Service Description

Join us for our Sr Guest Series, featuring special guest teachers to enhance your dance training. This series offers a unique opportunity to learn from experienced professionals and gain valuable insight into the world of dance. Elevate your dance skills with us at The Dance Conservatory. Contemporary/Hip-Hop Fusion w/ Rosanna Karabetsos Rosanna Karabetsos was born and raised in Hartford, CT. She attended the Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts. After graduating she jumped into her professional dance journey and developed a passion for her community. She served as the lead puppeteer and choreographer for Nightfall Hartford, an outdoor production that features giant puppetry, theater, live music & dance. Her involvement in this interdisciplinary project ignited her devotion for creating opportunities through the arts and dance. She went on to choreograph for numerous competitive dance teams across CT and the northeast. Rosanna’s commercial dance experience began with DFX Entertainment. Through DFX, she performed in various traveling productions as Dance Captain such as “Echoes of Sinatra” and Joby Rogers’ the Ultimate Michael Jackson Experience. Rosanna also spent a number of years working at Mohegan Sun Arena, stage managing and assisting the Game Entertainment & Presentation team. She simultaneously danced for the WNBA Connecticut Sun, which the arena houses until she relocated to New York City to dance for the NBA Brooklynettes dance team. Rosanna keeps her love for her home community alive by hosting live events such as the annual Small State Great Beer festival in Hartford, CT and the CPTV show “The Parkville Sessions”. She is the Vice President and a Resident Artist with the Hartford Dance Collective, and the Co-Director of the Dance Company at the Fashion Institute of Technology in NYC. Rosanna has been fortunate enough to work with artists including BLACKPINK at the 2022 MTV VMAs, Alyson Stoner, Lil Kim, Busta Rhymes, Rakim, Lion Babe, Saint John, Pretty Poison, Clinton Sparks and New Kids on the Block. Rosanna’s choreography credits include Alabama State University, the University of Saint Joseph and Central Connecticut State University. Rosanna is represented by United Talent Agency. Ages 13-18 Upcoming Sessions: TBD