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Meet the team: Staff H - P

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Ashley Hartley

Ashley Hartley has taught Jazz, Ballet and HipHop since 2005. She has enjoyed dancing since the age of 13 and particularly loves Ballet, Jazz, Modern and HipHop. Ashley has danced with the Elite Dancers for two years and toured in Europe during Summer 2008. As a teenager, she participated with other local competition dance teams, including the Fusion College Dance Team, which won first place at National competitions in 2007. In addition to juggling work, dance classes, Elite rehearsals, and church, Ashley is also a student at California State University Fresno, where she is earning a kinesiology and exercise science degree with a minor in deaf studies.

Andiee Hodges

Andiee teaches HipHop, Jazz, Tap and Pep/Cheer at The Dance Studio of Fresno and she is a Director of our Mini and Junior Pep/Cheer Teams. She has studied gymnastics, jazz, ballet, tap and hiphop since 1980. Andiee has taught throughout Fresno, Oakhurst, Tulare, and Visalia since 1988. Career highlights include:

Choreography awards include Best Choreography, Most Original, and Most Entertaining at Company Dance, Star Bound, and KAR.

Pep/Cheer Teams placed second and third at JAMZ, Las Vegas 2003.

Scholarships to the Summer Program at The Edge in Los Angeles.

Performed throughout California and most notably at Disneyland.

Kasey Jepsen

Kasey has been in love with dance since the age of five. She has studied all areas of dance, but found a special love for Tap, having trained at The Dance Studio of Fresno, as well as with leading tap masters from all over the United States. In 2007, Kasey performed and competed with the Senior Elite Tap Team; and in 2008, she was invited to attend Tap Kids in New York City, an elite intensive workshop of master classes hosted by some of the country’s most established tap masters. Kasey has taught numerous classes at The Dance Studio of Fresno since 2007. She is currently attending college at CSUF, majoring in Kinesiology and Exercise Science.

Stacy began training in 1979 and studied Ballet, Tap, Jazz and Gymnastics at The Dance Studio of Fresno. Since then, she served as a song leading instructor for five years with the United Spirit Association; danced with the Fresno Jazz Company, and was a member of the 49er Gold Rush Cheerleaders. Stacy has coached and choreographed for various high school and college Pep/Cheer programs, including Buchanan, Fresno City College and San Joaquin Memorial. She is a graduate of California State University Fresno with a Bachelors Degree in Health Science with an emphasis in Community Health. Stacy currently teaches Pep/Cheer and Jazz at The Dance Studio of Fresno.

Cynthia Jones

Cynthia began taking dance classes when she was 8 years old. She has studied tap, ballet, jazz and tumbling. She continues taking adult classes at The Dance Studio of Fresno, and teaches Play Groups, Power Play, Toddler, Jazz/Gym, and Tap/Ballet to children ranging in age from 6 months to 6 years.

Career highlights include:

Teacher at The Dance Studio of Fresno (1996 to present). Graduated from San Diego State with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business with an emphasis in Marketing (1989). Joined the Elite Dance Team in 1982 and participated in numerous dance competitions in Los Angeles and Las Vegas. During high school years, taught dance in Fresno, Clovis, and Kingsburg, California.

In addition to taking and teaching a variety of dance classes each week, Cynthia enjoys spending time with her family. Married since 1994, she and her husband have three children: Cassidy (7 years old), Nicole (4 years old) and Miranda (2 years old). She also enjoys scrapbooking activies and shopping.

Diane Rustigan-Muller

Diane started dancing as a small child in 1976, and during her youth became an Assistant Dance Instructor at Beverly Hills High School, as well as Head Pep/Cheer Coach. She has danced in a variety of Southern California venues, including the Anniversary Performance of the Quantum Leap television show, and the production party for The Simpsons 100^th episode. Diane has choreographed various fashion shows in the Los Angeles area, as well as an MTV video for singer Criselda Volks. Diane joined our teaching staff the The Dance Studio of Fresno in 2004 and teaches a variety of children’s combination classes.

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