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. Most recently she owned and operated her own successful studio in New Jersey.

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.

Mr. Brandon grew up dancing in Toledo, Ohio. He started dancing at the age of 5 he began competitively dancing at the age of 7. He trained and competed in all styles, such as Hip Hop, Tap, Jazz, Contemporary, Lyrical, and Ballet. Throughout the time he has performed in numerous shows, plays, half time performances, and shows within the community of Toledo. After graduation, Brandon moved to New York, and trained with Alvin Ailey for a year where he furthered his skills and training. After that moved back to Ohio and began his professional career in choreography and teaching as an instructor in his home studio, choreographing award winning-group pieces, solos, duets, and productions, in all genres. Moving to San Antonio in 2021 he has been continuing his teaching and choreography with DKD for the past 3 years and head choreographer for 2 years, has many award-winning pieces, and has seen the major growth with the dancers during his time there. And now, SUPER EXCITED to join Stone Oak Dance Academy and be a part of this amazing team/family! He will be teaching Hip Hop Level 5 & 6, Tap Level 8, & Middle School Dance Team Skills.

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.

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.

Gianna Galdeano is a San Antonio native, and has been training in dance for over 12 years, along with receiving many amazing performance opportunities. Gianna has trained in genres such as Pom, contemporary, jazz, and hip hop. Being a part of the Northwest Vista College Dance Respiratory Ensemble, along with being a student choreographer in Spring 2024 for NVC, and receiving an associate degree in Art, has helped Gianna become the working choreographer she is today. Other opportunities that Gianna has upheld include attending the ACDA Dance Conference in 2024, and being on Countdown Studio’s All Female Performance Team in 2023, where she has performed in videos for media, and the World of Dance competition in Houston. Gianna is also apart of Moonlight Dance Entertainment where she has gone on tour as a backup dancer for Latin entertainer Mario Aguilar. Gianna continues to train as a professional dancer, and has trained with well known choreographers such as Dana Alexa (San Antonio Spurs Hype Squad Director) and Dakayla Wilson (Season 18 Runner Up for So You Think You Can Dance). Gianna has also received an opportunity to become a part of The Business of Dance Mentorship Program by Menina Fortunado, which helps dancers and performers build a successful career in the field of entertainment. 

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.