Nanci Hammond, one of the founders
of The Performing Arts Center, began dancing at the age of four and
was instructing children at the age of 15. Born in Hanford
California and raised in Fresno California she attended Denise Sommers School of Dance and opened her first dance studio, The Dance
Programme at the tender age of 20.
In 1975, Nanci
moved to Los Angeles to study fulltime at Eugene Loring's American
Ballet School and within a year was working professionally on a
national commercial choreographed by Jo-Jo Smith. Since that
time, she worked professionally in a variety of theater, television,
film, video and commercial venues. Nanci has performed in such
prestigious television programs as The Academy Awards, The
Peoples Choice Awards, The Movie Awards and Carnivale
and in the films Thank God It's Friday, Stayin Alive
and The Jackson Brothers, Lionel Ritchie and Kenny Rogers videos.
Nanci credits her
success as a dancer to her husband, Joseph Malone, who diligently
and meticulously trained her, Alex Ruiz, who taught her to listen,
Michael Peters who taught her to dance from the inside out.
She also credits her Mother and Father who instilled the idea that
she could do anything and her Buddhist training which taught her to
never give up.
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