meet our staff

Premier Directors

Miss Vicki

Program Director

Miss Angie

Competition Director

Miss Shannon

Ninja Kidz Operations/
Recital Director

Miss Debbie

Customer Experience

Director

Miss Pam

Dance Scheduling Director

Miss Dena

Operations/HR/

Marketing Director

Miss Vicki

Program Director

Miss Angie

Competition Director

Miss Shannon

Recital Director

Miss Debbie

Tumbling Director

Miss Pam

Dance Scheduling Director

Miss Dena

Operations/HR/Marketing Director

Miss Kitrina

Accounts/Billing Director

Miss Lindy

Enrollment/Front Desk Director

Miss Katelyn

Tumbling Director

Premier Admin

Miss Brittany

Twinkle Star Coordinator

Coach Parker

Ninja Kidz Program Director

Miss Laurie

Front Desk

Miss Shari

Ninja Kidz Front Desk Coordinator

Premier Coaches

Miss Shannon

Miss Shannon has been dancing and tumbling since the age of 3. She grew up competing in both dance and cheerleading, and also did gymnastics. She has studied dance and tumbling for over 20 years and continues her education and training at conventions and conferences across the US. She began teaching at the age of 10 and continues her passion in helping kids learn and grow. She attended the University of Cincinnati while working full time at Premier and graduated with a degree in Business Administration and Marketing. She now uses her degree in her new found passion of running and growing the business and doing more administrative work for the studio.

Miss Angie

Miss Angie has been dancing and tumbling since the age of 3. She grew up dancing and competing in dance, gymnastics and cheerleading. She has studied dance and tumbling for over 25 years and continues to learn and train at conventions and classes around the US. She began teaching at age 11 and has found her passion in helping each kid learn and grow. She attended the University of Cincinnati where she was a part of the National and World Champion Dance Team. She continued to teach during college and graduated in 2012 with a Degree in Business Administration and Marketing. She uses her degree to help run the business, but her true passion is being in the classroom teaching and watching all of her students grow.

Miss Karla

Miss Karla is married and has 2 sons. She resides in the Cincinnati area. She joined Premier Tumbling & Dance in 2010 after moving back to Cincinnati from Phoenix, Arizona. During her 15 years in Arizona, she was involved in many facets of the tumbling, cheer and fitness industry. Karla was a tumbling and cheer instructor during this time at Desert Tumbling and directed many after school programs in the Arizona area. Karla was a head instructor for NCA (National Cheer Association) for 20 seasons and a Competition Coordinator for them.

Karla works as a clinical supervisor for a family practice in Milford. She is an assistant coach for her sons U18 travel hockey team and has worked with the Cincinnati Cyclones for 8 years. Karla’s knowledge brings many talents, skills
and ideas to Premier Tumbling and Dance.

Miss Arin

Miss Arin has danced since the age of 3 and taught since 2008, allowing her to both experience and witness the positive impact dance can have on children. As a trained child therapist, she always tries to center her classes around self-esteem and team building. This ultimately allows her students to be more receptive to feedback and open to trying new things. She has worked with many organizations on bringing movement and the importance of mind-body connections to diverse populations, including: The Cincinnati Ballet - Ballet Moves Program, Boys and Girls Club, Fernside - A Center for Grieving Children, and The Cincinnati Academy of Performing Arts. Most recently, her role at Premier has been to build the Creative Movement curriculum. Creative Movement is a specific class for children with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities, where we are dedicated to creating a space for students to safely explore movement. Starting this class directly contributes to our mission of making dance accessible for everyone!

Miss Kelly

Miss Kelly's passion for dance began at age three. She then started competing a few years later where she won numerous awards for choreography, technique, artistry, and multiple national titles.

She is trained in jazz, lyrical, contemporary, tap, acro, ballet, pointe, heels, hip hop and jazz funk. After competing, Kelly went on to be covered on "So You Think You Can Dance" S12 and S13 where she made it very far in the second season. This national notoriety led to opportunities to teach dance and choreography at workshops and conventions across the country. Kelly has been a teacher for 13 years, with the last nine at Premier Tumbling and Dance. She continues to inspire younger generations to follow their own dreams in the world of dance.

Coach Steve

Coach Steve grew up in Kettering, Ohio and joined TWIGS at 5 years old. In second grade, he became the youngest member of the Acro and Tumbling team at Spring Valley academy. He traveled and performed with the team until sixth grade. Steve moved to California in 1986 where he became part of the gymnastics team at Loma Linda Academy. He then went on to high school and participated on the team for the next four years. This is where he got his start in teaching gymnastics to fellow students and being a part of creating acro routines for the team. Steve moved back to Ohio in 2013 with his wife and four children. They reside in Loveland and he quickly found Premier and rekindled his love for teaching with us in 2014. Steve brings a vast amount of knowledge and experience to the students of Premier. Steve is a valued employee and we love having him as part of the
Premier family.

Miss Brittany

Miss Brittany has been dancing since the age of three and has been a part of the Premier family since the age of 13. She danced competitively for twelve years in all different styles of dance and was given the opportunity to be a part of the travel team at Premier her senior year of high school. This opportunity allowed her to learn from some of the best choreographers and dancers in the country. She has been assisting dance classes since the age of twelve and has been working as a coach since 2017.

Brittany has a degree in psychology from the University of Cincinnati and has spent time working with children with autism as a registered behavior technician. She uses her experiences and passion for dance to teach kids of all ages and abilities.

Miss Amanda

Miss Amanda has been dancing for 27 years. She trained and competed with a variety of local studios all over the country until she graduated high school, and continued her dance career as her university’s dance team captain and dance teacher

while she pursued her degree in Social Work. While pursuing her career in social services, Amanda found that her love for dance and coaching outweighed any other passion or career. That’s when she found her second home at Premier Studio forDance, and hasn’t looked back since. Amanda loves being a part of the “Premier Family” and cannot wait to continue to share her love for dance with your children.

Miss Jillian

Miss Jillian has been dancing for over 15 years. She grew up as a competitive dancer receiving multiple national titles and awards. She is trained in numerous styles including; ballet, lyrical/contemporary, jazz, tap, musical theatre, and acro. She continued her education receiving a BFA in Dance from Wright State University, in addition she has received numerous teaching certifications from Acrobatic Arts. She recently has had the opportunity to backup dance in music videos, has done industrial work/stand in work for artists, been seen on ads for Brooks Running shoes, and has been in many commercials! On top of working professionally, and teaching/choreographing, Jillian enjoys expanding her dance base by training in aerial silks.

Miss Blake

A Cincinnati native, Miss Blake began her journey in dance at age two. She trained with multiple studios across the city, including Cincinnati Ballet and Patty Pille's School of Dance, where she explored styles such as ballet, modern, lyrical, contemporary, hip hop, and jazz. She also competed in Trampoline & Tumbling with Kids First Sports Center for nine years. After graduating from high school, Blake attended Kenyon College where she pursued a Bachelor of Arts in both Dance and Political Science. While at Kenyon, she received the opportunity to study abroad at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. During her time abroad, she trained and performed with both the University's gymnastics team and modern dance society. Upon completing her undergraduate degree in 2020, Blake moved back to Cincinnati to begin a full time role with United Performance Metals. She was also delighted to begin teaching with Premier during this time. Blake is thrilled that she gets to share her passion for dance and movement with kids of all ages.

Miss Jessica

Miss Jessica began dancing at the age of 4, and received training in ballet, jazz, and modern at Metropolitan Ballet Theatre and Academy in Gaithersburg, MD. After deciding to pursue dance as a career, she also spent summers at The Washington Ballet School, Charlotte Ballet, and Nashville Ballet School. She graduated Cum Laude from the University of Cincinnati in 2018 with a Bachelors of Fine Arts in ballet and a minor in Business Administration. She has performed in numerous classical ballets including Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, Giselle, Paquita, Les Slyphides, and the Nutcracker, as well numerous modern and contemporary works by David Hochoy, Jose Limon, Alonzo King, and Andre Megerdician among others. She is currently a company member at De La Dance Company. Jessica is also an experienced pointe shoe fitter working at Diana's Dancewear, and enjoys both performing with local artists and, of course, teaching at Premier.

Miss Katelyn

Kate is from Loveland Ohio where she was raised and spent her entire childhood.
Starting at the age of 3, she was very much invested in the world of cheer and tumbling. She spent her life from the age of 3 up until her freshman year of college cheering sideline and competitive cheer, and tumbling and stunting. She won multiple all American Awards and was on varsity all four years of high school, where she also served as captain. She spent a lot of these years as she got older coaching girls just like her that wanted to be as much involved in cheer and tumble as she did.
She graduated from Loveland High School in 2010 and went off to college at UC and ended up graduating as an RN from Galen College of Nursing. She spent many years working as an RN on the transplant floor at UC. Her knowledge and background as a nurse spills over into her passion for tumbling as she uses her knowledge of injury prevention within classes and is very well versed in high stress situations.
In 2018 she had her first daughter Ryleigh. After having her first daughter, she realized she wanted to be home more during the day raising her kids, and decided to step away from the medical world. At this point in time, she felt a huge nudge and passion to rejoin the world of cheer and tumble. Kate has a combined 15 plus years experience in coaching tumbling and cheer and says that she feels like she has found her passion and loves every second of it. Kate had her second daughter Oakley in 2022.
She has lots of experience coaching kids from tot age to senior level kids of all levels of tumbling.

Miss Megan

Miss Megan is a senior social work major and dance minor at Miami University. She is currently completing her internship with Hamilton County and hopes to work in child protective services. Megan has been dancing since the age of four; she competed for three years and went to Butler Tech for dance during high school. When she's not dancing or working on schoolwork, she enjoys spending time with her family and two dogs.

Miss Jenna

Miss Jenna started dancing at Premier at the age of twelve and danced competitively throughout middle and high school. She began assisting classes at fifteen teaching classes at the age of eighteen. Jenna is currently a full time student at Southern New Hampshire University. Jenna is excited to continue her journey at Premier and share her

love and passion for dance with kids of all ages.

Miss Alison

Miss Alison graduated from New York University with her master’s degree in dance education: ABT® Ballet Pedagogy. Alison's performing career has taken her all across the world from New York City to Japan. Her broad range of experience includes concert dance, television, theme parks, musical theatre, and international touring companies. Alison has taught, choreographed, and adjudicated significantly for over two decades throughout the United States and Canada. She is an ABT® Certified Teacher, who has successfully completed the ABT® Teacher Training Intensive in Pre-Primary through Level 7 and Partnering of the ABT® National Training Curriculum. She is also an Acrobatics Arts Certified Teacher through Level 6. Her dancers have been accepted into many prestigious collegiate dance programs, such as USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance, PACE University, Chapman University and NYU Tisch School of the Arts, to name a few. Others have gone on to dance with Beyoncé, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Ballet Idaho, Nashville Ballet, Dana Foglia Dance, as well as with numerous other companies and artists.

Miss Kenzie

Miss Kenzie has been dancing since she was three years old. She started training right here at Premier when she was eight and continued till she graduated. At Premier, she took all styles of dance and she was a part of the first group to become a Travel Team. She traveled to many places like California, New York and Las Vegas to learn from choreographers all over the world and received many scholarships. After graduation, she made the world and national champion University of Cincinnati Dance Team where she got to experience a different side of dance competing for UDA!

After some time off, focusing on her career, she then got an opportunity to professionally dance in Mexico doing multiple shows each night and learning all new styles of Latin dance, to push her out of her comfort zone to master the art of dance. Kenzie has been teaching off and on and choreographing right back at the studio that taught her everything she knows... Premier! She loves to push each and every student out of their comfort zones as well to reach all their goals and become confident young dancers!

Miss McKenzy

Miss McKenzy joined Premier in 2023 and has been a passionate member of the team ever since. Her journey in gymnastics began at the age of 3, when she first discovered her love for tumbling. From ages 6 to 8 years, she participated in competitive acro. McKenzy continued to tumble until the age of 14, honing in her abilities and deepening her passion for gymnastics along the way. With her experience and enthusiasm, she continues to inspire those around her at Premier!

Miss Kelley

Miss Kelley is a Florida native but not a stranger to the Cincinnati area. Miss Kelley has been a professional dancer, singer and award-winning choreographer since the age of 15. Her resume is filled with many highlights such as the National Tour of CATS, NFL cheerleader/choreographer (Jacksonville Jaguars), competition judge and dance studio owner. She has an extensive background is musical theater and competition choreography along with numerous certificates in dance technique and training.

Miss Jess

Coach Seth

Miss Cierra

Miss Cierra grew up both dancing and tumbling. She graduated from Lakota West High School and is currently a student at University of Minnesota Twin Cities studying Biochemistry. She loves reading, scrapbooking and riding her horse.

Coach Parker

With 17 years of experience in martial arts and tumbling, Parker has developed a deep passion for coaching and inspiring young athletes. For the past three years, Parker has focused on teaching ninja skills, and is ready to bring his passion to Premier Ninja Kidz as the Program Director and Lead Coach of all Premier Ninjas and as a tumbling coach. Known for his energy, creativity and dedication, he brings a fun and supportive atmosphere to each class he teaches, helping kids build confidence, improve their skills and develop a lifelong love for fitness. Fueled by his commitment to coaching, Parker is driven to inspire the next generation of athletes, guiding them as they grow both physically and personally. Premier Ninja Kidz & Premier Tumbling are lucky to have Parker leading our young athletes to success!

Coach Isaac

Coach Isaac is a dedicated children's fitness instructor with a passion for promoting health, well-being, and an active lifestyle in young people. With years of experience working with children of all ages, Isaac specializes in creating fun, engaging, and age-appropriate fitness programs that help kids build strength, coordination, and confidence. Isaac understands the unique physical and developmental needs of children. Whether leading energetic group classes, one-on-one sessions, or outdoor activities, Isaac strives to make fitness exciting and accessible, while emphasizing teamwork, discipline, and positive attitudes toward exercise. In addition to teaching fitness, Isaac is a strong advocate for the mental and emotional benefits of staying active. Through encouraging words and personalized support, Isaac fosters a love for movement, helping children build lifelong habits of health and fitness.

Miss Lexi

Miss Addy

Miss Allie

Testimonials

My daughter loves Tumble Tots and talks about it all week. Her favorite part of the class is jumping in the foam pit at the end. It's been amazing watching her confidence grow week over week. Her teachers are nice and encouraging. I highly recommend it for your little one.

Andy G

If you are reading these reviews because you are trying to decide if you should try out Premier, do it! The ballet class for my 4 year old brings tears to my eyes. It is beautiful, absolutely adorable, and such an amazing experience for my daughter and also for me to watch.

Erin H

ADDRESS

523 Loveland Madeira Rd., Loveland OH 45140

(Tumbling & Dance)

679 Loveland Madeira Rd., Loveland, OH 45140 (Ninja Kidz)

Monday – Thursday : 9:00am – 08:00pm

Friday: 9:00am – 7:00pm

Saturday: 9:15am – 12:00pm

Sunday : Closed

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