AIM Dance Staff

Joana (JoJo) DiPaolo

JoJo’s performing journey began at 4 with baton twirling, beauty pageants, dance recitals, and theatre. In college, she discovered ballroom dancing, becoming president of the social dance club. After three years volunteering in Nicaragua with the Peace Corps, she returned to Disneyland as a character entertainer. While pursuing her master’s in Non-profit Management, she started teaching at Fred Astaire Ballroom dance studios, which led to a stint with the Radio City Rockettes. JoJo eventually established a boutique ballroom dance business, choreographing for weddings and events. Now, she travels globally with her U.S. diplomat partner, teaching and choreographing for Embassy balls and special engagements overseas.

Victoria Kruetzer

Victoria Kreutzer graduated from Rider University with a dual degree in Dance Performance and Psychology and has recently moved to the Maryland/DC area from New Jersey. Before working for Art in Motion, she taught Lyrical, Ballet, and Hip Hop at Galaxy Dance and Fitness in Levittown, Pennsylvania. Victoria performed on her university’s dance team, as well as choreographed, performed, and held the Secretary Board position for the Rider Dance Ensemble organization. She showcased her choreography, Like Clockwork, in the Rider Dance Day 2020 performance and choreographed for the Rider Senior Capstone performance as a rising Junior. Victoria joined Luminarium’s Satellite Company in 2019 for its Global Water Dances: South performance and was later featured in Merli V. Guerra’s 8.7 million minus 1 and like mercury in the palm of my hand alongside the home based company in its 2019 production at the Multicultural Arts Center in Boston.

Corrine Kuntz

Corrine graduated from the University of Maryland with her Bachelor of Arts in Dance and her Bachelor of Science in Early Childhood Education. Through her time at the University of Maryland, she studied with Alvin Mayes, Christopher K. Morgan, Patrik Widrig, Adriane Fang, Xan Burley, and Alex Springer. Corinne has experience teaching ballet, tap, jazz, lyrical, and hip hop to dancers aged three to eighteen years. Additionally, she is a certified barre instructor, kindergarten teacher, and yoga lover. Corinne is so excited to be a part of the AIM team!

Sarah Lemire

Sarah Lemire received her dance training from the acclaimed Metropolitan School of the Arts (formerly Metropolitan Fine Arts Center). She is trained across multiple dance disciplines, including ballet, jazz, tap, contemporary, lyrical, modern, and in the renowned Royal Academy of Dance syllabus. She has continued her dance education as an adult and is passionate about blending various training methodologies to help others achieve their personal fitness goals in an enthusiastic, stimulating, and encouraging atmosphere. Miss Sarah has over a decade of teaching experience, nurturing students of all ages to be confident, able, and passionate about themselves and the arts. She has been fortunate enough to teach across the Northern Virginia area, most recently with Sterling Ballet Academy and Joy of Dance. Currently, she is excited to expand her role as a dance professional as the Studio Director of Principal Ballet and Conservatory Ballet in Reston. Miss Sarah is delighted to share her passion for fine arts with the students and staff at Art in Motion and cannot wait to start!

Tiffany Patterson

Tiffany was the lead choreographer for MC Hammer and Director of Joy of Dance Hip-Hop is a professional performer and dance instructor with more than 20 years’ experience. Miss Patterson has performed “Gangnam Style” at Times Square on New Year’s Eve 2013 with Psy and MC Hammer. She has also performed at the AMAs, the BET Awards, the MTV Music Video Awards, Dance Fever in Las Vegas, and is in several of MC Hammer’s music videos. She is in charge of creating the Hip-Hop syllabus and training all the Hip-Hop teachers for the Joy of Dance Company. Your children will love dancing and jamming out with Miss Tiffany in all styles of dance! Her outgoing personality and outrageously fun teaching style are sure to keep dancers moving nonstop with a huge smile!

Jeffery Virchow

Originally from Connecticut, Jeffrey is a performing arts professional with over 20 years of experience in nearly all areas of theatre and film. He began teaching ballroom dance at the Gotta Dance Studio in Glastonbury. Jeffrey taught lessons from beginners to bronze level, while he rigorously trained in silver level and earned several awards. He continued to teach and dance on stage and at special events until moving to New York City. Here, he taught ballroom dance to apprentice actors at The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey while mounting six seasons of main stage productions. He was also cast in various acting and dancing roles throughout the New York City area, most notably in Emilia Galotti at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Jeffrey works at the Alden Theatre where he is the performing arts assistant, an artist educator, and ballroom dance instructor.

Ivy Wydler

Ivy started dancing when she was three years old and began taking classes with Miss Allie when she was five. She specialized in tap, ballet, jazz, and contemporary. Ivy started assisting with classes in middle school, and she officially joined Miss Allie’s staff her freshman year of high school. Ivy loves working with students, but since she is currently in college at Dartmouth, she looks forward to seeing them for summer/winter break camps and shows (such as Frosty Follies and McLean Day)! Miss Ivy loves everything AIM: her friends from growing up a dancer, all the songs and performances, and of course, dancing and Miss Allie herself!

Cristina Zarhloul

Cristina has been dancing since she was three years old and teaching dance for 7 years. She danced for the Virginia Dance Company at the University of Virginia and has been working for AIM since graduating in 2021. She has loved teaching AIM and getting to know all of the wonderful students!

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