Faith Gardner - Owner/ Director:

Faith Gardner is the owner/director/ and founder of Dance Elite All Stars. She opened Dance Elite in July of 2004 as the sole teacher of over 25 classes per week in a small one room studio in Granite Bay. Since then Dance Elite has grown into the largest dance studio in Rocklin and is one of the fastest growing studios in the United States. Faith graduated from CSU Sacramento Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology with an emphasis in Dance under the direction of Dale Scholl, Linda Goodrich, and Nolan T'Sani. Faith has also trained extensively in all dance styles under Barbara Crockett, Pepper Von, Keith Goings, Carrie Pereira, and April Cabrera-Co.

Anne Merino - Ballet Mistress:

Anne Merino was trained by the Danish ballerina, Marika Raju, and went on to dance for such notable companies as ABT, Stuttgart Ballet, London Contemporary Ballet and the Fort Worth Ballet. She has earned critical praise for her choreography: Los Angeles Times - "Picture perfect choreography", Arts International - "Merino's ballets should be required viewing for all new choreographers", Ballet News - "Merino's The Chessboard works on every intricate level -- literally daggers to the heart" and has won the Vanguard Award for Choreography. Ms. Merinol has also worked with a variety of musical artists from Nigel Holton to David Bowie.

Misty Kline:

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Laura Barks - Tap Teacher :

Laura Barks has been teaching tap in the area for seven years now, leading several competitive teams and soloists to many high placements. Most recently she choreographed the overall diamond winning duet for the 2008 Spotlight Nationals as well as winning a 2007 Nationals choreography award for "Most Creative Concept". Prior to moving to Roseville, Laura was dancing with Tap Explosion, a professional rhythm-tap company in San Jose. Through Tap Explosion, she trained with such professionals as the legendary Gregory Hines, renowned tap dancer Sam Weber and Mark Mendonca of "Bring In Da Noise". Other professional credits include a role in San Jose Civic Light Opera's "No No Nanette", choreography for the musical "Nine" and dancing for the NBA’s Golden State Warriors.

Ryan "Loco" Bloat:

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Julie Boresch:

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Laura Casconi:

Laura Casconi specializes in teaching Dance Elite’s Beginning/Intermediate ballet classes. She has studied under Shelly Crowely and Shelly Christian, whom she highly admires and owes her flawless technique to. Laura came to Dance Elite a few seasons ago as a member of the pre professional jazz team, and has enjoyed being a part of our growing studio. In addition to studying extensively in ballet, jazz, and lyrical, Laura was a member of the nationally ranked Rocklin High School "Rhythm in Blue" dance/drill team, and has also competed at numerous regional and national competitions. Laura would like to add, "I love sharing my passion and knowledge of dance with my students each week and I enjoy being a part of their lives."

Halley Cutts:

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Kelsey Dale:

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Beth Hall:

Beth Hall has been teaching at Dance Elite Allstars for the past 4 years. She is our Mini Competition teacher and our Competition Coordinator. She also teaches the Tiny Tots and Pee Wees. Before coming to Dance Elite, Beth was a Competition Instructor for a prestigious studio in Southern California. Along with her studio teaching experience, Beth previously coached cheerleading and dance teams at the high school level for 13 years. She is a certified aerobics instructor and trainer. She attended the University of Nevada, Reno, where she majored in Recreation, Physical Education and Dance, specializing in Sports Medicine. During college Beth was on her college dance/cheer team. Beth is happily married and the busy mom of 17 year old Andrew and 14 year old Caitlin.

Mikee Joaquin:

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Erin Judd:

Dancing has been a passion of Erin's for 20 years. She started ballet at the age of 5 and continued her training in ballet as well as jazz, tap, lyrical, and hip hop. Over the years, she also found that she had a great knack for character pieces as she loves to entertain. Erin has been awarded several scholarships through Sacramento Area Dance Alliance (SADA), Co. Dance and others. Through Co. Dance she was granted a scholarship to dance in LA for a month at Millennium Dance Complex. While in LA she was able to take class from top choreographers as Wade Robinson, Darren Henson, and Shane Sparks among others.

Jessica Kelly:

Jessica Kelly is a Senior at Sacramento State working towards her Liberal Studies Degree. She has been teaching dance since 2000. Specializing in ballet, tap and jazz for children.

Adriane Kunselman:

Adriane started training in tap at the age of four at a dance studio and has continued strengthening her skills ever since. "Starlet's" was a team she performed with from age five to seven. When she was eight, she progressed into jazz, lyrical, hip-hop, and ballet techniques, and began competing soon after. Joining "Carrie On" Dance Company, at the age of eleven was an enormous accomplishment for her and was a member for eight years. With this group she did many competitions, shows in Los Angeles, California, Great America theme park, parades in Sacramento, California, and a Royal Caribbean cruise.

Adrianne Moss:

Adrianne Moss has taught dance to children for over ten years. Her specialty is jazz dance. Adrianne studied modern/lyrical dance under Paulette Shafransky at California State University Northridge. Adrianne is also certified Aerobics and Fitness of America instructor and well as a certified Zumba instructor. Her passion is sharing her love for dance and fitness.

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is not mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself. ~Havelock Ellis

Carrie Perreira:

Carrie has been dancing for over 33 yearswith training in tap, jazz and ballet. Carrie attended CSUS where she was involved with their dance performance group, and graduated with a degree in "Dance Commercial Training". Carrie also received her Vocational Credential in "Dance". Carrie's dance experience includes:being selected to the Sacramento Kings Dance Team in 1987, and continued dancing with them until 1997. She was the Captain for 9 out of 10 years. Carrie continued working with the dance team from 1997 to 1999 as the Dance Team Director. Carrie represented the NBA dancers on a tour of NBA players throughout Asia, and also was sponsored by Pepsi-Cola and performed throughout England at the Garden Festival. Carrie has taught dance at Sacramento State University for 8 years, and currently is going on her 6th year teaching dance at American River College.

Erin Salvetti:

Coming soon!

Michael Urquhart:

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Jeni Van Horn:

Jeni Van Horn has been a member of the Dance Elite teaching staff since 2005. Before teaching Jeni trained extensively in jazz, tap, hip hop, ballet, and pointe work under the direction of Darcy Sellers, Jean Fulton, Faith Gardner, Summer and Keith Turk, and Erin Judd. She was also a member of the nationally ranked Rocklin High School "Rhythm in Blue" dance/drill team for four years. Jeni was also a student director of dance in high school, where she had the opportunity to teach to all ages and levels including mentally challenged dance students. Jeni specializes in teaching dance to children and her passion for teaching Dance Elite’s future stars certainly shows. Jeni would like to add, "I am so blessed to be a part of the Dance Elite staff, I have learned so much from my fellow teachers as well as my students."

Dawn Edwards - Studio Manager:

Dawn earned a Certificate in Bookkeeping & Accounting from Academy of Business College in 1981. Her employment background includes 23 years experience in both private and corporate business. In the private sector, she provided administrative support for a home school physical fitness class, and ran a successful daycare. As an employee, Dawn managed single-employee offices, and worked in the accounts payable, payroll, and subcontract administration departments of a multi-million dollar corporation. Her strengths include administration, child management and communication! Other accomplishments include home schooling her children from K – 12th grades and three years service as the Chairperson of the Visions in Education Home School Charter Governance Board.

Kirsten Parker - Graphic and Web Designer:

Kirsten Parker is the graphics and web design teacher at Whitney High School. Kirsten is responsible for website maintenance and various publications for the studio.