OWNER & DIRECTOR

The vision for The Vibe Dance Academy is to create incredible teams. I started teaching and coaching at a young age of 12, and that led me to direct our competitive teams. As a coach, I led my first competition team to earn the highest ranks and place overall. I continued dancing while teaching andI was captain of the State and National award-winning Moses Lake High School Drill Team, and also won Regional and National Team Titles with Today’s Generation Dance Studio as well. As captain of the Molahiettes my senior year of high school, I led our team to receive three first place state championship titles, something that had never been done before. I received the Overall Talent Award in dance at the Moses Lake and Washington State Distinguished Young Women programs, along with the Overall Talent Award winner at America’s Distinguished Young Women in Mobile, Alabama. I was a backup dancer for Mandy Moore and David Archuletta at the Stadium of Fire in Utah. I auditioned and was chosen to be a dancer on the competitive collegiate team, the Brigham Young University Cougarettes, where we earned multiple First Place Titles in Dance and Hip Hop at the NDA Collegiate Dance Championship in Orlando, Florida. I also had the privilege of competing and taking the Overall Title at the International Championship Competition in Prague as a Cougarette. While on the Cougarettes I was also hand picked to be the costume director and worked closely with my coach. Lastly, I earned a Business Management degree with an emphasis in Human Resources at the Marriott School of Business at BYU. After college, I worked at PepsiCo before becoming a mom. My proudest accomplishment is being a mom. Through my training and personal experience, I know what it takes to create successful dancers and teams, and operate a demanding business. To understand our studio vision and the kind of wholesome, high quality teams we intend to create, please watch a video of a few favorite routines from the program I participated in with the BYU Cougarettes- Jazz video and Hip Hop video. I’m thrilled to partner with our staff members and share our training, experience and passion for dance- it remains a lifetime pursuit. Our staff members have just as many qualifications in their professional and personal lives. We partner together in offering the dancers in our community an incredible dance opportunity. Each dancer gets to decide how much they’ll capitalize on the opportunity and where they want to go with it. In the end, we hope our program acts as a springboard in helping participants find more confidence, resilience, and who learn to keep their commitments. We also hope they learn to love being active and value their ability to move and groove!

The Vibe Dance Academy cares about each dancer as an individual and the team as a whole. We want the best dance experience that Pasco Washington can provide. Thank you for entrusting your dancer with us. We look forward to a rewarding and productive year.

DANCE INSTRUCTOR

Shalyse Hukill has been in love with dancing since she can remember. With over 15 years of experience in jazz, contemporary, ballet and 12 years of tumbling, she cannot wait to share her passion of dance and all things fitness with The Vibe Dance Academy. She has danced professionally with Odyssey Dance Theater and made it to Las Vegas on So You Think You Can DanceSeason 9. She assisted for Bill Bohls, Kimberly Rhinelander, Brooke Lipton, and Jason Kash. Her awards include Dancer of the weekend at New York City Dance Alliance, LA Dance Magic, Hollywood Connection, and NUVO. She has an incredible passion for all things fitness. In College, she competed in Track and Field at Utah State University on scholarship. Any chance she can you will find her running or teaching High Fitness at the gym. She is married to her best friend Tyler and has four crazy kids, Emersyn and Talmage (7 year old twins) Briggs (4year old) and a precious baby girl named Baylor. Her favorite food is cake frosting and you can catch her on a boat surfing it up any day of the week!

DANCE INSTRUCTOR

Jordan has been dancing since the age of 3 and has trained in ballet, jazz, lyrical, modern, pom/drill, hip-hop. She was a member of Eastern Washington Elite/House of 509 that placed 3rd at The Dance Worlds in 2016 along with other competitions. Jordan recently graduated from Washington State University with her B.A. in Business Administration. While at WSU she danced for 4 years as a Crimson Girl where she competed at UDA College Nationals in the D1A Jazz and Game Day divisions. During her time on the team WSU had multiple top 3 and top 10 finishes in the nation. She also had the privilege of dancing at various Pac-12 tournaments and Bowl Games including the Holiday Bowl and the Alamo Bowl.

DANCE INSTRUCTOR

DANCE INSTRUCTOR

Miss Hayley began her dance training when she was five years old. She has had a total of fifteen years of dance training in various styles. Miss Hayley was a competitive gymnast for six years, on top of her dance training. She excelled all the way up to level eight gymnastics. Miss Hayley was invited onto a ballet company, where she trained extensive ballet training. From here, she received Hip-Hop training at the Eastern Washington Elite: Where her team placed second at The Dance Summits in Disney World. Miss Hayley has received many awards and overall placements at dance competitions and conventions. She has been a dance instructor and assistant for a total of three years.

DANCE INSTRUCTOR

DANCE INSTRUCTOR

Miss Taylor started dancing at the age of 3 and continued until high school graduation. During her time dancing she learned Jazz, Tap, Ballet, Pointe, Contemporary, lyrical, HipHop, Musical Theater, Hula, and Acro/Tumbling. Miss Taylor has been a part of many award winning competition danced through the years in groups, solos, and duos. She has been teaching and choreographing for 6 years, 4 of those years with The Vibe. She also coaches tumbling at The Academy of Acro. Her favorite style of dance is Jazz, Musical Theater, and contemporary. Her favorite part about teaching dance is choreographing new dances each year.

DANCE INSTRUCTOR

DANCE INSTRUCTOR

COSTUME DIRECTOR

OFFICE STAFF

OFFICE STAFF