Dance Expressions - NJ

Darlene Pallotta Jasion / Owner, Director, & Choreographer 

Darlene has been teaching dance for more than 30 years. She was trained by Judy Debenedicty, Helen Douglas and BDC. She earned a bachelor’s degree from Centenary College, where she majored in Early Childhood Education and minored in Dance. Darlene has won hundreds of choreography, top studio, top group, and top duet/trio awards when she owned Dance By Darlene, a competition school. Darlene closed the competition school after deciding to stay home and raise her three sons. After a short while, she started teaching again in the Hackettstown area. In 1999, she opened Dance Expressions, a performance school where the emphasis is on a friendly, family-oriented atmosphere, and where the students are trained and geared towards all aspects of performing, not strictly competition. Darlene and other members of her staff have had their students dance on Carnival Cruise Lines, Walt Disney World, the Philadelphia Thanksgiving Day Parade, Hershey Park, baseball games, Morey's Piers in Wildwood, the New Jersey Devils at MetLife Stadium, and various locations in Myrtle Beach including the Palace Theater, the Carolina Opry, and Broadway on the Beach. They have also performed at many community events.