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Michael Anderson
Tap

Michael started dancing right here in Spokane at the Carol Lee Studio of Dance when he was three years old.  Growing up, he took classes in tap, jazz, ballet, and clogging.  Michael continued dancing through college when he owned and operated the Lilac City Cloggers.  He also taught tap at Sandra Olgard’s Studio of Dance and Inland Northwest Ballet.  Upon graduating from college, Michael moved to Walla Walla to teach middle school math and science.  There, Michael opened the Anderson School of Dance which focused solely on tap.  Michael owned and operated this studio of 50 students for five years and was voted Best Dance Studio in Walla Walla in 2014.  At that point, Michael chose to move back to Spokane to be closer to family.

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Paul Grover
Tap

Paul has been dancing from the age of 3 starting in the basement of his home where his mother taught dance. After graduating from high school he started his professional dance career at Opryland USA in Nashville, TN. After becoming assistant choreographer and dancing there for 5 years he moved to Los Angeles and got his first job in Tokyo Japan. He later returned to Tokyo to dance at Tokyo Disney. When he returned from Tokyo he went to work for Disney World in Orlando dancing in Beauty and The Beast at MGM Studios. Paul has worked with such stars as Gregory Hines, Bill Cosby, Brenda Lee, Barbara Mandrell, Lee Greenwood and many more. His stage experience includes Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat, industrials for Nike, Levi Strauss, Oakly, The American Television Arts and Science.  His tap choreography has earned him top score in many competitions and he has taught tap all over the world.

Training:  Gregory Hines, Maurice Hines, Tony Capolla, Brenda Bufalino, Mike Minery.

Choreography:  Assistant choreographer Opryland USA, Grease in Winston Salem, NC, Scrooge in Highpoint, NC, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat – NYU, Industrial Choreography for Levi Strauss, Oakley, The American Television Arts and Scienc

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Pam Erickson
Ballet and Pointe

Originally from Southern California, Pam began her training and performing career with the Santa Barbara Ballet Company.  As a professional dancer, Pam performed around the world in Broadway style revues aboard the M. S. Crystal Harmony cruise ship and danced professionally with the San Francisco Dance Theatre, Chamber Dance Ballet Company SF and the Sphinx Jazz-Ballet Company of Vienna, Austria. Pam is a Cal Poly San Luis Obispo alumnus and is currently an adjunct faculty member at both Gonzaga and Whitworth Universities teaching ballet, modern dance and dance history. As a dance educator, Pam has taught master classes for the American College Dance Association at both Western Washington University and The University of Utah.  Her teaching career has also taken her to the University of Alaska where she has taught master classes and to the Central PA Youth Ballet where she participated in their 2013 Teacher Training course. She shares her passion for dance at several Spokane Dance Studios, is a national adjudicator for Spotlight Dance Competitions and teaches monthly dance classes for Parkinson’s patients and their caregivers.

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Shelby Breen
Hip Hop

Shelby started her journey of dancing and love of hip hop when she was 5 years old here locally in Spokane. Growing up dancing, and trying new styles, she always knew hip hop was her favorite. Once she started middle school she began competing with her studio until she graduated high school in 2017. While at West Valley High School, she tried-out and made their competitive high school dance team. Being a captain for 3 years, she choreographed lots of styles of dances for her team and competed in many of them. After graduating high school, she then became a teacher at Studio Inc Dance Academy while attending Eastern Washington University. This will now be her 5th year teaching her love for Hip Hop here and she couldn’t be more excited to share her love of hip hop with her kids.

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Cassie Selle
Jazz, Lyrical, Progressions

I have been dancing since I was 3 year olds where I started at a small studio called Dancemakers NW in Bonney Lake, WA, competing and dancing there until I joined my high school dance team sophomore year. I placed 2nd nationally with my team and gained many state titles for our school. After high school, I moved to Spokane to attend Gonzaga University where in 2019, I became one of the two first dance majors to graduate in the history of the university. While in college, I started teaching jazz, and ballet at Ikonic Dance Academy in 2017 before I moved to New Zealand to study dance performance for a year! After returning to the states, I worked for Kathryn at Dance Arts Academy helping run the studio office and teach classes. During this time, I danced in the grand opening of the Myrtle Woldson Performing Arts Center, and traveled to Florence, Italy to perform with Gonzaga. After working for Dance Arts Academy for 3 years, I taught at a few other studios in Spokane, choreographed some competition pieces as well as coached Shadle Park and North Central’s high school dance teams. I am a state certified teacher for social studies and dance education, but for now am living my best life as a pre-school lead teacher. I will be graduating in a few months with a Masters of Education in Instructional Design where I focused on creating a real-life online dance curriculum website that anybody can access! In my small amount of free time, I like to take my puppy Hazelnut Wiggle Butt for hikes with my nephew or take classes at a small local studio called Jubilee Dance! My favorite styles of dance are jazz, lyrical, and contemporary, and you can always find me off on a plane traveling or talking about the dream bus I want to build someday!

 

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Ireland Luiten
Jazz, Progressions, Strength and Conditioning 

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