She keeps them on their toes: Tita Boulger and the Peninsula School of Performing Arts
Peninsula School of Performing Arts director Tita Boulger at Abalone Cove with dancers Elina Mertens, Cammi Malicse, Malaya Paterson, Diane Anderson, Amelia Anderson, Reese Tomaro, Elena Thomas, Sierra Hickey, and Juliette Belke. story by Bondo Wyszpolski and photographs by Richard Horn Some people have a calling, almost from birth, and they not only pursue it but stick with it. Tita Boulger appears to fit into this category. She’s the founder and director of the Peninsula School of Performing Arts. She opened her studio in 1985. For those a bit slow on the math, let me help: That’s coming up on 37 years. Asked a very simple question, What keeps you going, Boulger doesn’t hesitate: “I love what I’m doing, and that is the big key.” The big key has a beginning, and we don’t have to leave the Peninsula to find it. Ballerinas emerging from the sea (left to right) Sierra Hickey, Cammi Malicse, Reese Tomaro (hidden), Juliette Belke, Elena Thomas, Diane Anderson, Elina Mertens, Malaya Paterson, and Amelia Anderson. Like mother, like daughter “My earliest memories were when my parents were in shows with the Palos Verdes Players,” Boulger says.That was in the mid-1950s when the theater…
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