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. Beth is also the Advancement and Advocate Coordinator at Central GA CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) where she serves children in foster care in Bibb, Peach and Crawford counties advocating for them in juvenile court.

Alice Strawn Sheridan, a native of Macon, began her training at Jean Weavers Dance Arts Studio and GladysLasky School of Ballet. She attended the North Carolina School of the Arts for four years where she trained with Gyula Pandi, Gina Vidal, Melissa Hayden, Duncan Noble, Mimi Paul, Fanchon Cordell and other world-renownedfaculty members and guest artists. She spent 2 summers in Italy with a student company from NCSA, studying and performing. After graduating, she danced with the Milwaukee Ballet Company for several years under the direction of Ted Kivitt performing in Swan Lake, Giselle, Balanchine’s Stars and Stripes and many other original works. Appointed the Artistic Director of Nutcracker of Middle Georgia in 2017, she has been the Assistant Director of Nutcracker of Middle Georgia for 25 years. Mrs. Sheridan has been on the ballet faculty of Jean Weaver’s Dance Arts Studio for 30 years as well as a founding faculty member of Middle Georgia Youth Ballet. Her students have gone on to study with such prestigious schools as The School of American Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Miami City Ballet, Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet and Boston Ballet. She attended the Teachers Workshop at Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet in the summer of 2017 to study the Syllabus of Marcia Dale Weary, one of the nation’s foremost instructors of ballet. She is also a Progressing Ballet Technique Certified Instructor. Alice is the wife of Tino Sheridan and proud mother of sons, Val and Loy.

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.

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!

Carter Atkinson grew up dancing in Middle Georgia and is a recent graduate of the University of Alabama with a BA in Dance. She has trained in ballet, pointe, contemporary, jazz, and other styles. She is a former member of Middle Georgia Youth Ballet and was also a performer in the Nutcracker of Middle Georgia for many years. During her time at UA, she was able to continue her dance education in many areas, including ballet, pointe, modern, contemporary, jazz, heels, musical theatre, pedagogy, and choreography. She was a performer with the Alabama Repertory Dance Theatre, where she was able to dance in original ballet, contemporary, and jazz works by Quianping Guo, Fen Kennedy, Jamorris Rivers, Rita Snyder, and more, as well as in ballets such as Sleeping Beauty, where she danced both the role of Aurora and in the corps de ballet. Carter has performed in, directed, and choreographed many ballet, contemporary, and jazz works for Dance Alabama!, the Dance Alabama Film Festival, and Alabama Dance Festival.

Ruby began her dance training at the age of 3 at Dance Dynamics under the direction of Melanie Emory, where she studied all styles of dance such as ballet, pointe, jazz, contemporary, lyrical, hip hop, tap, and musical theater. She continued her training throughout her high school years. During her time at Dance Dynamics she received multiple awards and accomplishments such as 2 national titles and multiple competition awards both as a soloist and as an elite team member of the Dance Dynamics Company. She was also a member of the Middle Georgia Youth Ballet for 8 years where she received training under the direction of Alice Sheridan. Ruby has been to multiple summer intensives where she has trained under many professionals such as Ashley Bouder, Sasha Hutchings, and Mitchell Finke. After high school Ruby chose to continue her dancing career at Point Park University where she has worked with many choreographers such as Christopher Huggins, Susan Stowe, Jason Mcdole, and Marc Spalding. Ruby is expected to graduate with her Bachelors of Fine Arts in the spring of 2025, and she plans to pursue a career in the industry.

Sasha Hutchings

Melissa Ruiz

Spring Joy Christensen

Lisette Bustamante

Hannah Kasulka

Brady Michael

Geovanna Garavelo-Bortoleto

Gabby Fenimore

Hope Duncan

Luke Dockery

Aston Paredes