Damaris began dancing at age three.  She began student teaching at age twelve and teaching at age eighteen.

Currently Damaris is attending Stony Brook University after having earned her Associates Degree in International Studies at Suffolk Community College.  Damaris continues her dance education at Broadway Dance Center in NYC; taking master classes with Leslie Feliciano, Helene Phillips and Sue Samuels.

Her teaching experience includes jazz and ballet classes at the Sachem Enrichment & Arts Program, hip-hop, salsa, contemporary, Hawaiian, belly dance and combo classes at Computer Associates and hip-hop classes at Stony Brook University.