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Janice has over 30 years of dance experience, having danced semi-professionally in Boston, Jerusalem, and Miami. As a child gymnast, she began studying jazz dance in high school, then began her ballet training during college in Boston. There, she studied ballet with Zabelle Margosian and David Drummond at Copley Square Ballet, and jazz dance with Adrienne Hawkins at Impulse Dance. After an official scoliosis diagnosis in 2002, she began studying both Alexander Technique and Pilates. In 2014, Janice became a certified Pilates mat instructor and trained as a ballet fitness instructor with prima ballerina Maria Teresa del Real. In 2023, she began comprehensive Pilates teacher training with Tori Ponder-Brown at the Pilates Associates Teacher Training Institute and became a comprehensively certified Pilates instructor offering training in Mat, Reformer, Cadillac, Wunda Chair, and Ladder Barrel.

Janice has taught Ballet, Jazz, Ballet Fitness, Ballet Boxing, West Coast Swing Dancing, Pilates Mat, Pilates Reformer, and Pilates Tower. You can find her currently teaching at Vellíðan Pilates Studio and at Cornell University in their Wellness and Group Fitness classes in Ithaca, NY.

Janice’s non-dancing alter-ego obtained a PhD in applied social psychology. She spent over 10 years conducting research on topics ranging from terrorism and political violence to traumatic brain injury and aggression to research ethics and scientific misconduct. She has taught college courses including Psychology of Terrorism, Psychology of Leadership, and Introduction to Psychology.

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