Inspirations Through Movement
KATRINA B. BROWN
OWNER & DIRECTOR OF DANCE
Katrina B. Brown, or Miss Katie, has been dancing for over 28 years. Growing up in Long Island, NY she began her training at 2 under Lily Chevalier, a Master Ballet trainer, and former NYC Rockette and French Ballerina. Miss Katie trained in both Vaganova Ballet Technique, and Ceccehetti Technique. She then began training in Jazz, Hip Hop, Lyrical, and Modern, and Tap as well as performing in several competition teams with Accent On Dance, under Robert Machado. Discovering her true passion through dance, she ventured through Eastern University as a Dance Major. After completing her higher education, she received acclaim as a teacher at School of Dance Arts, Frist Position Dance Arts, and where ITM was born...Haverford Recreation Center. Now, as the owner and creative director of Inspirations Through Movement, she is watching dancers truly shine. Her choreography has also been seen in musical theater productions such as Legally Blonde, A Christmas Carol, Drowsy Chaperone, and Joseph as well as being featured in several dance performances in PA. She also has a passion for performing and has most recently been seen as Veronica in Chicago, Sally in A Christmas Carol, and Connie in A Chorus Line. Through ITM, we as a community are building dancers to be their very best in all aspects of art...and to live their passion! Our promise to you is to help your dancer realize their dream and to develop their true potential and creative selves.
Bara Burden
Tap Teacher
Bara Burden is originally from Prague, Czech Republic. Her dance career started at the age of 5 in ballet and gymnastics class.
Her own tap dance company "Tappy Dancers," was established in January 1999 after her first “tap dance visit” in the USA. Her competition success includes 2 Czech Tap Dance Championship titles {2000 in Adult Dou and 2001 Adult small groups}. In December 2001, Tappy Dancers took 7th place during the World Tap Dance Championship in Germany. Her partnership with US Tap dance community started in 1998 and lead into international Tap Dance Festival Praha-DC-Philly, which took place in Prague four times between 2001 and 2006.
For the past 20 years, Bara has been living, teaching, and performing in the USA. She became a member of Tap Team Two & Company and had been performing for Young Audiences of PA, NJ, MD, VA, TX and IN {2003-2013}. Tap Team Two & company has been part of Philadelphia area dance community for over 30 years and still participates in local dance and music events. Bara also has been teaching Tap to all ages and levels at local dance studios past 13 years.
India Scott
Administrative Assistant
India Scott is a Philadelphia based dancer and choreographer. In her work she explores the spectrum of self, and identity, and through a feminist lens while also exploring how these areas interact with the media and literature. She is interested in taking her work from the general to the personal and working collaboratively and intimately with other dancers and artists.
India received her diploma at Capital Area School for the Arts in Harrisburg PA, where she largely focused on interdisciplinary arts, as well as improvisational and choreographic techniques. She is currently completing her B.S. in Dance from Drexel University (June 2024), where she largely focused on refining her technical vocabulary and exploring research in dance and choreographic methods.
India has performed for multiple years with Drexel Dance Ensemble (DDE) directed by Olive Prince and Rebecca Malcom-Naib. She has also created numerous works for DDE, as well as Drexels FreshDance ensemble, and Drexels Sites of Dance shows. Additionally, she has performed at the Philadelphia Fringe Arts Festival and Puerto Rico Classical Dance Competitions annual gala. She has also performed in a self produced show alongside her graduating class at Drexel University. For six months of her collegiate career she worked as an apprentice for Andazna, based in San Juan Puerto Rico. Here she also worked as an administrative intern and assisted in the back-stage work for professional shows.
Robert Tricarico
Head of Media and Marketing
Mr. Robert or Magic man, as some of the students have nicknamed him, has been working with Inspirations for the past 2 years. From videos to our website, Robert has worked to not only help promote our company, but highlight your students in the material we put out. He has been working with children and teens for the past 5 years, and is passionate about them continuing to grow be develop in their passions in life.
