Xscape Performing Arts Center

Ms. KT began her dance journey at the age of seven with classical ballet and has since cultivated a diverse performance background that includes jazz, modern dance, fire dancing, and musical theatre. She earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee before relocating to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2006. There, she performed with a wide range of companies and created original works for modern dance concerts, vaudeville shows, and fire performance events.

Andrea Young has been dancing since she was 5 and danced competitively until she was 18 years old with Castro Valley Performing Arts in the Bay Area, CA. Andrea earned her BA in Dance from San Jose State University. She has training in ballet, jazz, tap, hip hop, modern, lyrical, swing, dance improv, and musical theatre. She helped start a children's musical theatre company in the Bay Area before moving to San Diego to pursue performing. She performed in and helped choreograph many musical theatre shows with Turning Tydes, Coronado Playhouse, and Pickwick Players. Andrea then began teaching and choreographing shows with Center Stage Productions, a youth theatre program. She recently moved to the Reno/Sparks area and is very excited to be teaching in the studio again!

Sierra Taylor-Cline is a 30-year-old dancer and choreographer from Las Vegas. She has been teaching in Reno & Sparks for twelve years and is currently pursuing her dreams as a versatile and well-known choreographer. She is trained in contemporary, lyrical, jazz/jazz funk, hip-hop, and heels. Not only does she love teaching, but she has a strong passion for inspiring young adults to be the greatest versions of themselves. In addition to teaching, Sierra is also in the works of getting her life-coaching certification. Her aspiration in life is to become, not only a dance teacher, but someone who successfully helps others achieve their goals.

Aliza Davis is a dancer and scholar with a B.A. in Sociology and Dance from Loyola Marymount University, emphasizing dance pedagogy, storytelling, and cultural retention. While at LMU, she served as President of Radix Dance Crew for two years and conducted research on dance as it informs knowledge of the self, community, and spirituality.

Kelly has a large range of performance experience in academic commercial settings. Her expertise is highlighted by her back of house, production, and planning for large scale performances, such as Hip Hop International and International Aerobic Championship. She teaches a range of styles including Jazz, Ballet, Hip Hop, Heels, Contemporary, Latin, Modern, Technique/ Foundations, and Burlesque. You can find her staged works at national dance competitions and dance festivals. In 2023, Kelly founded ConfiDance, a training program in various styles to help grow and educate the dance community in technique.

Miss Holli started dancing at seven years old, training in ballet, jazz, tap, acro, hip-hop, musical theater, and lyrical. She danced competitively until she was 15. During that time, she performed with her dance studio at Disney Magic Music Days and on Carnival Cruise Lines, was a guest performer for the Miss Washington pageant, and performed at the pre-game show for a Seattle Sonics vs LA Lakers game.

Mariah has loved to dance since she began at age three! She trained in ballet, jazz, tap, lyrical, hip hop, contemporary and musical theatre. She competed with her studio, Dance Unlimited in Boise, Idaho for 11 years. She was also a member of her high school dance team; where she won multiple state and national awards as a soloist including: Miss Idaho State Invitational, Queen of Western States Competition and 1st Runner up to Miss Dance Drill USA. In college, Mariah was an Aggiette dancer on the Utah State University Spirit Squad. She had the opportunity to perform and cheer at all the University athletic events and many events throughout the community. She will be a forever Aggie fan! She graduated in 2020 with her Bachelor’s of Science in Mathematics.

Marie honed her skills dancing with Chris Dupre, Christina Woodward, Malaya, Ryan Heffington, Havic, Scott Hislop, Terri Best, Denise Leitner, Dante7, Kitty McNamee, Eddie Garcia, Mandy Moore and Jayson Wright. For the past 17 years, Marie has taught at numerous studios in the Los Angeles area for both recreational and competitive programs. Marie is the co-founder of Peninsula School of Performing Arts Dance Company in Palos Verdes California. Under her direction, the team quickly grew from seven to 53 competitive dancers. Receiving many top awards and scholarships, many members have gone on to professional careers. She can also be seen in Sugar a music video by Connie Lim. Marie is a Module 1 certified Acrobatic Arts Instructor. She is known as an excellent technician and has the ability to bring the best out in all dancers from beginning to advanced pre-professionals.

Marie has been dancing since she was three, with twenty years of experience training dancers. She is truly versatile having studied ballet, jazz, lyrical, contemporary, tap, modern, hip hop and musical theater. In 2003, she moved to Los Angeles performing with choreographers such as Malaya and Ryan Heffington. She has performed for industrial productions Il' Circo and Extreme Show. She trained at Edge Performing Arts Center, Millenium Dance Complex, and Debbie Reynolds.