Abbie has over 20 years of dance experience. She began dancing at the age of two and has studied a variety of dancing including: tap, jazz, ballet, clogging, hoofing, Irish step, pointe, lyrical, modern and show girl. She competed in our Irish step, jazz and tap teams for five years. Among her many performances, her favorites include: The North Eastern Clogging Convention/Competition in Nashua, New Hampshire, The Miss America parade, the 76'ers game and ten years on the Wildwood boardwalk in the Wildwood Talent Showcase. Abbie attended seven years of summer dance camp at Let's Dance where she earned her Teaching Certificate. With that experience, she has choreographed for numerous pageants, shows, competitions and parades. Abbie graduated Magna Cum Laude, from West Chester University of Pennsylvania with a degree in Special Education and a minor in dance.  While at WCU, Abbie was an active member in the University Dance Company, where she held the position of president during her senior year. She performed in over eight shows with the company including the University's Fall Contemporary Dance Show, and the Spring Dance Production Workshop as well as attended The American College Dance Festival. Abbie is currently a Special Education teacher in Gloucester County. She is happy to be back at Let's Dance and is looking forward to a great year!

Alicia has been dancing since the age of two and continued through college. She has studied various forms of dance including tap ,jazz, ballet, lyrical, modern, and musical theater. Alicia studied under Theresa Lapetina, Bev Brown, and Jay Dash. She was a competitive dancer for over 10 years winning several awards and honors. She completed five summers of teacher training courses through The Jay Dash School of Dance and completed her certificate through Let's Dance Studios. She has completed dance workshops through the University of the Arts and graduated from Gloucester County College.

Colleen has been dancing since the age of four. Her love of dance led her to minor in Speech Theatre and Dance and Glassboro State College (now Rowan University). While in college she performed in the Summer Stock productions. Colleen has been teaching dance since 1985. Her specialty is Irish Step Dancing and is proficient in many other areas of dance as well. Colleen has been a valued member of our teaching staff since 1998.

Jayme Thompson is a graduate of the Southern New Jersey Academy of the Performing Arts, where she studied under the direction of David Kloss. While at the Academy, she studied ballet, modern and jazz. Prior to her high school education in dance, in 1989 Jayme started her dance career at Let's Dance Studio, a place she called her second home. Since leaving Let's Dance Studio to attend school in Pennsylvania, Jayme then transferred back to New Jersey and attended Rowan University where she received a degree in English. Upon graduating, she pursued her studies in special needs and became a Mental Health Therapist with children with autism in Philadelphia. Since then, she was given the opportunity from Let's Dance Studio to teach dance and was able to incorporate her love of musical theatre by choreographing a number from the musical "Chicago." While pursuing her love of working with special needs children, Jayme was able to get a second opportunity to teach at Let's Dance Studio.

Jenn has had formal training in Ballet, Jazz, Modern, Lyrical, Hip-Hop, Irish Step, Tap, Pointe, Ethnic, Character, Contortion, Tango, Flamenco, Acting, Stage Make-up, Musical Theater, Scottish Highland, and Partnering. She has performed throughout the area for over 20 years. Some of her favorite performances are Fayetteville NC Folk Festival, Nutcracker, Visions1 & 2- Soloist in Eclipse, Stars and Stripes, Drums, Tango, Scottish, Midsummer Night's Dream, Tempest, Hamlet, Nativity, Shulah Shenti, Concerto Vivaldi, Fanfare, Smooth, America, Sleeping Beauty, Spring Water Pas De Duex, Atlantic City showcases, Town festivals and community days. Jenn has been teaching dance since 2001. Her goal is to educate students in the proper methods of dance and encourage creativity.

Juliann Christinzie started dancing at Let's Dance Studio at the age of 2 ½. She has studied tap, jazz, lyrical, ballet, pointe, hip-hop, pom, Irish step, clogging, and hoofing and has been teaching at Let's Dance since 2006. She has competed for eight years and is a currently an instructor for our competition teams. She was also on the Performance team for three years where she had the opportunity to dance at the Philadelphia Soul and 76ers games. She has placed and won in regional and national competitions, and has danced at Six Flags Great Adventure for the Make a Wish Foundation and on the Wildwood Talent Showcase for ten years. She is now a Sophomore at Rutgers University and can't wait for another great year!

Kristen has dedicated the past 20+ years to the art of dance. She has studied many forms of dance including ballet, pointe, jazz, lyrical, modern, tap, hip-hop and pom. Kristen spent her youth and high school years training at Dance! By: Debra DiNote. While in college, Kristen was on both the co-ed cheerleading team and dance team at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia. Kristen also danced for the world renowned Towson University Dance Team in Maryland. Over the past decade, Kristen has spent much of her time teaching dance, choreographing, and judging dance and cheerleading competitions at regional, state and national levels. Kristen graduated from the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey with a BS in Business Marketing. This is Kristen's seventh year teaching at LDS and she is very excited to continue to share her love and passion for dance with her students and all the members of the LDS competition teams.

Lindsay Southwick has called Let's Dance Studio her 2nd home for over 20 years. She took her first dance class at the age of 2 ½ and hasn't stopped since. Lindsay has studied ballet, pointe, tap, hoofing, jazz, hip-hop, clogging, Irish Step dance and lyrical as well as taught at Let's Dance Studio for many years after earning her teaching certificate. Lindsay graduated from Temple University in May 2008 with a B.S. in Therapeutic Recreation and is currently working at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia as a Child Life Specialist. During her time at Temple, Lindsay was a member of the Diamond Gems Dance Team for 4 years and was the captain her senior year. She performed at all Temple's home football and basketball games as well as participated in numerous media appearances and performances including CBS3, NBC10, FOX29, WMMR, WYSP, Phillies games and many more. Lindsay brought back a taste of Temple when she originated the popular “pom” class in 2005. Lindsay has also choreographed the hip-hop dances for Washington Twp. High School's dance department's annual shows as well as for the Mr. Washington Twp pageants, WTHS talent shows and musicals, Miss Pitman pageants and various summer theatre productions.

Michele Diegel is a recent graduate from Towson University and holds a B.F.A. in Dance Performance and Education. She has trained in all areas of dance since a young age and continues her training with professionals Linda-Denise Fisher-Harrell and Runqiao Du. Michele has performed original works from Alvin Ailey repertory restaged by Troy Powell; “La Bayadere,” choreographed by Marius Petipa restaged by Runqiao Du; original works by Runqiao DU, and also Vincent Thomas during her four years at Towson University. Michele is excited to continue her passion for teaching with Let's Dance Studio. She truly enjoys enriching the educational lives of students.

Michelle has over 24 years of dance experience, all with Let's Dance. She began taking lessons at the age of two and continued through her first year of college. Michelle has studied a variety of dance including tap, jazz, ballet, clogging, hoofing, showgirl and Irish step and was a member of our Irish step competition team for two years. Over her tenure there have been many memorable performances, including the Miss America parade, the Boscov's Thanksgiving Day parade and nine years on the Wildwood boardwalk for the Wildwood Talent Showcase. Michelle has attended six years of summer dance camp at Let's Dance where she has earned valuable student teaching experience and a Teaching Certificate. She has been teaching tap, jazz and ballet since 2002. Michelle is a graduate of Rowan University, with a degree in Elementary Education.

Nicole has had the passion for dance ever since she was a little girl. She has been dancing for over 15 years. She was in a dance company for 13 of those years where she studied ballet, tap, jazz, lyrical, modern, pointe, and hip hop. She has performed all over including Disney World, Chicago, the Poconos, New York, Philadelphia, and Carnegie Hall. She has attended the Southern New Jersey Academy for the Performing Arts/ Gloucester County Institute of Technology for high school. She was in the dance academy there for all four years. Right now she is a full time student at Rowan University as an Education major.

Noelle developed a love for dance when she was a young child. She started dancing at the age of seven training in ballet, tap, jazz, hip hop, modern, pointe, and lyrical at the Tricia Sloan Dance Centre. Her love for dance led her to the Southern New Jersey Perfoming Arts Academy for high school, where she graduated with a dance certification in 2005. While in high school, she furthered her dance history by performing in the Garden State Dance Festival put on by the Triple Threat Dance Studio. She was accepted into the dance program at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA. During her college experience she worked with teachers who performed with the Paul Taylor Dance Company, Doug Varone and Dancers, Lar Lubrovitch Dance Company, Mark Morris Dance Company and Limon Dance Company. During her last three years in college she choreographed her fellow dancers and dance minors. One of her works was performed on the Millenium Stage at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. Noelle also had the opportunity to perform in several of the faculty pieces that were also seen on the Millenium Stage and White Wave Dance Festival in Brooklyn, NY. When Noelle wasn't studying dance or performing, she was teaching at a local studio called Tiny Dancers where she taught children ages 2-7 yrs old ballet, tap, hip hop, and creative movement. Once she graduated from college in 2009 she was asked to join CityDance Ensmeble2 a company based in Washington, DC where she had the opportunity to perform in VA, MD, DC area and at the White House. In 2010, she was promoted to a full time company member of CityDance Ensemble where again she had the opportunity to perform in the VA, MD, DC area. She also performed on tour in dances by Paul Gordon Emerson, Christopher K. Morgan, Paul Taylor, etc. in Russia, Africa, and Peru. Now that the company has come to an end, Noelle finds herself back in New Jersey, and back to her love for teaching. She is looking forward to an exciting year and joining the Let's Dance family.

Rhonda has had gymnastics, dance, diving and many other sports and activities in her life since she was a little girl. She started gymnastics classes at the age of 4 at Glassboro State College. After a few years of classes Rhonda joined the team at Atlantic Coast gymnastics at 8 years old. She started competing at level 5 and continued up through level 8. At 9 years old she joined the Let's Dance Studio family taking various classes including tap, jazz, ballet, showgirl and the competition jazz team. Rhonda has taught acro/tumbling classes for Let's Dance in previous years and now brings her daughter here for classes.

Rhonda began teaching gymnastics classes for Glassboro Park and Recreation at age 15 and began student teaching with pre-school, recreational classes and coaching the team at Atlantic Coast gymnastics. She also had experience in diving while dancing and competing in gymnastics. From age 10 through 16 Rhonda competed on the USA diving team for Brookside Swim Club every summer. Gymnastics is and always will be a great passion of Rhonda's and she can't wait to share it with your children!