Michele Jansma has been teaching dance for 20 years. A former Los Angeles Laker girl and 49er Cheerleader, Michele has travelled extensively performing and choreographing for crowds locally and internationally. Since graduating from Cal State Long Beach where she took classes from their prestigious dance department, she has been teaching and training teams to top placement and overall titles. She currently resides in Huntington Beach with her husband Brandon and their two children, Ryan and Micah. Michele feels blessed to be living out her dream of owning a Dance Studio where people come first, and success is the byproduct.
Marissa Skates began her training and teaching in Central California and received numerous scholarships at conventions growing up. She extended her training into Orange County when transferring to the Academy for the Performing Arts Commercial Dance Ensemble. Marissa spent four years training and headlining with Soul Fresh Fam under the direction of Ricky Cole, and performed with the Walt Disney Company. Throughout Marissa’s time instructing, her passion has grown towards choreographing for collegiate teams including Concordia University and the award-winning Orange Coast College dance team. Her credits include BET, Estrella TV and the Ghostbusters World Premiere.
Kaytlin Greenlaw has been dancing over a decade. She has trained in Jazz, Lyrical, Contemporary, Hip Hop, Musical Theatre & Ballet. Katy has participated in Dance Competitions most of her life, receiving scholarships and landing in overall placement for her solo work. She was an original member of the first ever DSOC team, and her work ethic and drive are second only to her passion for dance. After graduating High School, Katy joined our team as a permanent staff member while also attending Long Beach State University. Katy is perusing a degree in Education with an emphasis in Child Development. Since joining our team, Katy has choreographed outstanding1st place winning routines for our competitive teams.
Rebecca Hamrock, a California native, trained with Salwa Rizkalla, Alla Artyushkin, Julia Ellis and Houston Ballet. After achieving silver medalist standing in the Dorothy Chandler Spotlight Awards, David Wilcox asked Rebecca to join L.A. Classical Ballet as a company member. In 1995 Rebecca was honored to join Kirk Peterson’s Hartford Ballet where she danced numerous soloist roles like Myrtha, and Lilac Fairy to name a few. Miss Hamrock has guest performed with many smaller companies around the world as well as doing some TV work like the Jay Leno Tonight Show. During this time, she also started refining her teaching and coaching skills. She taught in Long Beach Ballet Arts Center’s and Southland Ballet Academy's star studded summer programs and ballet mistressed their award winning junior companies. In 2003 and 2004 Rebecca staged La Bayadere and Cinderella for China’s Guangzhou Ballet. She has also set and assisted for several of Robert Sund's Ballets. Since retiring, she has worked at a variety of schools and companies including Concordia University where she developed their first ballet program. She has coached NY YAGP winners and even set 2nd Act Swan Lake for the 2008 China Olympic Tour. She has also set and assisted for company such as New York City Ballet, Cincinnati Ballet, Ballet West Utah, and National Choreographers Initiative among others. After developing a ten year relationship with Garrett Smith Rebecca is thrilled to continue seeing his vision set on the best ballet dancers in the world.
Born and raised in Southern California, Julie Frohman started dancing at the age of 11. She attend Pacoima Performing Arts Middle School and that is where she discovered her love for dance. At the age of 15, she began training at Millennium Dance Complex and joined their pre professional competition team and training program. Soon after, she signed with MSA Talent Agency. By the age of 18, she had already been in numerous music videos, tv appearances, live performances, and print ads. Some of her most notable performances include dancing on The Ellen Show, dancing with Keala Settle from “The Greatest Showman”, Chris Brown’s “High End” music video, and Walmart’s 2019 back to school dance campaign. The past few years, Julie has been working as a choreographer and teacher. Her dances have won many awards including star platinum, elite high score, judges award, and entertainment award. She is currently focused on teaching and enjoys instructing and inspiring young dancers
Kyle Schrader is originally from Huntington Beach, CA but has been living in New York City attending Pace University pursuing his BFA in Commercial Dance and minor in business. He began dancing at age eight at Clifton Dance Project, where he studied in a variety of different dance styles with a focus on ballet and went on to attend multiple summer intensives with the prestigious American Ballet Theatre on scholarship. Kyle has also attended West Coast School of the Arts and joined APA’s dance department as a member of Commercial Dance Ensemble. In his time at APA, Kyle spent three years as part of the choreography class where he earned numerous awards for his choreography. Kyle has also continued his classical training over the summers with intensives for Alonzo King’s Lines contemporary ballet company in San Francisco and Art’s Umbrella International Program in Vancouver, Canada where he studied the work of Crystal Pite, Nederlands Dans Theater and more. Kyle has worked with numerous choreographers including; Mandy Moore, Jenn Hamilton, Ray Leeper, Dee Caspary, Rhonda Miller, just to name a few! Kyle looks forward to building strong bonds with his students at DSOC and sharing his love for dance and looks forward to teaching not only dance steps but life lessons that his students can take with them forever.
Abby Server began studio dance at the age of 4, where she competed for 10 years before joining her high school dance team. Abby led her team to 4 consecutive WACPC State Championships, numerous National competitions and titles, as well as choreographed her team’s award winning kick routines. Abby was selected as a four time American All-Star Dance Team Member, Super Bowl XXXVII and XXXVIII Halftime performer, danced aboard the Princess Cruise as a featured performer, and was Captain her senior year.
After high school, Abby attended the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where she received a BFA in Dance. She was also a scholarship recipient and on the Deans Honors list. Her most notable performance was as a principal soloist in Alwin Nikolais’ “Tensile Involvement.” Abby also choreographed award winning Pom, Kick, and Jazz routines for teams around the state of Wisconsin for 15 years.
Abby has been a member of the numerous award winning All-Star Dance Teams, and has received a Bronze medal in both Open Hip Hop and Open Pom at USASF Worlds.
Abby has continued her passion for dance by teaching at two National Champion All-Star dance studios, JSerra Catholic High School, and is currently the Varsity and Competition Song/Dance Coach at Fountain Valley High School.
We are so fortunate to have Coach Sarah at DSOC! Sarah runs the entire gym/ acro program at DSOC and has been successfully training athletes for decades. With safety always at the forefront, improvement within this program has been impressive. Sarah enjoys living in Huntington Beach with her husband and two children.
