MEET OUR TEAM

Lisa Alberty is a singer, actress, and musician from the Bronx. She graduated from SUNY Fredonia with a BA in Theatre Arts and minor in Music, and a BS in Business Administration with a concentration in Music Industry, and minor in Spanish. Lisa enjoys teaching children to sing and especially delights in seeing her students’ improvement throughout their time with her. She looks forward to working with students of different singing experiences whether they are shy or an extrovert. She has been teaching with Project Performing Arts for the last four years.

Ms. Alonso, born and educated in Argentina, began studying at the Dance School of the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. She joined the ballet company of such institution and also performed as a guest Soloist for Ballet de Camara Mendoza and Ballet Arte. Upon arriving to New York City in 1982, she studied dance at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center, Peridance Center, and the Limon Dance Institute, with masters such as  Zvi Gotheiner, Igal Perry, Risa Steinberg, Carla Maxwell, and Jennifer Muller among others. As a dancer Blanca has performed works by Igal Perry, Ze’Eva Cohen, Jennifer Muller, Ronald K. Brown, Martita Goshen, Patricia N. Nanon, and other independent choreographers. 

Ms. Alonso has choreographed works for the Gestures Dance Ensemble, the faculty of the Harbor Conservatory dance division and for the Yard at Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. The works have been performed at Aaron Davis Hall, Dancing in the Streets, Lincoln Center Out-of Doors, Miller Theater (Columbia University), Hostos Center for the Performing Art, The Field Gallery (MA), Kids Café, Alvin Ailey Theater and The Yard. Her teaching experience includes Master Modern classes at Dickinson College (PA), Company Ballet classes and Community Dance classes at the Yard, Ballet Classes at Harkness Dance Center (92nd Street Y) and at Brooklyn Ballet.  She was a faculty member at the Harbor Conservatory for over 20 years, teaching Ballet, Pointe Variations, Partnering, Modern (Limon Technique). She was also the Ballet Mistress for Gestures Dance Ensemble. Ms Alonso have been a faculty member at Project Performing Arts since 2013.

Emilio Cabrera, born in the Dominican Republic, was raised in New York City.  His dance training began at Boys and Girls Harbor Conservatory in Spanish Harlem, and continued at Ballet Hispanico School of Dance, and the Perry Mansfield Performing Arts Camp. Emilio continued his Ballet training at La Roche College in Pittsburgh, PA as a dance major, and was the dance coach at the YMCA National Gymnastics Training Camp for over six years. Throughout his dance career, Emilio has had the opportunity to work with such choreographers as Darrell Grand Moultrie, Camille A Brown, and Ronald K Brown, among others. He has danced as a member of the Rangeela Dance Troupe, and is also an accomplished choreographer and experienced dance instructor. Currently, Emilio is Assistant Director of Project Performing Arts, and instructs ballet, acting classes, and choreographs for IMANI Dance.

Keith Guerrant is a college graduate from the University of Connecticut and has had over 10 years of professional dance experience. He began his training at the Ruth Williams Dance Studio where he trained in the dance styles of tap, hip-hop, ballet, and jazz. Additionally, he has worked as Camp Counselor and Tap Instructor at the PPA KIDS Summer Arts program. His favorite styles of dance are tap and hip hop, and he often enjoys combining the two styles in his classes.  

Isiah Williams has been a longtime Harlem resident and is the only boy in a large family of four children. While living in Harlem he came across the Order of the Feather Fraternity in 2010 to which he pledged and crossed, and it was through this organization that he discovered stepping. Throughout his 7 years of stepping experience he has performed in over 100 shows and has won various stepping and stroll competitions as well as participated in numerous parades. He’s currently stepping while attending college, and enjoys teaching children and teens the dance form of stepping.