Our Team
Rhonda Mann
Owner/Instructor
Rhonda has been involved in the art of dance since the age of three. She studied tap, jazz, ballet, voice and acrobatics with well known educators such as Sylvia Grey, Patsy Swayze, Maxine Asbury, Al Gilbert, the highly acclaimed Bo Wagner, and Vladimir Marek among many others. Before moving to Fredericksburg 31 years ago, she served as principal instructor, choreographer, and performer with the Southwest Jazz Ballet Company in Houston, Texas. She also owned and operated her own very successful studio with over 800 students in Houston for 15 years. Her students then and now attain top honors and awards in regional as well as national competitions and conventions! In addition to teaching at Ms. Rhonda's School of Dance in Fredericksburg, Rhonda also teaches tap and choreographs for studios all over Texas and the surrounding areas. Her love of dance transfers into theatre as well. She has loved working closely with the Fredericksburg Theatre Company, choreographing numbers in numerous shows including Peter Pan, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Annie Get Your Gun, Fiddler On The Roof, Beauty and The Beast, The Music Man, Christmas At the Theatre among many
others. Ms. Rhonda feels so very lucky to wake up everyday and spend time doing what she loves, sharing the joy of dance with such wonderful students and parents. She feels truly blessed to be a part of this very talented community with such amazing people.
Regan Mann
Director/Instructor
Regan has been in the studio since she was born and has continued studying dance and choreography throughout her life. She was brought up taking dance from a number of nationally recognized teachers and choreographers in her mother's studio in Houston, Texas. After moving to Fredericksburg, her passion for dance led her to enter the fine arts program for boarding students at St. Stephens High School in Austin. Regan continued dancing in college with The University of Texas, Tapestry, and a number of other organizations before graduating from St. Edward's University in 2005. Shortly after, Regan began working for Showstopper National Dance Competition, along with teaching for several studios in Austin, Tx including the highly acclaimed Tapestry. Several years later, she made the move back home to teach full time for Ms. Rhonda's School of Dance. She has had the opportunity to study closely with amazing companies, teachers, and choreographers throughout her years such as Al Gilbert, Bill DeRicco, Bo Wagner, Sam Fiorello, Patsy Swayze, Ray
Hesselink, Randy Skinner, Derick Grant, Mike Minery, Deirdre Strand, Acia Gray, Gregg Russell, Avi Miller & Ofer Ben, TOKYO, and Anthony Morigerato. Regan's choreography and students continue to win top honors and scholarships in regional and national competitions each year. In addition to being a director of Fredericksburg Dance Company and Ms. Rhonda's School of Dance, Regan also choreographs for other successful competitive Texas dance studios and has traveled nationwide as a regional and national judge for Starpower National Dance Competition, Imagine Dance Challenge and BravO! National Dance Competition.
Gretel Neff
Ballet
Gretel Wohlbier-Neff was Born in Houston Texas started dance at the age of 5 to help correct very bad feet. She studied the Royal Academy of Dance ballet syllabus and completed exams Grade 2 through Elementary. She was a member of The Allegro
Ballet Company under the direction of Eugene Collins and Andrea Vodehnal. As a young teenager, Gretel moved to East Grinstead England were she attended Bush Davies School of Theatre Arts. She also studied with The Munich Opera Ballet where
she was offered an apprenticeship. She has performed with the Houston Grand Opera, studied and performed with The
Houston Ballet under the instructions of Nina Papova James Clouser and Ben Stevenson and has also performed with The American Ballet Theatre in Rudolf Nureyev’s production of Raymonda. Gretel spent many years teaching beginner to advanced students in the Houston area for numerous studios before settling in Fredericksburg.
Regay Baumgardner
Jazz, Tap, Tumbling
Savannah Stahl
Acro Director
