About Us

Jamie (or Miss Jamie) started her passion for dance at the age of 4 attending dance class 5 days a week through her childhood and teen years. She carried that passion on to The LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts (The FAME school) High School in New York City where she was trained in Ballet and Modern dance. She continued her education majoring in dance at Marymount Manhattan College. 

Throughout her dance education and thereafter, Jamie continued her training, attending numerous classes in all styles of dance at Steps on Broadway, Broadway Dance Center and dance conventions.

     After years of hard work, commitment and dedication to dance, Jamie’s dream came true…She was now the owner of her own Dance Studio in Queens NY, where she was given the opportunity to pass on her passion on to her own students. They went on to win many awards at competitions and many of them attended Performing Arts schools and became dance instructors themselves.

     Jamie married, started a family of her own and after 10 years of fulfilling her dream, sold the studio to a former student. After her second son was born, the family moved to Carmel NY where she has been a Zumba instructor for 5 years. She fell in love with Zumba Fitness because it fuses dance and fitness…two of her passions. She loves teaching students from preschool to adults all styles of dance including ballet, jazz, lyrical and especially tap.

     Jamie loves sharing her passion for dance and is continually inspired by her students to keep learning. She is a mom of three and her daughter Liana will be following in her footsteps and will be dancing at Epic. Jamie is very excited to be a part of such a great staff and studio.

Miss Kat is a native to Wilmington, N.C. She is certified through Dance Masters of America and Carolina Dance Masters, Chapter #15. She is schooled in all forms of dance including, ballet, tap, jazz, lyrical, contemporary, pointe, musical theater, pom and acrobatics. 

     Miss Kat has been dancing since the age of 3. She considers herself extremely lucky to have discovered her passion at such a young age. She grew up competing regionally and nationally and continued competing in college as a member and choreographer of UNC Wilmington's competitive hip hop team, Physical Grafeeti.

     Miss Kat has taught dance in North Carolina and New York. Since Miss Kat began teaching, her choreography has won numerous high honors, overalls, judges awards and choreography awards at various competitions. Her students have won several scholarships through competitions as well.

     As dance is Miss Kat's first love, her second is theater. While in N.C. Miss Kat has had the pleasure to work on film with CW Networks, "Hart Of Dixie" and has worked and performed for Opera House Theater Company in several of their live theater productions such as, "The Will Rogers Follies", "The Producers", "Hairspray", "The King and I", "My Fair Lady", and "A Chorus Line", just to name a few.

     Over the years Miss Kat has found that there's nothing more rewarding than teaching and mentoring children that are eager to learn how to dance. She strives to instruct all of her students to understand the importance of dance vocabulary (and has been known to give an occasional vocab test in ballet class :)) She enjoys breaking down the physics of dance, and loves it when she sees a students "light bulb" go off! Miss Kat feels it's her duty in life to create and instill the love of dance in any child that walks through Epic's door. She is happy to be going into her 8th season with Epic Dance Center, and is thrilled to call EDC home!

Miss Bianca has been dancing since the age of three. Throughout her childhood dance classes remained a constant in her life. In High School, she was the head choreographer/captain of her school’s Dance Team for multiple performances and gala events. She is trained in all areas of dance, such as Ballet, Lyrical, Tap, Theatre, Jazz and Hip Hop, by various teachers Mary Ellen Bruno, Wadie Jones from "So You Think You Can Dance," Darcy Baia, and Jennifer Hendricks, just to name a few.

     Bianca trained in NYC as a part of the Rhythm City Dance Experience. Performing has always brought such happiness to Bianca, and after college she discovered that teaching was even more rewarding. Bianca continues to train at Ripley Grier Studios and Broadway Dance Center. She has performed at Madison Square Garden for the Knicks Halftime Show, and her choreography has also been featured during both the Halftime and Pre-Game performances.

     Bianca realizes that her students look up to her in more ways than one, and she prides herself on being a positive role model for them both on and off the dance floor. She has a BBA in Marketing and a concentration in the Arts and a Masters degree in Childhood and Special Education. 

Miss Kristen started dancing at the age of 2. Early on she developed a passion and love for dance. Throughout her years of dancing, she has trained in various styles such as ballet, pointe, lyrical, contemporary, jazz, musical theater, tap, and hip-hop with award-winning teachers and choreographers.

 Miss Kristen studied the ABT ballet program where she took yearly tests in order to achieve the next level. She also studied with ABT at Suny Purchase throughout her summers and attended technique and performance programs to further enhance her dance education.

 She started assisting and teaching dance at the age of 14 where she began to learn the ins and outs of how to become the best teacher for her students possible.

     Throughout her years of dancing, Miss Kristen has been recognized for her skill by winning regional titles/awards at competitions and receiving scholarships at conventions for her technique an performance. Her choreography has also won countless honors, overalls, and judges awards.

     Miss Kristen continued with her love of dancing while she studied at Manhattanville. She ran her college's dance team for 3 years and performed in their annual winter and spring showcases. She even performed with them in Walt Disney World for 2 years in a row, and was able to showcase her choreography. She graduated with a degree in Marketing and a minor in Digital Media Production.

     Miss Kristen can't imagine her life without dancing! She is so happy to be able to be a part of the Epic family and to share her love with her students!

A New York native, Alyssa is an dancer, choreographer, teacher and recent graduate of Hunter College earning her B.A in Dance. 

Beginning her dance training at a young age, Alyssa has trained in a wide variety of styles for over two decades in both competitive and pre-professional environments. 

Alyssa started teaching weekly classes at age 17 and fell in love with working with young dancers and helping them find their own love of dance, movement and creativity. Alyssa has spent the past two seasons with NYC based, Kinections Dance Group, dancing in both live performances and video projects as well as holding the role of rehearsal assistant. She has recently performed at the New Wave Festival in Brooklyn, NY as well at Real Collegio Estate in Lucca, Italy were she spent a month training with world-renowned dancers, choreographers and teachers.  

Alyssa loves sharing her passion for dance with her students and strives to create a safe and supportive space for every dancer. Alyssa is excited to spend another season dancing with the EPIC fam! 

Catherine, originally from Binghamton, New York, graduated summa cum laude with a BA in Musical Theatre from the SUNY Cortland where she studied in advanced dance classes of a broad range of dance styles. 

She went on to further her training at Broadway Dance Center’s Professional Semester in New York City where she studied with many leading dance professionals in the industry as Ballet/Theatre split concentration. 

Some of Catherine’s favorite performing credits include the Wizard of Oz tour (ensemble/swing), A Chorus Line (Maggie) and Hello Dolly (Ermengarde) and working on the Disney Cruise Line in shows like Frozen (Featured Dancer/Anna understudy), and Aladdin (featured dancer). Catherine has also worked with Stage Door connection teaching masterclasses of original choreography across the country and internationally. 

Her choreography credits include Joseph and the amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, and Legally Blonde (associate choreographer). She has also dance captained for numerous regional productions across the country and Disney Cruise Line, and adjudicates with dance competitions along the East Coast.

Miss Angie has been dancing since the age of two. She has found a great passion in dance since her first dance class and has stuck with it ever since.

Throughout the years she has been trained in various styles, such as ballet, lyrical, contemporary, jazz, and pointe through numerous award winning choreographers. She has been assisting and teaching since the age of fourteen.

She has competed on competitive teams since the age four and has travelled to numerous regional and national competitions and conventions. 

She is currently finishing out her competitive dance career on Epic’s Senior Royals Company and has been for the past five years.

 Miss Angie loves dancing and teaching at Epic and is so excited for the new season!

Miss Tanairi has been dancing since she was 5. She was taking a salsa class for 2 years which made her realize that she loved dancing. 

Miss Tanairi started competing when she was 7. All she took was HH classes. When she started her journey at epic she fell in love with being around all of her friends and the teachers. 

Miss Tanairi was on the company and HH team. Throughout her years of competing she has won countless special judges awards, and overall placements. Her love for being on stage is apparent and her personality is infectious. Being on both teams made her realize the passion that she has for dancing. It inspired her to go to college for business management and entertainment. 

Miss Tanairi is going to WCC and then transferring to a 4 year college (TBD). She is excited to see what the future holds for her and couldn't imagine not being a part of the Epic family!  

Miss Jessica started dancing at the age of 5 and later on joined the professional ballet school where she continued to train for 10 years. After graduating from Vienna Ballet School, Jessica joined the ballet theater performing various numbers of dances from Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, Don Quixote, The Nutcracker etc, and had the honour to share the stage with some of the best dancers in the world. 

Jessica also loves teaching and sharing the art of dance in ballet, contemporary, jazz and lyrical and strongly believes that ballet is the base of every dance. 

Jessica has over 7 years of experience teaching kids from all different types of ages and believes that Epic Dance Center has all the qualities to build a great dancer.