J+Benedetto

My name is Julianne Benedetto. I live with my family in Huntington on Long Island. One of my passions is dancing, primarily ballet dancing. I began training when I was about 8 years old and I studied to become a ballerina very intensely through two years of college as Dance Performance and English Literature double major at Butler University in Indianpolis, IN. At Butler I discovered that I am very passionate about ballet as a hobby, but I did not feel entirely the same way about ballet as a career. This life changing decision brought me back to New York (the best city ever!), where I continued to study English Literature. My ballet background drove me to explore teaching and I’ve found it to be a fun, new, and exciting adventure. I look forward to teaching and learning more about teaching the enthusiastic 8th grade English classes I am working with now!