Sonia Jones/ Marla A. Hirokawa

Teaches at Covenant Ballet Academy

Sonia Jones is originally from Lancaster, PA and recently received her MA in Dance Education/American Ballet Theatre (ABT) Pedagogy from New York University Steinhardt. Through this program she is an ABT® Certified Teacher who has successfully completed teacher training in Primary – Level 7 & Partnering of the National Training Curriculum®. She was an Education/Physical Therapy Intern at the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School and has taught in its Children’s Division and has a B.S. in Biology from Millersville University. She is also a Qualified Associate Teacher of Grades I –V of the Cecchetti Method of Classical Ballet. Miss Sonia is also on faculty at the Huntington Center for the Performing Arts.

Marla A. Hirokawa trained and performed professionally in Hawaii, California and New York. She received her BA in dance (Cum Laude) at the University of California, Irvine and founded Covenant Dance Studio in 1987. She is currently CBT and CBT Academy’s artistic director.  She has taught at Broadway Dance Center, the Brooklyn Academy for the Performing Arts, and she is the ballet and modern dance instructor at Kingsborough Community College. She was a Teaching Artist for the New York City Ballet Education Department and currently creates and directs all CBT’s educational programs.  Marla is an ABT® Certified Teacher, who has successfully completed the ABT Teacher Training Intensive in Primary though Level 3 of the ABT® National Training Curriculum.