Faculty

We are thrilled to welcome Miss Adrienne back for her fourth season with us! A graduate of the Victoria School of Performing Arts, Miss Adrienne discovered her passion for dance and cheerleading in her teen years. She brings a wealth of experience, having coached junior high cheerleading and competed in international competitions in the United States, Mexico, and Australia. Additionally, she is the longest-standing member of the Edmonton Oilers’ performance dance team, The Oilers Octane, and spent three seasons with the Edmonton Eskimos’ Energy Team. Recently Miss Adrienne completed her Junior Teacher Certification Course with the Acro Dance Teachers Association and is now recognized as a fully qualified Premiere Certified ADTA Instructor. Miss Adrienne is very excited to continue her certification and is currently working on her Premiere Professional Certification Course.

Miss Jayden-Ann has danced at the Pirouette School of Dance since she was three years and was a competitive team member since she was seven. She has completed her Grade 5 RAD and Intermediate Ballet exams and ADAPT Intermediate 2 Jazz exam. She completed her first year of ADAPT training and is currently working on her second year of training. Throughout her dance career, Miss Jayden-Ann has won several outstanding and placement awards as well as convention scholarships, where she has been fortunate enough to learn from some of the top choreographers in the dance industry. As an instructor, she has won many awards as a choreographer. Miss Jayden-Ann looks forward to continuing to do what she loves in the form of teaching and getting to work with Pirouette’s remarkable dancers.

Miss Laura was born in Calgary, AB where she started dancing at the age of 2 with One Step Ahead. When she was 11, she transitioned her dance career to the School of Alberta Ballet training in Ballet, Pointe, Character Ballet, and Modern/Contemporary. She pursued her love of Tap, Jazz, and Lyrical with Premiere Dance Academy, competing across southern Alberta in all 3 genres.

Miss Laura performed as part of the children’s cast for multiple seasons in Alberta Ballet’s production of The Nutcracker (choreographed by Edmund Stripe) and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (choreographed by Wendy Wright). Her love of dance took her across Canada and the US, training in summer intensives at Royal Winnipeg Ballet School, Boston Ballet School, and Joffrey Jazz and Contemporary in Miami and New York.

As an adult, her passion for dance continued partaking in Adult Tap, Hip Hop, and Ballet classes with Decidedly Jazz Danceworks in Calgary, AB. In the last year, she moved up to Cold Lake, AB where she danced in the Adult Ballet and Dance Fusion classes with Pirouette.

Miss Laura is thrilled at the opportunity to share her love of dance with the young and upcoming dancers at Pirouette for the second year!

Miss Ava began dancing under world champion Nancy (Haggerty) Gibbons and Stacy Gomuwka at age 5. She has competed at all levels of dance for 15 years, and travelled to many Highland Games and championships all over Canada. 

Miss Ava took over Whitecourt Highland Dance Studio in 2018 and proudly became an associate in British Association Teachers of Dancing in 2019. 

Miss Ava performed with the Okanagan Military Tattoo dance team, Simon Fraser University Pipe Band and qualified twice for the Sadie Simpson North American Scholarship. She performed in Travel Alberta commercials in Jasper and took annual lessons from 7 time world champion David Wilton. 

Miss Ava is working towards performing in the Edinburgh Military Tattoo in Scotland and is continuing to compete in the provincial and national championships in order to compete at world championships in Cowal Scotland. 

Miss Ava is looking forward to teaching your children highland dance!