2026 Summer Intensive Instructors
Bridget Adams
Bridget Adams began her dance training with Jackie O’Neal School of Dance in Birmingham, Alabama with a concentration in ballet, jazz, and acrobatics. After 10 years of training and assistant teaching, she began teaching at Nix Dance Studio in Auburn, Alabama. It was there that she realized her passion for teaching dance, especially the beautiful, classical art of ballet. After completing her degree in Fine Arts from Auburn University in 2004, she moved with her husband Steve to Columbus, Georgia and began teaching and furthering her classical ballet knowledge at Columbus State University (CSU) Youth Dance Conservatory.
Bridget has enjoyed performing many classical roles with The Columbus Ballet. She has also been privileged to co-direct and direct many classical, modern, and original works with the Youth Dance Conservatory and The Columbus Ballet over the past 21 years. The privilege of sharing her passion for dance with young students gives Bridget a joy beyond words. Bridget is the current Company Director for The Columbus Ballet.
Angela Null
Angela Null began her dance studies at the Loudoun School of Ballet in Leesburg, Virginia at the age of 10. At 14, she auditioned for and was admitted into the Kirov Academy of Ballet where she studied for four years as a scholarship student, under the direction of Angelina Armeiskaya, Jacqueline Akhmedova, Ludmila Morkovina, Alla Sizova, Vladimir Djouloukhadze, and Anatoli Kucheruk.
After graduating with her diploma in the Vaganova method in 2006, Angela danced with several companies including the Washington Ballet, Richmond Ballet, First State Ballet Theatre, and the Sarasota Ballet. Over the course of her decade-long career, her classical, neoclassical, and contemporary repertoire has been extensive and diverse. Some of her most celebrated roles include dancing as Kitri in Don Quixote, Odette and Odile in Swan Lake, Swanhilda in Coppelia, and a Russian Girl in Serenade. She is also the proud recipient of a gold medal from the National Youth Ballet Competition and placed amongst the top-twelve at the Youth America Grand Prix. Angela has been teaching classical ballet technique for the past 18 years. In April 2017, she staged a full-length production of Beauty and the Beast for Sherri’s Dance Center in Lawton, Oklahoma, and in August 2017, she served as the director of the dance department at Rainey-McCullers School of the Arts, in Columbus, Georgia. From 2018-2022, she served as the director of the ballet department at Urban Movement Dance Academy in El Paso, Texas.
Between 2024-2025, Angela served as the Artistic Director of CSU Youth Dance Conservatory. During this time, she also served as the Artistic Director of The Columbus Ballet’s 2024 production of The Nutcracker. In March 2025, five of her students placed amongst the Top 10 at the Universal Ballet Competition’s semi-finals in Atlanta, Georgia.
Daniel Romano
Daniel Romano is a Brazilian dancer and teaching artist from São Paulo. He began his artistic journey in theater at the age of 9, later becoming a theater teacher at 14. This experience shaped his expressive and artistic identity as a dancer and prompted him to pursue formal dance training in classical ballet, jazz, and contemporary at the age of 15.
In 2024, Daniel completed a six-month artistic residency at Sanctuary of the Arts in Miami, focusing on his development as a dancer, teacher, and choreographer. In January 2025, he began studying at the Joffrey Ballet School in New York City, where he is currently a member of the Joffrey Concert Group, the school’s pre-professional contemporary company.