MEET THE FACULTY
Karrisa Filiault
Director & Instructor
Miss Karrisa is a Western Massachusetts native, where she began dancing at the age of two, training and competing at a high level for ten years. After High School she acquired her Associates degree in Business before continuing her dance training at Dean College majoring in Dance Education with a concentration in Exercise Science. She has trained extensively in Ballet, Jazz, Tap, Contemporary & Horton technique Modern. She performed with various companies most notably the schools Contemporary Ballet Company. Under the leadership of Miss Karrisa, TDL has earned numerous choreography awards including most recently Choreographer Of The Year at KAR Nationals in Daytona FL (2025) as well as several studio awards- including multiple Industry Dance Awards nominations, the ADCC Studio of Excellence, and numerous awards for technique. Karrisa continues her education taking classes in the Boston/North Shore area and recently became Acrobatic Arts Certified (Adult & child CPR & AED Certified).
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Carol Schneider-Sereda
Ballet & Pointe
Ms. Sereda has an extensive background in ballet in addition to having been a scholarship student at The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. This launched her career as a professional contemporary dancer and choreographer.
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After performing in New York, Philadelphia, Portugal and England she permanently relocated to Boston to attend the Harvard-Radcliff Summer Dance program. In Boston she produced works at Mobius, the Cambridge Multi-Cultural Art Center, The Dance Complex, and was a member of Boston University’s Dance Collective, Peter Dimuro, and Paula Josa-Jones. Ms. Sereda taught for the Walnut Hill School of Performing Arts and was on faculty at Boston Ballet for 20 years where she developed her comprehensive children’s syllabus for ages 3 to 8 uniquely incorporating American Sign Language.​
Ms. Sereda actively continues her teacher training at Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, American Ballet Theatre and most recently by using the Royal Academy of Dance pedagogy. As a teacher, she pulls from each of those syllabi to help dancers understand how to turn raw material into a solid technical form. Miss Carol enjoys guiding students to push their boundaries of expression and range of motion and/or to consider pursuing their dreams of dance professionally. Since free lancing Ms. Carol loves having more time to “micro-garden”, study American Sign Language and travel with her husband to visit her two daughters in Washington, D.C. and Ireland.
