Deborah A. Casey began her dance training at the age of nine. She attended many dance conventions and upon her graduation from high school, attended a two year teacher training program/course offered by Dance Educators of America in New York City. Successful completion of the course enabled her to graduate with high honors and receive a graduate diploma in Ballet and Musical Theater Arts, thus certified by exam to teach.

She opened her own school in 1974 and continues to study at many conventions, seminars and workshops held in New York City, Massachusetts, Connecticut and throughout the United States given by professional dance organizations such as the Manhattan Dance Project, Canadian Dance Teachers Association, Dance Educators of America, Dance Olympus, The Tremaine Dance Experience, Dance Teachers Club of Boston, I Love Dance, Jeff Shade's Jazz Workshops, L.A. Underground, Professional Dance Teachers Associations, New York on the Road, The School of Dance Connecticut, the International Association of Dance Medicine and Science, The Connecticut Children's Dance Theater Inc. and The Connecticut Dance Alliance.

She is an active member of the United States Sports Acrobatics Federation, Professional Dance Teachers Association, International Tap Association, The International Association of Dance Medicine and Science and the Connecticut Dance Alliance. She is also a life time member of Dance Educators of America for completing over twenty five consecutive years as a member in good standing.

Throughout the years, Deborah and several of her students, faculty members and teaching assistants attend schools in New York City and participate in master classes including the Alvin Ailey Dance Center, Steps, Peri Dance Center, Broadway Dance Center, Phil Blacks Dance Studio and jazz classes with Luigi.

She attended the summer jazz program for over ten years at the Hartford School of Ballet, with instructor Rudy D'Angona and attended jazz classes with Gus Giordano in Evanston, Illinois. During the summers of 1989 and 1991, she attended an extensive seminar held in Canada with the Canadian Dance Teachers Association given in Acrobatics/Acro Sports, Ballet, Modern, Tap, Tap History and Jazz.

In the summer of 1997 she attended a workshop in San Francisco, California with classes offered in Musical Theater, Tap, Jazz, Hip Hop, Lyrical, Classical Ballet and Nutrition hosted by New York on the Road with instructors, Fosse's Chet Walker, Bill Hotaling, and Finis Jhung.

In the summer of 1999, she attended a dance seminar in Phoenix, Arizona hosted by the Manhattan Dance Project with Ballet classes offered by Michael Vernon, Tap with Abron Glover, Musical Theater Fosse style with Bill Hastings and Jazz and Swing Classes by Bill Hotaling and Kimberly Lyons. Dance History and Nutrition classes were offered as well.

During the summers of 2002-2006, and again in 2008 & 2009, she attended a dance seminar for teachers in New York hosted by Dance Teacher Magazine/Dance Teacher Summit. Classes were offered in Yoga, Ballet, Floor Barre Technique, Musical Theater, Injury Prevention, Lyrical, Creative Movement for Preschoolers, Tap, Managing your studio, Wellness, Modern, Proper body alignment and turnout and many others. Instructors included Cathy Roe, Finis Jhung, Michael Ker, Zena Rommett, Bob Rizzo, Lynn Simonson and Denise Cook. During the seminar in 2003, Debbie Allen was the keynote speaker.

Deborah was asked to be a guest speaker at a studio owner's forum round table discussion during the business track session of the 2004 conference. She presented information on "Teaching Student Teachers/Assistants/Helpers and the value of that status at one's studio. In February 2005 she was interviewed by Jennifer Branch, a freelance writer for Dance Teacher Magazine on this presentation and the article appeared in the May issue. During the 2005 Conference, Ben Vereen was the keynote speaker. Patrick Swayze was the special surprise guest and addressed the teachers on the subject of how important we are in children's lives and later stayed on to sign autographs.

During the summer of 2007, Deborah attended “The Pulse” intensive teacher workshop held in NYC by Broadway Dance Center featuring classes in Ballet, Lyrical, Contemporary, Hip Hop and Jazz, with “So You Think You Can Dance” faculty and judges: Mia Michaels, Shane Sparks, Brian Friedman, Cris Judd, Wade Robson and Tyce Diorio, as well as many other well known choreographers.

Deborah has judged many regional and national dance, talent and modeling competitions and pageants for American Miss Talent and Modeling, Stagestruck Dance Competitions, Dance Capers, The Miss Wolcott Pageant (preliminary to the Miss America Pageants), Greater Miss Litchfield County Pageants, Dance Arts Plus, That’s Entertainment, THS Dance Team and Cheer Competition “Compete for a Cure” as well as the Southwest Conference Championship Dance Team Competition in New Milford. For the past several years she has helped emcee the St. Jude’s Telethon aired on the local cable channel.

Deborah continues to study with many well known choreographers and instructors to be able to offer her students the very best in dance education and to keep up with the newest styles and talent techniques for proper training.