Staff

Nancy Durall
KRDT Artistic Director
Teacher and Choreographer
KY Registered/Licensed Dietitian

Nancy combines her love for Christ with dance, remembering one of her favorite Bible verses from Acts, “In Him we live and move and have our being.”

“It was my dream at a young age to be a ballerina and medical doctor.  Several things did not add up for that, but God intervened.  Where I was lacking, He was faithful. I’m thrilled to look back and see God’s hand all over my life and how He directed my steps in my profession and avocation.”

In 1996 Nancy started her ballet training with Sue Champion, founder of KY Repertory Dance Theatre.  With Sue and KRDT Nancy and Rod traveled to Moscow, Russia in 2000 and 2002, performing and sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ in churches, grand community meeting halls, hospitals, and schools.   When Sue and her family moved to Moscow in 2004 to minister, Rod and Nancy became directors of KRDT.

Nancy has attended dance intensives and dance teacher training with Ballet Magnificat!, Hosanna Sacred Arts Dance Festival from 2006-2011 hosted by Briarwood Ballet School, Birmingham, AL: Ad Deum Dance in Houston, TX; Ballet 5/8, Chicago, IL; Dancers’ Studio,  and Lisa Howell, physiotherapist, dance health training.  

A certified Body Recall instructor for over 18 years, she teaches a conditioning class for senior adults in addition to ballet classes for all ages.  

Nancy and Rod are ministers on their church’s worship team as lead dancer and bass player.

For over 30 years Nancy has worked in the medical field as Registered/Licensed Dietitian Nutritionist treating patients/clients in hospitals, extended care and fitness facilities, and private practice as manager and healthcare provider.  With her knowledge and experience in anatomy, fitness, injury recovery, and nutrition, Nancy endeavors to enrich the lives of KRDT dancers as she prays for them and seeks God’s best for them.

Along with the other teachers, Nancy directs two stage productions per year.  KRDT also shares the joyful art of dance in extended care facilities, churches, and schools.

Rod Durall
KRDT Director
Teacher

Training locally with KRDT, Winchester Ballet, Bluegrass Youth Ballet and Dancers’ Studio since 1999, Rod also attended the Hosanna Sacred Arts Dance Festival Intensive the summers of 2007-2011.

In KRDT’s last several productions, Rod has been instrumental in the choreography and especially enjoys modern dance.

By trade, he is a stone, brick and block mason. Not only the physical brawn, Rod is the backbone of prayer and encouragement in the ministry.

Rod teaches the boys’ class as well as the Tuesday night class for level IV-VI.

At church, he is the lead bass player on the worship team.

One of Rod’s favorite scriptures is “I can do everything through Him who gives me strength”. Philippians 4:19

Laura Segre-Lewis
Assistant Artistic Director
Teacher and Choreographer

Laura has over twenty years of experience with dance for worship, having performed original works both regionally, nationally and internationally in Perth, Australia, Moscow, Russia and Cancun, Mexico on ministry related trips. She has helped lead and teach numerous workshops and dance intensives lead the Asbury University Dance Ensemble in choreographing and performing several new works yearly.

Laura has attended workshops from Ballet Magnificat, Hosanna Sacred Arts, Ad Deum, and Bat Sheva Dance Company. with an MFA in painting from the University of Kentucky, her interest is based on issues of space and patterns of movement within a three-dimensional area correlating to its relationship with two-dimensional design.

Laura has taught for the University of Kentucky and Asbury University. More recently, she has taught art and creative movement for Yellowwood, Bluegrass Arts Initiative ,and The Wilmore Family Center. She lives in Wilmore with her husband Chris  four beautiful children who she educates at home.

Laurie Fields
Instructor for KRDT upper level dancers
Owner, Dancers’ Studio

Laurie Fields is the founder and director of Dancers’ Studio where she teaches dancers of all ages.  She also teaches at the School for Creative and Performing Arts, where she is responsible for the Elementary and Middle School Ballet majors at SCAPA Bluegrass, and the High School Ballet majors at SCAPA Lafayette.

Ms. Fields began dancing at her mother’s studio in Raleigh, North Carolina and continued her studies at Walnut Hill School for the Performing Arts, and the University of Iowa. She holds an undergraduate degree in Architecture from North Carolina State University, and an MFA in Dance from the University of Iowa. Ms. Fields has danced professionally with groups such as Atlantic Dance Theatre, Nebraska Dance Theatre and companies of the Yard.

She has received grants from the North Carolina Arts Council and the Kentucky Arts Council. Her choreography has been seen locally in productions by SCAPA, the Dancers’ Studio, Ballet Under the Stars, Kentucky Ballet Theatre, UK Opera Theatre, UK Dance Ensemble and UK Department of Theatre and Dance. Laurie has also taught at Camp ArtSmart, SS&P Master classes, LDFBA, EKU, UK and Transylvania University. Laurie has one daughter, Alecia, who danced at SCAPA, NCSA and Ballet Met, and then went on to become an OB/GYN Doctor now working in Indianapolis. Laurie is also a proud “Lala” to grandsons, Colson and Aiden!

Laura Babba
Teacher

The Babba family is new to Lexington.  Her husband, Paul, is an assistant women’s soccer coach at University of Kentucky.  Laura enjoys exercising, any kind of dancing, and spending time with her husband and 3 children.

Laura holds a BA in Dance from Belhaven University in Jackson, MS. Her dance training began at an early age and includes classical ballet, modern, jazz, and Russian character dance.

She studied with Adeum Dance Company in Houston, TX, Ballet Magnificat in Jackson, MS, and Inlet Dance Theater in Cleveland, OH.

Victoria Boyko
Teacher and Choreographer

Beginning her teaching career for KRDT in 2007,  Victoria has taught classes for students of all ages and levels, and has also taught advanced classes for Dancers’ Studio. While living in Minnesota, Victoria taught intermediate and advanced ballet and modern dance classes for Allegro School of Dance and Music. During that time, she completed the Level One Teacher Training under Lisa Howell with Perfect Form Physiotherapy.

Her formal training includes classical ballet and various styles of modern, although she has had the opportunity to take classes in jazz, hip hop, contemporary, and improvisation. Victoria has also had the privilege to take classes under Steve Rooks (Martha Graham School, The Ailey School), Caleb Mitchell (Belhaven University Assistant Professor of Dance), Kathy Thibodeaux (Founder and Director of Ballet Magnificat), Jiri Sebastian Voborsky (Omega Co. Artistic Director, Ballet Magnificat), Randall Flinn (Founder and Director of Ad Deum Dance Company), Kenneth Tolle (Hosanna Sacred Arts Founder and Director), Durell Comedy (Limon Dance Company, Mark Morris Dance Group) and Robin Conrad Sturm (Asaph Dance Ensemble Founder and Director).

Victoria has taught  Bible study in her home and coached Bible Quiz team. She has been one of the choreographers for the First Assembly musicals, Elijah and Elisha, and the primary choreographer for PROJECT HOPE, A Cry For Freedom, a contemporary ballet, in the summer of 2011. She attends Destiny Community Church with her husband Jeffrey.

Mary Van Campen
Teacher and choreographer