Alejandra Garcia-Moreno was born in Harlingen Texas, and began dancing at the age of three. She received training in ballet, jazz, tap, lyrical, hip hop, belly dance, flamenco and folklorico. She was part of Brownsville Dance Center’s company and participated in many competitions, including West Coast Dance Explosion, Jump, Showstopper, NUVO, and Tremaine. She participated in American Academy of Ballet’s performance awards, who awarded her a scholarship to train in their summer school of excellence program in New York. In high school, she was captain of the dance team with who she competed all over Texas. She began teaching dance while she was in high school and has been teaching ever since. Alejandra graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with her bachelors and is a certified dance teacher from Dance Educators of America. Alejandra is excited to become part of The Dance Vault Faculty and hopes to transmit her knowledge and love for dance to her students.

From Spring, Texas, Alyssa started dance when she was two years old and has been dancing since. Competitive dancing was first introduced to Alyssa when she was five years old and attended competitions Showstopper, KAR, 8 national talent, and more. Conventions were introduced by age 11, so she participated in Tremaine, 24/7, and ASH. At age 15, she danced in the finale for ASH in New Jersey. She currently attends Sam Houston State University to pursue a Bachelor’s degree. After starting dance at Vicky Michelle Dance Studio, Alyssa attended other studios such as Progressions Performing Arts and Lake Houston Performing Arts Center. Having been trained in ballet, jazz, contemporary, tap, hip-hop, and musical theater, Alyssa has worked with some notable names such as Laurie Anderson of the Houston ballet. With ties to Savion Glover, Alfred Lowe from New York trained Alyssa in tap for two years. Her teaching career began at age 13. She has taught at studios such as Joee Schapiro School of Dance, Core Movement Arts Center, and The Movement Xperience.

Anicka is a born and raised Texas dancer, where she grew up training in ballet, jazz, tap, modern, and hip-hop and competing with Kingwood Jazz and company in Kingwood TX. Anicka attended all 4 years of high school at the High School for Performing and Visual Arts as a Dance major. Following high school Anicka has continued teaching and choreographing for many studios, coaching cheer at the John Cooper school in the woodlands, is a professional dancer around houston, and is a pro cheerleader for the Houston major league rugby team the Houston Sabercats. Anicka is still working towards her degree but plans to fulfill her professional dance career in New York, LA, or performing for a cruise line following her graduation. 

Daijah was born in Houston, Texas and began dancing at the age of five. Daijah was introduced to competitive dance at the age of nine where she began to attend competitions such as KAR, Spotlight, and Showstoppers where she received top honors for her performances. At the age of twelve Daijah was introduced to dance conventions and began to attend conventions such as Adrenaline, West Coast Dance Explosion, and Radix where she received numerous scholarships. Daijah is currently studying ballet, jazz, contemporary, lyrical, and hip hop at the Dance Vault and has had the opportunity to work with talented teachers and choreographers such as Jeremy Green, Hailey Hoffman, Clayton Cross, Marcea Lane, Lennoris Arnold, Antoine Olds, and Danielle Applegate. Daijah is a National Honor Society member at Klein Collins High School, and plans to attend Florida State University, majoring in biology and business. Daijah is excited to work with new students at the Dance Vault and hopes to spread the knowledge she has gained from her teachers throughout her years of dancing. 

Danielle Applegate was born and raised in Phoenix, Arizona. She is a graduate from Arizona State University with a bachelor’s of science in Biology, in which she focused her studies on pre-med courses with an interest in Sports Medicine. While the human body has always been of interest to Danielle, her passion lies in the art and athleticism of dance. She began dancing at the age of 5 receiving training in various styles including ballet, jazz, lyrical, tap, hip-hop, character, and acrobatics, and began dancing competitively at the age of 7. As a student, Danielle has won various scholarships and awards from regional and national dance conventions and competitions. Since her childhood was spent in Arizona, she also made numerous trips to further her dance training by taking various classes at highly known facilities throughout Los Angeles such as Millennium and EDGE Performing Arts Center, as well as performing in Carnival's "Choreographer's Ball." Danielle soon began teaching and choreographing for the competitive company immediately after high school graduation at the very studio she received her training. Her choreography and dancers have been acknowledged at both the regional and national levels by winning multiple overall 1st place awards as well as choreography, best technique, and best entertainment awards from internationally respected competitions such as Adrenaline, KAR, 8 National Talent, Starquest, MOVE, Showbiz, Hall of Fame, Showstoppers, and iHollywood. In 2015, Danielle joined the inaugural season for 8 National Talent Dance Competition and has been with their faculty for all three seasons. At 8 National Talent she has worked both as a judge and backstage manager and truly enjoys working in both areas of this exciting competition. In 2016, Danielle became the Artistic Director of Forcing Boundaries Dance Company, a pre-professional dance program that prepares adolescent dancers to pursue a career in various areas of the dance industry. Even more recently, Danielle embarked on the new adventure of becoming studio owner of The Dance Vault, located in the Woodlands, TX, which will begin its inaugural season in August of 2017. Beyond sharing her compassion and energy for the art of dance, she enjoys seeing her students use the tools from their time in class overlap into their daily lives beyond the studio setting and into their future as young adults.

Dene Kiblinger is a Houston native who has been dancing for 11 years. He began dancing through online breakdancing tutorials and later joined his high school hip hop crew OBK. Through OBK he trained in many other hip hop styles such as popping, house, locking, and hip hop choreography or Urban dance. While in high school he also began training a broad range of other dance styles including ballet, modern, contemporary, and jazz. 

After high school Dene attended Sam Houston State University to pursue a BFA in dance and trained under the talented professors and staff of the university as well as guest teachers from around the world. Through his time at SHSU he was able to perform with the dance company Nicolay Dance Works and had the opportunity to take the summer college intensive at the Gus Giordano Dance School in Chicago. 

After leaving the University Dene wanted to focus primarily on his love for hip hop and began teaching hip hop classes in Houston. In 2017 he auditioned and was accepted into the world renowned Acadmey of Villains crew from Los Angeles and trained with them under their month long Villains Family Intensive.

Dene now works to bring his unique skillset and knowledge from his time as a competing freestyle street dancer, his classical training, as well as his modern hip hop training, to his students to create strong hip hop dancers in every aspect.

Jerrica Mark has danced for Dance of Asian America, Houston Dance Theatre, and the UH Dance Ensemble. Jerrica has trained at Mitsi Dancing School, (ballet and Chinese dance,) and Houston Ballet Academy, under Priscilla Nathan Murphy, Cheryene Busche, and Shelly Powers. Jerrica has attended summer intensives with Ballet Adriatico under Anna Marie Holmes in Ascoli Piceno, Italy, Dominic Walsh Dance Theater, and Hope Boikin from Alvin Ailey. Jerrica has performed with Dance of Asian America at Miller Outdoor Theatre. As part of Dance Houston concerts, she has performed Robert Mills' World Groove with Houston Dance Theatre and Fix You, choreographed by Bryan Peck and herself, at the Houston Transplant Games of America Opening Ceremonies 2014. Jerrica has performed works by Teresa Chapman, Rebecca Valls, Toni Valle, Jacqueline Nalett, jhon r. stronks, Jennifer Wood, and Sophia Torres. She also attended the American College Dance Festival in 2013 and 2014, where she choreographed and performed Among Heavenly Waters; and performed in several works by others. She is in her third season as a member for KSD, and graduated with a bachelor's degree from the University of Houston. 

Paola began studying dance in the Ballet Academy of Coyoacan in Mexico City under the
direction of the world renowned ballet instructor, Ana Castillo at the age of 8 years old. Later
she enrolled in the “Escuela Superior de Musica y Danza de Monterrey” which is a part of the
National Institute of Fine Arts of Mexico, where she received her bachelor degree in dance in
1990. Immediately after graduating she began working at the Ballet of Monterrey Dance
Company becoming one of the original professional dancers of this new company. In 1996, she
became the soloist dancer of Ballet de Monterrey and in 1998 she also became the regisseur of
the company. In 2002, having been invited to the Festival del Barrio Antiguo, she founded and
directed a new independent dance group called "Fabulas y Cuentos" (Fables and Stories).
This group continued to operate for 10 years until 2012 performing in cultural festivals, and
other celebrations. Its purpose was to expose children to the world of ballet using well known
stories and fables as the content for the ballet performances. In 2010 she launched a
community based dance education program, Aprender con Danza (Learn through Dance),
where she was responsible for implementation, administration, coordination, training, and
management of a team of 48 dancers and musicians. This program provided children in 27
economically challenged schools and 7 community centers totaling 4,000 students, to utilize
dance as a tool to improve self confidence, muscle coordination, teamwork and improved
group dynamics. Overall, student performance increased in both school grades and social
interactions. She earned ABT (American Ballet Theatre) Certifications - Primary Level thru
Level 5 in New York City in 2010-2011. She has consistently been a ballet instructor for all
skill and experience levels over the last 26 years. Overall, she has taken dance courses and
trained in Mexico, Cuba and the United States. In 2015, she received an additional bachelor’s
degree in Classical Ballet Instruction from the National Institute of Fine Arts in Mexico City.
Throughout her professional career she has had the opportunity to work with well renowned
figures in dance including Fernando Bujones, Ann Marie de Angelo, Fernando Alonso,
Susana Benavides, Tulio de la Rosa, Fernando Jones, Cynthia Gregory, Kirk Peterson,
Melissa Hayden, Loipa Araujo, Jonathan Watts and many more. Paola is married to Israel
Luzunaris Jr. and has three wonderful daughters, Lorna, Tamara and Marla.

Traci grew up in a dancing family. Her mother owned Beverly Thompson’s Studio of Dance in Fort Worth, Texas where Traci started dancing at the age of three. Growing up, Traci was fortunate enough to take classes from some of the greats including: Art Stone, Gus Giordano, Karen Hebert, Frank Hatchett, Bobby Burgess, Bruce Lee, Luige, Steven Boyd, Benny Smith, Gregg Russell, Doug Caldwell and Debbi Dee just to mention a few. Traci also persuade ice skating. She trained in Dallas, Texas at Fair Park Ice Skating Rink and went on to teach ice skating for several seasons at Will Rogers Ice Skating Rink in Fort Worth, Texas. Traci was also a member of Texas Girls Choir for 7 years. In 1980, she became the choreographer for this international group and went on a 3 week tour traveling to the Capitols of Asia.In 1985, Traci and her mother went into business together and Tracidee and Beverly’s Dance Centre’ was opened. The highlight for Traci in 1993 was to choreograph for Garth Brooks. His concert was held at Texas Stadium in Dallas, Texas. This event still holds the record for the most attendance of a country music concert by a single artist.In 1994, Traci’s family was relocated to Houston and her studio was sold to a former student. She takes great pride in the fact that her studio is still open and sharing the love of dance to children. For 23 years, Traci taught Tap, Ballet and Jazz at Boni's Dance and Preforming Arts and choreographed for their competition group.  Now, Traci works for several Studios in the Houston area cleaning dances and soloists.In her private life, Traci is married to Gary and has two daughters, Lauren and Allie. Both graduated from LSU. Geaux Tigers! Traci is excited to be concentrating on one of her passions which is cleaning dances and making dancers the best performers possible.