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 Jenelle started dancing at the age of 2 and has been in love with it ever since. She joined competitive team dance at one of the most successful studios in Northern B.C. at the age of 6 where she was expected to compete in all disciplines of Jazz, Tap, Ballet, Lyrical, Hip Hop, Musical Theatre, Variety, and Contemporary. At the age of 12 she started assisting classes and at the age of 16 took on solo teaching while completing the highest level of CDTA training in Jazz and Tap and RAD training in ballet by graduation. Miss Jenelle was invited to teach at competitive studios, continued to take conventions and work with world wide choreographers while achieving a degree in Education and Kinesiology. Miss Jenelle first joined the Pirouette family from 2010 to 2014 and obtained several Choreography, Most Promising, and Most Outstanding awards with the competitive teams. While starting and raising a family, Miss Jenelle continued to teach and choreograph all over Canada adding ballroom to her list of choreography genres. We are very excited that in 2023, Jenelle returned to the Pirouette family and is adding ADAPT training to her list of qualifications!

Mrs. Bailey’s experience with Musical Theatre extends back a lifetime of developing a passion for all things in the arts and entertainment. After gaining instruction and experience in various forms of dance and acting in her youth, she acquired a Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in music specializing in voice, as well as Bachelors of Fine Arts and Education degrees majoring in Drama.

Since living in Cold Lake for almost 20 years, she has directed multiple school productions including choreography and music direction for Once Upon a Mattress, Fiddler on the Roof, Music Man, Into the Woods, and Annie, as well as Nunsense and Let Me Entertain You for The Grande Parlour. She also previously spent several years teaching Musical Theatre at Pirouette School of Dance and is looking forward to returning for more adventures in teaching students the art of singing, acting, and dancing!

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!

Miss Abigail (Abbie) was born in Cold Lake, AB. She started dancing at the age of 2 at the Pirouette School of Dance. Miss Abbie has also been dancing competitively since the age of 7 and has won numerous awards for her teams, solos, and duets. One of her proudest accomplishments is winning 1st place at the Crystal Grand Championships in Kelowna in 2022 for her Contemporary solo.

Miss Abbie’s passions for dance are Jazz, Contemporary, Acro, and Hip Hop but has done it all (except Tap). This upcoming competition year, she will be competing with the Senior Jazz, Contemporary, and Acro teams and with an Acro duet, Contemporary solo, and Hip-Hop solo. Miss Abbie has completed her Pre Int 1 ADAPT exam.

Miss Abbie has attended multiple dance intensives and in 2019, Miss Abbie received the extreme honor of playing the lead, alongside her brother, in The Nutcracker production with the St. Paul & District Arts Foundation.

Miss Abbie was a teacher assistant for two years and now, at the age of 15, is excited to start her dance teaching career. Miss Abbie loves working with children and sharing her passion for dance with the up-and-coming little dancers. Dance fostered her confidence and she loves when she sees others come out of their shell through dance. She can’t wait to meet all her students and have a FUN dance year!

Miss Zoe started dancing at Pirouette School of Dance at the age of 2. She enjoys every style of dance and is currently taking Acro, Ballet, Contemporary, Jazz, Lyrical and Tap classes. She is completed several RAD and ADAPT exams and is working on completing her RAD Grade 5 and Intermediate levels as well as her ADAPT Pre Inter 3 Jazz and Pre Inter 2 Tap.

Miss Zoe has been dancing competitively since she was 7 and has been on several award winning teams as well as receiving awards for her solos and duets.

Miss Zoe has been a Teacher’s Assistant for the past several years and is excited for this opportunity to teach and share her love of dance with Pirouette’s younger dancers in Creative Movement and Tap.