Cristina Michele Garcia, who most often goes by Cristy, began dancing when she was four years old. She trained for the following 16 years under the tutelage of Oneida Quevedo at Oneida's Dance Studio in Guttenberg, NJ. Here she studied an array of dance forms, including Flamenco, Ballet, Tap, Jazz, Lyrical, Afro-Cuban, Tango, and Hip-Hop. She competed both regionally and nationally with her studio. She graduated from the academy in 2006, and was a faculty member on staff for over 10 years. While in college at the University of Pennsylvania, Cristy was a member of two companies- Penn Dance and Onda Latina. It was at Penn Dance, Penn's first performing dance company, where Cristy dove into modern and contemporary dance while learning about how to innovate with choreography and create expressive performances. Through her time at Onda Latina, Cristy immersed herself in her favorite Latin dance styles, including salsa, mambo, bachata, samba, and merengue. She served as the company's artistic director for over a year and performed with Onda Latina at the 2009 New York Salsa Congress. Additionally, Cristy, along with some of her closest dance friends, began their own dance company, Ritmo y Pasion, back in 2008. She received her Dance Educators of America Master Teaching Certificate in 2012. In the same year, while pursuing her MBA at IESE Business School in Barcelona, she was provided the opportunity to take her dancing internationally, where she performed and competed in Europe. Cristy has performed around the world, including a most recent performance on Broadway. While she truly enjoys performing, her true love is storytelling through choreography.

Miranda is a freelance dancer, choreographer and adjudicator based in the North Jersey, New York City area. She attended Mason Gross School of the Arts as a BFA dance major, and attended the Joffrey Ballet School as a BFA dance major with a jazz and contemporary concentration. Growing up as a highly competitive student with vigorous training in all styles of stage dance, along with training at Broadway Dance Center on full scholarship, Miranda has earned numerous awards and scholarships being accredited for her innovative choreography and performance. You may have seen Miranda performing as a guest solo performer for World of Dance, in Joffrey Ballet School’s “The Garden 22”, soloing her own piece “Alienated” at the PROJECT CREATE choreographers showcase, or even notice works she’s created for events and competitions around the tri-state area. Additionally, she is proud to be the co-director of Level X The Collective, a performance company that holds classes, events and workshops across the nation. Miranda was recently recognized by one of the most well renowned studios in Puerto Rico, G.O.P. Dance Academy, where she was invited as a featured guest instructor to teach at their facility. Currently, Miranda is a dance educator and choreographer working on projects within the tri-state area, while also judging and teaching convention classes for various dance competitions across the nation.

Karina is a graduate of Mason Gross School of the Arts where she received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance in 2018. While studying her profession, she had the opportunity to travel to Colombia and Israel where she worked with the directors of Swing Latino, Batsheva & Vertigo. Throughout her college career, she attended various dance intensives, including: Ballet Hispanico and Rockettes Summer Dance Intensive. In the midst of her dance career before college, she qualified for Title Finalist in the NJN Hispanic Showcase in 2010 & 2011 and Dance Educators of America in 2012. She is currently a realtor in New Jersey and teaches private piano lessons. She hopes to bring all the knowledge that she has learned along her years as a student and help the young dancers of today to navigate their dance goals.

Veronica started her dance career at a young age and instantly fell in love with the style of Hip-Hop. The adrenaline and dance movement of Hip-Hop led her to many wonderful opportunities in her dance career. She has taught beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels of Hip-Hop to children and adults of all ages for over 10 years. Veronica competed in America’s Best Dance Crew on MTV and did two consecutive dance tours in China with Rhythm City Entertainment. While a member of Rhythm City Entertainment for 8 years, she performed as a back-up dancer for reggaeton artists like J Balvin, and opened for Pitbull at the Megaton. She has toured across the United States and has been invited to perform several years at the famous World of Dance tour. Veronica has also done numerous TV performances on MTV and BET. Her excitement and passion for dance will show all over the dance floor. Her focus as a teacher is to help understand the movement of hip-hop, the style, and the energy. She loves to have fun while teaching and being able to share her style of choreography to others.

With over 40 years of dance educator experience, Debi has stressed the importance of providing a superior dance education, even while striving to meet the varied needs of her students. She received her early training with dance instructor Vickie Sheer of New York (Ms. Sheer is the founder of Sheer Talent Ltd). She then went on to complete her training at Steps NYC, Broadway Dance Center and received her dance certification with Dance Educators of America (DEA). Debi has appeared in an episode of TLC’s “Toddlers and Tiaras” and was a judge for DEA dance competitions. Her dance company students also appeared on an episode of Dance Moms - ALDC Sheer Talent in 2014. She has always provided top quality dance training focusing on technical excellence and performance skills. Over the years, her students have competed in numerous dance competitions and have been awarded top scores and scholarships. They have also been accepted into prestigious dance programs and professional dance organizations, such as Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and the Performing Arts, American Ballet Theatre (ABT), and Joffrey Ballet School.

Bridget Ryan has studied dance over 18 years. She attended Dance Dimensions and Academy of the Holy Angels training in all forms of dance including ballet, jazz, contemporary, tap, musical theatre, hip-hop, and lyrical. She is currently a senior at Drew University studying Psychology, Dance and Applied Performance. Bridget has attended and received scholarships for Joffrey Ballet School Summer Intensives as well as The Joffrey Experience. Her training also includes Marinspired - The Storytellers Intensive Volumes 1 & 2, New York City Dance Alliance Summer Dance Intensive, Deviate Dance Assistant 2018-2022, Martha Graham Winter Intensives and Bates Dance Festival. She has choreographed and performed in White Wave Solo/Duo Festival 2024, New York State Dance Education Association 2023 Winter Conference: Dance & Pride & 2024 Winter Conference: Perspectives, Morris Arts “MOVE: DANCE IN ART I & II” Art Galleries, The Mignolo International Screendance Festival 2023, “Sharing the Struggle” The Support Network of Madison and River Dance Festival 2024. Bridget was the assistant stage manager for Dance On The Lawn 2023. She is excited to continue teaching on the CMG Dance Project faculty this season!

Martha Silva is a pre-professional dancer based in New Jersey. She is currently attending Rutgers University as a Dance Major at Mason Gross School of the Arts. Martha has been dancing for over 15 years studying various styles like tap, jazz, ballet, hip hop, salsa, flamenco, contemporary, modern, etc. Her choreography has been awarded first place in many competitions as well as nominated to perform at the American College Dance Association. Through the years, Martha has found a new passion, which is teaching. Martha is currently in the dance world with professionals whom she is learning from day by day, and then she shares that knowledge and experience with her students to help them grow and succeed. After college she plans to tour around with artists, choreographing around the world, and doing what she loves - teaching. It’s important to her that her students learn the fundamentals as well as finding their own love for dance.

Fahja is an inspiring, passionate, and knowledgeable dancer, choreographer, dance adjudicator and teacher from New York who lives to inspire and educate young performing artists and audiences of all ages. Over the last few years Fahja has had the opportunity to teach and choreograph for numerous dance studios across the U.S. while also expanding his resume as a performer. Fahja began his Acro journey training with top level gymnasts while he was a competitive cheerleader. Over the last decade Fahja has taught all levels of Acro/tumbling. He is constantly expanding his Acro education to maintain a fun and safe learning environment for his students. Fahja looks forward to sharing his passion for dance with all his students.

Daniela is a current student at Montclair State University, pursuing her Bachelors of Fine Arts in Dance. She has been dancing for 13 years, and competed for 6, in different styles of dance such as jazz, lyrical, contemporary, flamenco, salsa, musical theater, tap and hip hop.  During her time as a competitive dancer, she received various awards such as 2nd runner up for Senior Title for Turn It Up dance competition as well as National champion of World of Dance Disney in the senior solo advanced division. Throughout her dance career, she was selected to participate in the American Musical and Dramatic Academy of New York intensive and participated in Tremaine Dance Convention in NYC. She has been a dancer in various performance pieces choreographed by Jesica DiMauro, Christian Von Howard, Allie McDonald, and Marcela Llaudiffred during her freshman year at MSU. Not only is Daniela a CMG alumni, but she was also co-Captain of the competition team and a teacher's assistant for various classes. Daniela aspires to continue her dance career as a professional dancer and travel the world with various performing artists. She is excited to bring her dance knowledge to the students of CMG Dance Project, and further her choreography experience.

Meredith began her dance training at the age two. By the time she received her B.A. in Dance and Anthropology from Muhlenberg College, she had studied Ballet, Tap, Jazz, Lyrical, Hip-Hop, and Modern dance. Her choreographic works include Sinternet!: The Musical and the CheckIt! Dance Festival in Central Park. She has performed in the Six Meters Improvisational Dance Ensemble and productions for CheckIt! Dance, Indecorous Theatre Company, Snapped Productions, West Hudson Arts and Theatre Company, and The Secret Theatre. She has taught Ballet, Tap, Jazz, and Creative Movement to students of many ages and also works as an SAT tutor.

Isabella started her dance studies at the young age of 6. After a trip to Spain, she fell in love with Flamenco and begged her mother to find classes for her in the New Jersey area. At age 9, Isabella started her Flamenco studies at Oneidas Dance studio where she also trained in Ballet, Jazz, Tap, Hip Hop, Salsa, and Afro-Cuban. Isabella earned her Ballet Bar Certification from Dance Educators of America with High Honors. She attended Muhlenberg College, earning a Bachelor of Arts in Dance. Her studies focused on a plethora of Modern Dance Techniques and Ballet while also becoming an expert in Dance History. In 2011, Isabella attended a Flamenco internship in Sevilla, Spain under Rocío Albenis. Isabella has taught at multiple dance schools and recreation centers across New Jersey for the past 10 years. She is passionate about educating students on becoming convincing performers with strong technique. You can find her taking class at Peridance (NYC), ODC Dance Commons (CA), or with Xianix Barrera (Flamenco Artist NYC). Isabella is excited to be a part of the CMG family. Now let’s dance and win some trophies!

A native of Puerto Rico, Luis began his dancing career at his grandparents' Christmas parties, where his aunts taught him the basics of salsa and merengue at a young age. In high school, he held lead roles in every school play and participated in numerous talent show performances, including choreographing salsas, tangos, and bomba routines with his colleagues and friends. While in college at the University of Pennsylvania, Luis joined Onda Latina, Penn's premier Latin dance troupe where he also served as Business Manager and Vice President. His experience in Onda Latina allowed him to explore his love for Latin styles, but more importantly his passion for choreographing. After college, Luis taught Salsa to students of all ages for 5 years. He also joined Ritmo y Pasión dance company, founded in 2008. While completing his MBA at ESADE Business School in Barcelona, Luis led his school's salsa team to victory at MBAT 2013 (Europe's largest gathering of MBA students) in Paris. While Luis enjoys the art of performing, his passion lies in teaching life lessons to younger generations through the common experience of dance. CMG Dance Project is the perfect place to continue this mission.