Our Instructors
Ellen Brodsky
Ellen Brodsky is a lifelong lover of dance. She has studied Jazz, Modern, Belly Dance, Flamenco and Pilates and began with Ballroom for a family wedding. Starting in 1986, Mary French taught Ellen and her husband in Mary’s studio in Cataumet, and when the Arthur Murray Studio opened in Centerville in 1990, Ellen began training as a dance teacher. In 1992 Ellen began teaching at Falmouth Night School, soon expanding to two nights a week. At the Mary French Studio, she continued her apprenticeship and managed the studio for the winter months from 1997 until Mary’s death in 2008. In...
Margaret Pelletier
Margaret has taught Decorative Acrylic Painting in the Falmouth Community School for many years. She is a certified Decorative Painting instructor and loves teaching.
Sujata Ringawa
Sujata Ringawa taught in yoga classes, retreats, and health spas throughout the United States and Europe before moving to Cape Cod in 2004. She trained extensively in the Anusara yoga system, and received teacher certification in that style. In addition, she trained in the Iyengar yoga system, and was a previous a dancer-choreographer. Her love of movement is woven into her teaching. From 1999-2004, she was a yoga instructor in an international meditation ashram and retreat site, where she taught classes, workshops and teacher trainings. Sujata’s dynamic teaching style playfully blends her spontaneous sense of joy and delight and her love of exploration with a...
Richard Russell
Attorney Richard M. Russell practices elder law in Falmouth, Massachusetts. Attorney Russell is a cum laude graduate of Suffolk University Law School. Mr. Russell has also earned two undergraduate degrees from the University of Massachusetts: a magna cum laude degree in engineering (computer science) and a cum laude degree in business administration (marketing).
Tim Turbeville
Tim Turbeville began his golf career on Hilton Head Island, SC where he was the Assistant Golf Professional at The Oyster Reef Golf Club and Sea Pines Resort, which is home to Harbor Town Golf Links. There he had the opportunity to teach with a Golf Digest’s Top 100 Golf Instructor, Gary Ellis. From Hilton Head Tim moved to the Berkshires in Western Massachusetts, where he grew up. While in the Berkshires, Tim was the Assistant Golf Professional at The Country Club of Pittsfield, the Head Golf Professional at The Berkshire Hills CC and a top instructor at the Golf...