Meet Our Staff

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Owner/Artistic Director

Danielle also known as Mrs. Dani is a native of St. Helena Island, SC. She is married with a daughter and two sons. She began her dance training at the age of 7, which is when she fell in love with the art form. At the age of 13 she began to dance competitively in which she won numerous awards and scholarships. She has experience in many genres of dance such as ballet, pointe, jazz, tap, hip-hop, lyrical, modern, and more! After high school, Dani attended Winthrop University, which is where she obtained her Bachelor of Art in Dance with a concentration in Business Management. She has trained under highly qualified professional dancers.

Post-graduation Dani moved back to her hometown, where she began her career teaching at local studios and for Beaufort County School District. She received her South Carolina Teaching Certificate. through the South Carolina PACE program.  Dani also teaches full-time dance at Whale Branch Early College High School and is over the school's Dance program.

 Dani received her Masters of Business Administration with a concentration in Entrepreneurship. She loves the art of dance and is always looking for new ways to improve as an individual and for her dance studio. Dani has dreamed of owning her own dance studio ever since she was a child. She has now made her dream become her reality.

Recreational & Competition Team Instructor

Kaiya Washington is a native Beaufort, SC and a 2019 Beaufort High School graduate, currently attending the Technical College of the Lowcountry to study Criminology. Starting off as a gymnast at the age of 8 she quickly progressed in tumbling, but didn’t love it as much as dancing. She began her dance career at the age of 9, and her competitive dance career at 10. Kaiya danced competitively for 7 years, and had been awarded numerous awards and scholarships. Her senior year in high school she choreographed Beaufort High School’s “Matilda the Musical.” She also was apart of IMMABreathe dance company, Season 2. Kaiya hopes to one day make it big but until then she will continue to share her love for dance.

Recreational Dance Instructor

Recreational Dance Instructor 

Master Class Instructor 

Eric Freeman, was born in Beaufort, South Carolina where he began dancing at age nine. He loved dancing. When he was eleven, Eric started competing at dance competitions and knew that his heart was in dancing. While competing he attended dance conventions, even winning many scholarships and “Dancer of the Year” awards. Eric credits his family as they inspired him to purse dance as a career. At age 16 he started teaching dance classes and at age 20 got booked for his first professional dance job. Later at age 21 Eric moved to Los Angeles, California to further purse his professional dance career.

He has performed at the Grammys, danced at the Apollo with Debbie Allen, opened for Mariah Carey and DJ Khaled for the AIDS Foundation, trained with the Cuban National Ballet School, was featured in ABC’s Modern Family and appeared in children tv series such as, “Chorals Tales.” Eric now teaches and choreographs for different dance companies  and is also an Artist at Debbie Allen Dance Academy in Los Angeles. Eric prides himself in embodying strong principles learned from former teachers while influencing young minds and souls during his travels as a performer, choreographer and master teacher around the world.