Tara Ghassemieh
Tara Ghassemieh began her training in Huntington Beach, California at Orange County Dance Center.. Through her 10 years of training at Orange County Dance Center she achieved many honors, titles and awards, including, first all around soloist at New York City Dance Alliance , Finalist at Youth American Grand Prix Nationals, Teen Miss Dance of America 2004 for Dance Masters of America, and National Training Scholar for American Ballet Theatre just to name a few.  At age 16 Tara was offered a full scholarship to join the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School at American Ballet Theatre in New York City, as well as an apprenticeship with Washington Ballet. Soon after moving to New York she was offered the part as a lead ballet dancer in the popular film “Step Up”.  She performed Le’ Corsair with ABT at the Metropolitan Opera House along with many other ballets. Currently Tara is living in Southern California where she is dancing, teaching, choreographing, judging, and running her very successful dance wear line called “Tata’s Dancewear”.