TEACHING

Certifications

  • Certified Yoga Narada® Teacher, trained by mentor Hilary Cartwright

  • David Howard Foundation Authorized Teacher in the Harkness Ballet Method, as taught by mentor David Howard

Current Teaching Appointments

  • Het Nationale Ballet Academie (Amsterdam) – 5 years

    • Teaching Ballet

    • Yoga Narada® is part of the regular curriculum

  • Codarts University of the Arts (Rotterdam) – Regular

    • Lyceum (2025 - present)

    • Bachelor's Dance Program (2024-2026)

    • Dance Teacher Department (2024 - 2026)

Guest Teaching – The Netherlands

Regular guest teacher for:

  • Introdans

  • Scapino Ballet Rotterdam

  • Conny Janssen Danst

  • Henny Jurriëns Studio

  • De Dutch Don't Dance Division

  • Amsterdam University of the Arts – Expanded Contemporary Division

  • ArtEZ Enschede

  • ArtEZ Arnhem

  • ArtEZ Lyceum

  • Fontys Academy of the Arts

  • ICK Amsterdam

  • Korzo

  • De Stilte

  • ...and other professional schools and companies throughout the Netherlands.

Teacher Training

  • Presented teacher training workshops at:

    • Het Nationale Ballet Academie

    • ArtEZ Enschede

    • Dansbelang

  • Co-presented the first official Yoga Narada® Teacher Training Workshop with mentor Hilary Cartwright

Adjudication, Teaching & International Competitions

Represented Ernst Meisner, Dario Elia and Het Nationale Ballet Academie as an adjudicator and teacher at:

  • Italian Dance Awards

  • Youth America Grand Prix (YAGP)

  • AmsterDans International Competition

  • EUROPAINDANZA, Rome

Previous Faculty – New York City

Regular guest teacher at:

  • Broadway Dance Center

  • Peridance Center

  • Ballet Arts

Summer faculty for:

  • Het Nationale Ballet Academie

  • American Ballet Theatre

  • American Academy of Ballet

  • Peridance

  • Northwest Florida Ballet

  • Western Ballet of Puerto Rico

  • Joffrey Ballet New York

International Teaching & Adjudication

Ryan has taught and adjudicated internationally, including:

  • South African Dance Championships (Durban, South Africa)

  • Cape Town City Ballet II (South Africa)

  • Jakarta Intercultural School (Indonesia)

  • Interscholastic Association of Southeast Asian Schools Dance Exchange (Indonesia)

  • Danza Sinaloa Concurso Internacional (Mazatlán, Mexico)

  • Tennessee Association of Dance Conference (USA)

  • Dance Educators of America

  • Dance Masters of America

International Teaching Experience

Ryan has taught Yoga Narada® and the Harkness Ballet Method, as taught by David Howard, at schools, professional companies, festivals, teacher trainings, and competitions throughout:

  • UK

  • Canada

  • The Netherlands

  • Europe

  • South Africa

  • Puerto Rico

  • Mexico

  • Indonesia

  • United States

Other credit

Executive Administrator under Hilary Cartwright Yoga Narada®

About Dance

At 19 years old he apprenticed with Laura Alonso’s Ballet Company in Havana, Cuba. He went on to dance with Wes Chapman’s Alabama Ballet as a company member, American Repertory Ballet dancing soloist and principal roles and as a Principal Soloist with Ballet Concierto de Puerto Rico in San Juan. He was also a company member of and Les Ballets Grandiva. He has been a Principal Guest Artist with North West Florida Ballet, Portland Ballet, Western Ballet Theater of Puerto Rico, CoDa21 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and Ajkun Ballet Theater in NYC, to name a few. The Ministry of Culture of Puerto Rico invited him to be the Premiere Guest Artist at the 2010 International Dance Festival in San Juan where he danced the Rose in Fokine’s famous “Le Spectre de la Rose” and the Young Man in Roland Petit’s “Le Jeune Homme et la Mort” in the Festival’s Gala performance. This was the first time that either ballet had been danced on the island of Puerto Rico.

Some of Ryan's favorite dance roles include Oberon in A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, Tybalt in ROMEO AND JULIET, Franz in COPPELIA, Cerventes in DON QUIXOTE, Hilarion in GISELLE, Marius in LES MISERABLES, Lucifer in INFERNO, Cavalier and Snow King in NUTCRACKER, Tootles in Septime Weber's PETER PAN, Moor in Fokine's PETRUSCHKA, Prince in CINDERELLA, Twyla Tharp's BAKER'S DOZEN, Claudius in HAMLET, Poet in Jose Pares' POEME, Alberto Mendez's PASION, Dracula in DRACULA,  Siegfried and Rothbart in SWAN LAKE, the Rose in LE SPECTRE DE LA ROSE and Young Man in LE JEUNNE HOMME ET LA MORT.