Faith Gardner - Owner/ Director:

Faith Gardner is the owner/director/ and founder of Dance Elite All Stars. She opened Dance Elite in July of 2004 as the sole teacher of over 25 classes per week in a small one room studio in Granite Bay. Since then Dance Elite has grown into the largest dance studio in Rocklin and is one of the fastest growing studios in the United States. Faith graduated from CSU Sacramento Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology with an emphasis in Dance under the direction of Dale Scholl, Linda Goodrich, and Nolan T'Sani. Faith has also trained extensively in all dance styles under Barbara Crockett, Pepper Von, Keith Goings, Carrie Pereira, and April Cabrera-Co.

Jynece Avery:

Jynece Avery first got inspired to dance after watching her two sisters perform in numerous competitions and performances. She has now been dancing for 7 years, and started dancing at Dance Elite in 2005. Since then she has been apart of Dance Elite’s company teams and has been trained in various styles such as jazz, lyrical, ballet, musical theater and hip hop. While attending Roseville High School she was involved in its dance program, Dancin Fete, all four years. Her junior and senior year she became a teacher assistant and assisted the beginning and intermediate level dance classes. Even after being graduated she still stays involved in Roseville High School’s dance program, by helping behind the scenes at both their shows and teaching routines to the dance classes and Roseville’s dance team. She has recently found a love for teaching and started assisting/teaching hip hop and lyrical classes and hopes to further express and share her love for dance with students. She will be starting her junior year at CSU Sacramento this August.

Laura Barks - Tap Teacher :

Laura Barks has been dancing since the age of four and teaching/choreographing for over fifteen years. She specializes in a mix of classic and rhythm tap and is responsible for Dance Elite's competitive tap teams. Over the past three years, her tap teams have placed in the top ten at Starbound’s national finals. Prior to moving to Rocklin, Laura was dancing with Tap Explosion, a professional rhythm-tap company in San Jose. Through Tap Explosion, she trained with such professionals as the legendary Gregory Hines, renowned tap dancer Sam Weber and Mark Mendonca of "Bring In Da Noise". Other professional credits include a role in San Jose Civic Light Opera's "No No Nanette" as a singer and dancer, choreography for the musical "Nine" and dancing for the NBA's Golden State Warriors. In addition to tap, Laura has studied jazz, ballet, modern, hip-hop and Polynesian. While attending Santa Clara University she performed annually in their contemporary dance concert ‘Images’ and was selected from among twenty competing choreographers to have her unique piece featured in the show. As a full-time Mom of two boys, Laura is very happy to be a part of the Dance Elite family.

Danielle Bordeaux:

Danielle has been dancing for nearly 12 years and has trained in various styles such as jazz, tap, hip hop, ballet, and now specializes in contemporary/modern. During her childhood she was always surrounded by dance, given she has grown up into a dance family and is truly blessed to share such an amazing gift with her mother Jeannine. Danielle has studied in numerous studios in the Sacramento area such as O'sullivans Dance Academy, Northern California Dance Conservatory, Step 1, and is now enjoying her time on the Pre-Professional company at Dance Elite. While attending Oakmont High School she was highly involved with the dance program and became an instructor/ teachers assistant during her junior and senior year. In addition, she has performed at many dance competitions, conventions, workshops, and studio dance shows. Danielle finds peace and freedom through the art of dancing and believes dancing is like dreaming with your feet. Her unconditional love for dance has made her the authentic girl she is today.

Jeannine Bordeaux:

Jeannine has taught dance for over 20 years and has worked with children and adults in all genres and all settings from musical theater, local schools, industry shows and benefit programs to competitive dance teams. She studied extensively in Jazz, tap, ballet and Hip Hop, training with the Berkeley Ballet Company, Ann Garvin, Dance/10 and Tremaines in Los Angeles. Her credits include numerous music videos, a touring group to Japan in "High Steppin", Disneylands' "Show Biz Is" and the 1984 Summer Olympics performing with Lionel Richie. Jeannine also studied acting at ACT (American Conservatory Theater) in San Francisco which lead her to perform and choreograph numerous musical theater productions throughout the Bay Area. Her passion for dance has kept her involved in the community where ever she goes and she looks forward to teaching her first season at DEA.

Kelsey Dale:

Coming soon!

Amanda Edwards:

Coming soon!

Beth Hall:

Beth Hall has been teaching at Dance Elite Allstars for the past 7 years. She is our Mini Competition teacher and our Competition Coordinator. She also teaches the Tiny Tots and Pee Wees. Before coming to Dance Elite, Beth was a Competition Instructor for a prestigious studio in Southern California. Along with her studio teaching experience, Beth previously coached cheerleading and dance teams at the high school level for 13 years. She is a certified aerobics instructor and trainer. She attended the University of Nevada, Reno, where she majored in Recreation, Physical Education and Dance, specializing in Sports Medicine. During college Beth was on her college dance/cheer team. Beth is happily married and the busy mom of 20 year old Andrew and 17 year old Caitlin.

Erin Judd:

Dancing has been a passion of Erin's for 20 years. She started ballet at the age of 5 and continued her training in ballet as well as jazz, tap, lyrical, and hip hop. Over the years, she also found that she had a great knack for character pieces as she loves to entertain. Erin has been awarded several scholarships through Sacramento Area Dance Alliance (SADA), Co. Dance and others. Through Co. Dance she was granted a scholarship to dance in LA for a month at Millennium Dance Complex. While in LA she was able to take class from top choreographers as Wade Robinson, Darren Henson, and Shane Sparks among others.

Misty Kline:

Coming soon!

Linsey Momet:

Dance has always been a major part of Linsey’s life. She began her training in Southern California, where she studied ballet, tap, jazz, lyrical, character, and hip hop. She soon began competing, and since then her love for dance has only continued to grow. In 2003, Linsey relocated to Northern California and was later thrilled to have found Dance Elite. She eagerly began training and competing in various styles, though her focus and style of choice soon became hip hop. Linsey has recently been a member of A.M.P.E.D Entertainment Group, where she has worked on various dance jobs and performances. She also enjoys being a member of Dance Elite’s Pre Professional team, while also attending Sierra College full time. Linsey has loved her experience as a student at Dance Elite and hopes to provide that same feeling for her students. She is grateful to be a part of the Dance Elite staff and is very excited to share her passion with others

Anne Merino - Ballet Mistress:

Anne Merino was trained by the Danish ballerina, Marika Raju, and went on to dance for such notable companies as ABT, Stuttgart Ballet, London Contemporary Ballet and the Fort Worth Ballet. She has earned critical praise for her choreography: Los Angeles Times - "Picture perfect choreography", Arts International - "Merino's ballets should be required viewing for all new choreographers", Ballet News - "Merino's The Chessboard works on every intricate level -- literally daggers to the heart" and has won the Vanguard Award for Choreography. Ms. Merinol has also worked with a variety of musical artists from Nigel Holton to David Bowie.

Adrianne Moss:

Adrianne Moss has taught dance to children for over ten years. Her specialty is jazz dance. Adrianne studied modern/lyrical dance under Paulette Shafransky at California State University Northridge. Adrianne is also certified Aerobics and Fitness of America instructor and well as a certified Zumba instructor. Her passion is sharing her love for dance and fitness.

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is not mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself. ~Havelock Ellis

Stephen Olea:

Stephen has trained under Faith Gardner, Erin Salvetti, Erin Judd, Ann Merino, Misty Kline, Laura Casconi, Summer and Keith Turk, and Ryan Villalobos. Stephen specializes in hip hop and trained in jazz/contemporary and ballet. Stephen is currently attending Sierra College.

Carrie Perreira:

Carrie has been dancing for over 33 yearswith training in tap, jazz and ballet. Carrie attended CSUS where she was involved with their dance performance group, and graduated with a degree in "Dance Commercial Training". Carrie also received her Vocational Credential in "Dance". Carrie's dance experience includes:being selected to the Sacramento Kings Dance Team in 1987, and continued dancing with them until 1997. She was the Captain for 9 out of 10 years. Carrie continued working with the dance team from 1997 to 1999 as the Dance Team Director. Carrie represented the NBA dancers on a tour of NBA players throughout Asia, and also was sponsored by Pepsi-Cola and performed throughout England at the Garden Festival. Carrie taught for United Spirit Association for 13 years.Taught at Sacramento State for 8 years, and also at American River College for 8 years, owned and operated a dance studio for 15 years, and currently owns and operates "Starstruck Showcase", a dance program that is brought into the Elementary Schools.

Mercedes Royce:

Mercedes Royce is a current Whitney High School grad and while attending Whitney she trained in there dance program for all 4 years of high school and also in her last year was a member of the dance/drill team and hip hop competitive team. Mercedes was also a student director and is looking forward to teaching in her future. Mercedes has been training in jazz, lyrical, ballet and hip hop dance for 5 years and is looking forward to continue her growth and passion in dancing.

Erin Salvetti:

Erin Salvetti has been studying dance since the age of two where she grew up on the Central Coast. Her extensive experience ranges from technical dance and fitness instruction to choreography and being a San Diego Chargers professional cheerleader.

Studio trained in San Luis Obispo, Erin was a company member receiving numerous awards and scholarships from prestigious conventions such as Tremaine, LA Dance Force, Dupree and the EDGE studio in Los Angeles. In college, Erin was a member of the San Diego State University Dance Team and was a group exercise instructor on campus. During her last year at SDSU, she was selected out of 400 hopefuls to become a member of the NFL's San Diego Chargers professional cheerleaders for three seasons. While working for the NFL, Erin choreographed routines for the team and assisted in choreographing more than 350 dancers and gymnasts annually for NFL half time shows, benefitting Make-A-Wish Foundation. She was selected to represent the Charger Girls in Las Vegas for the Super Bowl, and was also awarded "Top 10 Professional Dancer" at the USA Professional Cheerleading Convention for NFL/NBA. After moving to Northern California with her husband, Erin received her teaching credential in Physical Education with an emphasis in Dance. Presently, she continues her passion for dance and wellness by creating Barre8, a fusion workout of yoga, dance and Pilates that is featured at Dance Elite. She also continues choreographing for the San Diego Charger Girls and regional workshops for Going Pro Entertainment Company. Erin is also involved with the National Dance Alliance Organization judging competitions.

She is extremely excited to be teaching at Dance Elite Allstars and hopes to inspire her dancers by sharing her passion... Let's Dance!!

Allison Shoffner:

Allison goes to Sierra College, and is part of a very supportive family who makes it a goal to assist her in all oh her dancing opportunities. She have grown up have two passions, surfing, and dancing. Allison started dancing on a traveling competition dance team at the age of 6 years old at O'sullivans dance academy. She also studied at NCDC, and was the president of the dance team at Sierra College. Allison has danced almost every style, including Jazz, Ballet, Lyrical, Hip-Hop, Irish, Modern, and her style of choice Contemporary. She has been a part of many talent searches, and showcases, and been offered many great opportunities. Allison plans on making a profession out of my passion for as long as possible, and contribute anything she can to the dance community. Allison believes the power of dance is far greater than most in the world. A dancer should always dance to the fullest, they perform how they practice. She dreams of one day living on the beach and owning a local dance studio, and creating a place where creative individuals can come and express themselves. Some dance idols of hers would have to be Faith Gardener, Mia Michaels, Sonya Tayeh, and Melanie Moore. Allison's choreography and style of teaching is rather unique and rare, but in a wonderful way. Allison believes anyone has the ability to dance, its how and in what way you train that ability that will determine how far you go with it.

Paige Texiera:

Paige Teixeira has been dancing for 13 years now, and started here at Dance Elite in 2008! She has trained in almost all areas of dance including, ballet, tap, jazz, lyrical, modern, pointe, character and her favorite, hip hop! Paige was a lead choreographer and dancer all four years of school in Roseville High School's Dancin Fete and now teaches for our younger dancers in the area of Hip Hop. She has trained under Misty Kline, Ryan Vialobos as well as Keith and Summer Turk, Erin Salvetti, Erin Judd, Diedre Hawkins, Allison Meade, Jean Fulton and many more talented and inspiring teachers who have brought her to us today! " Dance Elite is the one and only studio I've attended where I felt not only welcomed, but at home, and I am so glad to be sharing my knowledge as a teacher as well as student with this wonderful studio!"

Jeni Van Horn:

Jeni Van Horn has been a member of the Dance Elite teaching staff since 2005. Before teaching Jeni trained extensively in jazz, tap, hip hop, ballet, and pointe work under the direction of Darcy Sellers, Jean Fulton, Faith Gardner, Summer and Keith Turk, and Erin Judd. She was also a member of the nationally ranked Rocklin High School "Rhythm in Blue" dance/drill team for four years. Jeni was also a student director of dance in high school, where she had the opportunity to teach to all ages and levels including mentally challenged dance students. Jeni specializes in teaching dance to children and her passion for teaching Dance Elite's future stars certainly shows. Jeni would like to add, "I am so blessed to be a part of the Dance Elite staff, I have learned so much from my fellow teachers as well as my students."

Ryan "Loco" Villalobos:

Coming soon!

Dawn Edwards - Studio Manager:

Dawn earned a Certificate in Bookkeeping & Accounting from Academy of Business College in 1981. Her employment background includes 23 years experience in both private and corporate business. In the private sector, she provided administrative support for a home school physical fitness class, and ran a successful daycare. As an employee, Dawn managed single-employee offices, and worked in the accounts payable, payroll, and subcontract administration departments of a multi-million dollar corporation. Her strengths include administration, child management and communication! Other accomplishments include home schooling her children from K-12th grades and three years service as the Chairperson of the Visions in Education Home School Charter Governance Board.

Kirsten Parker - Graphic and Web Designer:

Kirsten Parker is the graphics and web design teacher at Whitney High School. Kirsten is responsible for website maintenance and various publications for the studio.