MEET OUR STAFF

Miss Laura is our director and lead choreographer for our competition team as well as our recreational dancers. She mainly teaches contemporary, jumps & turns, acro, and the majority of our mini classes!

Miss Sarah is our resident jazz teacher for all ages, and has been since the opening of the studio. She also loves the opportunity to teach contemporary or skills to our students. She alongside Miss Laura is a main choreographer for our competition team.

Miss Amanda helps manage our office as well substituting for classes here and there. She cuts our music, helps manage the office work & Akada, films our yearly recap videos and social media content, puts together our recital programs, and even designs our recital t-shirts. If there’s a technical or administrative issue that needs to be figured out — Amanda is the person to go to! 

Miss Shannon has been involved in the dance/acrobatics world for numerous years (coaching preschool through level 9 competitive gymnastics) and has been the director of the Newport YMCA gymnastics program for 9 years. She co-teaches acro for all ages with Miss Laura and runs our cheer/tumbling classes at the studio!

Miss Sam works largely with our mini and junior aged dancers throughout the year! She teaches and choreographs contemporary for our both our recreational students as well as our competition team. 

Miss Stephanie has been our resident tap teacher since the opening of KADC! She teaches and choreographs for our ages 9+ dances in both the competitive and recreational space.

Miss Sydney loves working with our junior and senior competition teams as well as our recreational students. She specializes in choreographing contemporary numbers for our company. 

Miss Athena is one of our hip hop teachers at KADC! She teaches our seniors and juniors recreationally and also choreographs some hip hop pieces for the competition team.

Miss Jenna is one of our hip hop teachers at KADC! She teaches our minis and juniors recreationally and also choreographs some hip hop pieces for the competition team.

Miss Kelley is our main ballet teacher for dancers 9 and up at KADC. Kelly received her Bachelor of Fine Arts, Summa Cum Laude, from the University of Arizona School of Dance, and has an amazing resume of dance training and performance. She provides top notch ballet training to our students!

Mr Ben comes around ever so often to teach ballet to our age 9+ students! Benjamin received his training at The Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre School, and alongside his wife Miss Kelly has an extensive and impression resume of dance training, performance, and choreography. We love when our students get the chance to learn from Mr Ben!