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Whitney Moore (Owner/Director) graduated in 2005 from the University of Texas Arlington with a B.S. degree in Psychology, minor in Business. She has had extensive dance training at outstanding ballet academies and studios in the metroplex area, along with various master choreographers. Whitney has won numerous National titles in jazz, tap, lyrical, hip hop, and modern. Whitney is an alumni member of the UTA Dance Ensemble where she has participated and performed in the American College Dance Festival (ACDFA) for 4 years. She has also been a member of the Dallas based company N2it. Whitney continues to better her dance education by attending various national competitions and spending time in Los Angeles working with well known choreographers at the Edge and the PAC. Whitney has been teaching at 4 local studios for eight years and has also taught tap for the university.

Lindsay McMahon(Company Co-Director) began dancing at the age of three, and grew up dancing at the Dance Workshop. She attended various competitions and conventions throughout the years and won many awards and titles. Some of these include being named regional Miss West Coast Dance Explosion and being one of the 10 dancers nationwide chosen to perform with Dance with the Force. She also won many scholarships to Tremaine, West Coast Dance Explosion, The Edge, Performing Arts Center, and was even awarded an L. A. Agent. Lindsay spent four years assisting the faculty at Tremaine Dance Conventions. She has been teaching for the Dance Workshop for 6 years now and assisted for many years prior to that. She recently graduated from UTA with a degree in Business Management.

Aiesha Ashby, a born Texan residing in Orange County, CA as a professional dancer, teacher and choreographer. She as studied at the EDGE Pac, Millennium Studios and Debbie Allen’s Dance Academy just to name a few along with many other fabulous credited choreographers from coast to coast. Her earlier experiences included being apart of BT dance company in Austin, TX and Zilker Hillside Theatre. Aiesha has had the pleasure of working with and being in the presence of Little Kim, Pink, Brooke Hogan, Jay Z, Snoop Dogg, Laurie Ann Gibson and Raven Simon to name a few. She was also a big part of the once hit TV shows American Dreams and Pop Stars and was a featured dancer with Korean Singer Mi Sing A. Aiesha has choreographed for many high school dance teams, college dance teams and studio dancers. Recently Aiesha started Image Dance Explosion a Texas base company that offers convention/workshop type of classes, which caters to all dancers from all walks of life, going from the less advanced dancers to the most advanced dancers and beyond. Image Dance believes that all dancers are successful and no “one” dancer should ever go unnoticed. Residing in Orange County, CA she as also built up a baby boomer studio with her partner Yasmin Fletcher named Impulse Dance Productions. IDP offers classes in all genres of dance for all ages and levels. Aiesha has been a part of the art’s community for a great deal of time and plans to keep growing and striving for nothing but the best success, that is yet to come.

Mindy Alverez, was born in Lubbock, TX, she began dancing at the age of 3, and soon feel in love with the art of dance where she spent 3-6 hours a day in the studio. She started her ballet training with Suzanne Akers formally Lubbock Ballet and in her teens she began dancing with Diana Baker, here is where she found the Competitive side of dance and began successfully competing at Competitions throughout Texas well into her 20's as well as taking master classes and workshops with AL Gilbert ( The Pied Piper of dance), Scott Benson & Daryl Retter, Mindy's teaching career, began at age 16 as a student assistant. In College at Texas Tech University she would take 12 hours a semester but always had time for dance either teaching, choreographing or taking classes herself. Some of her summers were spent working with the Dallas Cowboy Camps, she worked with Dana Fine, Miss Fitness 1998 and Elite Productions helping to stage and choreograph for many of their pageant productions. In 2000, Mindy opened her own successful dance school in Lubbock called The Studio, which started with 50 students and grew to over 300. She loved her work as a Director, but her husband's work in Fort Worth and her 5 kids kept her from commuting. The Studio is now a Performing Arts School, still growing strong.. although not a part of it anymore she still loves to hear from her dancers. Mindy is a certified Pilate's instructor, and loves to teach all styles of dance, she is really fond of the little ones they have always had a special place in her heart and she loves the joy the children get from their initial introduction to dance. She calls Fort Worth, TX home, and loves teaching along with taking care of her 5 wonderful children, who all love to dance too. Miss Mindy is teaching in Weatherford, and also in Benbrook.

Gretchen Patchell trained and performed with the New York City Ballet. She has also been a company member of Fort Worth/Dallas Ballet and the Dutch National Ballet. Originally from Pennsylvania, she received her early training at the School of American Ballet in NYC.

Lynn McCreight has been trained in various styles of dance such as tap, ballet, jazz, clogging, lyrical, modern, and hip hop, with 25 years of experience. She is currently a student with a double major, working towards her degree in business and fine arts and is continuing to grow as a dancer, performer, and choreographer. She studied under Caron Moore and was a member of the Showtime Dancers and Clogging Express for many years. She has performed at venues such as Disney World, Opryland, The MGM Grand in Las Vegas, and all over the DFW metroplex. She held the title for Teen Miss Parker County and Teen Miss Fort Worth and won many talent awards for her tap solos in local pageants. She was recently seen on "So You Think You Can Dance" when it aired in October from the New Orleans auditions where she made it to the third round. She has been a member of The Mosaic Dance Project for three years and received a scholarship her first year in the company. She has also been selected the past three years to perform at American College Dance Festival and this year her own choreography was chosen to represent her school. This is her first year as an instructor at FWPAC and is very excited and hopes to be here for many years to come.

Brittanni Risher has been dancing since the age of three. She started at Joyce Willett School of Dance in Austin, TX and at the age of 6 joined the studio's company, Body Talk Dance Co. She grew up training at multiple conventions such as LA Dance Magic, NYCDA, TATD, Encore, West Coast, LA Underground, & Urban Jamm. At the age of 10 she was the first to receive the Urban Jamm "Well-Rounded Dancer Award." She has received scholarships from TATD, Encore, & LA Dance Magic. She started teaching Hip Hop at the age of 16 and later did choreography for Body Talk's Annual Black History and Spring Shows, and for competitions. She has won national and judges awards for some of the Tap dances she has been in, as well as high scores. Brittanni has also participated in a number of Austin community shows. She has continued her training at The Edge in LA, and has also taken classes at Broadway Dance Center, and Steps in NYC. Brittanni is trained in Jazz, Tap, Ballet, & Hip. Dance will always be considered her first love.

Lindy Giles has already accumulated a large amount of dance experience in the Industry. You can see her face in Company Dance’s 2001, 2002 and 2003 Costume catalogs, which features her as one of their regular models. Lindy also has extensive background training in all genres of dance from such famous names as The Edge in Los Angeles, California, Tremaine Dance Center and Broadway Dance Center located in New York. She was on scholarship for a total of 6 summers to The Edge, and she has received various overall awards from both regional and national dance competitions as well. Some of her recent work includes assisting Justin Giles with L.A. Dance Magic, Nuvo, and Soul Escape (a show put on at the Eisemann Center in Dallas under the direction and choreography of Justin Giles. Lindy recently had her chance to shine at the auditions for the very popular dance show, “So You Think You Can Dance” where she reached the Las Vegas finals as one of the top 100 dancers in the country.

 

Locations

Benbrook Studio

9460 Benbrook Blvd. (Hwy 377 South)
Benbrook, TX 76126
Phone: (817) 249-2110
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Weatherford Studio

1717 Bethel Road
Weatherford, TX 76086
Phone: (817) 594-1055
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