Christine started her dance training with Barbara Adams at the age of three. As a teen, she taught at Adam’s Dance Academy in Elmer and was a member of the Delaware Valley Jazz Company, also, taking tap lessons from Corrine Gangi in Pitman and teaching at South Jersey Danceworks, also in Pitman.
She began her teacher training in 1982 with Mary E. Sisome of Audobon, in the Royal Academy Ballet Syllabus, receiving distinction and honors on her exams in grade 1-5. And in 1983 began a small summer program, with eight students, at Old Cedar Campground in Monroeville.
Christine furthered her dance training at West Chester University in Pennsylvania as a member of the WCU Dance Team, before transferring to Rowan University in New Jersey. She continued with her summer program that was growing year by year. Upon graduating from Rowan, she decided to turn the summer program into a full-time studio.
However, opening the studio is not where the training ended. Christine began taking classes and performing with Ballet South under the direction of Shawn Doyle, as well as attending various workshops in NYC and Las Vegas. She attended the Dance Teacher Web Conference and Expo in Las Vegas, and ITDI workshops in NJ for several years. In addition to the Royal Academy Teaching Certification, she has completed a three year program from Dance Educators of America in NYC & Las Vegas, with certification in tap, ballet and jazz dance, and was a member of DEA and was a director and member of International Teachers of Dance. Each summer she travelled to Las Vegas for the Dance Teacher Web Convention & Expo, to learn from the country’s top “teacher’s teachers” and was very excited and fortunate to be able to bring her whole staff to learn from these masters of dance. In May of 2018, after 35 years, Christine announced her retirement from teaching and managing of the studio with her move to Houston, Texas.  While still owning the business, she has put it in the very capable hands of her prodigy and surrogate child, Brianna Smith.