Artistic Director

Gabrielle Celeste has studied dance for the last twenty years locally and internationally. At a very young age she found her calling in choreography and at fifteen she founded her company, Celestial Stars, in Columbia. Her innovative Ballet’s are accentuated by other various dance styles creating, moving and powerful works; such as her original, full length Ballet, “The Goblin Kingl”©, which debuted in 2001. True to her artistic nature, Gabrielle most recently has been studying and performing Argentine Tango with her husband, Gene Reed.

Rasia Struckova, Principal Ballerina of the Moscow Ballet, said of Gabrielle when she performed for her at age 4 - "I have only seen one other child more talented than her, and that was me."

Gabrielle began her training with Wrenn Cook of Wrenn Cook and friends at age 3.  The same year she started ballet with William Starett and Marie-Claire Miranda of Columbia City Ballet.  At age six she studied intesively under Ann Brodie until Ms. Brodie's passing seven years later.  While she was at Calvert-Brodie she also was taught by Debbie Spivey (Ballet), Maura Gable Moore (tap), and Linda Busby (jazz).  The next few years she trained with Donna Lewis director of the Eboni Dance Theater, Stanislav Issaev, director of Dance at the SC Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities, as well as Kris Cangelosi (contemporary) at USC.  Gabrielle performed in countless productions while dancing with Columbia City Ballet, The Carolina Ballet, Eboni Dance Theater, and the USC Dance Company.

Gabrielle has also had the opportunity of training at different summer programs including: class with the Queensland Ballet Company, Australia, Jazz Dance World Congress, Chicago, The Princeton Ballet, NJ, and multiple summers at the USC Summer Intensive.   

Co-Artistic Director/Argentine Tango

Gene Reed has always had a love for dancing and at age twenty had the opportunity to begin training in Argentine Tango. Tango is his passion and he has been teaching it for the past five years. He began training his partner, Gabrielle Celeste, Nov. 07 and is very excited about their future as a professional Argentine Tango couple. Most recently, Gene founded his own company, LunaTango, and is teaching in Columbia and in Charleston. He has performed in the "The Christmas Angel", Piccolo Spoleto, and at multiple other venues. Gene is elated to be dancing through life with his love, his wife, Gabrielle.

Assistant Teacher

Blade Boulware

Kindermusik

Janna Abbott