Creative Team

Creative Team

ESO School of Dance has been performing the regions largest and longest operating school of dance in the region,  Performing the regions only Production of The Nutcracker since 1990..  Founded in 1989 the ESO School of Dance is the Eastern Shore of Virginia's premier Classical Ballet training program.   With classes for ages 6-18 ESO School of Dance has a rigorous 12 year curriculum.

Ballet Mistress Dana Floyd Attended Atlanta Ballet School as a young child and was accepted in the Joffrey School of Dance Scholarship program in New York City at the age of twelve.  She performed professionally with the Atlanta Ballet Company in Atlanta, Georgia and Virginia Ballet Theatre until the mid 1990's.  Miss Dana was accepted as one of twelve professional dance instructors to attend The Paris Opera Ballet workshop for dance instructors at New York University in the summer of 1997. She is an ABT Certified Ballet Instructor and she has taught ballet and modern dance at the ESO since 1989. In addition, she has choreographed more than 68 Ballet productions and is Dance Director for two ESO student productions annually.   

Miss Ashley, a former student at the ESO School of Dance, spent summers studying with the Richmond Ballet, Interlochen Arts Camp, Virginia Ballet Theater, and the Virginia Governor School for Visual and Performing Arts. She graduated from Hollins University and later, moved to Sao Paulo, Brazil where she taught Dance and Theater in a bilingual setting and studied Musical Theater at the Wolf Maya School.  Hired as the Assistant Director at ESO in 2016, in 2020 she was promoted to ESO's Executive Director.  Ashley is a member of the Sonic Ukes and is on the Board of Directors for the ESVA UkeFest.