About Us
Our Mission
Unified Motion Ballet Academy is Northern Kentucky’s premier ballet school. We are dedicated to instilling a great love of dance, while inspiring self-confidence, discipline, and respect of the performing arts. We provide a solid technical foundation for the developing dancer in an environment that promotes a safe, supportive, and fun atmosphere. First and foremost we advocate the study of Classical Ballet as a foundation to all of our classes in order to instill an awareness of poise, alignment, and technique. It is with Classical Ballet that most forms of dance originate, and we believe Classical Ballet is beneficial and fun for everyone.
Our goal is to give each individual dancer the tools they need to take dance as far as they dream to take it. We believe if you can dream it, you can achieve it! Our instructors are skilled at identifying the specific needs of each student, and we recognize that every student has something to offer the arts, and the arts has something to offer every student. A dance education contributes to the development of responsible, dedicated, determined, and creative adults in society, therefore dance is something students can come back to during all stages of their life. Once a dancer always a dancer!
Gini DiBari – Artistic Director / Owner /
Dance Instructor
Ms. Gini began dancing at age 3 and hasn’t stopped! She has danced with The Cincinnati Ballet, The Cincinnati Children’s Theatre, and the Stephens College Repertory Dance Ensemble. She trained at the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music and The Otto M. Budig School of Cincinnati Ballet. She is a Dance graduate of the Kentucky Governor’s School for the Arts. She attended Stephens College where she earned a BFA in Dance. Ms. Gini began teaching dance in 2001, and has taught all disciplines of dance for both young children and adults. She also served as a ballet and lyrical competition team coach for ten years. She has written, directed, and choreographed three new ballets over her years as a teacher, as well as staged pieces for Swan Lake, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, and Nutcracker. Throughout her teaching career she has taught in schools in Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Missouri, Kansas, Idaho, and New York. Ms. Gini has also been a judge and guest teacher for Dance Masters of the Bluegrass Competitions. She holds teaching certifications from Dance Masters of America, Leap and Learn Ballet, and Progressing Ballet Technique. Ms. Gini lives in Union with her husband and two sons.
Miss Bella
Miss Bella has been dancing since the age of 3, and has been teaching dance classes for two years. Miss Bella was a competition dancer for 9 years and has danced in the 2016 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. She teaches Twinkle Stars, ballet, tap, and jazz at UMDA. Miss Bella graduated from St. Henry District High School and is currently a sophomore at Northern Kentucky University majoring in Communications. Miss Bella is so excited to be teaching at Unified Motion Dance Academy!
Miss Anaya
Anaya Ni’Kole is a born and raised Cincinnatian. A recent graduate at Northern Kentucky University School of the Arts. Also, dancing with her own dance crew (CA)^2 dance crew at Elementz. Anaya is trained in hip hop, jazz, modern, contemporary. Anaya has also competed around the country at Hip Hop International, World of dance and won first place at Monsters of Hip Hop. She also dances around the tri-state area with her dance crew. Anaya plans on influencing the next generation and creating active achievers.
Miss Sydney
Miss Sydney has been dancing since she was 5 years old, and is trained in jazz, ballet, pointe, hip hop, contemporary, and lyrical. She has been teaching at UMDA for the past two years. When she’s not teaching, Miss Sydney can be seen dancing in her second season as a Cincinnati Ben-Gal. In 2022 she graduated from Western Kentucky University with a bachelor’s degree in dance. When she’s not dancing, she is working as a Branch Administrator for an investment firm. Miss Sydney teaches Jazz, Contemporary, Hip Hop, and is a choreographer for Performance Company.
Miss Beth
Miss Beth has 20 years of dance experience and is trained in ballet, pointe, tap, jazz, lyrical, contemporary, hip hop, acro, and pom. She was a studio dancer for 15 years and was a part of a competition team for 6 years. Miss Beth was a member of the Ryle High School dance team for 3 years and danced in Macy’s 90th Thanksgiving Day Parade in 2016. She continued her dance career at Western Kentucky University on the dance team for 4 years and in 2019 won a Collegiate D1A Jazz National Championship with her team. She earned a bachelor’s in communication studies and minors in Event Planning and American Sign Language. She currently works at Receptions Event Center as the Corporate and Social Sales Manager, as well as a coach for the Cooper High School Dance Team. Miss Beth teaches Twinkle Stars, Show Stars, Rising Stars, jazz, acro, and ballet. She is excited to share her passion with young dancers and hopefully pass along what she has learned over the years.
Miss Lauren
Miss Lauren’s love for dancing began at the age of 2. During her time as a student, Lauren enjoyed learning many forms of dance including ballet, tap, jazz, hip hop and musical theatre. She has held many featured roles in the Wizard of Oz, Chicago and Shrek the Musical. Lauren began assistant teaching while in high school and later taught her own classes throughout her days attending the University of Kentucky. Lauren has always grown up with a love and passion for working with young children. She holds over 5 years of experience as lead teacher to children 0-12 and has taught at some of the area’s best preschools. Lauren is so excited to be with her UMDA family and looks forward to sharing her gift and love of dance with the next generation of dancers!