Meet The Staff

Casia Baisa - Owner/Director/Choreographer/Instructor

Diane McCarty - Office Manager/Secondary Director/Studio Mom

Phoenix Baisa - Instructor/Choreographer

Angie Montgomery - Instructor/Choreographer

Angie began with tumbling & gymnastics at the age of 5 and instantly fell in love with dance just a few years later. Her training includes jazz, tap, ballet, lyrical, vocal and musical theater. Throughout her years she competed in many regional and national competitions with her home studio. She regularly performed in and around her hometown, including in performances to raise money for COTA, Children’s Organ Transplant Association. She was also a member of her high school dance team for 4 years. After graduating high school, she took a break from dance and started her family. She enrolled in college and studied through online courses to earn her Associates Degree in Business Management. Marriage, 3 kids, and several years later, she reconnected with dance through both of her daughters and has been teaching ever since. Angie began teaching at Infinity Dance Academy for their recreational program in 2009 and began choreographing for the competitive team in 2013. She also contributed to the start of the Plainfield High School Dance Team and coached from 2013 to 2016. Angie is currently pursuing Pilates and Acrobatic Arts certifications and is teaching everything she learns to Infinity’s competitive team through her pilates and tumbling classes. Teaching has been one of the most rewarding jobs Angie has had the privilege to hold. Not only does she see the studio as a safe space to truly be herself, but it also brings her so much happiness. It’s always a place where she can help her students grow, not only as dancers but also as compassionate, caring individuals. Angie loves each and every one of her students as her own and finds the most rewarding part is the forever friendships she has made throughout the years with the dancers and fellow instructors. She loves watching the dancers grow up and go on to become the very best versions of themselves.

Maria Maccaroni - Instructor/Choreographer

A native of the Indianapolis area, Maria began dancing competetively with Motivation Dance under the direction of Bruce Campbell in 2001. Her time with Motivation Dance helped prepare her for the rest of her dance career as she won many regional and national titles as well as working with choreographers such as Brian Friedman, Mia Michaels, Mark Meismer, Sonya Tayeh and many others. In 2008, Maria began studying at the Indianapolis School of Ballet under the direction of Victoria Lyras. While getting the chance to perform numerous ballets by the late George Balanchine, Maria performed many lead roles such as Dew Drop in The Nutcracker. During the summers, Maria often attended the Alonzo King LINES Ballet Summer Program, performing original works choreographed by Carmen Rozestraten, Maurya Kerr, Keelan Whitmore and Arturo Fernandez. In 2015, Maria went on to receive a Bachelor of Arts degree in Ballet Performance and Choreography along with a minor in Psychology from the University of South Carolina. As a USC student, Maria had the privilege to perform many ballets such as Serenade, Who Cares?, and Raymonda Variations alongside principle dancers of the New York City Ballet. She also danced professionally during her college career with Wideman-Davis Dance, touring the east coast. In 2018, Maria alongside some of her colleagues, performed in the American College Dance Association’s Finals competition hosted at the Kennedy Center for the Arts in Washington, D.C. Since graduating from USC in 2019, Maria has since moved back to Indianapolis where she pursued a Master of Arts in Arts Administration degree at Indiana University and graduated in December 2020. Maria has accepted a full-time position at the Indianapolis Ballet as a Development Associate and cannot wait for the upcoming season with Infinity!

Carly Herring - Instructor/Choreographer

Carly has been dancing since age 3 and has had extensive dance training in Ballet, Jazz, Hip Hop, Tap, Lyrical, Contemporary and Musical Theatre. She has won many scholarships and awards through the years and has danced under the instruction of many nationally renowned choreographers such as Mia Michaels, Sonya Tayeh, David Moore and a variety of others. She has performed in "The Nutcracker" at the Murat Theatre, performed in "Oliver" as part of the Hendricks Civic Theatre, and danced at Radio City Music Hall in New York City as part of a JUMP scholarship. Throughout her many years of dance, Carly has had the opportunity to dance around the country in many other venues. Carly also worked as a paid dancer for the WNBA Fever Inferno Hip Hop Dance Team for three years. She graduated from IUPUI’s Herron School of Art and Design in 2015, with a degree in Visual Communication Design. In addition to working full-time as the Creative Designer for the Kelley School of Business at IUPUI, she teaches so that she can “pay forward” her love of dance and bring her knowledge and experience to others who also enjoy expressing themselves through dance. In her years as a teacher, she has won many choreography awards and contributed to many special awards earned by her students. As a dance instructor and choreographer, she feels her job is to inspire, to give dancers the tools they need to be successful at whatever level of dance they wish to achieve, to push dancers to their limits with discipline, fun, and most importantly, love! She not only teaches but cares about her students and fellow teachers.

Stephanie Mannina - Instructor/Choreographer

Stephanie is originally from Alexandria, Louisiana where she began her dance career at the age of 7. She was a member of Ballet Alexandria and Cenla Academy of Performing Arts for 15 years. Through her career she has studied with dance educators from all over the world and guest teachers from the Michigan Classic Ballet, the Milwaukee Ballet, the Nashville Ballet, the Dayton Ballet, and the New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts. She has participated in numerous workshops including all of Ballet Alexandria’s training programs, L.A. Hip-Hop programs in Hollywood, and the IV USA International Ballet School in Jackson, Mississippi. Stephanie has had the opportunity to perform in such Ballets as the Nutcracker as the Sugar Plum Fairy, Gisselle, La Bayadere, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Peter and the Wolf, The Nutcracker Doll, Reeds, SnowFlakes, Waltz of the Flowers, La Sylphide, Swan Lake, and Quatre. Stephanie has also mentored Pageant contestants in their talents, including Hailey Jordan, who became Miss Indiana in 2017. Upon moving to the Indianapolis area she continued her teaching career with American Dance Studio located in Mooresville, and as well as Speedway. Stephanie is now a primary Ballet instructor at Infinity Dance Academy, for the Competitive Team currently made up of over 60 dancers.