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Kaylin Willis
Competitive Dance Teacher
Kaylin is a Competitive Dance Teacher from Tallahassee, Florida. She recently moved to Chattanooga in 2019 to start a new career in medical devices and in 2020 she joined the Velocity Dance Center.
She is an established dance teacher with over 28 years of experience in dance and 14 years of teaching competitively. Dance has been a passion of hers since she was a child and as an adult, she loves instilling that fire and passion in her students. She believes that there is a responsibility of a dance teacher to lead by example and instill positive values in their students including, confidence, perseverance, commitment, and strength. These values help students to not only become winning dancers but also, successful & thriving adults.
Kaylin specializes in Lyrical, Jazz, Contemporary & Hip Hop. She has been awarded countless times for “Best Choreography” in Showstoppers, Platinum & Hall of Fame Competitions.
She has had numerous 1st place, winning dances in her 14 years teaching.
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Casey Burse
Hip Hop Dance Instructor
Casey Burse was born in Dueberry, Georgia, and raised in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He's always had a talent and passion for dance ever since he could walk. He started displaying his talents in his church at Pneuma Christian Center and in return they gave him a platform to showcase his talent. He also won all his school talent shows, starting from 3rd grade when he participated in his first show. He got better as he grew from choreographed dancing and performing at his church from a young age. He decided to take his dance more seriously and pursue it even harder at the age of 17 which is also the age he took his first dance class. From then on he has won an award for Chattanooga Top Talent plus a scholarship to compete in IMTA in New York City.
IMTA is a Global Competition in which talent from all over the world such as actors, models, singers, and dancers compete and showcase themselves to 400 different talent agencies. There was a total of 3000- 4000 people in the competition. He nervously went to New York and won the IMTA Best Dancer Award for 2018, and also was requested to perform at the competition's banquet. Soon after he got back he won another talent show named "Chattanooga's Hidden Talent". And also was asked to perform at the next Chattanooga Top Talent show that next year.
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Ryan Roberts
Hip Hop Dance Instructor
Ryan was born in Oklahoma City and raised in Chattanooga, TN. Ryan found his love of Hip Hop dance at the tender age of 9 years old and has been dancing ever since. To better his Hip Hop skills, he took several dance classes anywhere he could and love to watch live performances from his favorite artists
From 2013-2015 Ryan trained at WEAVE: A Conceptual Dance Company to help shape his Hip Hop style and learn other dance styles.
Ryan has taught Hip-Hop at various dance studios around Chattanooga such as Ballet Tennessee, Chattanooga Ballet, Divine Dance Studio, and Raw Art Dance and Entertainment Corp. Ryan is currently teaching Hip-Hop at Modern Play, Velocity Dance Center, and D.Williams Dance Academy.
Ryan is also an instructor and company member of The Pop-Up Project. Ryan preforms at different special events and also collaborate with local artists on special projects around the Chattanooga area.
Juiles Eidson
Dance Instructor
Juiles was born and raised in Chattanooga,TN. and found her love of dance at the young age of three. Following her heart, she became the artistic and assistant director (11 years, in total) of Center Stage Dance Company, a dance studio with a special place in her heart--and one she called home, on and off, for over 20 years. From there, again led by her love of dance, Juiles joined Velocity Dance Center in Chattanooga,TN. where she’s worked for the last three years. Juiles’ passion is to create well-rounded dancers wherever she goes and she believes patience and persistence are incredibly important when instructing and inspiring young dancers.
Juiles has taught at local and out-of-state studios, including:
Momentum Academy Dance, Cleveland TN.
StarMaker Dance Company, Ringgold GA.
Dance 411, Atlanta, GA
Center Stage Dance Company, Soddy Daisy, Dayton and Ooltewah,TN. locations
Velocity Dance Center, Chattanooga, TN.
She specializes in Contemporary and Lyrical, and is also very knowledgeable in Ballet, Pre-Pointe, Pointe, Tumbling, Acrobatics, Jazz and Tap.
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