Chelsie started dancing when she was 6 years old at the School of Richmond Ballet. Growing up she received scholarships to train at prestigious summer programs at Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, Ballet Austin, and Oklahoma City Ballet. She is currently a senior at BYU, where she dances with BYU Theatre Ballet. With BYU, she has had the opportunity to perform ballets such as Serenade, Swan Lake, Paquita, and numerous new works, as well as opportunities to choreograph and teach. Chelsie joined our Danceology team of teachers this year and loves working with young talented dancers as they refine their skills and develop a passion for dance.
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Elena Gimenez was born and raised in Madison, Alabama where she started dance at the age of three. She trained extensively in all styles and danced competitively for the majority of her life. Elena then went on to receive her BFA in Contemporary Dance from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA). There, she performed works by Aszure Barton, Robert Battle, José Limón, Merce Cunningham, Larry Keigwin, and Yin Yue, among others. She has attended summer intensives with Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Northwest Dance Project, the Limón Company at Perry-Mansfield, and The Cambrians. In these programs, she worked closely alongside people such as Dante Puleio, Ihsan Rustem, and FLOCK. Elena also has a passion for musical theatre, commercial dance, and choreography, winning numerous awards for her choreography of musicals and competitive pieces. She was a teacher at The Dance Company, Inc. in Alabama for over five years before moving to Utah. This is Elena’s first year as a member of the Contemporary Dance company, SALT2.
Ella was born in Salt Lake City, Utah and has been dancing since she was 11 years old. She has trained in multiple different styles of dance including ballet, jazz, contemporary, lyrical, hip hop, tap and more. She has trained with amazing instructors and choreographers that have inspired her to also teach and choreograph. Ella loves to see her visions come to life. She has been awarded multiple scholarships and multiple choreography awards for solos, duos and group routines. During highschool, Ella continued to train at our very own studio, Danceology, and was part of the Corner Canyon Dance Team. She held two leadership positions as a Choreographer and an Officer. She was awarded Sterling Scholar for Dance and Graduated with an Advanced Diploma. Ella has won collegiate scholarships in dance including 2, $20,000 scholarships to AMDA and Full Tuition to SUU. She decided to stay in her roots and is currently studying at Utah Valley University to get her Bachelors of Science in Dance Education. Ella is a Former member of the Utah Valley Dance Team and helped them win 2 National Titles in Pom and Jazz. Ella is currently the Assistant Coach at Corner Canyon High School for the Dance Team and has decided to focus her time on teaching dancers and helping them reach their goals. Ella has fallen in love with teaching and she hopes to inspire dancers like her instructors have inspired her.
Annette has taught dance for over 25 years. She owned her own dance studio for 10 years and had lots of choreography awards and high over all routines. She coached drill Brighton and Hillcrest drill teams and has choreographed state champion drill team dance routine. She has choreographed all over Utah and Idaho for private studios, drill teams, and dance companies. She says “I'm old so I have wisdom heehee.”