Connie Needham has been teaching Junior Jazz at DeFore's for 11 years and has worked with D-4 Performing groups for the past 5 years. She started her professional career at age 12, dancing as a Mouseketeer at Disneyland, as well as performing with NYC Ballet in the children’s cast of "Circus Polka."

Connie has had extensive dance training in Ballet, Tap & Jazz. She has worked with Debbie Allen and Michael Peters, and has trained with the likes of Al & Harriet Duré, Fred Walton, Jackie Sleight, Doug Caldwell, Joe Tremaine, and of course many of the teachers here on staff at DeFore’s.