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EMC Performing Arts Studio
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Carly Faye
After dancing in NYC for 10 years, Carly Faye has recently returned to her hometown of Baltimore. She was the Head Teacher and Manager for a competitive dance company for her final 7 years in NYC. Her dancers won multiple competitive awards, and performed at Brooklyn's Barclays Center, and Madison Square Garden. Prior to her work with NYC's competitive teams, Carly was the head of the Dance Department at Camp Starlight, and a highly sought out teacher in the New York & Baltimore-Washington Area. Carly has been training dancers in Contemporary, Hip-Hop, Jazz, Musical Theatre, Tap and Ballet for 15 years, and her students have been accepted into the Kirov Academy, Carnegie Mellon, University of the Arts, Julliard, The Bolshoi Ballet, Alvin Ailey, and have gone on to have professional careers all over the world. Carly performed professionally with Silvertree Productions, The Next Stage Project, Baltimore Dance Collective, and at New York Fashion Week. She is currently on faculty at Dance Connections, The Movement Lab, & Towson University Community Dance, teaching multiple styles to dancers ages 2 – adult! She works as a guest choreographer and Master Teacher for AACPS, Maryland Dance Alliance, Independent Dance Network, and several other studios and schools through out the Baltimore-Washington, NJ/NY area. Carly Faye is also an Adjudicator and Master Teacher with Spotlight Dance Cup, Starquest International, and Impact Dance Adjudicators. Carly's choreography has received regional and national recognition, been selected for the American College Dance Festival, and performed on prime time television. Carly has also worked with public and private schools teaching multiple styles of dance to students of all ages, as well as choreographing for their dance companies and teams. She also works with other dance educators and studios to help with student retention, expansion, and healthy teaching attitudes. She is currently the co-host of the podcast, "Count Me In: A Dance and Education Podcast" where she and her sister discuss the importance of dance education, and all the ups and downs that come along with it!
Brooke Manker
Ballet Instructor
Brooke Manker is a current student at Towson University where she will receive her Bachelors of Fine Arts in Dance Performance and Choreography in Spring of 2019. Throughout her training, she has been able to study modern under Linda-Denise Fisher-Harrell, and ballet/pointe under Runqiao Du as well as contemporary, jazz, tap and hip hop from various instructors and intensives including Rockette Summer Intensive 2011, Point Park International Summer Intensive 2014 and Company E's Summer Intensive 2018. During her time at Towson University, she has performed with Towson's Dance Company for 5 seasons and was rehearsal assistants in fall of 2018. She has also performed at Baltimore Theatre Project with VT Dance under the direction of Vincent Thomas, and will be performing there with ASEID Dance under Alison Seidenstricker this spring. Other showcases include, Koresh's "Come Together Dance Festival 2017" in "Subsequent" choreographed by Marissa Kauffman and American College Dance Festival 2017 in the selected Gala performance "Threshold" choreographed by Susan Mann.
Brooke began teaching with EMC in 2015, and thoroughly enjoys her time spent with her students and helping them to explore their creativity.
Robin Snyder-Wiencek
Robin began her dance training at a "hot mess" local studio in Baltimore at the age of three, where she couldn't get enough of "dance studio life". Later, she was fortunate enough to attend the prestigious Baltimore School for the Arts, where she received a proper dance education and a love for teaching.
Upon graduation from high school, Robin attended college briefly, but the entrepreneurial bug bit hard and she jumped at the chance to open her studio when the opportunity presented itself.
In 1992, at the age of 22, Robin started her studio in a single room studio in Baltimore City. She made many, many mistakes along the way but with the support of her husband who joined in and made the dance studio dream his own, the studio eventually took hold and gained traction. Today, EMC Performing Arts Studio provides dance, music, theater and gymnastics classes to more than 500 students in New Freedom, PA each week.
The dance program is the crown jewel of EMC, and is focused on teaching proper technique and preparing dancers to perform concert-style in a variety of genres in professional venues. While EMC dancers don't do "the competition thing", they do perform frequently and are given numerous opportunities to develop their artistry.
Robin resides on 8 acres of country land with her husband, young adult sons, elderly parents and too many cats and dogs. Her happy place is floating in her pool in the summer months, listening to Frank Sinatra and running her business from her deck. Robin has finally figured out how to work ON her business, not IN it and is still passionate about her business' growth, even after 27 years!
In the next chapter, Robin hopes to share her knowledge and experience with studio owners around the country through DSO Connect.
Morgan Anderson
Morgan Anderson is a dancer, teacher, and choreographer who has trained for 18 years in the areas of classical ballet and pointe, modern, jazz, improvisation and musical theater. She spent three years training at Howard Community College where she earned her A.A. in Dance Performance. She has performed with the HCC dance company for the 2013 to 2017 dance seasons being featured in pieces by choreographers such as Elizabeth Higgins, Trent Williams Jr., Adrienne Clancy, and Mat Elder. Morgan has also trained in modern and contemporary dance with Baltimore/DC area artists such as Adrienne Clancy, Christopher K Morgan and Latefia Bradley.
As a teacher, Morgan has taught for several studios in Maryland and Southern Pennsylvania training students of all ages. She has choreographed concert and musical theater work for Catalyst Dance Theater, Equinox Dance Company, Liberty High School and Gettysburg Area High School.
Jamie Ferguson
Jaime has been part of the EMC Team since 2010 and her role has grown into many different branches of EMC. She enjoys working with EMC's Administration as well as teaching the young musicians of EMC.
Jaime has her Bachelor's degree from IUP (Indiana University of PA) in Business Marketing and before joining EMC, she had been working in Human Resources for 10 years.
She lives at home with her husband, Kerry and two beautiful children, Van & Wyn. Jaime loves being outdoors, watching and playing sports and being active. Running, swimming, skiing, playing volleyball and playing with her kids is something she always enjoys.
Jaime truly enjoys working at EMC and watching the students grow into wonderful young adults and finding their way in the world. She believes that with hard work, dedication and patience anything is possible.
Kathy has been part of the EMC Team since 2006 and she is the "friendly face" of EMC that our families have grown to know and love. She enjoys interacting with our students in her role as Office Manager and she loves her job!
Fun facts: Miss Kathy has a cosmetology teaching license and worked as a barber for many years. She also has a CDL and has worked as a school bus driver. Currently, she shares a home with her husband, Monte and spends her free time riding on the back of a Harley Davidson, kayaking and enjoying sightseeing adventures most weekends.
Kathy has three grown children and two grandchildren that she spends time with as much as possible. Her oldest daughter Ashley was one of EMC's first dancers in PA and is now running the EMC Spirit Shop on Facebook.
Kathy makes it a point to always attend our Holiday Celebration and Spring Concert at the Pullo Center and loves seeing the students grow from year to year. .
Jaime Ferguson
Music DirectorA York County native, Jaime has been playing piano for over 20 years and enjoys many styles of music.
Classically trained, Jaime took many music classes while obtaining her B.A. in Marketing from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She enjoys teaching at all levels and ages.
She builds a solid foundation for her piano students by emphasizing on theory, note recognition and rhythm. Jaime is a patient and creative teacher that would like to make music fun for her students. Her goal as a teacher is to help and train each of her students to reach a level of note reading and musicianship to become independent musicians!
Katie Holtslander
Gymnastics Director
Katie's highly successful gymnastics program at EMC Performing Arts Studio was established in 2008. Katie has used her background as a national champion gymnast and child development educator to craft a unique program that cultivates your child's potential. Katie was a gymnastics participant for 13 years including several national championships, training at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and a Member of the NCAA Division I Women's Gymnastics Team. Following her gymnastics career, Katie obtained a degree in Child Development, Safety Certification, and has worked continuously in the field of Child Development since 2000. Some highlights of Katie's career are coaching many state champions, starting a preschool program, and developing cutting edge cognitive and physical therapy programs for special needs children. Katie credits gymnastics as offering a great source of fun, self-esteem, and team work in all children. She is looking forward to emphasizing those ideals while working with you and your child to reach your goals.
Sydney Carnaggio
Gymnastics Coach
Sydney is an honor roll student that currently attends Hereford High School. She studied dance at EMC for several years before persuing an interest in gymnastics. She has been a gymnast since 2012 and has competed at different gyms in neighboring states. Sydney is currently coaching in the Discovery Gym at EMC where she enjoys working with children.
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Rachel Elizabeth Thompson
Rachel has studied classical ballet for 15 years. She received most of her pre-collegiate training at Dance Conservatory of Maryland under the instruction of Pamela Villeneuve, Linda O'Brien, Shana O'Brien, Barclay Gibbs, Paul Wegner, and Caryl Maxwell. In 2011, she was recognized as a Maryland Distinguished Scholar in the Arts and went on to study Ballet at Mercyhurst University under the instruction of Tauna Hunter, Michael Gleason, Lesley Bories-Scalise, Melissa Bobick, Noelle Partusch, and Christina Maria Adelhardt. While at the University, Mrs. Thompson served as chapter president of National Honors Society for Dance Arts, part of the National Dance Education Organization. She also had the honor of being hired by the D'Angelo Opera Theatre as Stage Manager for their production of Madama Butterfly. She graduated from Mercyhurst University with a B.A. in Dance (and a B.A. in English). Over the course of her training, she has performed in numerous classical, contemporary, and liturgical roles. For the past three years she has taught and choreographed for local studios and fitness centers including Dance Conservatory of Maryland, Sudbrook Arts Centre/Mission DanceWorks, and YMCA. She has also been invited to adjudicate auditions for Susquehanna Youth Ballet.
Jake Rivers
Cello, Violin, Guitar and Songwriting
Music Instructor
Jake Rivers grew up a product of exposure to diverse musical influences. A cellist and guitarist, Jake is able to perform and teach in many different musical styles, ranging from classical to jazz, to rock on both instruments. A recent graduate from York College, Jake studies music performance and is actively performing in the area as a classical cellist, and as a singer-songwriter under the name Jake Matthew Rivers.
Technique Program
The lessons we teach in our dance program create well-prepared young adults, poised and ready to succeed! Each year we send dancers to prestigious dance intensives, college programs, performing arts high schools and professional dance companies. We must be doing something right! Even if you don't have these aspirations for your child, the lessons we teach will result in a disciplined, poised young person who is bound to succeed regardless of the path that is chosen.
The Music Academy
Private music instruction in voice, piano, guitar, bass, drums, strings and more are offered in our studio. Professional musicians and educators will help your child learn the basics that can develop for years to come. Formal and informal community performance opportunities are offered throughout the year, encouraging your child to share his/her love of music with others!
Bailey Ryon
Student Dance Instructor
Bailey has been a part of EMC since the inception of the New Freedom studio, officially beginning classes in 2005. Her training includes Ballet, Modern, Jazz, Tap, Theater Dance, Hip Hop, Improvisation and composition, as well as Music lessons and Acting. Bailey is a Company Member of both The Repertory Ensemble and The Susquehanna Youth Ballet. She has attended Summer Intensive Programs at The Joffrey Ballet School and The Broadway Collective in NYC, as well as regularly attending classes at Broadway Dance Center.
Bailey joined the EMC Teacher Training Program in 2015, she has taught several Theater Master Classes, in NYC, NJ, and Florida. Bailey received a Tony Honors and Grammy nominee for her role as "Matilda" in Matilda the Musical on Broadway. Other credits include "Cindy Lou Who" in How the Grinch Stole Christmas National Tour, "Mary Lennox" in The Secret Garden at The Arden Theatre, and "Clara" in Sandman for the 2013 NAMT Festival in NYC. Bailey has discovered her love of teaching while working with our Kreative Kidz students and plans to pursue teaching the Arts while performing professionally.
Allison Hutchison
Piano & Voice
Allison was born and raised in western Pennsylvania by a family of music makers. Music has always been her passion, and now she is lucky enough to make music her career. She is a graduate of York College of Pennsylvania with a degree in music industry and recording technology and minors in musical theatre and legal studies. She has been singing since she could talk and has had formal and informal training in both voice and piano as well as informal training on guitar. Allison has enjoyed participating in musical theatre in high school and college and studying the techniques in vocal belting. She was the music director of ICCA finalist a cappella group YCP Rhapsody in college where she arranged music and taught a group of around 20 acappella singers. She currently works at Dutch Apple Dinner Theatre in Lancaster, PA as the Assistant Box Office Manager and in the marketing department. Her goal for each student is to develop a love for music with proper technical training and a whole lot of fun!
Alexander Wiencek
Drum kit & Hand drums
Music Instructor – Student Teacher
Alex began studying drums at the age of 8 under James Gummer, here at EMC. He is a founding member of The Blacks Jacks, and has performed at The Strand, The Pullo Center, Baltimore Sound Stage, the Ottobar, the Recher, Glen Rock Arts and Brew Fest and numerous local events. Playing music with his brothers is an important part of Alex's daily life and he has grown to appreciate the bond that music can create between people. Alex looks forward to sharing his love of percussion with his new students.
James Gummer
Music Instructor – Drums
James Gummer began playing drums in 1987 and is proud to be part of the original MTV generation. He's played everything from heavy metal to the music of our ancestors. He's been fortunate to study with Dr. Bill Watson, Wes Crawford, and Dr. N. Scott Robinson. James teaches privately and is the drum and percussion instructor at The Saint James Academy in Monkton, Maryland and EMC in New Freedom, Pennsylvania. Among his many musical adventures, James has been the resident drummer at the Maryland Renaissance Festival since 1997 and is currently an accompanist for CCBC's dance department. He is also a Remo Health Rhythms Drum Circle Facilitator and trained directly with The Remo Drum Company. Find him online at jamesgummer.com.
Rita Baker-Schmidt
Voice, Piano, and Guitar
Music Instructor – Vocals
Rita can't remember a time when she didn't sing. She began taking music lessons in high school. She won a scholarship for lessons taught by pedagogy students when she was a junior. She has an AA degree in music from CCBC where she also studied theatre. She's been leading music on stage, in churches and at Girl Scout events ever since. She is currently a cantor at Our Lady of Grace in Parkton. She also plays bass and guitar with Contemporary Band and AMEN Corner (the youth music group – for which she is one of the adult leaders.) Strengths include contemporary Christian songs, Broadway, and pop. Her goal is to bring the best out of every student as they learn technique. She helps them find the story in every song and to have a little fun along the way.
Catie Costantino
Catie cannot remember a time she was without music. She began formal piano lessons with Ms. Jaime over three years ago, but she has taught herself by ear for as long as she can remember. Catie began trumpet lessons at the age of 9, where she learned music theory, allowing her excel in piano very quickly. Emphasizing on basic theory, Catie plans on building a foundation for young students in hopes that they enjoy the piano as much as she does.
Brendan Wiencek
Brendan began studying guitar at the age of 5, here at EMC under Allison Hutchison, Seth Kibel, Mark Kraus Matt Shriver and Ethan Walker. Outside of the studio, he currently studies with Max Kuzmyak, Carl Bahner and Curt Sipe. Brendan is a member of Inspire's advanced jazz band, Runferyerlife and is a founding member of The Black Jacks, the EMC house band.
Brendan studies classical, jazz, rock, blues and metal in his multiple guitar lessons each week. He also is learning how to record, write, read and arrange.
Last year, Brendan began cyber schooling so he would have more time in the day to devote to his guitar studies. As a sophomore at Susquehannock High School's Digital Academy, Brendan hopes to join their jazz band this upcoming year, and aspires to ultimately attend a prestigious music conservatory after high school.
Brendan began teaching at EMC in the winter of 2017 and currently has a nice following of beginner level students who love the guitar.
Black Box Theater
The Black Box Theater Program will nurture your child's ability and desire to think creatively and critically, work as a team and build self-confidence. Black Box classes help your child gain acting and performing skills in a fun, positive, and quick paced environment. EMC's Black Box Theater Program teaches the skills necessary for students to audition successfully, master any role, and perform with proficiency.
Specialty Dance Classes
At EMC we believe in providing access to classes that enrich the mind and body. Our dance professionals have carefully selected classes designed to help your dancer stand out from the crowd, delivered in a professional yet fun learning environment. Specialty Classes also serve as an enrichment to the Technique Program Package. Our most serious dancers add Specialty Classes to their package in order to create a program that suits their goals and needs.
Discovery Gym
Our gym specializes in teaching children under 13 years old fundamental gymnastics and tumbling skills in a non-competitive environment. Our fully trained gymnastics coaches are caring and attentive to every child while adhering to strict teacher-student ratios. Your child is special and will not be lost in the crowd. A year-end show and award ceremony will make every child feel like a winner!
Kreative Kids Dance
Our Kreative Kidz dancers are our youngest dancers and are treated to the full dance education experience! Aspiring dancers from 2-8 years old are part of the unique classes that take them from the first plié to the final curtain call on stage. Our dancers will not only learn the foundational skills of ballet, tap, and jazz but will come to appreciate the joy of dance!
Rachel Cyr
Theater Instructor and Gymnastics
Rachel Cyr graduated from the University of Connecticut in 2006 with a Bachelor's Degree in Acting. She has studied many acting methods including Stanislavsky, Michael Chekhov, and Suzuki under Eric Hill. Rachel performed in such plays as Crimes of the Heart, The Gut Girls, Marcus is Walking, and Marat/Sade with the Connecticut Repertory Theatre. She lived and auditioned in New York City before coming to EMC in 2009 as an Acting and Dance Instructor. She also has a second degree in Secondary Education. Rachel prides herself in instilling confidence and creativity in her students through fun and dedication.
Randi Wolcott
Randi Poff has been a gymnast since 1995. Even though she was 3 years old, she instantly fell in love with the sport. She participated in competitive gymnastics for many years and was blessed to have traveled around the United States and even outside the country to London, England. She loves everything about gymnastics and all that the sport can offer. Her passion for gymnastics is evident when working with children. One of Randi's favorite things about teaching gymnastics is seeing the smile on a child's face after mastering a skill. She is proud to be a part of the EMC team.
Milana Schechtman
Milana has been performing and dancing since the age of five. Her dance training consists of jazz, tap, ballet, modern/contemporary, hip hop, pointe, tumbling and acro. She has been a member of the Susquehanna Youth Ballet and is a member of the Repertory Ensemble. Milana attended the Joffrey Ballet Musical Theatre Intensive in New York through scholarship, and several Peabody Preparatory ballet master classes and intensives in Baltimore.
Besides her love of dance, Milana also studies voice, theater and piano and has been cast in musicals such as High School Musical as Sharpay Evans, Peter Pan as Tinker Bell, Cinderella as the Evil Stepmother and The Diary of Anne Frank as Anne Frank.
Milana is a member of the Gifted and Talented Program, the National Honor Society, Distinguished Honor Roll, The National Honor Society for Dance Arts-Junior Chapter and nominated for the American Legion National Achievement School Medal Award. She has also started a teen suicide prevention program called "The Silence Ends Here" at Dallastown Area School District where she plans to spread awareness to students and parents about the affects of mental health.
Milana loves EMC and all of the wonderful opportunities it brings her. She enjoys teaching children the gift of performance and movement and knows the beautiful affects it can have on their growing lives.
Rachel Fiorini
Rachel has been dancing since the age of 3. She began her training at EMC in 2005, and has trained in various styles of dance including ballet, pointe, modern, contemporary, jazz, tap, and improvisation/composition. Rachel has been a member of the Repertory Ensemble since 2009, and a member of Company Elite since 2015. In 2011, she became a member of the Susquehanna Youth Ballet. Rachel is co-captain of Hereford High School's Dance Company, where her choreography has been selected to be performed at events such as the Maryland Dance Alliance. She has also been named a Maryland All State Dancer. She has participated in events including Disney's Dance the World and the Youth American Grand Prix, and has attended summer programs such as Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet's August Week Intensive, and the Joffrey NYC Summer Ballet Intensive. Rachel joined the Kreative Kidz staff in 2013, and the Technique Program staff in 2015. She loves sharing her passion for dance with her students!
Theresa Falzone
Theresa is currently a student at Susquehannock High School and has been studying at EMC Performing Arts Studio since 2006. Her training consists of ballet, tap, jazz, modern, contemporary, improvisation, composition, choreography, and basic dance education. Theresa is a member of the Susquehanna Youth Ballet, and is in the studio's prestigious Company Elite. She finds it important to give back to the community. She loves sharing her passion for dance with the little ones. Without art and culture, she doesn't know how she would live.
Katelyn Dixon
Katelyn began dancing at EMC in 2003 at the age of 3. She has trained in ballet, pointe, tap, jazz, modern, contemporary, musical theatre, as well as composition and improvisation. She joined the Repertory Ensemble in 2009 and has been a member of EMC's Company Elite since 2016. She has performed in events such as the Moscow Ballet's Nutcracker, Disney's Dance the World, Maryland Dance Alliance, Baltimore County Dance Festival, Maryland Public High School Dance Showcase, The North East Theatre Fest, and has participated in various master classes and dance intensives. Katelyn is the dance captain and choreographer of Hereford High School's musicals and is a member and co-captain of Hereford's Dance Company. She is also a member of the Hereford Chamber Choir, National Honor Society, National Honor Society for Dance Arts, Tri-M Music Honor Society, Future Educators of America, and is an officer for International Thespian Society. Katelyn has also been a member of Johns Hopkins Peabody Children's Choir since 2010 and is serving as a student intern for the youngest choir. Katelyn joined the Kreative Kidz staff in 2012 as an assistant. In 2014 she became a teacher for both the Kreative Kidz and Technique Dance Programs at EMC. She is so excited to be sharing her knowledge and love of dance with younger dancers!
Brittany Copp
Brittany has been dancing at EMC Performing Arts Studio since 2005. She has trained in ballet, pointe, tap, jazz, modern, hip-hop, and improvisation/composition. She has been a member of the Ensemble since 2014 and was accepted into the prestigious Company Elite in 2016. Brittany participated in the AIM Invitational at Broadway Dance Center in 2017 with her fellow Company Elite dancers.
She is currently a student at Susquehannock High School where she participates in the school musicals.
Brittany really enjoys working in the Kreative Kidz Program at EMC because she loves watching the little ones learn and grow.
Jessica Treherne
Jessica began her ballet training with Judy Daniel at Upper Falls Dance Academy and Michelle White at Harford Dance Theatre. She continued her training at Baltimore School for the Arts, and Central PA Youth Ballet. Jessica has also studied at Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, American Ballet Theatre and San Francisco Ballet. She is a graduate of the UNC School of the Arts, where she trained under world-renowned teachers Melissa Hayden, Warren Conover and Gyula Pandi. Jessica has performed in works by John Clifford, Wes Chapman, Paul Vasterling Fernando Bujones, Hinton Battle, Susan McCullough, Marius Petipa, August Bournonville and George Balanchine, among others. In 1999 she was invited to appear with the Hungarian National Ballet in Budapest. Jessica is the recipient of several certificates of honor and distinction granted by England's Royal Academy of Dance. She has performed with Carolina Ballet, Nashville Ballet, and American Ballet Theatre Studio Company. Jessica has been on the faculty of the Greater Dover Dance Academy, Cedar Lake Contemporary Dance Ensemble, Upper Falls Dance Academy, Harford Dance Theatre, Dance Conservatory of MD, and the School of the Washington Ballet.
Briana Marshall
Briana is a student at Towson University as a dance major. She will graduate in the fall of 2019 with a Bachelors of Fine Arts degree in dance performance and a certificate to teach dance to grades K-12. She is training in ballet, modern, jazz, tap, hip-hop and pointe. She began her training at Arts High School in Newark, New Jersey where she graduated as a dance major in 2013. She has also trained at Just Dancin' in Bloomfield, New Jersey where she was a company member and performed with the Nova Dance Ensemble. She also trained at Sharron Miller's Academy for the Performing Arts in Montclair. New Jersey where she was also a company member and performed with the Performance Workshop Ensemble. She attended the Earl Moseley's Institute of the Arts summer intensive program in 2012 and 2013. In 2013 she was named one of the four New Jersey Performing Arts Center's Star Ledger Scholars and was awarded $20,000 for her dance and choreographic talents to attend the University of her choice. She became ZUMBA certified in 2015 and is currently a member of Towson University's Dance Company.
Kathryn Jacques
Kathryn Jacques began her training at Towson University's Children's Dance Division where she studied ballet, modern and jazz and was a member of both award-winning performing companies. She later attended Towson University on merit scholarship and graduated with Honors with a BFA in Dance Performance. Kathryn spent summers at Baltimore Ballet and Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet and has performed professionally with the Baltimore Ballet, Ballet Chesapeake (formerly Harford Ballet Company), Eclipse Performing Dance Company, with various independent choreographers and has appeared in local TV commercials, magazines and advertisements. She has been accepted into programs for Richmond Ballet, Ballet Austin, Ballet Theater of Maryland, and Nashville Ballet and received Honorable Mention as a Maryland Distinguished Scholar of the Arts.
For over a decade she has taught all levels of ballet and Pointe throughout northern Maryland. Her students have been accepted into programs for American Ballet Theater, The Rock School, Bolshoi Ballet, Miami City Ballet and many other prestigious training programs as well as performing arts high schools and college majors. Former students have received professional contracts with Ballet Theater of Maryland, Nashville Ballet and Richmond Ballet. Kathryn also coaches students for the Youth America Grand Prix and many students have won awards and scholarships at numerous regional dance competitions.
Carrie Millikin Euker
Ballet Director
Carrie began studying dance in Rockford, IL under former Radio City Rockette, Kathy Nelson. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Dance from Mercyhurst University and achieved her MBA degree at the University of Colorado, Denver. While attending Mercyhurst she danced various roles in Carmen, Coppelia, A Midsummer Night's Dream, La Sylphide, and Raymonda, under the direction of Tauna Hunter. She danced with Milwaukee Ballet and Milwaukee Ballet II, performing in Michael Pink's Swan Lake, Don Quixote, and Romeo and Juliet. Carrie performed in Denver with the David Taylor Dance Theater enjoying soloist and principal roles in works by James Wallace as well as Gregory Dawson's "Eclipsing Venus." She has also performed with 7 Dancers, notably in "ART" by Mandy Moore, of the hit television series "So You Think You Can Dance." Carrie also danced the lead role in 101 Things to do in a Lifetime, featuring choreography by Chantal Robson. During her four year stay at Missouri Contemporary Ballet, Carrie performed numerous works by director Karen Mareck Grundy as well as works by Shannon Lee West, Thang Dao, Autumn Eckman, and Joshua Blake Carter. Carrie originated the role of Alice in Grundy's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
In 2011 Carrie became the founding director and lead instructor of the School of MCB. During this time she also coordinated DanceReach, offering dance to at-risk youth in the community, and in 2013 she co-founded DanceAbility, a program offering dance classes to students with special needs. Carrie's original choreography has been performed by students as well as professionals and she has extensive experience instructing and coaching dancers of all ages in ballet, jazz, tap, and modern/contemporary styles.
Carrie currently resides in the greater Baltimore area and appears nationally as a guest artist, teacher, and choreographer. For more info check out her website at www.CMEuker.com.
Amanda Cummings
Dance Technique Program Director
Amanda has been dancing since 1992 and teaching since 1996. As a teenager Amanda danced competitively with Dance Dynamix in Bel Air, MD for one year. She then moved to Aberdeen Dance School where she danced and began her teaching career. Amanda has studied and taught creative movement, ballet, tap, jazz, and hip-hop. She enjoys teaching children technique and especially choreography. Amanda and her family moved to Stewartstown, PA in 2009 and found EMC for her daughter Emma to study dance. Amanda began teaching at EMC in 2011 and teaches technique tap classes and is the current director for Company Elite at EMC. Amanda also enjoys teaching jazz, contemporary, and adult tap classes as well.
Ciara Miller Driscoll
Artistic Director/Kreative Kidz Director
Ciara has been a part of the EMC staff since the inception of the PA studio in 2003. She is widely known throughout the Southern York County and Hanover areas for her work in their theaters and schools both in dance education and musical theater training. She graduated from Susquehannock High School and The William Penn Performing Arts Institute in York, PA. She continued her education in New York City at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy, as well as Broadway Dance Center. Ciara's training includes ballet, tap, jazz, hip hop, lyrical, modern, musical theatre, and competitive ballroom in Adagio Partnering.


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Wallace Eugene "Wally" Wingert (6 de mayo de 1961 en Des Moines, Iowa) es un actor de voz estadounidense. Anteriormente residía en Sioux Falls hasta que se mudó a Los Ángeles para trabajar y donde reside a día de hoy.

Actualmente es uno de los colaboradores del The Tonight Show with Jay Leno y es conocido por prestar su voz al personaje de The Garfield Show: Jon Arbuckle y por interpretar a Riddler en los videojuegos Batman: Arkham Asylum y Batman: Arkham City.

Filmografía

Cine
 Bleach: Memories of Nobody
 Bleach: The DiamondDust Rebellion
 Bleach: Fade to Black
 Can of Worms
 Digimon Frontier: Island of Lost Digimon
 Final Fantasy VII Advent Children
 Return to Never Land
 Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed

Anime
 Astroboy
 Bleach
 Blood+
 Blue Dragon
 Digimon Data Squad
 DinoZaurs
 Kekkaishi
 Naruto
 Initial D
 Stitch!
 Tiger & Bunny
 Transformers: la Nueva Generación
 Zatch Bell!

Series de TV (voz)
 The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes
 Padre de familia
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Job Skill: Integrity
Minna Jung	April 1, 2021 0 Comments
It is one of those days—weeks, really—where I am feeling sick and tired of the happenings in the world, and particularly, the happenings in the United States. Violence against Asian-Americans, voter suppression, the trial for the murder of George Floyd: all of these things are collectively weighing on my spirit and I have to do some brutally efficient compartmentalization before I can get on with the boatload of tasks and assignments that are demanding my time and attention.
Out of my peripheral vision, I've been somewhat fascinated by the recent spike of news around Deborah Birx, who served as the White House coordinator for the pandemic response (or lack thereof). In a recent interview with CNN, Birx admitted that she knew the White House's pandemic response (or lack thereof) was, er, wanting, and that hundreds of lives could have potentially been saved. An opinion piece from the Washington Post argued that her situation ought to be taught as the "Birx Dilemma" in public policy schools, as an example of someone who was clearly qualified to do her job, but who was forced to try and do her job while reporting to someone who was not only incompetent, but quite possibly mentally unfit (and malevolent and narcissistic and petty, to boot).
I don't think the Birx Dilemma (catchy phrase) ought to be taught just in public policy schools. I think that it ought to be taught, and people ought to learn about it, in education and employment situations throughout one's life. Because the Birx Dilemma illustrates a fundamental problem that comes up again and again in employment situations: how to develop, and exercise, your integrity muscle.
Your inner sense of integrity—your moral compass, if you wish for another way to think about it—is your sense of right and wrong that gets you through every possible aspect of life, including and especially, work situations. And you may think you have moral clarity about how you would act in different situations—for example, I am quite certain that nothing could have persuaded me to work in the Trump Administration—but I am also aware that I can't possibly be aware of all of the factors that went into Dr. Birx's thinking during that period—whether she thought she could do more good by staying in that job, so she could help to mitigate the incompetence and ignorance around her, for example.
What I am trying to say is that for people at any stage of their career, at some point, and probably at many points, you will find yourself in the middle of a very messy situation. The right and the wrong of what to do will not be super-clear to you. Everything will feel gray, and fuzzy, and worse yet, it will feel extraordinarily painful, and stressful, and may even make your hair fall out. In clumps. And when you find yourself in those situations, you will have to weigh many things simultaneously before making a decision on how to either mitigate, adapt to, or exit the situation.
Your integrity is one of the many things that should help guide you towards your ultimate decision. So you should get well-acquainted with your sense of integrity from a very early age onwards! You should be somewhat aware of all of the many influences that helped shape your moral compass (no one springs from the womb with a developed sense of integrity). For some people, it's religious faith. For others, it's their parents—for better or for worse. For some people, it's Star Trek! (I'm not kidding about that, there are people who truly believe that Starfleet's values are the ones they want to live by, never mind that it's fictional and set in the future.)
Your moral compass will likely shift and change as you get older and gain more work experience. For example, there were things that used to shock the hell out of me in my early years of working. I was shocked when people just outright didn't do the work. I was shocked when I heard that a colleague threw a temper tantrum in the middle of a meeting and left, slamming the door shut after her. And while I still think those behaviors are, uh, not good in a workplace setting, I now have a more compassionate and wider lens through which to view those behaviors. Maybe those people were just going through something terrible in their personal lives. Maybe they were struggling in their jobs, and no one was helping them. My integrity would still tell me, nowadays, that those behaviors need to be addressed—in part because they have a negative and outsized impact on other people's ability to work—but they need to be addressed with compassion.
In one very ill-fated job, I was told by a very senior person to do something that was completely against the rules. I knew that what he was doing was wrong, and I did exactly what I was counseled to do—I shared details with my supervisor, who then ran details up the flagpole, so to speak. What happened next, in retrospect, was unsurprising: certain friends and colleagues of the very senior person began making noises about disciplining me for a plethora of very vague, and in some cases, completely untruthful reasons. It was a textbook case of retaliation. (I did, after all, train to be a lawyer.)
My sense of right and wrong absolutely told me that what was happening to me was wrong. I could've fought back. I could have threatened legal action based on any number of things, not the least of which had to do with the hostile, discriminatory things he said to me while asking me to break the rules. In those situations, you know, the employer usually wants to avoid litigation, so the minute you start speaking up, they usually try to get you to hush up with a settlement. And by getting you to sign an agreement that you'll never, ever talk shit about them, ever. (I did not sign such an agreement, which is why I feel relatively okay writing about it here, although I'm still keeping details anonymous.)
But I didn't fight back. What satisfaction would a settlement bring? I didn't want to go through the process of hiring an employment lawyer, gathering all of the documentation (I had a lot of it), and bringing a cause of action against a very ginormous organization. Most of all, I just didn't want to re-live the sorry set of circumstances over and over again through litigation. When you bring an action forward, you have to set down every fact, in painstaking detail, with the correct chronology. Which essentially forces you to re-live the situation, often repeatedly. I was feeling relatively mentally healthy about the whole situation, TBH: while unpleasant to experience, I was kind of matter-of-fact about it: I encountered a huge asshole, backed by a huge armada of assholes who ushered him to his seat of power, and rather than try to engage for the sake of justice and fairness, I….just resigned.
The lesson for me was and still is: in general, one's integrity is a good guide, but not always a good master. Like, if you're going to die on a hill for a cause, I think it had better be the right cause, you know what I mean? And it was also a reminder that sometimes, at work, you're going to find yourself in situations where you don't know the right thing to do. You will be picking the lesser of two evils, in some cases. And it doesn't mean that your integrity is shot to shit: it just means that you deployed your sense of right and wrong, and made a difficult decision based on that and a whole host of other reasons.
I hope that more people develop a sense of integrity that tells them to intervene, say something, do something when someone tries to harass a Black person, an Asian person, a trans person, a gay person: anyone, really, who is being oppressed systematically and brutally in America.
I'm not sure that Dr. Birx deserves a great deal of compassion or forgiveness from any of us—particularly the people who lost loved ones, unnecessarily, during the pandemic. But I AM sure she had integrity, and that she was in a helluva difficult situation, working for people who possessed absolutely none.
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Characteristics and Range Secretive and clad in soft grey-browns, with few marking to distinguish it from other thrushes (other than the lack of reddish-brown or warm buffy tones), the Gray-cheeked Thrush is most readily found and identified by its calls and descending song, which has a zesty yet ventriloquial quality. This thrush is the northernmost of its genus and the only one to nest outside the Americas, its breeding range spanning the treeline-tundra transition and shrubby Arctic tundra from Newfoundland to Alaska and eastern Siberia. It winters primarily in northern South America but may be a scarce winter visitor to parts of Middle America (Lowther et. al. 2001).
Distribution, Abundance, and Habitat The Gray-cheeked Thrush was found breeding across northern Manitoba as far south as Lynn Lake, Gillam, and 100 km southwest of Shamattawa, which is marginally farther south than depicted in The Birds of Manitoba. Atlas data show that this species is strongly associated with the Taiga Shield & Hudson Plains (found in 53% of squares with ≥3 hours of effort) and the Arctic Plains & Mountains (42%) with very limited occurrence in the Boreal Softwood Shield (0.3%). In Manitoba this is a bird of northern conifer and treeline habitats, typically with some shrub such as willow or dense ground cover, and it is very difficult to observe in these habitats except when foraging on the ground at the edge of small copses or when in song (pers. obs.). The Gray-cheeked Thrush is not a bird of open tundra habitats per se. In the extreme northeast corner of the province, it was found in only four of 15 squares surveyed north of the Caribou River, in low abundance along the Caribou River itself and in dense willow along larger creeks. Atlas results show a pattern of increasing relative abundance from the southern range limit and the coast towards the northwest. This is consistent with the habitat preference noted above, as Manitoba's northwest corner has taller coniferous trees, interspersed with some open peatlands, than found in much of the Hudson Bay Lowlands. The highest abundances, where density averaged >1 bird per point count, were in six squares around Kasmere, Nueltin, Munroe, Stony, and Courage Lakes.
Trends, Conservation, and Recommendations As it breeds in the remote north and winters in South America, almost nothing is known of population trends in the Gray-cheeked Thrush. BBS data suggest a long-term decline in Canada, but the reliability is low. More study of this species' biology and threats are needed.


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A simple guide to payroll in Ireland
Every business has employees who receive payment of the services they have rendered during a cyclic period ranging from an hour to a calendar year. Therefore, it's essential for an entity to keep a database of the employees' salaries. This system is known as a payroll.
A payroll can either be executed as part of the entity's Labour expenses or outsourced as an indirect overhead to the firm. Regardless of whether the payroll is run in the entity or by payroll specialists outside the firm, it is very important to have basic knowledge of how to operate a payroll.
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Changing a company's name in the Republic of Ireland
It is permissible for a company registered in Ireland to change its name if the authorising stakeholders deem it necessary. It also hinges on the Registrar of Companies, which is responsible for endorsing their written request. Typically, such a process requires 2 to 3 days to complete.
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Ireland as the ideal solution for Brexit
The question of whether to set up your business in Ireland or the UK has often rested heavily on the issue of taxes. However, the impending Brexit has completely changed the landscape.
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When registering a company, the destination choice does not only depend on the bureaucracy involved. It also encompasses the operating conditions the business will have to face in the future as well as its legal obligations to the authorities. Selecting between Ireland and other EC countries involves looking over the benefits the Republic of Ireland has to offer compared to its counterparts.
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Every business is mandated to register a business name, whether they are a sole trader, a partnership or any other company type.
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Once your investor has put their vesting information into the "Invest now" system and signed the subscription agreement, our system runs an AML screening on the investor immediately searching for a match on a number of different databases including OFAC, United Nations SDN list, FBI, Interpol watch lists and Her Majesty's Royal Treasury databases to list a few.
At this point you must be asking yourself what is AML? Why do I have to get it performed on my investors? What does it entail?
Anti-money laundering is a set of procedures, laws and regulations created to hinder the generation of income from practices considered to be illegal. Money launders attempt to hide their illegally earned funds by moving them through a series of transactions to make the money seem like it was earned legally. AML laws cover a relatively limited number of transactions but their implications are very far reaching. The AML procedures we follow ensure our services are not aiding money-laundering of funds into your offerings.
To complete the AML search on investors from international countries, their passport, national id and proof of address is required. These documents help establish that your investor is who they say they are and that they can prove their identity with documentary evidence. The passport must be valid i.e. not expired or it will fail the necessary verification protocols.
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AML protocols help making the acceptance of international money safe and easy. With a few requests for documentary evidence we can help ensure your offering has accepted investors that pose little reputational risk to you and your business because we have done our diligence and made sure they have no relationships tied to money laundering or terrorist financing.
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Yoga initially well known as part of religious practice but right now in modern world, yoga is already becoming the part of healthy lifestyle. There are a lot of people are practicing yoga in order to find the balance in their life and due to the amazing health benefits of yoga. While others are prefer to join an exclusive yoga session with a professional, some others prefer to choose several yoga poses that they could do at home anytime and one of the poses that are really popular is sarvangasana because beside this pose is easy to do the benefits of sarvangasana is also a lot for human health.
Sarvangasana comes from the word 'Sarv' which means 'Entire, 'Anga' which means 'Body Parts' and 'Asana' which means 'Pose'. So, literally sarvangasana is a pose that could benefits all parts of the body. Sarvangasana is also well known as Shoulder Stand yoga pose. This pose is an advance yoga pose but once you know how to do it you don't need a professional to assist you every time you want to do this pose.
Some studies showed that doing sarvangasana regularly could help improving the blood circulation. It means not only your metabolism is working properly but also some others important systems such as respiratory system and digestive system.
As mentioned in the previous point when your blood circulation is in normal pace, your heart will work optimally and easily without pressure. It means you could improve your cardiovascular health and reduces some health risks like heart attack and stroke.
Symptoms of high blood pressure occur when your cardiovascular health is not in a good condition. If the symptoms occur perhaps it is the perfect time for you to start reconsidering your current lifestyle and adding sarvangasana to your daily routine.
Though there are a lot of pain killers that are effective to treat headache but the natural way is still the best option. Headache occurs when your head is not getting enough oxygen. Blood has responsible in regulating oxygen throughout the body. Headache is no longer a problem if you have excellent blood circulation.
Insomnia is a common condition but it is not easy to deal with. Sleeping pills are only short-term solution but sarvangasana may be the best long-term solution especially when you do it regularly because it could help improving your sleep quality.
As mentioned in the point number one, doing sarvangasana is also able to improve the respiratory systems. Some studies stated that doing it regularly could help reducing the symptoms of asthma significantly.
Not only for cardiovascular system and respiratory system, sarvangasana is also great for digestive system. It means you could treat some digestion conditions such as stomach ulcers, stomach pain up to constipation.
The optimal blood circulation is also helpful for the function of thyroid and parathyroid glands. It means all nutrients brought by the blood could be absorbed optimally. When the nutrients could be absorbed optimally may affect the metabolism system positively.
Consuming weight loss foods are not enough if not followed by healthy lifestyle. Sarvangasana may be the replacement of exercises you cannot do due to your busy schedules. Moreover, there are a lot of benefits of yoga for weight loss already proven scientifically.
For women who have menstrual disorders are also recommended to do sarvangasana regularly because it is great in blood circulation. Some studies have proven that this pose is beneficial to treat some menstrual conditions in women.
Not only for women, sarvangasana is also great to treat some sexual disorders in men. Sexual dysfunction may occur when blood cannot flow optimally to male's vital organ but by doing sarvangsana regularly, you don't need to worry about that anymore.
Sarvangasana is a pose that beneficial for your entire body. You must be surprised that doing this pose regularly is not only improving your health internally but also able to improve your vision, hearing and even your smelling ability.
The first thing you should do is lying on your back.
While inhaling you could raise your legs and then bent them until your buttocks and your upper body leave the floor.
Use your hands to support your back.
Once you feel okay, extend your legs and then keep them straight in the knees with your toes pointing to the sky until your body weight rests on the shoulders, neck and upper arms.
If you do the pose correctly your chin will automatically rest comfortably against your chest.
If it is your first time doing sarvangasana is better for you do it with a professional in your side.
You should remember that when doing sarvangasana, raise the head is forbidden because it could injure your neck badly.
When you bring your legs over your head without bending it may cause tension.
The best way to do sarvangasana for the first time is accompanied by a professional until he or she said you could do it yourself at home. For the optimal result and the best benefits of sarvangasana is recommended to do it in daily basis.


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Homeland, Carrie and Brody, Was it Love?: Part V
After the short bucolic break from reality, both Brody and Carrie have melded back into a plot prancing along apace.
Brody is called into Langley to tell Saul about Tom Walker. He's tense and frustrated having to answer the same questions again. He sees Carrie and he cringes. True, he believes that he's been called in because Carrie shared his confession to her that he killed Walker. It's a "dammit, there she is" wince. He wants to ignore her, and maybe he was hoping he wouldn't run into her there. But, maybe he was hoping he would, and he's recoiling at his own stupidity over still wanting to see her after what she did (i.e. what he thinks she did). "Dammit, there she is" can mean a variety of things, can't it? Whatever the case may be, his eyes keep going back to her.
No, Carrie and Brody are not a couple you will ever see making googly eyes at each other across a room. No one's buying anyone flowers. No one's sending cute texts and personal "just between us" gifts. What you get instead are curious glares. Eyelocks and frowns at the pain of connection and non-connection. Wincing when it hurts. This was not supposed to happen. Neither of them want it to happen. The eyelocks and frowns tell you this, and they also tell you that they are both powerless against it happening. The fact that this isn't a dinner and roses sort of love story makes it no less real a love story.
She tries to apologize, to clarify that she knows now that she was wrong to believe he had been turned. Why does she do this? She believes, at that point, that she got the wrong POW. It was Tom Walker who was turned, not Brody, she and Saul both think. Why apologize so profusely? She seems to cares what he thinks about her. But why? If he was just a suspect, and now not a suspect, why not just leave it alone and move on?
Because, she can't, that's why: there is no choice in love. Afterall, this was no relationship, just car sex followed by cabin sex, with and without libations. Yet, it was the sparkling hint of more. It was a taste. Yes, one can move on, given time and space, especially from something so transient to begin with. But, the idea of "choice" when it comes to pursuing more of that first taste of maybe loving someone? Nope, choice never existed in the same room as that brand of love.
In return for her apologies, Brody spews some nastiness about her taking that special initiative in her job, to fuck someone she suspects of terrorism. Now, it's her turn to recoil.
Since that Yorkshire Gold moment, Brody lives in a state of feeling "used, manipulated and lied to" (though he won't use those words until S2). He's hunkered down in full-on self-preservation mode. That includes trying to preserve his marriage and family. So he's at home, soothing Jessica's tears (more generously than we've seen him ever do before), playing cards with the kids, and getting prettied up for a fancy party at the VP's house.
Jessica loves being on Sergeant Brody's arm with all eyes on them. We learn at this party that the Brodys, as picture perfect as they are, are being groomed for a fortuitously emptied seat in Congress.
On the way home, when Brody turns away from backseat cuddling and his face goes all vacant, to some faraway place, maybe he's anticipating his move to the inside of government (even though he doesn't know it yet). The inside where he can be more flexible than ever to carry out Nazir's mission. More likely is that he's thinking the coziness with Jessica does not feel the same, cannot feel the same now, compared to what he experienced with Carrie.
When they get home, Jessica seems to have something else in mind, but all Brody wants to do is sit with his kids and watch Ice Age 3.
Carrie is a bit in recovery mode too, trying to salvage Saul's confidence in her by admitting that her contact with Brody got personal.\
Seems both Carrie and Brody are recovering from letting things get too personal. They're like "Look, this isn't supposed to be a love story, okay…Let's get back to playing good guy vs (maybe) bad guy."
Now for the title of this episode, "Achilles Heel". We know that Tom Walker's Achilles Heel is his wife and son. For Saul, as Mira is moving away, it's his work. What are Carrie and Brody's Achilles Heels'? They both share the state of being under the influence of all-encompassing missions, which happen to be on opposite sides from each other. They both share the ultimate weakness of their own minds betraying them, and making them do things they know to be wrong. Albeit, Brody is much more weakened by his mind than Carrie is by hers. And, I'll venture to say, they share the same difficulty in letting each other go completely. In this weakness, Carrie ultimately wins. But, right now, they're running neck and neck.
See, this isn't a strengthening, empowering love. Not in any conventionally healthy way, that is. It's the kind of love that breaks you. Strength comes from the drive to defy all reason, empowerment comes from the attempt to beat all odds. The fact that it is so difficult and destructive does not make it any less real.
The next morning, at 6am, Carrie calls him from outside his house. The advent of cell phones and caller ID certainly added a cool trick for the most talented actors to hone to great affect: that pause, that brief breathless stillness and incremental change in the eyes, revealing whose name must be on that little cellular screen. And here's Damian pulling that trick from a horizonal position.
He goes out to his yard barefoot. She wants to give Brody the heads up that Walker is alive and that she wanted him to know before they release the info to the public, to tell him again that she was wrong, to apologize again, to implore him to not hate her. Again, why?
Does she really want that badly to continue their affair and to break up an innocent man's home? Does she still think he's guilty in some way, and wants to get close to him again? The answer is more simple that either of those: she wants him to not feel pain. She doesn't want to be the reason for bringing him any more pain. Sure, no human wants to be the reason for another human's pain, so this may be just Carrie being human. And the matter-of-fact non-emotional way she's apologizing does seem to support that argument. We've seen her have heart before. She's been shown exhibiting empathy for the sad and helpless: Lynne Reed, the harem girl with the diamond necklace, and, this episode, Helen Walker as they commiserate over how men are simultaneously both the best and the worst. Carrie carries her own pain and she feels for others acutely. So, yeah, she doesn't want him hurt.
A lot of the emotion in this scene, in fact, is coming from Brody. He's still angry, he doesn't trust her. He doesn't want her near his family. But there's something else beneath the words. Something else beneath "I don't hate you Carrie."
Carrie sees nothing but him turning away and walking back to his wife at the door. "Who's she?" Jessica says. "CIA", he answers.
She's said her goodbye and she seals it by sharing her "epiphany" with Saul.
I'm going to be alone my whole life, aren't I?
Meanwhile, lo and behold, Brody is revealed to us as exactly who Carrie thinks he is.
Homeland, Carrie and Brody, Was it Love?: Part VI
Author JaniaJaniaPosted on November 7, 2018 December 16, 2019 Categories HomelandTags achilles heel, Carrie and Brody, Carrie Mathison, Homeland, Jessica Brody, Nicholas Brody
9 thoughts on "Homeland, Carrie and Brody, Was it Love?: Part V"
monique defnoun says:
Wonderful story as always, I just started looking at Homeland, and I'm at this episode, as always Damian is awesome, and he does wonderful things with his eyes! What a look! No need for words! Monique
"The fact that this isn't a dinner and roses sort of love story makes it no less real a love story."
You cannot have put it in better words.
I absolutely love the way you share with us Carrie and Brody's Achilles Heels. Clever. Very clever.
With this fantastic series, you make me re-live my Homeland experience all over again. I have to say I LOVED Jess and Brody at the VP's party. They look like the next John and Jackie Kennedy! So beautiful together. And at that point, Season 1 Episode 9, I was still rooting for them to be happy together… And my personal interpretation of Jess looking at Brody as she is on the couch with Chris and he is on the floor with Dana was "maybe, just maybe, he is coming back to me for real." And she obviously falls for the glory she sees in the VP's house and the happy possibilities on the horizon. Even though I admit I was so intrigued by Carrie and Brody's weekend, I still thought there was a chance for Brody and Jess.
I completely agree Carrie apologizes to Brody at Langley because she cares about what he thinks of her and who knows maybe she wants to go back to the cabin with him again. And yeah I love your interpretation that he may be pissed with himself that he still wants to see her after "what she's done" (which she of did not do and he finds out that she did not). Feelings are certainly mutual at this point. I do not understand though why Carrie goes to Brody's house to tell him about Walker in the wee hours. Yes, I understand she does not want him to feel pain but going to his house?!?! Why would she let Jess see her with Brody on their yard? Why would she put Brody in a situation where he needs to give his wife an explanation? Any ideas? Does she just so desperately want him to forgive her for suspecting that he was the POW that was turned?
I remember screaming when I saw Brody in "Yummy Yummy Yummy"'s living room. That was the moment I knew this was the best Season 1 of any show I ever saw!
Thanks partner! Crazy still revisiting and talking about this show 6 years after the fact. Feels like yesterday though when we're rewatching. The emotions, reactions, interpretations all come back.
Sounds like you may think Carrie went to their house to hurt Jess, or somehow "out" Brody and make him uncomfortable? I don't think that was her intention at all. She didn't "let Jess see her". She stayed on their yard with no expectation that Jess would come out and see her. If she wanted Jess to see her, she would've knocked on the door. And why would she be concerned about Brody having the explain himself? There were two people in that car and in that cabin. Brody CHOSE to be with Carrie, she didn't seduce him. Whether he tells his wife about it is between him and his wife. Turned out the only explanation he had for Jessica is "She's CIA"….just an anonymous nameless woman, a stranger. If Carrie wanted him to feel uncomfortable explaining himself, she would've gone up and shaken Jessica's hand and introduced herself…maybe even let slip that she'd met Brody a few times. If she was so hellbent on being the "other woman", with sinister intent to break up a family, she would have woken up the entire household. I don't see Carrie at all comfortable in the role of "other woman."
Brody said, and Carrie saw with her own eyes, that the Brody marriage was fragile. Carrie did nothing to make the marriage fragile. It already was. Brody was no longer who Jessica thought he was. And she was not capable of wrapping her head around what war did to Brody. Even if he hadn't been turned…even if he were just an innocent man coming home from being held captive for 8 years. Jessica had no idea on how to deal with the aftershocks of trauma like that. She wanted to, she just was not capable. The fact is that Brody did not get the help he needed for his trauma…it's bizarre that the military did not require him to get treatment. And for the entire family to get the help they needed to deal with Brody's trauma. If they had, the marriage would have made sense as a strong enough to weather any storm. But no one got any help. No one was to blame. There is no formulaic love triangle swooping in to ruin everything here. That's what made the story so compelling. It was an impossible situation for everyone involved.
Brody said, and Carrie felt for herself, that he found peace with her. She wants him to have peace. There is no indication in anything we've seen on screen that she intends to hurt anyone. Yeah, she broke up Estes marriage, so we know she has a history. Maybe they put that bit of history in to make us question Carrie's motives, and apparently a lot of us did. 🙂 I didn't. Because I saw no evidence of Carrie intentionally wanting to hurt anyone.
I think she went to his house b/c, as she said, they were about to release the info to the public that Walker was alive, and she didn't want Brody to be blind-sided. She went in person instead of calling because she knew he wouldn't believe her (and he didn't at first). She went in person because maybe she feared he wouldn't answer the phone at all if he saw her name on it. So she texted him that she was there outside. He could have chosen to not go outside.
Thinking back now, I think my heart stopped when the camera panned to show Brody on the chair in the yummy diplomat's house. I didn't expect him to be revealed so soon. It definitely was an OMG moment, harkening a killer of a first season.
I really did not think Carrie intended to hurt Jess. And I completely agree with every word you say about the Brody marriage and that they did not get any help. It was interesting that there was no help for the family except that support group at the church. I don't know much about Veteran Affairs in this country except for a few articles I have read over the years in The New Yorker but if this is the help families get in real life, it is very very very sad. So, anyway, yes, Carrie knew the marriage was fragile, and she knew it even before Brody told her because she watched their bedroom. Yes, she could have knocked on the door; so I do not imply that she wanted Jessica to see her, and out Brody or anything; but hey, who would not wake up and follow her husband if he got up from bed and left in the middle of the night? I would :))))) So did Jessica! And I would never believe my husband if he said that blonde woman was just CIA. Jessica didn't, either. So, I still think, even though, you are right, he chose to be with her in that cabin, she should have been concerned that he had to make an explanation to his wife.
Ha! I totally forgot about Carrie and Estes!!!! Now you MAKE me question Carrie's motives especially regarding marriages 😀 Well, I never believe it is "the other woman" that ruins a marriage, it takes two to tango like with Estes and Carrie or Brody and Carrie… but admit it is a delicate situation… I cannot believe I forgot about Estes! I think it is time for a Homeland marathon — ah I wish!
I am sure we will keep talking about this 12 years later as well! CRAZY <3
It was 6 am, not the middle of the night. And nope, I wouldn't follow my husband if he left my sight for two minutes and told me he'd be right back. If he was gone longer than two minutes, maybe I'd peek out the window and ask him about it later, but I would not walk out after him. I don't think Carrie would either. And that's why she probably didn't assume Jess would either. I cannot fathom why Carrie should care about how uncomfortable Brody would be explaining her to his wife. I mean, shouldn't a man be uncomfortable in those situations? Why should Carrie be the one to protect Brody from his wife? It would be a sign of deep disrespect to coddle him like that, like he's not a grown man capable of defending his own actions. He's damaged, but he's not a child. Whatever Carrie did or didn't do, she never treated Brody like a child. And, at that point, I think Jessica did believe that the stranger on her lawn was just CIA. Later she knew..about the "blond who worked for the CIA", but right then, I don't think she did.
Anyway, as you know well, I'll defend Carrie Mathison till my dying breath. So, yes, even 12 years from now, I'll still stand by this fictional character. Hehe. Here's to 12 more years (and more) of bickering about what was what the first three seasons of Homeland. <3
You certainly will and, you know what, you should! I hope with all my heart we keep talking about Carrie and Brody when we're 90! <3
Iza Silveira says:
The Best love/spy story ever seen.
Lina Ricks says:
I'm back! From an exhilarating/exhausting trip to NYC! and back with my Brody girls.
This is a fascinating segment.Achilles Heel. The hero of the Illead, his mother dipped in the River Styx by his heel. Thereby rendering him invulnerable – except in his heel.
Too true this is not a love story; this is Une Grande Passion. I've watched it happen and it rarely turns out well.Who am I to judge a person in the grip of an emotional tsunami. I have felt an irresistible draw. I completely accept the premise of this story. It answers all my "whys".
I relish the big reveals: Brody to Carrie about Tom's "death" and his relationship with Nazir; Carrie's to him about the lie subject of the lie detector and now: that Tom's alive. I believe they cannot resist doing these things. She was in that bar and now on his lawn because she can't stay away. She's in uncharted territory. They never dreamed that they'd love this way but they do.
I'm also touched by their ineffable sadness, to have come so close. You are so right Jania – Brody's expression when his phone rings, in the car with his wife and Carrie, well, all the time: lying to Saul, confessing to Saul, talking with Helen Walker but especially on that lawn. She's heartbroken because she still believes she is wrong about Brody, did him an injustice, ruined everything. Twice she begs him to believe "I would never do that!" And of course as you said the "I'm going to be alone.."
As for Jessica, I'm afraid she is an innocent bystander. No one escapes unscathed – we've all seen it. Carrie doesn't want to hurt her but I don't think she gives her much thought at all.Just as I'm sure she had no intention to break up David's marriage. I don't think she even wanted him. She needs Brody. I don't judge her, this is art not life.
After Carrie's reveal about Tom, I think Brody is ahead of Carrie. He for the first time knows something she does not. It's shown to us in that powerful closing shot. That "different Brody", he of the "Get in" line shows up. A powerful man who knows what he's about.
But Carrie is his Achille's heel and Brody is hers.
Yes! She can't stay away….there is no rhyme or reason to it. It's a force beyond anyone's control. Sure, we can all sit in judgement of her being a homewrecker. But when someone is under the influence of something like this, there's no accounting for moral decision making. That's not an excuse or an apology for her. That's simply the way passion works. And, we know, Carrie operates driven by two things: her mind and her passion. Most times they are one and the same. In Brody's case, her mind takes a back seat sometimes. As it does, in real life. And, so SO true, the woman (or man) at home often is never thought of. There is a blinding glow from it that renders all others invisible. Again, not an excuse or an apology, just reality.
Absolutely, in this moment, they are each other's weakness, whether they realize it or not.
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Almost since the creation of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, there has been some sort of museum on campus. While wartime plans for a permanent museum were ultimately shelved in 1953, between 1946 and 1958 the old training ship Emory Rice was deemed a pier side "museum ship." While not much is known about this facility, we do know it served as an inspiration for Midshipman Charles Renick, who would graduate in 1947. While the museum ship was scrapped in 1958 and its collections scattered around campus, the idea did not die. Renick returned as an administrator on campus in 1961, and almost immediately began advocating for a distinct museum space. The theft of the MacArthur "Surrender Sword" in 1973 from a midshipman lounge in the barracks underscored the need for a secure space to display the Academy's treasures.
A permanent site for the Academy's collection of art, ship models, and nautical artifacts was found in the late 1970s, after the Alumni Association donated the neighboring Barstow estate to the Academy. Renick and other alumni successfully campaigned for a Museum to be located on its ground floor, with storage in the basement, while a sort of hotel for Academy visitors occupied the second and third floors. The Museum officially opened its doors on May 20, 1979, under the care of the American Merchant Marine Museum, Inc., a non-profit entity empowered to exhibit, store, and even restore the Academy's heritage assets, and apparently allowed to receive new items on its own authority. It also engaged in a vigorous fund-raising campaign from the Barstow building, and on occasion MARAD would provide proceeds from scrapping ships, as it did in 1992 to the amount of $334,000.
Nonetheless, the Museum did not thrive under Foundation leadership. Staff turnover was high, and overall dwindled. For example, it lost its registrar in The Museum experienced major changes in personnel in 2003, most notably its curator, the well-known maritime historian Frank Braynard. While a professionally trained curator did work at the Museum until 2009, the institution was not well led, and the Foundation proved unable to raise sufficient funds to support itself. In 2007 the Academy's superintendent created a NAFI to oversee the Museum, a questionable move that drew the attention of MARAD's legal team, which observed a number of irregularities too great to be ignored. The NAFI soon folded, and the Academy appointed a maritime history professor to oversee the Museum's day-to-day operations.
Since March 1, 2009, the Museum has been operated under federal control with federal employees augmented by volunteers and contractors. During that time, its appropriated budget has fluctuated wildly, from a high of $75,000 to its current budget of zero. Happily, it has received large amounts of gift money since 2009, and on several occasions it has petitioned for, and received VORF funds. MARAD's Federal Preservation Officer has supported a number of initiatives to bring it into compliance with federal requirements, as has its staff. Resources have been found to install a new boiler, overhaul dated bathrooms, and even to provide a new roof. New exhibits find new audiences, and have even brought notice in the on-line edition of New Yorker magazine. Some 10.5 tons of detritus, including rusty metal shelves, old television sets, broken furniture, and hundreds of phone books have been removed from the Museum building. The facility is cleaner, better organized, and better visited than any time in the past, and is used almost daily for midshipmen classes. In fact, midshipmen participation has been a key element in the continued success of the Museum since 2009, and has provided much of the labor necessary to clean and organize spaces. A quick glimpse of the timeline below will give you an idea of our unique heritage.
1958: Museum Ship Emory Rice scrapped.
1971: Dr. Melvin Jackson of the Smithsonian conducted a survey of USMMA's collection of models, paintings, and memorabilia and reported on the suitability of several on-campus locations for a museum.
1973: USMMA's MacArthur "Surrender Sword" stolen from a midshipman lounge in the barracks. It was about this time that Capt. Charles Rennick, USMS (USMMA Class of 1947) began to campaign for a museum to display the Academy's many maritime paintings and artifacts.
January 1978: Dr. Melvin Jackson, a retired curator from the Smithsonian, appointed as curator of new museum; for personal reasons, he soon resigned.
February 2009: Nancy Kasius and Phyllis O'Connell, last of old Foundation employees left Museum.
April 7, 2010: "Museum Organization and Facility Checklist" submitted by All Museum Services, LLC; facility met 30 out of 111 standards established by the National Park Service's (NPS) Museum Management Program.
May 20, 2010: "Interim Collections Management Plan" submitted by All Museum Services, LLC.
March 16-June 29, 2012 "Heifer Relief: Compass, Ark, Berth" exhibit opens: first "modern art" installation ever at AMMM!
May 3, 2013: MAO 330-15, "Management of Maritime Administration Heritage Assets" goes into effect.
September 19, 2017-present: "Liberty's War, An Engineer's Memoir of the Merchant Marine 1942-1945"


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