Welcome Justin Rustle!
Artistic Director
We are thrilled to welcome Justin Rustle
as our new Artistic Director!
Justin is a dancer, dance educator, choreographer, and writer originally from Maryland.
Justin began dancing at the age of 9 at the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, and trained at Maryland Youth Ballet and Butler University. He also holds a Masters Degree in Performance Studies from the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU.
Justin has performed and taught dance across the United States for nearly 15 years, including with Ballet Arkansas, Bowen-McCauley Dance Company, and Dana Tai Soon Burgess Dance Company. He has been on faculty with premier preprofessional dance training programs at Maryland Youth Ballet and Baltimore School for the Arts, and he served as Associate Artistic Director with Hope Garden Children’s Ballet Theater.
In addition to working as a dancer and teacher, Justin is an arts and culture writer covering dance. His byline has appeared more than 70 times as a contributing writer to Maryland Theatre Guide, The Ballet Herald, and CriticalDance. In 2026 he was selected as a Fellow with the National Critics Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center.
Our Mission:
To provide a quality dance education in ballet and modern dance by professionally educated instructors for students of all social and economic backgrounds and/or mental or physical abilities in the Columbus, Indiana area.
Dancers Studio values the diversity of its community and strives to be inclusive and equitable for all students. We strive to remove social and economic barriers and provide children and adults of all backgrounds and abilities the same access to quality dance education.
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dancersstudioinc@gmail.com
Address
1804 22nd St. Unit #2
Columbus, IN 47201
www.dancers-studio.org
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We are committed to creating an inclusive arts experience. To request an accommodation or discuss your needs, please contact us at 812-376-8080 or via email at dancersstudioinc@gmail.com
