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WELCOME TO EPIC Trip the light fantastic Center

Welcome toEpic Dance Center,a Miami Beach trip the light fantastic toe company established in 2013. We are proud to be the simply full service dance studio in Miami Beach with several locations and specializing in all styles of dance. Classes begin at infancy with Mommy & Me/Daddy & Me classes, and go along to all ages, including pre-professional level, adult and seniors.

Our MISSION To provide our Miami Embankment community of dancers with a technically rich trip the light fantastic pedagogy at an affordable cost in club to provide the opportunity for all to experience the fine art of Dance. We are committed to not merely developing amazing dancers, merely also creating a safe and fun environs in which to develop astonishing people. Nosotros realize the influence we accept on our dancers on a daily basis, and nosotros strive to surroundings them with positive support, motivation and encouragement to build confidence, promote self esteem, and build hereafter leaders and kind individuals.

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Ballsy Dance Center is a Trip the light fantastic toe Family... and nosotros Welcome you to join us! #epicdancefam

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Monthly Course Tuition Discounts are available for Urban center of Miami Beach Residents/Employees, Siblings, Teachers, Front Line Workers, Military and Veterans.

MEET THE EPIC Trip the light fantastic toe FAMILY

KRISTINE RODRIGUEZ B.S.ed, M.B.A.

Miss Kristy is our Director, Founder and Instructor. She has over 25 years of experience instructing children and adults of all levels and ages, too as 35 years of trip the light fantastic feel. A Miami Beach native, Kristine began her dancing, modeling and acting pedagogy at the age of four, began competing in regional and national trip the light fantastic toe competitions at the age of seven, and has been active in the industry always since. Kristine trained professionally at DancExchange, Inc., Ballet Etudes of Southward Florida, and Charles Drew Unproblematic School's Magnet Trip the light fantastic and Drama program. She was a Miami Embankment Senior High School'south "Body & Soul" Dance Squad member and was the SGA President, a Silver Knight nominee and spoke at her graduation. Kristine attended the University of Miami andearned a BS.ed in both Elementary Education & Theater Arts, graduated on the Dean's List and was a Hurricanette for the Band of the Hour. While at university, she created the award winning Starlettes Hip Hop Dance Team for the City of Miami Embankment. Kristine taught Kindergarten while earning her Yard.B.A. from Nova Southeastern Academy. She created EPIC Dance Centre in 2013 every bit a mobile trip the light fantastic toe company as she has always felt that professional and affordable dance classes should be experienced by every child. Through her ability and willingness to travel to the dancer, she has fabricated dance accessible to all by expanding to several locations in South Florida. Kristine serves every bit the Dance Manager, Performing Arts Coordinator, Co-Sponsor for the Middle & Upper School Player troupes, and Director of Auxiliary Programs at the prestigious Palmer Trinity Schoolhouse, where she continues to share her dear of Dance!

Kristine'due south Credits include: International print ads, Orange Basin parades, national infomercials, bilingual commercials, Sabado Gigante, Telenovelas, Regional Ballet and Theater productions and choreography for Pirates of Penzance and In The Heights , Burn down Notice, The Balancing Human activity, Rock of Ages, the Rose Basin National Football Title Halftime Evidence, Miami PAVAC, the New Years Day Rose Basin Parade, Hurricanette Alumni Game Halftime Shows, Future Faces of America championship holder ,  the Cinderella International Scholarship Pageant title holder , Miss. America Scholarship Preliminary Finalist.

HALI SHIELDS B.S.

Miss Hali has over10 years of experience instructing children and adults and close to 30 years of ballet and mod dance experience. She began her studies at The Trip the light fantastic Company in St.Augustine, Fl under Carol Dickens, Monica MacBeth, and Ellie Potts Barrett. She also attended Ormond Schoolhouse of Ballet nether the direction of Jane Bradshaw and Dulce Anaya at the Dulce Anaya School of Ballet in Jacksonville, Fl. Hali danced with several professional person ballet companies including Boston Ballet, Sarasota Ballet, Orlando Ballet, and Kaatsbaan International Ballet. She has performed in many notable ballet performances among her favorite was dancing the part of the "Dying Swan" originally performed by Russian prima ballerina Anna Pavlova. She is a certified yoga 200 hr teacher and holds several certifications as a barre fitness instructor with the International Ballet Barre Fitness Association. She holds a B.S. degree in Health Science and currently works as a women's integrative wellness passenger vehicle.

NIA HINDS B.South.

Miss Nia is a Senior at the University of Miami and is currently studying Criminology and Political Science, and minoring in History and Anthropology. Originally from Burlington New Jersey, Nia has been dancing for nearly 20 years, during which she has trained in ballet, tap, jazz, acro/tumbling, modern, contemporary/lyrical, hip hop, heels, and pointe at Miss Sandy'southward Dance Steps and Arabesque Studio of Dance and Modeling. She went on to dance with En Pointe Studio in Pennsylvania in The Nutcracker, The Wizard of Oz, and The Little Mermaid, in which she performed a duet as one of Ursula's eels. During Loftier School, Nia worked with the Philadelphia Dance Company, Philadanco, equally a Junior Visitor member from 2011-2013. Nia is a current member of the University of Miami'southward Hip Hop Dance Team, KAOS. Nia has too performed solos for the Opening Ceremony of Black Awareness Calendar month, as well as preforming in heels for the opening performance for Homecoming in 2017.

TIFFANY ZAKKA OTR/L

Miss Tiffany is a licensed occupational therapist and certified instructor for yoga, barre, and mat Pilates. She was born in Jamaica and has lived in Miami virtually of her life. Tiffany is passionate nearly helping women and children shift their mindset and live their best lives.

With over 14 years of feel working with struggling learners and several years as a yoga instructor, her programs aim to help children and adults harness their inner power to overcome everyday challenges. She constitute the love of yoga, barre and mat pilates and has fused these concepts to establishSweat Move Yoga (SWOGA) and Kidnetics, with the goal of making a positive touch on her community.

TRACI HOLSTEIN B.South. , M.A.ed

Miss Traci is a long time Yogi and simply recently acquired her Reiki certification. She has traveled the world studying yoga and mindfulness. Her mantra is always practice your best and never give up. Traci also has an M.A. in Instruction and teaches Honors Anatomy and Physiology, Advanced Biology, and Advanced Environmental Science at a local individual school.

CLIENT TESTIMONIALS

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"I have never met a person who cares and then deeply for her students. They might start off every bit students, merely terminate upward equally family." ~Lisa L.

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"This beautiful soul has such a contagious grinning. She'south sugariness, caring and great with children. My son loves being around her and her encouraging personality." ~Bri P.

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"Miss. Kristy taught my daughter that it's ok to be a lilliputian quirky and weird. That existence an individual is absurd ." ~Theresa R.

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