Studio Owner
& Director
Brianna Waite
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Brianna Waite started her dance training at the age of 10 at her home studio in Northern California. She primarily trained in Tap, Jazz, Ballet, Pointe, Lyrical, Contemporary, Hip Hop, and Acrobatics. She was accepted into the Studio C Dance Academy traveling competition company at age 10 and each year after until she graduated high school. Brianna and her team competed in several dance conventions and competed in over 30 competitions including: NUVO, JUMP, Nexstar, Legacy, Showstopper, Rainbow, Pulse, Kids Artistic Review, West Coast Dance Explosion, CO Dance, LA Elite, and more. Brianna won convention scholarships and numerous awards at several National dance competitions. While on the traveling dance company she had the opportunity to participate in master classes with Emmy award winning choreographers including Travis Wall, Mia Michaels, Sonya Tayeh, Dimitry Chaplin from Dancing with the Stars, and So You Think You Can Dance winner Melanie Moore, and others. Brianna has also participated in over 40 holiday performances while attending her home studio including performing solos, and was their Prima Ballerina.
Brianna attended Brigham Young University Idaho with 2 talent scholarships and an award of excellence. She graduated with a Bachelor's Degree of Science in University Studies with a Dance and Performing Arts minor and four emphasis in dance. While attending BYU-Idaho Brianna expanded her dance training in Modern, Ballroom, International Latin, Folk, Choreography, Improvisation, Partnering, Country Western, Clogging, Irish soft and hard shoe, Russian, World Dance, and musical theater. While attending BYU-Idaho Brianna danced with BYU-Idaho Collegiate Dancers and also was a member of the BYU-Idaho Dance Alliance touring team and performed in Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, South Dakota, and Idaho. Brianna Danced in specialty dances and Senior Choreographer’s Showcases at BYU-Idaho and had a special opportunity to perform in the BYU-Idaho Christmas production show dancing with The King's Men. Brianna played a lead roll in the dance and musical production CATS her senior year at BYU-Idaho wanting to expand in all areas of theater arts. Brianna started her teaching career at the age of 16 and knew then, that she wanted to have her own dance studio. Brianna taught at Mack Lyon Middle School in Overton, Nevada as the LMS dance team coach for 2 years.
Brianna wants to share her love and knowledge of dance to all those who have a desire and willingness to learn. Dance has always been air to her and having the opportunity to teach dance at the middle school only inspires her desire to teach her students and future students how fun and rewarding dance can truly be.
Email: brianna.studiob@gmail.com
Whitney Stucki
Whitney was born and raised in Davis County, Utah. Her love of dance began at the age of 4 with Virginia Tanner Dance at the University of Utah. At 9yrs old her family moved to Centerville which was a big change! There she met some amazing friends who introduced her to clogging. It was not long after, she joined Shaw Dance Studios.
There she learned many types of dancing to include tap, jazz, ballet, and clogging. In 1999 she continued her love of dance and auditioned for the Salt City Cloggers dance team. That’s when dance became her life. She was always traveling to dance camps and competitions. A couple of her favorite places to perform were Lagoon and Southern Utah’s Tuachan Amphitheater. She danced anywhere and everywhere. Whether it was at a competition or down the aisles of the grocery store.
In 2002 she was awarded the Salt City Clogger of the year award and got the opportunity to be an assistant teacher in the studio. Later on she advanced in jazz and joined the Senior Competition Team. Whitney continued dancing with Shaw Dance until she graduated high school.
Since then she married her sweetheart and has been a busy mom of 3 kids. She never lost her love of dance and hoped one day she would get the opportunity to dance and teach again. She is beyond grateful for Studio B! She’s loved watching her little girl grow to love dance and now has the opportunity to teach everything she has learned to others through her life of dance.
Teacher & Student mentor
Sophie Junge
Sophie Junge was born and raised in Las Vegas, NV and moved with her family to the Moapa Valley area in 2023. Sophie started Gymnastics at the age of 3 and cheered from the age of 9 both in school and competitive cheer. in high school she had the opportunity to start her coaching career at age of 15 with little tots then at age 17 she began coaching competitive cheer. Sophie attended Dixie State University and was a member of the cheer team while attending school. Sophie started Coaching at Mirabelli Community Center for cheer and tumbling/gymnastics. Then moved onto coach at PCA for competition cheer and then on to Las Vegas Elements for competition cheer. Sophie has cheered and coached teams at NCA, WGA, Jamz, Cheersport, The American championship, PacWest, USA, GSSA, Aloha, Summit among many other large competition venues.
She has coached teams to win NCA, Jamz, and WGA and coached teams to come in top 10 at Summit and Cheersport.
Sophie has coaching credentials for levels 1-4 in competitive cheer, safe sport, and positive coaching alliance through USASF.โ
teacher
teacher
Sierra Houston
Sierra Houston has been dancing since the age of 4. Sierra started with ballet and tap but had to stop for a while due to family hardships. However, Sierra continued to learn choreography on YouTube and teach her friends. Sierra also did competition cheer off and on between the ages of 10-15. In high school, she joined the Legacy High School Varsity dance team in Las Vegas where she learned jazz, hip hop, and Pom dance. Sierra moved to Henderson, NV, during her sophomore year and joined the Green Valley High School dance team, where she learned lyrical and continued to practice jazz and hip hop. Shortly after high school, Sierra met her soon to be husband. They got married, and moved to his home town in Overton, NV. However, Sierra returned to dance after beginning foster care. Sierra has been dancing with Studio B for the past year and she is looking forward to teaching in the upcoming season. Sierra was drawn to Studio B due to the knowledge and dedication of the teachers.
Ashley Newman
Ashley fell in love with dancing at the age of 8, when she took her very first dance class. In middle school, she joined the cheer squad where she realized that she was a dancer at heart. As soon as she was a freshman in high school she tried out for the pirate motion dance team and was overjoyed when she made it. Ashley won the "most improved dancer" award her first year dancing on the high school team. She was able to experience dance camp every summer and went on to win two state championships with her teammates. While on the pirate motion dance team, Ashley was able to learn a lot about different dance styles, dance technique and choreography. Ashley has a deep love for both Jazz and Hip Hop, but enjoys all dancing styles.
After high school, Ashley went to college and received her Bachelors Degree in Fine Arts, specializing in Interior Design. Throughout her adult life, she has always been pulled back to her love of dance, taking adult classes when possible and enjoying a good Zumba class! Ashley is also a mom to the sweetest little boy and a wife to her longtime sweetheart. Ashley is beyond excited to have an outlet for her love for dance again and cant wait to share it with her students.
teacher
teacher
Lyndsey
Holmstead
Lyndsey's love affair with dance began at the young age of 3 when she danced as a Christmas present with a fluffy, white tutu that had red and green stripes. She loved dancing so much that she continued to dance and for the next 5 years, she learned the basic techniques of ballet, jazz, tap, and tumbling. When she was 8 years old, her family decided to move to Logandale and it was here that Lyndsey joined Miss Corrine's Muddy River Cloggers and learned the art of clogging. She took clogging classes from Miss Corrine for the next 8 years--performing at the Clark County Fair and Rodeo, winter and spring recitals, and a few competitions at Lagoon. She then danced with the MVHS Pirate Motion Team for her junior year of high school; deepening her love for jazz as well as learning the styles of contemporary and lyrical. It was at BYU-Idaho that she found her love for country dancing--swing and line dance--as well as hip hop.
While she still loves to dance, she has also found the joy and fulfillment of passing on her knowledge and passion of dance to others. She has taught Zumba for about 5 years both in Las Vegas and Logandale. She taught Hip Hop with DDA in Overton for about 1 year and now has the exciting opportunity to teach Hip Hop for Studio B Dance Academy. She is excited to work with the students of Studio B and can't wait to instill her passion for not only Hip Hop but dance as a whole in them as well as help them become better dancers on their dance journey.
Student Teachers & Class Assistance
Maylei Holmstead
