teaching Staff

Cindy Nunweiler is the Director/Owner of Dance Theatre of Greenville. She brings her 30+ years of teaching and choreographic experience to the studio along with her tenacity for dance education. She strives to create positive learning environments where children and young adults can thrive and yet still be challenged to take the next step. Her work has been featured in Artisphere, at Furman University for their spring showcase, and most recently at the Mauldin Cultural Center with the Mauldin City Singers. As one of the first BA in Dance graduates of DeSales University, Cindy was a founding member of the Young Choreographer’s Series and the DeSales Le Tour de Dance touring company both of which still exists at the university today. She is most proud of her ability to pave new ways for dancers to express themselves not only in her hometown of Allentown, PA but now in Greenville, SC.

Cindy is also the Artistic Director of the DTG Performance Company which is the Upstate’s only contemporary pre-professional dance company. 

Born and raised in Greenville, SC, Katie Faulkenberry grew up dancing under the direction of Cindy Nunweiler. Her love for ballet led her to the Governor's School for Arts and Humanities to study techniques in Vaganova, Ceecchetti, and the Royal Academy of Dance. Katie has performed in International Ballet Academy's Giselle both in Greenville, SC and Philadelphia, PA along with her two-year tenure as a performer for the Miss South Carolina Organization. She joined Dance Theatre of Greenville in 2014 as a teacher and choreographer to further dance education in the upstate and give young performers a safe space to learn and grow as dancers.

Ginny Lynn Brown fell in love with Ballet right here in Greenville, SC. She began her training at age 3 and has been dancing, teaching, and performing ever since. Through grade school she studied Ballet, Tap, and Jazz at the School of Dance Arts in Florence, SC. She became a member of the South Carolina Dance Theatre company in 1994 and enjoyed many years of performing her favorite ballet, The Nutcracker. Ginny Lynn trained under Pat Miller and Philip Burnham. While achieving her degree in Business Management from Clemson University in 2006, she spent most of her extra time in the studio. Ginny Lynn was the Ballet Teacher for the Clemson Dancers from 2003-2006. She also performed with the Clemson Dancers in all areas of dance from Pointe to Clogging all four years. In 2005, Ginny Lynn was accepted into the very first year of Clemson’s University Dance Company. She also enjoyed performing musicals with the theatre department at Clemson. Ginny Lynn was the President of the Clemson Shag and Ballroom Club and still enjoys teaching Shag today. In 2013, she started a small Ballet program for the YMCA in Duncan, SC and has run that program for the last few years.

From the age of 2, Olivia Gould was involved in dance. Continuing the beginnings of dance, she started dancing competitively and realized her passion for the art form. Through her childhood, she studied all dance styles including ballet, jazz, tap, modern, acro/tumbling, hip hop, and pointe. As a result of her 16 years of training, she decided to attend Anderson University’s South Carolina School of the Arts for the next 4 years. She then earned her bachelor’s degree in Dance while minoring in Theatre. Here she fell in love with the art of dance education which sparked a fire to teach! Beginning in fall of 2020, she entered the workforce at Dance Theatre of Greenville and has loved every minute of it! 

Samantha Italiano - goes by Sam- was born and raised in Colorado, growing up in a studio that emphasized artistic expression, exploration, and the opportunity to perform in a variety of settings. Studying under Danielle Heller and Brenna Kuhn, along with many other greats, Sam’s passion for tap dance evolved and she explored the artform with the utmost enthusiasm, alongside ballet, ballroom, jazz, and modern. While attending Elon University in North Carolina, Sam studied with Gene Medler, the Founder and Artistic Director of the North Carolina Youth Tap Ensemble, working alongside Medler to co-direct, choreograph and perform in the university’s annual tap dance showcase. Sam loves to share her passion while on stage, performing as a guest artist with Untapped in Little Rock and Kaleena Miller Dance in Minneapolis. Sam has taught in a variety of settings including: recreation center dance programs; dance studios; public & private school programs; non-profit programming; after-school programs; one-time workshops; and most recently choreographing for musicals. No matter the setting, she emphasizes dance history, rhythmic intricacies, and performance skills hoping to ignite a fire in her students as Sam’s teachers have done for her.

Summer Gallman Kurtz was born and raised in Columbia, SC, where she began dance at 2 years old. At a very young age, she discovered her love of dance and forfeited all other sports to pursue her passion. She began in the basics of ballet, jazz, and tap under the direction of Kim Langley. She began to dance competitively at the age of 13, competing the majority of her solos in jazz and contemporary. During her training at Palmetto Performing Arts under Kristi Beers and Morgan Holton, she was awarded talent scout scholarships from varying competitions. Teaching at PPA is where she fell in love with working with younger dancers and choreographing. 

Summer was fortunate enough to be a member of Clemson University’s Rally Cats dance team all four of her collegiate years. During her time there, she attended ProDance camps, NDA competitions, and furthered her skills in jazz, hip hop, Pom, and lyrical. After graduation, she lived in Atlanta for 3 years where she worked in architecture, but continued taking dance classes for her enjoyment. 

Summer is excited to be settling down in Greenville after living in the busy city of Atlanta! She hopes to share her love and passion for dance with the upcoming generation of artists, along with continuing to further her own dance education as often as possible. 

Emma has studied ballet with the Greenville Ballet School, International Ballet Academy, and was a student at the Fine Arts Center.  In 2017, she attended the American Dance Festival's three week summer intensive at Duke University.  Emma has performed in multiple ballet productions including several roles in The Nutcracker and Coppelia with the Greenville Ballet. She was also a cast member with The Logos Theatre in their most recent productions of "The Horse and His Boy", "A Peep Behind the Scenes”, and “The Scarlet Pimpernel.”