Our Team
Tina Kostreva, Studio Owner
Tina Kostreva has been dancing for 30 years and has been teaching and choreographing for 22 years. She began with studio training, was a member of her high school’s dance team, and was a member of the UW-Green Bay dance team. She was chosen as an American All Star in high school and had the opportunity to perform on a Carnival Carribean Cruise. In college, she performed in the Danceworks annual concerts, majored in Arts Management, and minored in Dance. She has experience in Ballet, Tap, Jazz, Contemporary, Hip Hop, Pom, and Swing. Her favorite style of dance is Tap!
Tina started the Christian Dance Company in 2001 with the help of her family. She wanted to start a program with Christian values and began envisioning what that would look like. Christian music, modest costumes, and appropriate, tasteful choreography were at the top of her list. God blessed this endeavor and was with her every step of the way. The Christian Dance Company provides classes in an array of genres of dance and competes at local and national competitions, as well as attending workshops and festivals. CDC has been blessed to receive multiple high scoring awards and special judges awards as well.
Tina was selected in the summer of 2016 as director of the dance program for the Western Music Institute in California, a two-week conservatory arts camp for high school students. Tina has trained as a judge several times through WACPC (Wisconsin Association of Cheer and Pom Coaches) and has been judging at dance competitions throughout the state since 2019. She has brought dance to many children by volunteering for various churches and community organizations throughout her life.
Tina loves to see her students’ passion and joy for dance. Seeing them learn about the Lord, learn important life skills, and build confidence and character is a huge blessing! Tina wants her students to know that they are loved and that God has a plan for their life!
Hannah Beschta, ExecutiveDirector/Instructor
Hannah began dancing at the age of 6. She studied under the direction of numerous instructors at New Fusion Dance and Performing Arts. During these years, Hannah trained in many styles including ballet, jazz, tap, musical theater, contemporary, and lyrical. Soon after she began dance, she was chosen to perform with the competition team and continued competing until she was 18.
Hannah expanded her performing horizons in college where she majored in Vocal Performance, studying classical music performance under the instruction of Dr. Yi-Lan Niu. During this time, she was cast in featured roles in many musicals and operas including Suor Angelica, Legally Blonde, CATS, and A Chorus Line.
Hannah has found success teaching both dance and voice, as well as choreographing for studios in both Wisconsin and Florida. Most notably, she spent two years teaching and choreographing for Magic Curtain Productions in Orlando, Florida where her performance troupes won multiple superior ratings, Excellence in Dance at the Junior Theater Festival, and the top overall performance at the National Performing Arts Festival. She also found joy in choreographing full musical productions such as Matilda, Annie and Seussical the Musical.
Hannah’s favorite and most recent accomplishment is being selected to perform professionally for the Walt Disney Company at Walt Disney World. During her time with the company, she excelled in her role as a character performer and received recognition from her leaders for her performance.
Hannah teaches group dance, private dance, and private voice lessons at Christian Dance company. She loves sharing her passion for dance and voice with her students and wants to spread the message to them that they can find success in anything if they work hard at it and stay passionate and persistent.
Laura Kostreva, Artistic Director/Instructor
Laura Kostreva has 28 years of dance experience including styles such as Ballet, Lyrical, Contemporary, Jazz, Hip Hop, Pom, Kick, Tap, Musical Theater and Swing.
She is the Artistic Director, Head Instructor, Choreographer and Judge for the Christian Dance Company, having 22 years of assisting and teaching experience. Laura is a multi-award winning choreographer through Celebration Talent Competition Green Bay and taught Master Dance Classes in California for the Western Music Institute.
Laura has trained multiple times through WACPC for judging and has coached dance team programs for 10 years. She coached at Peshtigo High School, Oconto Falls High School and Middle School. She has also choreographed for the musical department at Oconto Falls High School, including Sound Of Music and Cinderella.
She was a member of the UW-Green Bay Dance Team and was a member of the All-American Team. She was a scholarship recipient through Dance Masters of Wisconsin.
Laura was the Design Your Dream Contest Winner in Chicago and her lyrical costume was sold through Revolution Dancewear.
She absolutely loves judging, dancing, choreographing and being a creative in the dance world!
Hannah Winek, Instructor
Hannah has been dancing for as long as she can remember. She started out at a small dance studio in Coleman and then moved on to the Christian Dance Company where she danced as a student for 9 years before becoming the instructor she is today. During her time at CDC, Hannah was a member of Pep Elite for 5 years, a soloist competitor, and was a dancer of the year finalist through Celebration Talent Competition in 2019 with her self-choreographed solo “Control.” She also spent one year training at the Green Bay school of dance in classical ballet with Timothy Josephs. Hannah is an award-winning choreographer specializing in ballet and contemporary/lyrical. She has 20 years of dance experience and 5 years teaching experience. She enjoys teaching and sharing her love of dance with her students while shoing them the positive impact that the gift of dance can have on their life.
