Sherrie Brush

Sherrie comes to us with many years of teaching experience.  She started dancing at the age five at Jerry Singer Dance Studio in Covina.  She danced throughout high school and college and also was on a gymnastics team.  Beyond ballet, tap, jazz, musical theater and lyrical, her dance experience also includes Hawaiian, Tahitian, Siamese and Polynesian.  She performed and traveled with a Hawaiian Dance Troop.  Sherrie owned and operated her own studio, Future Talent Dance Studio for twenty-five years.  During this time she continued dance training at Alan Currier Dance Academy, Roland Depree Dance Academy, Tremaine Dance Academy, Steven Pecks and Al Gilbert Academy of Dance.  Sherrie has attended dance seminars throughout California and New York.  While in New York, she took classes at 34th Dance Academy and attended the following yearly seminars; Dance Olympus, Dance Caravan, Tremaine, Dupree LA, Dance Magic and Al Gilbert.  Sherrie started “Class Act Dance Company” which competed for twenty years at all competitions.  Her company received many top awards including Top Choreography, Top Tap Studio, Teacher Awards and many more.  Many of Sherrie’s students have gone on to work in the field of dance to include Clipper Girls, Super Bowl Half Time Shows, Disney’s Video Company and in off Broadway plays.  She has judged many competitions in fifteen different states within the United States.  She has worked for Hannah Barbara as Papa Smurf, Yogi Bear and Huckleberry Hound.  In 2001 she sold her dance studio and moved to Temecula.  She has been teaching at TDC for five years.  She has been married thirty-seven years and has three wonderful children and seven wonderful grandchildren.   Her daughter is Deanna Ciotti who is also an instructor at TDC.  She loves teaching at TDC, sewing, grandchildren and traveling.