Josette Weibrecht

 

Josette Weibrecht

Josette founded “a Tucson dance company” (TDC) in 1993 as a competition and performance team in order to allow students to learn multiple forms of dance and perform for the community. It was designed to help children and teens develop their passion for a form of expression that would allow individual growth while simultaneously providing an atmosphere conducive to team bonding. The result was a wonderful family of children and teens who not only grew up together, but continue to stay in contact throughout their adult lives. Although Josette had garnered regional and national recognition and awards for her choreography, this wonderful, yet unpredicted, phenomenon of lifelong friendships, is that in which Josette takes the most pride and finds most gratifying.

Josette attended the University of Arizona as an undergraduate, where she obtained her bachelor’s degree in Molecular and Cellular Biology, while taking courses as a dance minor. Throughout her dance career, she studied with many nationally-acclaimed dance masters. During her high school and college years she appeared in film, commercials, runway and several musicals with the Southern Arizona Light Opera Company, including “My Fair Lady,” “Annie Get Your Gun,” and more. Josette has also directed the children’s cast of Moscow Ballet’s Nutcracker productions every year that they have performed in Tucson. While completing her M.D. at the University of Arizona Medical School, Josette continued to grow TDC by introducing more classes to TDC’s schedule and moving the studio to the space where it currently resides - TDC’s current home base, Breakout Studios. She continues to teach and choreograph, as this will always be her passion. She is honored and thrilled that the current owners (who supported her throughout her endeavors,) Craig and Todd Wilson, through the TDC teams, are carrying on the legacy of family spirit and a supportive environment that were the foundation of TDC, while they foster the spirit of dance for all ages and abilities.