Faculty / Choreographers

Meet our amazing, award-winning faculty.

Kailin Metz

Instructor / Choreographer

Kailin teaches ballet, technique, and contemporary at Gotta Dance. Kailin is one of our contemporary choreographers for our competition team​.

Mikaylah Harp

Instructor / Choreographer

Mikaylah teaches ballet, jazz, contemporary, and hip hop at Gotta Dance. Mikaylah has choreographed contemporary and jazz routines for our competition team​

Tarin Chistopher

Instructor / Choreographer

Tarin is one of our amazing instructor/choreographers, he teaches all levels of dance here at Gotta Dance Co. 

Hunter Bean

Instructor

Hunter is a Gotta Dance alumni. She graduated in 2016, and has been teaching at Gotta Dance since she graduated.

Jennifer Thomas

Choreographer

Jen teaches technique and contemporary at Gotta Dance. She also runs our Pom clinics over the summer. Jen is one of our lyrical choreographers for our competition team.​

Katie Smith

Instructor

Katie teaches ballet, pointe, and ballroom at Gotta Dance. ​

Brigid Benson

Instructor / Choreographer

Brigid is a versatile performer, teacher, and choreographer originally from Phoenix, Arizona. She has trained under some of the best choreographers in Arizona such as Dana Metz, Jaci Royal, Natasha Louis, and Ricky Maalouf. Brigid teaches jazz, technique, and contemporary here at Gotta Dance Co.

Scarlett Conley

Instructor

Scarlett Conley began dancing when she was two years old and is trained in jazz, ballet, contemporary, tap, and hip hop, as well as pom. She has been trained by many amazing teachers such as Slavormir Wozniak, David Garcia, Kaitlyn Conley, Dana Metz, Kelsey Metz, and Natasha Louis. Scarlett competed on varsity pom all 4 years of high school and graduated from Horizon High School in 2017. She is now attending Arizona State University.

Bailey Richardson

Instructor / Choreographer

Bailey is a Gotta Dance alumni that graduated in 2017. She has been training at GDC since she was five, danced competitively for 13 years, and competed on the Mountain Ridge varsity pom squad all 4 years of high school, Bailey has been an instructional assistant and has assisted with choreography for the last five years. We are so excited that she has decided to come back and teach for us this year.​

Ty Brown

Choreographer

Ty is one of our amazing choreographers here at Gotta Dance Company. He has been choreographing dances for us for the past several years.​

Makenna Madden

Instructor / Choreographer

Makenna is a Gotta Dance alumni. She graduated in 2015, and went to dance as an aerialist for Royal Caribbean cruise line. Makenna teaches and choreographs dances for us when she is not performing while cruising the world.

All Boys Hip Hop Crew

Instructors

Our All Boys Hip Hop Crew staff consists of the dancers and choreographers of All The Kings Men an all male hip hop crew in the valley.

Guest Faculty / Choreographers

Several amazing guest choreographers and master class instructors visit Gotta Dance every year. Choreographers such as Ricky Maalouf, Alyssa Johnson, Nikole Thomas, Krista Barker, Kaitlyn Conley, and Kesley Metz have all done work for us this year.  We also have several amazing guest / master instructors visit our studio. This year we have had the opportunity to work with Intense Dancers Project, Ricky Maalouf, Alyssa Johnson, Angelica DeWitt, and Jason Gorman.