Beth started dance at age three with Dance Dynamics, during its founding year.  She is a former member of the Dance Dynamics Dance Company and trained extensively in the areas of ballet, jazz, tap, hip hop, lyrical and pointe.  She has traveled to New York and taken classes at Broadway Dance Center and Steps on Broadway.  She has competed regionally and nationally with both groups and solo performances.  She was a background dancer briefly and was a Dance Assistant with Hoctor’s Dance Caravan at Disney. She was nominated for Governor’s Honors in Dance. She has a Bachelor’s of Science in Child and Family Development with an emphasis in Family Services/ Social Work from Georgia Southern University.  In addition, Beth is also a social worker with expertise in domestic minor sex trafficking and serves with many nationally recognized organizations and assists with the statewide hotline for child sex trafficking victims.

Cassidy Hall is 20 years old and was a dancer at Dance Dynamics for 9 years. She was on Company for 4 years and has been active in the Arts since she was 5 years old. She is involved in music and local theatre productions and has experience working as a background actor and a stand-in for television. Cassidy has been recently nominated for best performer in a non-professional musical by Boradwayworld’s 2022 Regional Awards. She is excited to be at Dance Dynamics, working with the dancers and their families!

Rachel began her dance training at the age of three and studied ballet, Pointe, jazz, tap, lyrical, contemporary, modern, hip hop, and musical theater. She competed in several different national competitions, traveling to various states, including Nevada, Missouri, and Ohio. Before graduating high school, she performed in Detroit’s Fringe Festival and studied under Meg Paul of the Joffrey Ballet for one summer. She continued her dance education and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Dance from Oakland University in Michigan, where she performed with the Oakland Dance Theater for three years. During this time, Rachel also performed as a guest dancer in the Eisenhower Dance Ensemble’s Motown in Motion. After graduating, she was a background performer in David Shelby’s “Kick a Little Dirt” music video. She then moved to Arizona where she became a member of the Phoenix Contemporary Dance Company.

Rachel’s teaching career started when she became an assistant teacher at her local studio at 14 years old. She returned to the studio while at Oakland University to continue teaching. She has experience teaching ballet, tap, jazz, lyrical, and contemporary to children between three and 18 years old, and has also been a competition choreographer. In addition, Rachel is also a preschool teacher with four years of experience.

Kaliahna Phelps was born in Atlanta, Georgia. When she was 2 her family moved to Warner Robins and by the age of 3 Kaliahna, better known as Kali, began attending weekly dance classes. As Kali got older, she began studying various styles of dance including ballet, pointe, tap, jazz, modern, lyrical, contemporary, hip hop, various forms of Middle Eastern, and ballroom. In 2007 Kali started taking master classes and competing, attending conventions, and participating in summer intensives such as New York City Dance Alliance (NYCDA), Dance Educators of America (DEA), Nuvo, Northwest Florida Ballet, and Atlanta Ballet’s Advanced summer intensive to name a few. Through all this training Kali has studied under numerous master teachers in a verity of styles.

Having attended so many training programs Kali received a well-rounded education in dance that earned her many awards, scholarships and opportunities to dance abroad. While completing all this training, Kali began an in-depth teacher apprenticeship at the young age of 9 where she was trained by highly experienced instructors and received hands-on teaching experience. When Kali was 14, she became a junior instructor and was teaching her own classes with supervision from a mentor. Once her teacher training was complete, she went on to teach at multiple studios and choreograph top-overall-winning competition routines. Kali continues to further her education through certifications and attendance of conventions as she believes a dancer never stops learning.

In total, Kali has received over 8 years of teacher training from several dance educators, has over 12 years of teaching experience, is a Progressing Ballet Technique certified instructor, all with over 20 years of dancing behind her. Her favorite part of teaching is watching her students succeed and helping them use their creativity as an outlet. All while aspiring to not only continue her education as an instructor, but to educate dancers while helping them to develop a passion and respect for the performing arts.

Faith, originally from Moultrie, Georgia, was a company dancer at South Georgia Ballet for 7 years. Her training heavily focused on ballet, pointe/variation, tap, jazz, and contemporary. During her time there, she got to perform leading roles such as Snow Queen in The Nutcracker, Captain Hook in Peter Pan, and several contemporary duets. She has attended several different programs and competitions such as the Florida State University Summer Intensive and American Dance Competition. She is currently a student at Mercer University pursuing a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology and minoring in Spanish and Chemistry. After graduation, she plans to go to graduate school then follow her dream of working in medicine.

Chloe started dance at the age of three at Gail Hursey’s School of Dance in Statesboro, GA where she continued to dance until the age of 20 (at that time her family moved to Cartersville, GA).  She took classes primarily in ballet, tap, jazz, and pointe, but also took classes in high school for lyrical/contemporary.  While in high school she began assisting Mrs. Gail with several of the younger classes, and absolutely fell in love with teaching.  She also started a liturgical dance group at her home church in Statesboro.  While in college at Presbyterian College she participated in a dance production and also participated and choreographed dances and liturgical movements to go along with the PC Choir’s annual Christmas Performance.  After college Chloe took a break from dancing while attending law school at Mercer. But soon after graduating she became involved with Simply Dance in Forsyth where she participated in classes and eventually moved to full time instructor. She taught classes in ballet, tap, jazz, pre-pointe, and lyrical/contemporary for the past five years. Now she is super excited to share her passion for dance with all of the wonderful students at Dance Dynamics!

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