OUR COACHES

Jazz, Musical Theater, Technique, Contemporary & Competition Team Choreographer/Coach.

Ms. Hailee has been competing and choreographing her whole life- she danced for us, with us, and now has graduated and become our newest teacher! We love her beautiful choreography and desire for spot on technique!

She has won many various top scoring awards for her choreography & dancing. Her passion for dance & choreography shines through in every step.

Middle: Ms. Makayla- Ballet, Jazz, Tap, Lyrical, Leaps & Turns, Hip-Hop, Competition Choreographer & Ms. Taylor’s right hand genius!

Ms. Makayla has been competing and dancing her entire life, and has been a part of our journey from the very beginning! She is an incredibly gifted dancer & choreographer with a heart of gold.

We love Ms. Makayla’s incredible patience, dedication, loyalty and versatility. She is our lead choreographer for our competition team bringing us home many awards.

Her musicality & attention to each child’s needs & dance goals is one of many things that sets her apart from anyone we know!

Ballet, Pointe & Acrobatics Instructor, Competition Team Director & Choreographer, Manager & Owner of The Family Dance Studio.

Ms. Taylor’s passions are rooted in gymnastics/ acrobatics/tumbling and classical ballet training. Her goal and Intent for the studio is to create a safe space for every dancer to learn at their own pace, with proper technique, with encouraging and helpful direction to each dancers individual goals, no matter what phase of their dance journey they are in.

She focuses on safe progression based training & technique, while keeping it real. Her love for the art of acrobatics and ballet technique grows every day as she watches her dancers achieve small and large victories with their dance skills.

Ms. Kylee is our student teacher! She teaches our twinkle toes division & substitute teaches for us now as well! Kylee is a phenomenal dancer with excellent ballet based technique but is also a very talented tapper among many other styles! She was trained by our staff here at TFDS! :)

Born in Madrid (Spain), Carmen has studied ballet since the age of seven. She studied with three of the most well recognized classical ballet teachers of Madrid: Julia Estevez, Carmen Roche and Rosa Naranjo, continuing and complementing studies at the Professional Association of Dance of Madrid, with some teachers of international prestige, such as Fernando Bujones, Jose Carreno, Aurora Bosch, Ricardo Franco, or Pino Alosa.

Carmen stepped away from ballet due to her demanding medical career, and for more than 20 years kept training in other disciplines such as Gyrotonic, and ballroom and Latin dances; however, she is back to where

Ms. Carmen is available for private lessons by appointment only.