Meet Our Instructors and Founders
Nellie Whitmire is the mother of four who has been a dance teacher in the area for may years. She began her dance training at the age of two. She has extensive professional dance training in Ballet, Pointe, Lyrical, Modern, Tap, Jazz, Hip Hop, Drill Team, and Clogging. In High school she was on drill team for three years and served as Jr. Lieutenant and Sr. Captain. She won overall high scores at regional and national competitions as a soloist for self choreographed pieces. She attended UNT as a dance major, and was a UNT Dancer for two years. She was also a member in the Mosaic dance Project in Tarrant County Nellie was also casted as a dancer in the ABC Family movie “She Gets What She Wants.” She has continued her dance education with training from master teachers such as Joe Tremaine, Doug Caldwell, Mia Michaels, Dave Carter, Dave Scott, and Tyce Diorio to name a few. Nellie has won several choreography awards and entertainment awards at local and national level competitions for her dance groups. Nellie has a true passion for dance, choreography, and teaching dance. She has currently gone back to school so that she can become an elementary teacher!
Bleu Morris grew up in California and has always loved watching and participating in the performing arts. She was born into a family that has a long history of performing. Fun facts: Bleu’s grandfather was a dancer, singer, and performer in the longest Vaudeville show. He met her grandmother who was a chorus line dancer on the set of a show. They had three sons. Bleu’s uncle, Russ Tamblyn is known for his acrobatic dancing and played major roles such as Tom Thumb, Riff in West Side Story, and Gideon in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. His daughter Amber Tamblyn has been in movies like The Sisterhood of The Traveling Pants and in several TV Shows. Bleu’s dad, Larry Tamblyn, was the founder of a sixties rock band The Standells . The Standells had a few popular records and had a hit record Dirty Water. Dirty Water climbed all the way to 3rd on the music charts. Dancing and performing run in the family. Bleu was so excited when her children became passionate about dance. She is thrilled to be the office manager and witness their growth and development. Bleu also works as a co-curricular aide for an elementary school in Keller ISD. Although Bleu is not an instructor, you will find her participating in the showcase parent dances, and in adult dance classes when offered.
Sonya grew up dancing in California and now resides in Fort Worth. Sonya has been dancing since the young age of six years old. She has trained with numerous instructors in the Bay Area. She was co-owner of SS Dance Express for 11 years and Triple Threat Performing Arts for the past seven. She has also performed in a variety of shows and musicals in the Bay Area. Her choreography has been seen in "Singing in the Rain" and "South Pacific" for the the local community theater companies. Sonya was the dance dance instructor at the Keller Music and Dance Preschool in Keller. Sonya is the mother of 4 children and her love of dance and children has led her into teaching for over 20+ years. Sonya's dancers and choreography has won numerous overall scores and top choreography awards at State and national competitions. Many of her dancers have continued their dance careers on college dance teams, MTV Video Award, Disney's "High School Musical 3," Professional Sports teams (NFL, NBA, AFL), Cruise ships, Disneyland, "So You think You Can Dance," and Broadway touring companies of "Cats," "Wicked," and most recently, "Chicago"!
Shawnel is originally from California where she has been involved with dancing since the age of 2 1/2, training with multiple studios and teachers in the Bay Area. She is co-owner of the dance studio Triple Threat Performing Arts back in Ca. During her six years as a member of the San Francisco 49er “Gold Rush” cheerleader, she has had the chance to perform in such locations as Canada, Japan, China, and Austria, and with Boys II Men, Huey Lewis and the News, Don McClean and Jefferson Starship. She also has had the opportunity to tour overseas with the USO to Bosnia, Croatia and Hungary to entertain American Troops for Independence Day. She has been involved in Community Theater for the past 20 years and has co-directed/ choreographed such shows as Singing in the Rain, Beauty and the Beast, Modern Millie, Wizard of Oz, and Nunsense. If you look closely, Shawnel can also be seen in the feature film "Flubber" with Robin Williams. Shawnel has judged regionally and nationally for Hall of Fame Dance Challenge and Kid Artistic Revue. The dedication of Shawnel and her students have led them to many awards and accomplishment nationally. Many of Shawnel’s students have continued on and performed on award winning college, NFL, NBA, and AFL dance teams. Royal Caribbean Cruise Ships, Disneyland and California Adventure. “So You Think You Can Dance,” “The Glee Project,” “Glee.” The movies: “Easy A,” “High School Musical 3,” “A Better Life,” reoccurring roles on “All My Children,” and touring casts of “Wicked,” “Cats," and "The Little Mermaid." Along with everything else, Shawnel is the mother of two very active boys and twin girls!
Danielle Ihle has been dancing and performing since the age of three in the Bay Area of California where she was strongly trained in tap, musical theatre, jazz, ballet, lyrical, contemporary, hip hop, modern, and ballroom. During Danielle's 14 years as a competitive dancer she has been crowned Miss Teen Legacy, Miss Spotlight Dance, the Senior Hall of Fame Inductee of 2010, and has been awarded numerous 1st overall solo achievements, specialty awards, scholarships to train in New York and Los Angeles, and was scouted her senior year by DDO, a Los Angeles Talent Agency. After graduating high school she was a featured contemporary dancer on Season 8 of FOX’s “So You Think You Can Dance”, became a Pulse Protégé, Danced in multiple Music Videos in LA and toured in Hawaii with artist Aquile from NBC’s “the Voice” Team Xtina. Danielle moved from California to Texas to further her career and found a lot of joy working with the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders on CMT’s “Making the Team” for 6 years. The Dallas Cowboys Organization brought even more opportunity to Danielle as she was able to perform in multiple NFL Halftime Shows with artists such as Selena Gomez, Meghan Trainor and Thomas Rhett. Danielle over the years came to realize that she was ready for the world to see her talent and she developed a new found passion for creating and choreographing unique styles of movement which lead her to become a USASF certified Dance Coach from 2013-2019 where she holds 2 World Champion Titles and 2 Summit Champion Titles as a Hip Hop Coach and Choreographer. She was past director of the hip-hop crew Motiv8’D. Danielle has relocated back to California where she has added judge for Kids Artistic Revue and Rainbow Talent competitions and continues to perform, choreograph, and teach. She loves sharing her knowledge and experience with students and audiences all over the United States in hopes to inspire all of her students and athletes to understand and love dance just as her teachers and mentors have done for her.