Originally from Manchester, NH, Joe attended the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and moved to New York City shortly thereafter. Joe began his career in the automotive industry in sales, rental, and fleet leasing. When the opportunity for Joe to take a position at the (then) largest publisher of dance related media arose, he jumped at the chance to put two of his passions (the arts and advertising) together. After two years and several promotions, Joe left the dance media publishing business for the apparel manufacturing industry to launch a woman's active wear brand he named Pilates Sport. The brand quickly grew to receive a purchase order from QVC, America's largest home shopping network. At that point, he decided to sell that business and return to dance media publishing. Joe took over the day to day operations of Dancer Publishing Co., Inc. from Owen Goldman in May of 2007. In June 2009, Joe purchased both Dance.Com and Dancer Magazine, and created a new entity entitled Dance.Com LLC to manage both properties.
Dancer Editor Laura Diffenderfer stepped into the Karen McWilliams School of Dance in Lincoln, Nebraska at age 4 and thus began a lifelong passion for dancing. Laura has studied ballet, tap, jazz, musical theater, and numerous forms of modern dance including Tayor, Limón, and Graham techniques.
Previous to coming to Dancer, Laura worked as a company manager and grant writer for numerous modern dance companies, as well as on the production team of the long-running PBS dance series "Dance in America."
Laura holds a BFA in Dance from Marymount Manhattan College (MMC) and an MA in Performance Studies from New York University, where her studies focused on the intersection of politics and performance.
Laura also currently works as a choreographer on freelance projects and for her company, Oh Dear Dance Theatre. An active member of the New York modern dance community for the past 10 years, Laura also sits on the Advisory Board for the MMC Dance Department.
Born and Raised on the coast of Maine, Brandon attended Southern New Hampshire University. While there he studied business administration and was also point guard for the university's basket ball team. Brandon has held various positions at his family's oil business (M.W. Sewall & CO) which has been serving Maine's midcoast area for over 120 years. His hobbies are boating, going to the beach, playing basketball, and spending time with the people that keep him smiling... especially his mother. Previous to his living and working in New York City, he was working on a lobster boat. Brandon moved to NYCÊto pursue modeling and commercial acting, all while honing his marketing skills at the dance world's most fun, memorable, and innovative dance media company.
Originally from Long Island, Courtney Jordan has an extensive technically diverse background in dance. She started her training at a very young age, and competed in dance all across the country. Courtney joined Trinity Theater, where she became a principal performer for that nationally recognized high school theater company. There, she not only performed, but served as a dance captain and a stage manager for many of their shows including Pippin, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and 1999.
Courtney graduated from Marymount Manhattan College with a B.F.A. in Dance. She had the privilege to originate the soloist role for Christopher D’Amboise’s Six Degrees, and has worked with many other well known choreographers all over the country. Courtney was a member of the company Jazz Dance America, and is currently a member of ALUMinate. She performed for Broadway Cares, the Michael Awards, and Brighton Industries. Since then, Courtney has continued to perform and teach all over New York City and the United States.
Courtney joined the Dancer Publishing/Dance.com family in December of 2008, and has loved learning about and becoming a part of even more aspects of this crazy, wonderful industry.
Lindsay Dreyer is Dancer Magazine's Editor at Large. She began her dance training studying tap, jazz, ballet, and modern in Plantation, Florida under the artistic direction of Meg Segreto. A member of Segreto's Perpetual Motion Dance Company, she performed at various community events and attended innumerable conventions and competitions. At 13, Lindsay won Second Runner Up at America's National Teenager Pageant, receiving a special award for highest score in the talent portion. Later, she studied ballet under Magda Aunon and was a member of Fort Lauderdale Ballet Classique. Here, Lindsay danced Soloist roles in the Nutcracker and performed annually at the Southeast Regional Ballet Association Gala.
In addition, she studied under Deborah Buttner of the International Ballet Company in Davie, Florida, originating Principal roles such as Sugar Plum Fairy in the Nutcracker and Evil Stepsister in Cinderella. The founder of the International Ballet Company Community Outreach Dance Program, she taught the art of ballet to underprivileged children and earned the Prudential Spirit of Community State Finalist award for her work. Lindsay attended summer programs at the Rock School, Chautauqua Workshop and Festival, Harid Conservatory, and Boston Ballet. Lindsay holds a B.A. in Political Science and a B.F.A. in Dance from Barnard College of Columbia University, where she graduated Cum Laude and choreographed original works for Minor Latham Playhouse and Orchesis. A member of Screen Actors Guild, she has appeared in numerous national television commercials, industrials, and print advertisements. Lindsay, who has worked extensively in television on such shows as Inside Edition and Rachael Ray, writes, produces, and hosts "Lindsay Live" and other original Dancer Universe video content.
Elizabeth Miller, ‘Lizzie’ to everyone who knows her, grew up in dance. The daughter of a dance instructor, Lizzie grew up taking ballet & jazz for 13 years, as well as teaching classes herself as a teenager.
In high school Lizzie traded dance for the visual arts, taking a summer workshop in drawing & sculpture at the Pacific Northwest College of Art as well as completing a design internship in London. This passion for art ended up transplanting her from Oregon to New York City where she attended Parsons School of Design and received a BFA in Communication Design. While in school Lizzie interned for Spin Magazine, which fueled her love of editorial design.
Upon graduating, Lizzie went to work in advertising at Fly Communications as a junior designer, where she worked on designing websites, emails and branding. Lizzie left Fly in May 2008 to become the new art director at Dancer Magazine and has since redesigned the entire publication.
Ashley Eichbauer began her dance training in Cape Coral, Florida at the age of 4. She went on to win various titles including National Miss Starpower, National Miss DEA, and was Jr., Teen and Miss Dance of Florida for Dance Masters of America. Ashley is a graduate from NYU with a BFA in Theatre and a BA in history. She studied musical theatre at CAP21 and film and TV at Stonestreet Studios. Ashley was a dancer at Busch Gardens in Virginia and danced with 98 Degrees at the Pro Bowl in Hawaii. Stage credits include West Side Story, Grease, Brigadoon,Guys and Dolls at Paper Mill Playhouse and Tommy and Carousel at Pittsburgh CLO. Ashley was the choreographer and lead dancer for the SUMO World Tour 2006. She has danced in industrials for Wishbone, Cirque productions and Joe Lanteri. Two seasons ago Ashley was a finalist for the FOX TV show, So You Think You Can Dance. Last summer she filmed a movie choreographed by Hinton Battle entitled The Great Observer. She was the assistant choreographer for Baltimore's CenterStage production of A Little Night Music. Ashley is the Assistant Artistic Director and a dancer in The Chase Brock Experience, a contemporary dance company. Ashley is on the faculty at NYU/CAP21 and Peridance in NYC and loves teaching, choreographing and judging across the country. Ashley is thrilled to be on staff of Dancer Publishing and specializes in sales and consulting to dance competitions and colleges and university dance departments.
