Mrs. Nola, Owner - Artistic Director & Master Instructor
*Ballet - Tap - *Jazz/Modern/Contemporary -Musical Theater - Hip Hop - *Aerial Silks/Acrobatics
Fluid Motion Dance Academy provides the highest quality dance training and that begins with our founder. Mrs. Nola began her dance, gymnastics, and tumbling journey at the age of 2 years old, where she trained and competed in dance at an elite level from the age of 5 to 17, earning many scholarships, titles, and awards. She danced on her highschool dance team and competed with a studio all while graduating high school an entire year early at the age of 17. After that, she went on to College where she further her training and received her BFA with an emphasis in ballet from Webster University. Further, Mrs. Nola also spent time at the University of Missouri Kansas City in their Dance program while also being on the competitive D1 Dance Team. Mrs. Nola had the opportunity to train under many well known choreographers and artists, including the current artistic director, Alicia Graf Mack, of The Juilliard School of Dance & Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Michael Uthoff & Ronald Tice of the Joffery Ballet, to name just a few. Mrs.Nola also spent a year at the University of Missouri Kansas City where she was able to train and perform works by Gary Abbott and Ronald Tice. Upon returning to Webster University, she has had the opportunity to perform the original ballet by Anthony Tudor and other classic repertoire. Shortly thereafter graduating with honors, she had the opportunity to dance professionally with the Common Thread Contemporary Ballet, under the artistic director, Jennifer Medina for 2 seasons. She began to teach and choreograph while in college and since then has won many awards for outstanding choreography and best concept, to name a few.
Above all, Mrs.Nola is highly skilled in several disciplines, which gives her a unique skill set when it comes to providing Dance, Acrobatic, & Aerial Silks instruction. Her dedication to dance, acrobatics and aerial arts spans over the past 27 years has given her the opportunity to train and teach a variety of styles and skill levels. Just a sampling of these being: ballet, pointe, jazz, hip hop, acrobatics, Ariel, contemporary, and modern (Horton & Graham). Mrs. Nola is focused on dedicating her life’s work to teaching dance to all ages, and helping students to take on life confidently both on and off the dance floor. Mrs. Nola has further her ballet training with The Cecchetti Council of America and is a certified member in Primary grades 1-3 through Elementary grades 1 and 2. She is currently working on Grades 3 and 4 and plans to go through a full diploma to be a formal examiner one day. Her favorite style is hard to name, but if she had to choose, she would narrow it to the order; Ballet, Contemporary,and Acro/Aerial Arts, Musical Theater, Jazz, Hip Hop, Tap. Mrs. Nola would say she has a massive appreciation and love for all dance!