Heather Dale
Heather graduated with honors from UCSD with a BA in Dance in the spring of 2004 after transferring from Palomar College in San Marcos and was pleased to perform for numerous choreographers all over southern California. Heather has been fortunate enough to train with some of the most talented artists in the area including Patricia Rincon, Jean Isaacs, Tony Caligagan, Faith Jensen-Ismay, Katie Mc Iver, Kevin Herman, Sue Gilson, Judy Sharp, and Molly Faulkner among many others. She teaches regularly at Dance FX. Inc. in San Marcos where she has created many award-winning dnaces and has also set work for various high school teams and productions throughout Southern California. Heather has enjoyed dancing regularly in industrial shows for Heatwave Productions under the direction of Tony Caligagan and taught at the CAPHERD Southwest Dance, Movement and Sports Workshop in Palm Springs this April for the fourth year in a row. She has also performed as a guest artist for Patricia Rincon Dance Collective and Mojalet Dance Collective. Heather was honored to spend the summer of 2005 in Konstanz, Germany teaching and taking class at the Czerner Dance Academy and has been asked to return along with members of her new POST JAZZ DANCE ensemble, OPUS MIXTUS, to present work in a collaborative show. Heather has recently been cast in San Diego Dance Theatre's "Trolley Dances" under the direction of Jean Issacs and famed New York choreographer Monica Bill-Barnes. She is thrilled to be able to pass her love of dance and performance onto her wonderful students at Dance FX!
Candice Kaal
Candice started dancing at the age of four with the Pat Sterling Dance Academy in Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, Africa and completed all her Royal Academy of Dance Exams to the advanced level. She continued studying Checchetti with the Dawn Saunders Academy. She joined the Zimbabwe National Ballet in 1983 and soon after came to the United States on scholarship with the Joffrey Ballet School in New York. She continued training in Australia with the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts where she received her B.A. in Dance. After performing with the Australian Ballet, she moved to Hawaii in 1990 and danced with the Ballet Hawaii Company as principal dancer for five years. Whilst in Hawaii, she had the wonderful opportunity to become involved with the very Special Arts Organization, founded by Jacqueline Kennedy, where she taught dance to handicapped children. In 1994, she moved to California and joined the San Diego Ballet and then also the California Ballet Company. In 1996, she moved to New York and was offered a position from the director Carolyn Clark of the New Jersey Ballet and shortly thereafter a contract with American Ballet Theatre. Whilst dancing with New Jersey Ballet she was invited to perform the Snow Scene from the Nutcracker, for the Today Show at NBC. Moving back to San Diego to be with her family, she began teaching and performing in the Southern California area including California Ballet, North County Dance Arts, Oceanside Dance Academy, Dance Unlimited, Coast Ballet Theatre, Performing Arts Workshop and recently Dance FX. She has produced and directed the full length ballets Coppelia and Cinderella, and has studied with such notables as Margot Fonteyn, Finis Young, Bobby Barnett, Alaine Haubert, Eleanor D'Antuono, Michael Vernon and Lucette Aldous.
Kaitlin Collins
Kaitlin, 21, began dancing at the early age of five, the same year in which she won her first National title at Hoctors dance convention. She has studied dance in several areas including tap, jazz, clogging, musical theatre, and hip-hop. Dancing with several studios over the years she has won numerous awards and competitions, one award being, Outstanding Junior Dancer at Broadway Bound Competition. She has taken several master classes in both Los Angeles and San Diego with choreographers from all over the country, including Chris Judd and Wade Robson. She has also taken a two day master class workshop with Wade Robson in L.A. In high school Kaitlin was very involved in the dance program. Taking dance all four years as a fine art and being on the dance team the Lancers Dancers for her last two. She was co-captain her senior year and was an assistant teacher to other dance classes at Carlsbad High School. The Carlsbad high school dance team traveled to Florida where they were awarded the title of National Champions in both her 2002 and 2003 years on the team. In 2002 she was hired as a dancer in Lego Land's Bionical Jam Show. Se is now in her first year of working for Dance FX and is enjoying every minute of it. She continues to choreograph for other schools and teams. She recently went back to her alma mater and helped them by coaching, choreographing, and accompanying them to Florida to win the sixth title as National Champions. In the future Kaitlin would love to open her own studio where she could share her love for dance with others.
Andrea Shoquist
Andrea has been teaching ballet for over 20 years. Six of those years, she was the ballet director for Rhodes Dance Studio, now known as Dance FX. While at Rhodes, she has choreographed and presented two comprehensive ballets; Cinderella and Peter Pan. In addition, she conducted the Performance Award Program offered through the American Academy of Ballet in New York. Andrea was raised in Central California where she trained at the Central Valley School of Ballet. Her performing experience includes dancing in ballets of Nutcracker, Firebird, Don Quixote, and many other originals with the Central Valley Dance Company. She also performed Spanish in the Nutcracker with Oakland Ballet Company. Other professional teaching experience includes: music director at Calvary Escondido Christian School, choreography coach for Turlock High School's Gymnastic team that placed at both regional and national competitions, and currently the choreographer for Center Stage Productions. Andrea has choreographed Fiddler on the Roof Jr., Beauty and the Beast, Les Misérables School Edition, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, and many more. Andrea earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in accounting from California State University, San Bernardino.
Kimberly Mowry
Kimmie has been dancing at Dance FX studio since she was 2 years old when it was known as Medlyn's Dance Studio. She has been assisting and teaching in combo and tap classes for the last two years. Kimmie has trained in several styles of dance, such as ballet, jazz, tap, hip-hop and lyrical.
Mikhail Antaran
Mikhail started dancing with San Marcos High School as a member of its All-Male Dance Team. Subsequently, he danced for FLIPside, where he began his professional hip hop training, under Erik Saradpon, Phillip Geniza and Emmett Agapay. Mikhail is continuing his training and is currently dancing with Choreo Cookies. Mikhail lives by the motto "be better than you were the day before"