Andrea Woodward is the owner of Hermitage Dance Academy in Nashville, TN.  Recognizing her passion for choreography and teaching, she declined a professional dance career for herself and opened her own studio in 1997. Her studio has been ranked as one of the top in the country.  Andrea has studied with many well known teachers and choreographers in all disciplines of dance from all over the U.S.  For the past several years she has been traveling the country and teaching master classes and setting choreography for other studios, as well as running her studio back home. Today her primary focus is on pushing the boundaries of dance and choreography. Andrea’s students have won many awards and scholarships from different organizations around the country, and some have gone on to be members of college dance teams, professional sports team dancers, and appeared in several music videos and commercials. Andrea has won countless awards for her stylistic choreography and for her students’ technical ability, including both Teacher of the Year and Choreographer of the Year every year since 2008 at KAR Nationals. Andrea is certified by Dance Masters of America and holds a B.S. degree from Cumberland University in Nashville, TN.