Instructors
Kelly Jenkins Moreland
OWNER
Though not one to brag about her accomplishments, Kelly grew up in Reno, NV where she began to dance at age 2. This is where she studied and taught until her career took her to new adventures. While in college, the studio she taught dance at got a call for dancers at the MGM Grand. At 18, she was hired for her first professional dance job.
Kelly then went on to dance on the “S.S. Norway” with Jean Ann Ryan Productions for 8 months at sea. After her stay on the ships she went back to the MGM for a short run and got a call to head for Madrid, Spain, where she would dance as a lead at La Scala Hotel and meet her dance partner, Alfredo Jimenez. After that, Kelly started dancing and choreographing for producer/choreographer Ricardo Ferrante and eventually ended up performing and choreographing on a Saturday night variety show on Spanish television called Sabado Noche.
While dancing her way from Morocco to Northern Spain with her own touring company, Kelly was also working for Jean Ann Ryan Productions, as one of the lead dancers in her show in Bal Harbor, Florida and later teaching the choreography for Cruise Ships and choreographing their show at the Grand Hyatt in Seoul Korea. She continued to tour Spain with her own company until 1992, when her and her dance partner, Alfredo, decided to retire from the profession while on top and always being left with happy memories of their accomplishments.
Knowing she eventually wanted to open a dance studio, Kelly and her family moved to Hagerstown. This is where she opened Dancin’ Time Studios, (originally on Mount Aetna Road). She was the owner of The Washington County Playhouse for 11 years as well, but gave it up to dedicate more of her time to her own children and the students at the studio.
Along with the studio, Kelly also taught dance for 15 years at Hagerstown Community College, as well as choreographing for their theater department. She was also the choreographer for the North Hagerstown High School Show Choir & Musical Theater Department from 2003 - 2014.
The studio is now going into its 29th year of business and is dedicated to bringing the very best to the city of Hagerstown.
"ALWAYS REACH FOR YOUR DREAMS, NO MATTER HOW FAR AWAY THEY MAY SEEM, BECAUSE EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE IF YOU JUST BELIEVE."
Sierra Jimenez
STUDIO ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Sierra started dancing as soon as she could walk. Daughter of two professionals dancers, she was raised in a dance studio and started dance classes as soon as she possibly could. She has trained in all styles of dance, as well as flamenco, gymnastics, & all styles of hip hop. She continues her own dance education with many dance conventions & master classes. She frequently travels around the United States to further her training. Sierra was a member of LED for three years under the instruction of Laura Edwards. She has been teaching dance in the tri-state area for 8 years and has also taught workshops for many High Schools, private schools, and college dance teams. Her credits include, Artistic Director for Dancin’ Time Studios Hip Hop Crew, choreographer at Authentic Community Theatre, Dance Instructor for FCA, B.Funk, Art Thru Muvment, Dancin’ Time Studios & Extreme Dance. Sierra grew up dancing here at Dancin' Time, B.Funk Company & Crew, Future Shock DC, Monsters of Hip Hop, The Washington County Playhouse, New Akademy Krew, Eclectix Krew & NHS Showchoir. She now works full time for the hip hop convention Monsters Dance. She continues to take classes when she travels for work because she understands how important it is for a teacher to always remain a student. Sierra has recently become certified in PBT (Progressing Ballet Technique) and will incorporate this into her classes this season, challenging our students' technique with more intense training.
Mikaela Rodriguez
COMPANY DIRECTOR
THE GIFT
Mikaela started dancing at the age of 4 in her hometown of Hagerstown, Maryland. She has been trained in Ballet, Jazz, Contemporary, Lyrical, Tap and Hip Hop by a variety of top choreographer’s in the dance industry. Not only was the dance studio her second home, but she also took to the stage as a cast member with several productions at Washington County Playhouse growing up.
She is a graduate of Barbara Ingram School of the Arts where she studied dance through out her high school years, as well as involved herself in the school musicals. During those 4 years she danced competitively for Maryland’s B. Funk Dance Company. Right after high school she started her dance career as a teacher/choreographer at B.Funk Dance Company for their recreational and competitive teams, where she then also became the Dance Company Coordinator. In addition, she has taught for, South Hagerstown High school dance team, Barbara Ingram School of the Arts CATS program, and All-Stars Dance center in Western Massachusetts.
Aside from teaching at DTS, Mikaela currently also has the opportunity to work on the business-side of dance with Monster’s of Hip Hop Dance Convention doing competition management.
Kristen Davis
For the past 10 years, Kristen has been sharing her love of dance with students in the tri-state area. She began her dance training at the age of three, studying all styles. Kristen also performed in the Moscow Ballet’s Nutcracker for several years, even being chosen as a featured dancer. She is a graduate of the Barbara Ingram School for the Arts dance program, and also attended musical theatre camps taught by Broadway professionals. At Hagerstown Community College, Kristen was a member of the Dance Company and was Dance Captain for several musicals. She also started the Junior Company program at Ballet and All That Jazz in 2013, and remained the director until 2016. Since graduating from college, she has worked with many theatre companies in the area including: Authentic Community Theatre, The Washington County Playhouse, Maryland Entertainment Group, and Chambersburg Community Theatre. Kristen was also Miss Washington County 2017 and made the Top 10 at Miss Maryland that year. Throughout the last 23 years of her dance career, Kristen has learned how important it is to have a teacher who pushes students to be their best, while still being kind and full of fun. She strives to achieve that perfect balance for all of her students.
Cassi Rose
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Tara Lee
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Styles
Jazz
is a classification shared by a broad range of dance styles. Before the 1950s, jazz dance referred to dance styles that originated from African American vernacular dance. In the 1950s, a new genre of jazz dance—modern jazz dance—emerged, with roots in Caribbean traditional dance. Every individual style of jazz dance has roots traceable to one of these two distinct origins. As in most forms of dance, technique is the foundation for all modern jazz dance movement. In particular, jazz dancers benefit from a sound working knowledge of ballet technique and, consequently, hip hop dance curriculum commonly includes ballet training.
Ballet
a classical dance form demanding grace and precision and employing formalized steps and gestures set in intricate, flowing patterns to create expression through movement.
Hip Hop
refers to dance styles primarily danced to hip-hop music or that have evolved as part of hip-hop culture. This includes a wide range of styles notably breaking, locking, and popping which were developed in the 1970s by Black and Latino Americans. What separates hip-hop dance from other forms of dance is that it is often freestyle (improvisational) in nature and hip-hop dancers frequently engage in battles—formal or informal freestyle dance competitions.
Lyrical
has its primary basis in ballet, combining the many technical elements of classical ballet with the freedom and airier aspects of jazz, contemporary and modern dance. Lyrical dance is expressive, simultaneously subtle and dynamic, focused on conveying musicality andemotion through movement. It is a combination of intricate, highly technical, and pedestrian/naturalistic moves. It is commonly set to popular music with vocals as well as rich instrumental portions of a pop song. Lyrical inspires choreographers and dancers to use movement to interpret music and express emotion.
Tap
is a form of dance characterized by using ones shoes, as well as the floor, as a percussive instrument. As such, it is also commonly considered to be a musical form as well. Two major variations on tap dance exist, rhythm (Jazz) tap and Broadway tap. Broadway tap focuses more on the dance side, and is widely performed as a part of musical theater. Rhythm tap focuses instead on the musical side, and practitioners consider themselves to be a part of the Jazz tradition.
Pointe
is executed on special shoes to give a dancer the ability to dance on their toes. It is important that a dancer not start till the age of 12, when the most delicate bones of the feet have stopped growing.
Contemporary
is a genre of concert dance that employs compositional philosophy, rather than choreography, to guide unchoreographed movement. It uses dance techniques and methods found in ballet, modern dance and postmodern dance, and it also draws from other philosophies of movement that are outside the realm of classical dance technique.
Conditioning
the development of physical fitness through the adaptation of the body and its various systems through an exercise program. At DTS our conditioning will include the PBT (Progressing Ballet Technique) curriculum. Students enrolled in this class will need to purchase additional equipment.
Musical Theater
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