Mrs. Kelsea-Janenne Bucher

Our owner and Director, Kelsea Bucher, has over 20 years experience as a dance educator. She has been on the faculty of Broadway Dance Center and PeriDance in NYC, as well as Impulstanz in Austria. She served as Artistic Director and lead instructor for New Hopewell School of the Arts and STARS Theatre and Dance Academy.  She owned and operated her own successful studio in New Jersey for 6 seasons before returning in 2015.

A native Texan, she began her training at her Mother’s dance studio. When the family relocated to New York, she went on to train and perform with the School of American Ballet, Joffrey Ballet, Broadway Dance Center, and NYU/CAP 21 Musical Theater Program. She is a well-rounded performer, versed in many styles of dance. She has been a member of a National Titled Clogging Team and a Musical Theatre Touring Performance Troupe. She has appeared professionally in the US and abroad with several ballet and contemporary dance companies. She has performed, choreographed and directed Off-Broadway and for regional musical theater performances, on TV and in film. Her dance company, New York Performers Project was featured in the International Dance Festival-NYC and the World Dance Congress in Cyprus.

Kelsea Bucher is an Acrobatic Arts certified instructor an established choreographer, adjudicator and educator, Mrs. Bucher, along with her professional faculty, is dedicated to ensuring your child receives the highest quality of dance education in a nurturing environment.

Mrs. Malvina Breniman

Malvina Breniman began dancing at the age of thirteen. Told this was a ridiculously late age to start, she did not allow herself the luxury of dreaming of a career in the art. Even so, she dove into her training, pointed feet first. She took classes in ballet, jazz, tap, and later, modern, ballroom, and African-Caribbean dance. She was offered her first teaching position after only five years of dancing, and fell in love with working with young children. She earned her Bachelor’s degree in dance from CSU Sacramento.  She continued teaching until having her first child, when she moved to San Antonio and took a break to focus on family.  She returned to teaching in  2021 at her children’s school, and is thrilled to be back in a studio setting.

Miss. Aurora

Miss Aurora M. Chapa started dancing since she was around 2 years old in Laredo, TX. She then began adventuring the world of competitive dance in the 2nd grade which is when she realized her love for performing. From several years of competing, she took a halt and transferred her talents to the musical theatre scene. Performing with companies such as Laredo Theatre Guild International who gave her many opportunities to work with people from all over the country and explore more diverse dance backgrounds. She then took a turn back into the competition scene as a former member of the Texas A&M International University (TAMIU) Dance Team. As a part of the program, she was able to train with choreographers such as Michelle Vaughn-Bailey who has choreographed for: The Golden State warriors dance team, Lil Uzi Vert, UNLV Rebel Girls & Co, along with other award-winning universities as well as training with companies such as Tribe 99 and many more. Her most recent credits include a project with Border Child Production’s “Laredo” and choreographing Laredo College’s “Ride the Cyclone”.

Miss. Reisa DiNatale

Reisa DiNatale, from San Antonio, Texas is an alumni of  Texas State University, recently graduated with a Bachelor in Fine Arts degree in Dance, with a focus in performance and choreography. She has been dancing since the age of two, and has trained at multiple studios in Massachusetts, Minnesota, and most recently Texas at Kathy Marfin’s Dance School under the Leading Edge Dance Company. She competed in dance competitions for about 10 years throughout her life at both regional and national competitions, training heavily in ballet, modern, jazz and tap. Along with that, she participated in a pre-professional dance company called Summerge in 2021, performing in the first Semilla festival, and was a member of Merge Dance Company, affiliated with the Texas State Dance Division and university for two years (2021-2023) learning from choreographers Ana Baer, Christa Oliver, Torens Johnson, Francisco Graciano, Brandon Gonzales, Heike Salzer, and Michelle Nance. ​​While in Merge, Reisa not only danced, but served as the social media manager for the 2022-2023 company, promoting the show and the company as a whole. Her most recent accomplishment is choreographing an adjudicated piece titled “Hivemind” that performed at the American College Dance Association (ACDA) Southwest Conference at UT Austin. Before this she choreographed her BFA senior thesis piece titled “Lost in the Crowd,” with a cast of 19 dancers. In the years before these accomplishments she had choreographed three collaborative pieces with Alexzandria Turley at Texas State University, and one with Kamryn Bowling, and also choreographed her debut group piece, “Breezeblock.” She now plans to continue her journey of creating pieces. Reisa hopes to perform for a few years following her graduation from college, and hopes to choreograph professionally as much as possible. Along with her love of performing dance, she also has experience teaching the art form. Reisa has taught at Kathy Marfin’s Dance School with students ages 3-10 years old in ranging styles like ballet, jazz, hip hop and tap. Most recently she received a guest choreography job at The Dance Gallery in Round Rock, Texas choreographing a contemporary piece on their competitive senior company. She has also received her 200 hour Hatha yoga teaching certification under the guidance of Becky Jordan and Misti Galvan to add diversity to her teaching capabilities, which she is currently pursuing at the Thousand Oaks Family YMCA in San Antonio, TX.

Miss. Madelene Hall

Miss. Madelene was born and raised in San Antonio, TX, Madelene has trained in classical ballet for over 20 years along with other variety forms of dance. At the age of 15 she became a senior company member at The San Antonio Metropolitan Ballet. She has danced many featured and ensemble roles to include works by Philip Broomhead, Molly Buchmann and Harrison McEldowney to name a few. She then continued her training at the Quenedit Ballet School along with studying dance at The Northeast School of the Arts High School. Madelene has performed in 6 Regional Dance America/Southwest Festivals and was awarded the Irina Pal Dancer full Scholarship to attend the 2014 National Choreography Intensive in Provo, Utah. In 2014 she was selected as San Antonio’s “Top 20 Under 20” an honor given to those that are working to make a better future for themselves and their community. Shortly thereafter she competed and won 1st place in the City’s Talent competition receiving a scholarship. After graduating, Madelene continued to study dance at the University of California, Irvine as well as the American Musical and Dramatic Academy, Los Angeles, performing in various productions. She has attended intensives including Alonzo King Lines Ballet, Hubbard Street in Chicago, Joffrey Ballet, Los Angeles Contemporary Dance Company and Ballet West. She now continues her passion performing in San Antonio along with teaching inspiring young artists.

Miss. Lillian Johnson

Lillian Johnson is a dance teacher and choreographer from San Antonio, Texas. She has 18 years of dance experience and is a student at the University of Texas at San Antonio studying neuroscience with a minor in dance. She has trained in various dance styles including, ballet, jazz, lyrical, contemporary, hip-hop, and musical theater. Lillian is a veteran teacher with experience working with students ages three through high school.  She has experience as a competitive dancer and was a member of the Stevens HS Sky Dancers and the University of the Incarnate Word dance team. She has been in many productions including, Ballet San Antonio’s The Nutcracker. Lillian has won many awards in dance and is excited to continue teaching the next generation of performers.

Miss. Lizbeth Pomales

Lizbeth has been dancing since she was three years old and has continued with her dance education for over 16 years. With a primary focus in Ballet, Lizbeth trained at Skies Unlimited Dance Academy for 9 years, before moving to San Antonio and joining Stone Oak Dance Academy. She was a studio member for four years and later became a member of the Stone Oak Dance Academy’s competition team for three years, her last year becoming an assistant. Lizbeth has trained in various styles of dance including ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary and hip hop. She also attended numerous conventions and competitions, winning special awards for her solos from the judges, such as a Dancing from the Heart award. Lizbeth first started teaching at Stone Oak Dance Academy in the summer of 2022 and has continued to teach at all age levels in different styles. She is currently a junior at the University of Texas at Austin working towards her Bachelor of Science in Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences and continuing her dance education through her membership in two dance clubs.

Miss. Chloe Quinn

Chloe has been dancing for 15 years trained in Ballet, Tap, Jazz, Contemporary, Acrobatics, Hip Hop, and Lyrical. She competed at many local and national competitions as well as dance conventions. Chloe has been dancing at Stone Oak Dance Academy for 5 years and became an assistant teacher in 2020 and a teacher in 2022. Chloe is an Acrobatic Arts Certified Assistant and Teacher.