Nina M. Scattaregia, Director of The Dance Factory & Augusta Youth Ballet Company and Somatic Movement Educator

Nina'a email: nina@dancefactorywv.com

            A native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Nina received her dance training at a small local studio in her community.   She attended Point Park College and received a Bachelor of Arts in Dance and minor in psychology in 1977.   She continued her dance training at the School of Pittsburgh Ballet Theater while teaching dance in the Pittsburgh area.  She has trained at Steps on Broadway and Broadway Dance Center in New York City.     
            Nina is the Director of The Dance Factory which opened in 1994 and founded the Augusta Youth Ballet Company, a non-profit performance ensemble in 1998.  She has choreographed for the Buckhannon Community Theatre and has been an adjunct faculty member at West Virginia Wesleyan College since 1993 in the Physical Education Department in the Musical Theatre and Dance program since 2003.
            Nina has been a guest teacher in the 2004 and 2005 Dance West Virginia Mini Festival held each fall at Jackson’s Mill.  She has also been a guest teacher at James Madison University in Virginia and taught at the American College Dance Festival in 2005 and also at the West Virginia Wesleyan College Modern Dance Consortium for the last five years.
            She is a member of Dance West Virginia, a state-wide organization committed to providing educational and scholarship opportunities to young dancers.   She is a member of the National Dance Association.   Through The Dance Factory, she has been a member of the Buckhannon-Upshur Chamber of Commerce for 4 years.  She was the recipient of the Athena Award given by the Chamber of Commerce in 2003 and was awarded a Dream Maker Award in September 2005 by the West Virginia Women’s Commission.
            Nina began her studies in Somatic Movement therapy five years ago in Northampton, Massachusetts at the School for Body-Mind Centering.  In August, 2006, Nina received her certification as a Somatic Movement Educator.   She is a member of ISMETA, the International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association.   She will continue her training to become of Practitioner of Somatic Movement Therapy over the next three years and will also begin training in Cranio-sacral therapy through the Upledger Institute in March, 2007.  Nina is the first Somatic Movement Educator in the state of West Virginia.