Alyce Andrews

Alyce Andrews danced with the Nashville Ballet for three seasons before joining the Milwaukee Ballet from 1991-2002. Her mother, Pat Gillispie, trained her with Classical Ballet Memphis. She studied at the ballet schools of Houston Ballet, Boston Ballet, and Atlanta Ballet. She received scholarships for the San Francisco Ballet School as well as the National Academy of the Arts. In the summer of 1995, she completed the advanced examination for the Royal Academy of Dance and was one of two dancers in the United States to be awarded the coveted Solo Seal of the Academy. Andrews joined dancers from all over the world to dance at the Feast of Tabernacles in Israel with the International Christian Embassy. Most recently, Alyce was the founder and director of the Steps of Grace Ballet from 2003-2018. She is currently the Head of the Children’s Division of the Milwaukee Ballet School & Academy and Branch Manager of the Brookfield Location.

Linda Wade

Linda Wade has been actively involved in many forms of art since 1989 as an artist painting in oil on stretch canvas to have her work shown throughout Wisconsin. Linda studied ballet at William Riley Ballet Academy, Milwaukee Ballet & Dance Works, and eventually joined Dance Eternal in 1995 where she was invited to join lead dancer (Kim Brunner) in a trip to prison in Texas. Linda soon realized that most of women in prison trouble started when they were children and after coming from a Texas prison trip in 2000 the vision of Above The Clouds was birth. In 2001, Linda Wade along with her friiend Barbara Melsheimer( ATCCo - Founder) incorporated ATC. Linda is also the Director of Moving Forward Milwaukee an arm of Above The Clouds, Oversees Above The Clouds, Texas along with being on the outreach committee of the Milwaukee Ballet as well as part of Discipleship Unlimited Prison Ministry based in Texas.