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Miss Kaylee Arruda
Tap, Jazz, Hip Hop, Pop Jazz, Acro Pre-School, Tiny Tots
Kaylee is a 2011 graduate of Jacqueline M. Walsh School for the Performing and Visual Arts, in which she majored in dance. She is now a freshman at URI studing physical therpy. This is her seventh year dancing with Kats Dance Centre. Over the past seven years Kaylee has trained in tap, jazz, ballet, pointe, pop jazz, hip hop, lyrical and modern. Kaylee is an all around performer; in the past couple of years she has performed in Miss Lynn’s productions of The Wizard of Oz, and Wonderland, she has also performed in Cabarets with the North End Players. Kaylee has been an assistant at Kats Dance Centre for five years, and has now taken on the role of Assistant Teacher. Her favorite part about being an Assistant Teacher is watching the students grow as performers, and seeing them do what they love week after week.
Senior Assistants
 Brianna Geyer
Jazz, Pop Jazz, Tap, Ballet, Hip-Hop, Pre-School, Tiny-Tots Brianna is finishing entering high school at Times2 Academy. She began dancing for KDC in 2003 at the age of 5. This is her nineth year at Kats and she has trained in tap, jazz, ballet, hip hop, pop jazz, pointe and lyrical. As well as performing in KDC's annual performance, she has also danced with Kats in Walt Disney World in 2004 and 2006. Brianna is the 2010 recieptient of the "Princess Jessie Award" at Kats DC, an award given to the person who shows the same amount of love and passion for dance as Miss Jessie did, and we congratulate her on her achievement. She also enjoys acting and singing. She has performed in many musicals performed by Wanskuck Players and Miss Lynn's Performing Arts. This is Brianna's third year as an assistant at Kats Dance Centre. She loves working with the students and hopes to continue her dance journey with the KDC Company and staff family.
 Niesha Threats Jazz, Pop Jazz, Tap, Hip-hop, Pre-school, Acro, Tiny -Tots Niesha is a junior at Classical High School. She has been dancing for seven years at Kats Dance Centre and has fallen in love with dance. She loves all of her classes which include; jazz, tap, ballet, pointe, hip hop, pop jazz and acro but her favorite of all is acro. Niesha has been assisting at Kats for a few years now and hopes to continue dancing for as long as she can.
Junior Assistants Alexis Gabriele Jazz, Hip-Hop, Pop Jazz, Acro, Pre-school, Tiny Tots Alexis is a student at the Lincoln Middle School and has been dancing with Kats DC since the age of 3. This is her thrid year as an assistant. Alexis is wonderful with the students and shows her passion for dance while in her own classes. She has continued to improve from year to year and has shown us that dance is something she really loves. We hope she continues in the years to come.
 Cassie Anter
Jazz, Pop Jazz, Acro, Pre-school, Tiny-Tots
 Jamie Asciolla
Jazz, Tap, Pop Jazz, Acro, Pre-School, Tiny-Tots
Jamie is a sophomore at URI studying anthropology and has been dancing at Kats Dance Centre for six years. When she first started she took jazz and hip hop, then after three years started taking pop jazz instead of hip hop. Upon joining the company she took ballet and fell more in love with dance. This is Jamie’s second year as an assistant. Now in college, Jamie comes home twice a week to go to dance. Along with going home, she also dances at URI, although it is not the same as dancing at Kats. There is seriously a big difference not only in styles, but in atmosphere. Because of that, she doesn’t mind the endless bus rides to and from school because at the end of the day she gets to do the one thing she loves to do, dance.
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