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.

Savannah was born and raised in Utah and started dancing at the age of 3. She trained in various styles including jazz, contemporary, hip hop, and more. Throughout the years she has received various awards and scholarships at various competitions. In high school, she was on the Corner Canyon Drill Team and later on the Varsity Dance Team. She is now attending Brigham Young University and is involved with the International Folk Dance program. She loves being able to teach at Danceology and share her love for dance with others!

Ayley began dancing at age 11, with a focus on modern and contemporary. In 2002, she performed as a dancer in the Olympics Opening and Closing ceremonies. By age 14, she had begun choreographing and teaching professionally, continuing to study ballet, jazz, modern, contemporary, and hip hop under multiple instructors in the Salt Lake area. In high school, she began training under Ririe Woodbury's Step Up program and began traveling to study from renowned contemporary choreographers across the country. She was offered a scholarship to study Modern dance at the University of Utah, where she continued her education. She has choreographed numerous award-winning pieces for many local high schools, studios, and professional companies, and continues to travel to train in LA and NYC several times per year to keep her own movement vocabulary current. She spends the majority of her time teaching, working for her videography company, improvising at home, and trying to keep up with her 6-year-old twin boys.