Meet The Team

For the last 10 years, Miss Sylvia has been molding the lives of young dancers and adults through dance. Born and raised in Lethbridge, she starting dancing at the young age of three, which has evolved into a lifelong commitment to the art. She has trained in all forms of dance for 20+ years and continues to expand and grow her dance education, elevating the educational experience for her students.

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She has choreographed a number of choreography award-winning competitive routines and has lead soloists and group routines to multiple overalls, and top 10 placings.

Miss Sylvia has also starred in a production of Alice in Wonderland as the White Rabbit, and has performed for the Harlem Globetrotters.

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Miss Sylvia is excited to continue sharing her passion for dance. While shaping the next generation of dancers at Starbound, she hopes to foster dancers with a strong sense of self-expression and personal growth inside and outside of the studio.​

Certifications

Alixa Flexibility Module 1, 2, and Contortion

Acrobatics Arts Module 1 and 2

Progressive Ballet Technique Junior, Senior, and Advanced

CDTA Ballet Primary-Intermediate

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ADAPT Teacher in Training​

Miss Alida brings over 20 years of experience in dance education, specializing in Acro, Contemporary, and lyrical.

Throughout her career, Miss Alida has achieved remarkable success, leading both groups and solo  to provincial, national, and international titles.

Notably, she coached her acro team to consecutive provincial championships. One of her proudest achievements includes being selected for the prestigious Daryl White Choreography Scholarship.

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Currently advancing her skills, Miss Alida has completed her first year of Adapt training and eagerly anticipates becoming fully certified. Her dedication to dance education and commitment to excellence continue to inspire her students and peers alike.

Certifications:

Alixa Module 1, 2, and Contortion

Acrobatics Arts Module 1 and 2

Blue Spectacle Aerial Training 

Progressive Ballet Technique Junior, Senior, and Advanced

International Dance Teaching Standards

CDTA Ballet Primary-Intermediate

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ADAPT Teacher in Training

Miss Shirley has been a dance mom/grandma for as long as she can remember and continues to live and breathe dance.  She can be found around the studio cleaning, prepping costumes, doing paper work, selling tickets, helping parents in the lobby, counting fundraising, or assisting in tots classes... but rarely ever sitting still.

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Miss Shirley is at every competition in the audience watching our team and is a huge supporter of all of Starbound's competitive dancers.

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Beyond the studio, Miss Shirley enjoys gardening, hot-tubbing, running around in the rain and playing Hay Day.

Miss Jen started dancing at the age of four at Errington Ballet Theatre in London Ontario, where she caught the ‘ dance bug’ for ballet and tap. Growing up in a military family she lived in several cities across Canada, giving her the opportunity to learn from many different instructors in several other dance genres including jazz, Ukrainian, highland, Romanian, baton and acro.

Competition life started in 1973 and lasted for many years. Most of her summers were spent in summer dance schools and dancing in multicultural festivals and Highland Games in many provinces.

In 1984 she passed her teachers exam in tap from the Canadian Dance Teachers Association, her Elementary ballet exam from the Royal Academy of Dance, became a member of the Scottish Official Board of Highland Dance and began her teaching career.

While taking a break from teaching to raise her busy family, she has been adjudicating competitions.

Miss Jen is excited to be putting on her tap shoes again and teaching as part of the Starbound team!

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Certifications:

CDTA Tap & Ballet

Acrobatic Arts Module 1

Miss Dawson started taking ballet classes when she was three years old! From there she fell in love with dance and began to take additional classes in jazz, tap, contemporary, and pointe. Dawson grew up in Fernie B.C. and participated in several competitions, exams, and dance conventions with her home studio, Motion Dance Academy. She has completed her ADAPT jazz and tap exams up to Intermediate 2, and her RAD ballet exams up to Intermediate Foundation. At age 15, Dawson started teaching dance and immediately had a passion for it. 

When she graduated high school she moved to Lethbridge A.B. where she completed her degree in Human Resources. Although she loves working in the HR field, Dawson knew that she was still meant to teach dance. Even in elementary school she knew she always wanted to be a dance teacher, which is why she is thrilled to be joining the team at Starbound Dance Center!

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Bio coming soon...

Miss Lexus was born and raised in a small town in Ontario where she started dancing at six years old. She has trained in various styles such as jazz, hip hop, tap, contemporary, and lyrical. During her competition years she worked with well-known choreographers such as Victoria Baldesarra and Phil Wright. She has also done many performances, including for the Harlem Globetrotters, Raptors 905, Toronto Rock, and Mini Pop Kids.

She moved to Lethbridge just a couple years ago and is now enrolled at the University of Lethbridge, majoring in Psychology. Her love for children and dance is what makes her so excited to create a fun and welcoming environment for all new dancers!