Brad Parquette received his early training at the Toledo Ballet School with Marie Bollinger Vogt and Velta Cernonok, and continued his studies as a scholarship student at the Joffrey Ballet School in NYC. He has since performed as a member of the Colorado Ballet, Tampa Ballet, Ballet Mississippi, Maryland Ballet, Ballet El Paso and the West Virginia Dance Company. Brad is a former faculty member of the West Virginia Governor’s School for the Arts, The School of the Maryland Ballet, and is a frequent guest teacher for the Professional Dance Teacher’s Association. He directed the dance department of the Performing Arts School of Worcester (MA) before moving to North Carolina to teach in the dance department at the University Of North Carolina At Greensboro and assume the role of Ballet Master for the Greensboro Ballet. A recent transplant to Rochester, Brad is pleased to be on the staff at Little Red Dancing School.