TSPA DANCE
TSPA Dance offers pre-professional dance training to create technical, artistic, and versatile dancers.
Our goal is to equip our dancers with a solid foundation they can expand upon in any audition,
whether it be concert dance, commercial dance, or musical theater.
Classes include ballet, tap, jazz, and our contemporary audition-based Junior and Senior Dance Companies.
Classes are offered for 3 years old and up.
The TSPA Dance Department is accredited through Spring Branch Independent School District as an “Off Campus Health Fitness” Facility. Students who attend dance classes for 5 or more hours/week are awarded their PE credit through TSPA and not required to take PE during their school day. If your student is interested in doing so, please have them speak to their school counselor immediately for the application. Questions – email Bethany White at bwhite@queensburytheatre.org
Bethany White
TSPA Dance Director &
Resident Choreographer
Ms. White graduated Summa cum Laude with a Bachelor of Arts in Dance Performance through the Liberal Education for Arts Professionals (LEAP) program and attended the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City. She began her dance training with the Jefferson Ballet Theatre in New Orleans, LA, and continued to study in programs with American Ballet Theatre and The Kirov Academy. After graduating, Ms. White lived in New York City for 10 years, where worked extensively as a director, choreographer, dancer, and teacher. She was the Director of Dance at Fordham High School for the Arts and was on the faculty at Ballet Academy East. She choreographed for national television for artists such as Paramore and twenty one pilots, for Vital Theater Company for several years, and had her work presented at various festivals and dance concerts around the city. She moved to Houston in 2015 to become the Associate Director of Education and Dance Director for the Tribble School for Performing Arts and the Resident Choreographer for Queensbury Theatre. In 2017 she was nominated for Best Choreography with the Houston Press Theatre Awards for her work on It Aint Nothin but the Blues, and in 2019 she was once again nominated for her work on Violet. Her students have been accepted into prestigious programs with the Joffrey in NYC, Marymount Manhattan College, the Martha Graham School, Ballet Hispanico, Miami City Ballet, and North Carolina School of the Arts.
Jacqueline Habili
TSPA Associate Director & Administrator, Lead Tap Instructor
Mrs. Habili attended the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City and had also studied education at the University of Houston. This is her 5th year teaching here at Tribble as a director, choreographer and head of our Tap program some of the productions including Seussical the Musical, 13 the Musical, Into the woods, Matilda, Shrek Jr., and many more. Jacqueline began her theatre Education in the Tribble School of Performing Arts years ago and could not be any more excited to have come full circle as an instructor, or for her future here continuing her passion for music, dance, and love for teaching children.
Michael Quimen Sanchez
TSPA Dance Instructor
Ballet
Quimen began his ballet training with Lynda De Chane and Raskin Dance Studios in Orlando, FL, before continuing at Orlando Ballet School under Orlando Molina, with Peter Stark’s direction. He received a full scholarship from the legendary Fernando Bujones. As a trainee with the main company, Quimen performed the principal role of Dr. Coppelius in Coppélia and was also cast in the historic first full-length production of Spartacus, fully produced by an American ballet company. Quimen has danced as a principal with Ohio Dance Theatre, Fort Lauderdale Ballet Classique, Cuban Classical Ballet, South Florida Ballet Theater, and Sierra Nevada Ballet. Currently, he works for both Ballet For Young Audiences/Ballet Repertory NYC and American Liberty Ballet, where he serves as ballet master and principal dancer. He is also the main rehearsal director for the children at ALB’s Main Academy. Under the direction of Valerie Mae Browne, Quimen has performed principal roles in Giselle, Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, and more. In addition to ballet, Quimen has appeared across the U.S. in opera, musical theater, and film in both ensemble and principal roles. He is also a respected choreographer, with his work reviewed by the Miami Herald and Broward Sentinel.
Kahlil Cabble
TSPA Dance Instructor
Jazz, Hip Hop
Kahlil is a newer Houstonian, moving from Pittsburgh, PA, where he went to school at Point Park University. Before making his way to Texas, he’d been in the Pittsburgh CLO’s productions of Peter Pan, Rock of Ages, and A Chorus Line (Don). You can also see him as a dancer in the Netflix film, White Noise (Skip to the end credits!). Kahlil was recently seen in TUTS’ productions of Rent, Cinderella, & Frozen (Sven). Additionally, he has choreographed several musicals with TUTS' HSMT: Spongebob SquarePants: The Musical, Head Over Heels, Pippin, and Matilda. Kahlil was also the choreographer for the ‘24 & ‘25 Tommy Tune Awards. He has been working with Open Dance Project as an apprentice this past season. Happy to be apart of this artistic community!