Director
- TINA
McMURRAY
Tina is certified to teach by Dance Masters of America and is an active member of Chapter #34. She served as their Vice President in 05-06 and 07. She is starting her 25th year in Sheldon and 24th year in Le Mars. She began dancing at the age of two and a half at her mother's studio. Tina began teaching at the age of 15 in Perry, Iowa and moved to Le Mars in 1978 after working a summer at Adventureland as a dancer.
Tina teaches Pre-ballet, Combination, Jazz only, and company classes in Le Mars. In Sheldon she teaches Combination I, Beg I Ballet and Tap, and the Advanced Level.
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 DAPHNE FEEKES
- Daphne has been teaching at The Dance Studio for the past nine years. She has lived with her husband, Gary in Sheldon since 1993. They have two daughters, Felicia age 16, and Allorie age 10.
Daphne had fourteen years of dance with Denny's School of Dance in Mason City, IA. She graduated from Clear Lake High School and attended, college at DMACC in Ankeny majoring in Fashion Merchandising. Daphne moved to Phoenix and was the manager/trainer for Lady Footlocker. They moved back to Iowa in 1993 to open a men's clothing store in Sheldon. Currently, Daphne teaches at Sheldon High School and is the Grab Dance Team Coach.
Daphne teaches Pre-ballet, Combination II and Jazz I at the Sheldon Studio.
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 BETH
RUDEN - Beth has been a student at The Dance Studio for twenty years and has taught for the past four years. She was a member of the Performance, Company in 2001. She has participated in numerous conventions and competitions throughout her time at the studio.
She is teaching Pre-ballet, Combination classes, Ballet I, Jazz, I, Tap I, all levels of tumbling, Hip Hop, Pom, and Intermediate level classes in Le Mars.
Beth works at Prime Agency in Le Mars.
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 BRIDGET AGRIOPOULOS - Bridget trained with the Royal Ballet in London, England and has performed Serge Lifar’s Paris Opera Ballet and toured Europe with the Anglo-Polish Ballet. She served for a decade as co-artistic director for the Canyon Concert Ballet in Fort Collins, Colorado and spent another decade as teacher and choreographer for the Little Theater in Denver.
She most recently spent a few years as a teacher for Dance Etc. in Norfolk, Nebraska.
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| AMANDA MALONEY - Amanda is from Hartley, Iowa, and will be a senior at Northwestern College in Orange City. She is studying psychology and secondary education. She studied dance for fourteen years at The Dance Studio and continued dancing in a variety of ways. In addition to teaching at The Dance Studio, Amanda choreographs, dances and is the artistic director for the Northwestern student lead concert, RUSH. She is also a member of an ensemble that choreographs and performs liturgical dances for various chapel worship services.
Amanda plans to continue training, teaching and performing as she pursues her love for dance.
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| KATIE CASSON - Katie was a graduate of LeMars Community High School in 1997. She has a degree in Occupational Therapy and is a Nursing Assistant. Katie danced for ten years and was a teacher for four years. She loves dancing and is excited to be a part of The Dance
Stuido.
Katie has two daughters, Janae and
Kiera.
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| KATIE DRIGGS - Katie is seventeen years old and is a senior at LeMars Community High School. This will be her fourteenth year in dance at The Dance Studio. She has taken Ballet, Jazz, Tap, Modern,
Pom, Hip Hop, and Tumbling and was also a member the Junior Performance Company for two years and is a member of the Senior Company this year.
In school, she has been on the varsity football cheerleading squad for two years and a regular on the dance team for four years.
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| AMY KROGMAN - Amy has lived in LeMars for 32 years and graduated from LeMars Community High School. She also attended Western Iowa Tech Community College and Wayne State College. Amy danced for many years with The Dance Studio and was actively involved in many competitions and attended many conventions. She danced with the Sioux City Ballet Company.
Amy is married and is a stay at hom mom with three children. She also works part-time at Archie’s
Waeside.
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| MORGAN MCMURRAY - Morgan has been dancing since the age of two and a half at The Dance Studio and has been a member of The Dance Studio Performance Company since the age of six. Morgan has assisted for several years at the studio and has attended numerous conventions and competitions across the United States. She held the title of Junior Miss Dance of DMMA #34 in 2005 competing at their nationals in Nashville, Tennessee.
Morgan will be a Junior at LeMars Community and is involved in varsity football cheerleading, concert band, jazz band, pep band, marching band, orchestra, symphony, show choir and choir.
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| SHERRIE MORITZ
- Sherrie has been teaching tumbling for the past 16 years. She was born and raised in Le Mars. Sherrie and her husband Rich have three children: Andrew 21, Sadie 19 and Megan 14.
During her spare time Sherrie works with disabled children, fixes hair for the elderly, teaches children’s choir for St.
Joseph's church, teaches an adult fitness class at the YMCA and for the past 7 years has coached the wrestling cheer squad at Le Mars Community High School.
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