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Leesa Csolak
Leesa is the Director and Owner of the Star Maker School of the Performing Arts, Clinton and The Star Maker School, Flemington. Leesa is a graduate of The College of New Jersey with a BS in Biology (Anatomy) and Education with minors in Business, Dance, and Art. She has taught in the New Jersey public school system as well as teaching performance to children ages three through adults for the past thirty-five years. Csolak trains champion students who have won hundreds of State, Regional, and National titles and many who continued on to professional work in the arts. With over thirty-five years experience in the child performance industry, she continues to train and promote talented youth in the tri-state area.
Star Maker's resident performing unit has repeatedly won World and National titles in dance and stage performance. The non-profit organization registered with the State of New Jersey, has promoted youth performance to the World's Fair, Disney World, Universal Studios, Florida, Julliard School of Music, Tours to Denmark, Moscow and Leningrad, and to National contests at Notre Dame University in Indiana and Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
Leesa's dance training includes Princeton Ballet Company, Broadway Dance Center's Frank Hatchett, Chuck Kelley, Steps, NYC's, Joe Lanteri, Susie Taylor, Don Sartell of the Wisconsin Dells, Lisa Lamolinara, Philadelphia, Pa., Joanie Lamina, Pa., Voice Training with Barbu Dumetrescu of the Metropolitan Opera, NYC., guard and drill work with the Bridgemen Drum and Bugle Corps of Bayonne NJ. She won the DMA National Senior Women's Championship title in 1978.
A member of numerous dance and baton organizations including, DMA, DEA, PDTA, NBTA, DMA, AAU, USTA, NJTA, TU, Leesa has been instrumental in re-evaluating programs for major organizations including the National Baton Twirling Association and it's National Dance contests. In 1999 she was the National Director for the AAU Baton Twirling Junior Olympic Games and was named to the NBTA National Corps committee. She continues to be a featured speaker at Regional and National conventions and a prominent National and World level judge.
She has directed the Hunterdon County and Trenton State Miss America Preliminary Pageants, the Hunterdon County Dance Teen Arts, and the Hunterdon County C-Tec Talent Showcase television show. She has promoted young performers and choreographed halftimes most recently for the NY Knicks and in the past for the Net's, 76er's, the Junior Olympics and various bowl games. She has choreographed for local junior and senior high and the Adult community theatre musical productions which have included numerous classic and contemporary musicals.
Leesa continues to develop students technical dance abilities and choreograph age appropriate award winning dance numbers in all dance areas. Her routines along with her special abilities to teach performance make for remarkable show routines with elaborate visual effects. Most recently Leesa wrote and choreographed educational and professional children's videos for major players in the industry. She can boast a recent release by Sony and Home Vintage Entertainment called "Hip Hop Homeroom" designed to teach children age's 3-8 math skills through Hip Hop dancing.
Leesa offers a parent seminar teaching the 'ins and outs' of the professional world of performance for youth, helping parents to make smart decisions regarding their children's training, representation, auditions and work in the NYC area. She has managed her children's successful professional careers over the past 25 years and shares information from personal experience.
Miss Leesa lives in Raritan Township with her husband Keith, her son, Kevin and their 2 shelties, Tobie and Korrine.
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