Amy has been studying dance for 33 years and teaching dance for 20 years. She has trained with companies from LA to NYC, including Tremaine, Backstage, The Edge and Martha Graham. Over the years her dance training has lead her to several performances nationwide, including NFL and NBA games. She spent the summer of 2000 in Las Vegas Nevada where she was the master teacher for the Vegas Valley Stars Junior Drill Team. Amy expanded her training and also learned new teaching techniques while in Las Vegas. Amy has been a master teacher for conventions, camps and workshops throughout the U.S. Her credits also include choreography for High Schools, pageants, NBA dance teams, Ballet West, Jr. Dance Companies and several champion soloists. Here recent work involves Choreography for Zimmer Orthopedics 20th Anniversary Video for the Natural Knee titled I CAN DANCE. ¨Amy was a part of the talented Utah Jazz Dancers for 4 seasons. She has enjoyed performing and being involved in community events. She was a Para-educator at Evergreen Junior High and Cottonwood High, where she worked with children with emotional and behavioral disorders. Within the community she has spent numerous years as the Entertainment Chair for the Leukemia Lymphoma Society (LLS) assisting with entertainment for their annual Light the Night Walk.   Amy is certified in PBT (Progressive Ballet Technique) and Acrobatic Art. She is supported by her husband Dusten and children Tyler and Lillyan.

Victoria Bean has a passion for dance, she has been teaching it for 7 years and has been dancing herself for close to 23 years. Growing up she did competitive studio dance, jr. high cheer and was the captain of her drill team in high school. Victoria graduated college with a bachelor’s in the health sciences, a minor in dance and a master’s in education. While completing these degrees Victoria was on the U of U ballroom dance team and participated in many modern dance performances. She spent 2 years as an assistant drill team coach for Westlake High school. Currently Victoria teaches health and dance at Hillcrest Jr. High school, where she is also heavily involved in the school musical and dance club. Victoria also performs and competes salsa dance. Victoria is well trained in many styles of dance and is an experienced choreographer, she is excited to share her love of dance with all the amazing students at Studio 56!

Nora is a native of Orange County, CA. She began her training in Southern California at Dmitri Kulev Classical Ballet Academy, and she attended The San Francisco Ballet School on full scholarship for the 2013-­2014 season. She then moved to Salt Lake City, Utah to pursue a trainee position with Ballet West for three years. In 2017 she continued her professional career with Utah Metropolitan Ballet as an artist performing corps de ballet, soloist and, principle roles. This is her third year working with the company. In 2014, Nora was a Spotlight Music Center Grand Prize Ballet Finalist. In 2012 Nora received 1st Place in Pas de Deux and 3rd place in Senior Contemporary at Youth America Grand Prix (YAGP) Europe. She also received 2nd place at YAGP San Francisco for a contemporary duet she co-­choreographed. She has also performed for YAGP’s Stars of Today Meet the Stars of Tomorrow galas. In addition, Nora has received scholarships to San Francisco Ballet, American Ballet Theater, Ballet West, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Pittsburgh Ballet, Munich Ballet Academy and Zurich Dance Academy.

Destiney has been dancing ever since she can remember; if she was walking she was dancing!  It wasn't until 8th grade when she was inspired by her first hip hop teacher, this was the motivation that pushed her to the next level and really became interested in the art of dance.  She was a member of Dance Company at West Jordan High School for 2 years and that is where she started developing her love for choreography and performing with her team. After high school she started teaching Adult Hip Hop and Jazz classes at Golds Gym around the Salt Lake Valley and is still continuing that exciting journey, this is where she started pushing her dance career to the next level. Destiney has studied many styles of dance including Hip Hop, Jazz, Contemporary, Lyrical and Zumba; she has had the pleasure of being able to teach children ages 5-18 as well as adults. She had an amazing opportunity being a guest choreographer for Taylorsville High School and Brighton High Schools Dance Company over the past few years. Destiney is very happy to be part of Studio 56! Teaching all these amazing children and adults brings me absolute happiness and I love every second!  To me the only thing greater than my love of dance is passing on that love to others.

Courtnee was a gymnast for 13 years at Academy West Gymnastics. Through gymnastics she practiced ballet techniques and gained knowledge of being able to make movement flow from one to another with ease. She is currently a member of UXC’s open level four cheer team and has 2 years all star cheer experience, 2 years of high school cheer experience at Bingham, and 1 year collegiate cheer experience at SLCC. Her teaching experience includes currently teaching the special needs cheer team at UXC, 2 years of pre team gymnastics, and 2 years preschool tumbling director.

Madison started dancing at the age of 3 at Studio 56. She has trained in jazz, ballet, contemporary, hip hop, and tumbling. She was a member of the Drill Team at Murray High School.  Madison was mentored thought the Studio 56 Junior Assistant program where she developed a passion for teaching. She is currently attending Salt Lake Community College with a focus in Buisness.  Madison is excited to help her students grow and find their love for dance as she has.

Kellie trained in competitive gymnastics at Missy Marlowe's as a young girl then went on to train in ballet, jazz, tap, hip hop and tumbling at The Winner School. She participated in Varsity Cheer, Songleading, and Dance Company all three years of High School at Cottonwood. Kellie continued Songleading at Salt Lake Community College where her team took 1st place at nationals. She started teaching hip hop, tumbling and jazz in 2004. Kellie has choreographed several competition routines for local studios and high schools. She has taught for dance camps all over the valley. Miss Kellie is TRX, Pilates Mat and Xtend Barre certified and has been teaching at Xtend for over 3years.  Health and Fitness is a new found passion that goes great with loving to teach!  She is a mother of two and excited to have her daughters enrolled at Studio 56!

Kory and Morgan are on their fifth year as proud owners of Utah Xtreme Cheer. Studio 56 has been holding classes at UXC for 4 years and will continue to hold several of our tumbling classes at UXC this season.  UXC is USASF (United States All Star Federation) Member gym, and Kory and Morgan are credentialed with USAF through level 5.
Kory's resume consist of 3yrs as a University of Utah Cheerleader, coach for Churchill Junior High, staff member for COA, U of U Assistant cheer coach from 2006-2008 and head coach from 2008-2009. Morgan's resume presents 2yrs as a University of Utah Cheerleader, 5yrs as a Junior High Cheer Coach, 2yrs as the assistant coach at Juan Diego and also a staff member with COA. UXC's goal is to help our dancers develop and improve their skills in tumbling. They believe this pursuit will instill skills and confidence that they will carry with them the rest of their lives.

Tessa started dancing at Studio 56 when she was 6 years old. She found her passion for dance and tumbling during her 7 years at Studio 56. She trained in ballet, pointe, jazz, hip-hop, contemporary, and tumbling. Tessa continued dancing in high school as a member of the Murray High drill team. She was a captain her senior year on the team, during which time the Spartonians were top 5 in the state. Tessa started her dance teaching career at the age of 15. She began by assisting Amy Moore at Studio 56. Tessa has taught students ages 4-15 in her own pretumbling, tumbling, jazz, and ballet classes since graduating high school in 2014. Tessa is currently a senior at Brigham Young University studying Therapeutic Recreation. She hopes to incorporate dance and movement therapy into her future practice. Tessa is excited to be a teacher at Studio 56 Dance Center, the studio where she originally found her love for dance!

"Noelani Schraedel was born and raised on ‘Oahu, Hawaii. She is a graduate of St. Andrew’s Priory School, where she was a member of St. Andrew’s well known, Drill Team Hawaii.

She has been dancing for 20 years. Along with Drill Team Hawaii, her early training includes Page Ballet Academy and Honolulu Classical Ballet. She is also a graduate of Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Dance Performance. She was also a member of BYU’s Contemporary Dance Theatre, a prestigious performing and touring company. Her dance experience includes traveling and performing all over the world including Hawaii, Utah, California, Florida, Disney World’s ESPN, New York, and Japan. She has had many performance opportunities in which she was able to perform works by world-renowned choreographers including, Alwin Nikolais’ Tensile Involvement, LAJAMARTIN, Kate Weare and Jose Limon’s A Choreographic Offering. She has also performed with Broadway’s Kristin Chenoweth, Gentry, UH Homecoming half-time shows, LA Lakers games, Super Bowl Half-times and the Utah Jazz. Her teaching career spans over a period of ten years. She has taught dance across the nation as well as in Japan. She has taught all age groups and styles including a three year old ballet class, college level jazz classes, and a hula class for seniors.

Of all the age groups, she loves teaching children and teens because she loves the joy dance brings to their lives.”

Haylee was born and raised in West Jordan, Utah. She started her dancing career at the age of 3, at a local studio where she trained in various styles, such as, jazz, ballet, hip hop, tap and contemporary.

Haylee was also apart of West Jordan High School’s dance company for her 3 years of high school. There she choreographed, and was apart of many, many pieces. After graduating, Haylee attended Dixie State University, participating on the Dixie Blaze Dance Team.

She is now back in West Jordan, attending school at Salt Lake Community College, studying education. Haylee is so excited to be apart of Studio 56 for another year!!