Haines is an adjunct faculty member in the Musical Theatre Department, Alabama School of the Arts, University of Mobile. She teaches classical ballet, Vaganova methodology, modern dance specializing in Martha Graham technique, and dance history focusing on the power of ritual in Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring to illuminate the centrality of the relationship between music and dance. Dedicated to theater for fifteen years as a professional classical ballerina. Haines danced with the National Theatre of Hungary, Miskols, HU, the Richard Wagner Fespiele Haus, Bayreuth, Germany, Hungarian Festival Ballet, Budapest, HU, Vigado Revue Theatre, Budapest, HU, Scala Theatre, Basel, Switzerland, and Fensh Ballet, Berlin, Germany. Ballets performed in classical, neoclassical, contemporary and musical theater productions include The Fountain of Bakhchisarai, Coppelia, The Nutcracker, Parsifal, Nürnberg Meistersinger, Ravel: Bolero, Carmina Burana: Those Loved by the Sun, Dancing for Life, Lonely Piano, Jungle, and the Phantom of the Opera House by world-renowned choreographers. The invaluable experience gained through Haines’ professional dance career influenced her continuing interest in teaching for over twenty years. This influence has broadened her approach to teaching by focusing on extensive supplemental practices to support classroom instruction. As a certified trainer in the GYROKINESISTM and GYROTONICTM expansion systems of alternative movement therapy, Haines specializes in dancer’s injury with a focus on shoulder and pelvic girdle, hip and knee mobilization and scoliosis rehabilitation. As a certified and licensed instructor in PBT, Progressing Ballet Technique, an innovative body conditioning and strengthening program, she is also able to design weekly classes that enhance students’ technique by focusing on building the muscle memory required for each exercise in all forms of dance.

Haines received her classical ballet pedagogy diploma from the Hungarian Dance University in 2004 with concentration in the Vaganova pedagogy, psychology and cultural anthropology. Additionally, she completed her post-graduate diploma at the Royal Academy of Dance, Benesh International London, UK, and received the Professional Award in Benesh Movement Notation (PABMN) Choreology diploma as a Certified Benesh Movement Notator (CBMN) in September 2023. She is currently pursuing her PhD diploma in Creative Art.