advanced Theory & Technique
Gold Smooth, Rhythm, and Advanced Theory & Technique

 

International Style
Bronze Standard and Latin

Exhibition
All Levels

Theater Arts/Cabaret
All Levels

Open Smooth and Rhythm
All Levels

Competition
All Levels

General Music Theory

 

Titles He's Won

 

USBC
2nd place - Open Rising Star - 1990

South Central Fred Astaire Dance Studios
1st Place - Professional Open Smooth - Multiple Times
1st Place - Professional Open Rhythm - Multiple Times
1st Place - Professional Theatre Arts

Fred Astaire Dance Studios National
Finalist - Rising Star Smooth
Finalist - Rising Star Rhythm
3rd Place - Theatre Arts

USDSC World Invitational
1st Place - Pro/Am Open Latin Championship - 1996

Pro/Am
Best Overall Average Score Multiple Times

Hotlanta Dance Challenge
2nd place - Rising Star American Rhythm - 2006
 

Amanda Robinson

Amanda has been with Chattanooga DanceSport since the beginning.  She took lessons with Denny for two years before becoming a professional instructor.  Since then, she has excelled at performance and Pro/Am competitions while leading many of her students to the top three at multiple events, including the second largest competition in the country in Las Vegas 2007.

Amanda also manages studio operations and has just begun a professional competitive partnership with Denny.  She is qualified to teach multiple Bronze level curriculums in both the American and International styles of ballroom dance.

Tammy Sheets-Harrelson

Tammy has been involved in dancing for over 20 years.  She was a dancer on the Knoxville television show "Club Dance."  While on "Club Dance," she did Country Western, Two-Step, Country Waltz, Country Cha Cha, Double Two-Step, Polka, and the Country West Coast.

She has been a Ballroom Dance Instructor in Chattanooga for four years ... most recently with us here at Chattanooga DanceSport.

Tammy is a talented and spirited dance instructor, and she is available for private lessons, group lessons, competition, performance/showcase, and wedding choreography.

Mark Franklin

Mark  has been teaching ballroom dancing for 18 years.  He recently came out of retirement from full-time teaching to join the Chattanooga DanceSport team.  Mark's specialty is teaching new students the fundamentals of Ballroom and Latin dancing.  His analogies of comparing everyday life to dancing will take the difficulty out of learning how to dance.  If you have ever dreamed of becoming a wonderful, confident, social Ballroom or Latin dancer, Mark will get you there.

   

Michelle Delgado

Michelle has been teaching Ballroom and Latin dancing for 5 years, specializing in teaching beginning to intermediate-level students.  Before that, she studied Tap, Jazz, Ballet, Theatre Arts, and Modern Dance in college.

 

Rhonda Tinsley

Rhonda is our Belly Dance instructor and our licensed Neuro-Muscular Massage Therapist.
 

She has studied with many excellent Belly Dance teachers and has studied a variety of styles and ethnic traditions over the years. Rhonda first studied Middle Eastern dance in Tucson, Arizona, in the early 1970s. In the 1990s, she taught classes in Fairfield, Connecticut.  After moving to Spring City, Tennessee, in the year 2000, she found a teacher to study with in Chattanooga.  When her mentor moved away, she began her own class. Rhonda has taught locally for 7 years before joining our team at Chattanooga Dancesport.


Rhonda has been licensed as a massage therapist for 9 years and is offering her services at the studio by appointment.

Anita Gaddy

Anita is our Yoga instructor.

Stan Golab & Sharon Westlake

Sharon is our Argentine Tango instructor.  Her Argentine Tango experience began in Santa Cruz, California, in 1999 with two Argentine instructors, Roberto Forte and Fernando Filippelli.  Sharon studied Tango in the San Francisco Bay area with Nora Dinzelbacher, Marcelo Solis, Norberto 'El Pulpo' Ebrez and Luiza Paes, Carlos Rivarola and many other Tango masters.  She has taken classes and workshops in Miami, Paris, Chicago, Montreal, and many other cities.  While visiting Buenos Aires, Sharon studied with Fabrizio Forti.

 

Sharon has loved to dance since she was a child, and she has experience with and exposure to many dance forms and styles.