Lacey Price

Artistic Director, Owner
Ballet, Jazz, Contemporary, 6 and under classes

Lacey holds a MFA in Choreography and Performance for Dance from Mills College in Oakland, CA.  She also holds a BFA in Dance from Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, Washington.  Lacey’s style of teaching is a combination of all of the excellent instruction she has received throughout her numerous years of training.  It is a positive, nurturing, but firm approach that combines a strong technical foundation with an understanding of the history of the movement along with anatomically correct alignment.  Lacey is currently a professional dancer with two different Bay Area Companies:  Jumpin' and the Sun Company and On3.  She has also danced with some other notable Bay Area choreographers and teachers such as Molissa Fenley, Shinichi Iova-Koga, Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Sheldon Smith, Yukie Fujimoto, Amy Seiwert, Graham Lustig and Sonya Delwaide-Nichols, to name a few.  Lacey was also chosen to be one of the few people allowed to perform “Trio A” by Yvonne Rainer, a seminal work in the post modern line of dance and has also danced in a Trisha Brown piece entitled “Planes.”  While in Seattle, Lacey danced for choreographers and teachers such as Tonya Lockyer, KT Neihoff, Wade Madsen, Pat Hon, Michelle Miller, Lodi McClellan and Vivian Little.  Lacey is very interested in dance history and dance academia, while also maintaining a healthy interest in the future of dance especially for students of dance or those that are close to students of dance.

Tiffany Davis

Lead Teacher/Choreographer
Competition Tap, Competition Jazz, Competition Contemporary, Intermediate and Advanced Levels.

Tiffany started dancing at the age of 3 and has been teaching, choreographing and dancing professionally in the Bay Area for over 20 years. Tiffany has extensive teaching experience in both youth and adult tap, jazz, contemporary and Hip-Hop. Her style of teaching is based on Technique, Mentoring, Nurturing the Learner, and Developing Body Awareness. Tiffany provides positive reinforcement and constructive criticism in ways the student can develop skills needed to make dance a career. She believes in empowering students to feel good about their bodies and their self-development. Tiffany’s professional dance career includes:  Dancer for Bill Graham Events, Stevie Wonder, City Slam, New Years Eve Spectacular at the Embarcadero, Sabercats and Oakland Skates. Tiffany has appeared in the movies: George Of The Jungle, Made In America and an NBC movie of the week. Tiffany’s competition awards include: Best choreography, Top Teacher, 1st overall in categories of Tap, Jazz and Hip-Hop and an International Dance Award (which gave her students the experience to travel to China for a 13 city dance performance tour). Tiffany believes in continuing her dance education; some of which includes instruction from Savion Glover, Mia Michaels, Tyce Diorio, Brian Friedman, Adam Shankman and Gregg Russell to name a few. 

Jordan Scates

Instructor/Choreographer/Judge

Competition Hip Hop, Intermediate and Advanced Hip Hop

Jordan Scates is a 21-year-old dancer, teacher, and choreographer from the Bay Area who discovered his passion for dance at age 15. He has trained intensively in Hip-Hop, Jazz, and Contemporary styles under renowned choreographers in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Monsters of Hip-Hop. Alongside his dance journey, he holds a Bachelor's degree in Criminal Justice and is driven by his desire to bring positive change to the legal field. Jordan aims to advocate for better protections and compensation for dancers while reimagining the criminal justice system. Now back in the Bay Area, he teaches dance classes while actively developing “Fixin's Movement Collective”—a thriving space for self-expression. His long-term goal is to open his own dance studio; reconnecting dance with its roots.

Alyssa Beaudoin

Instructor/Choreographer

Beginner & Non-Comp Intermediate Jazz, Beginner & Non-Comp Intermediate Tap, Beginner Ballet, Beginner Hip Hop, Pre-Competion Team, 6 & Under

Alyssa was born and raised in the Bay Area and has been trained in a wide variety of styles starting at 3 years old. She has always had a love for dance because she was apart of something that let her to express her emotions. The discipline that she learned from dance followed her into her school and work life. Not only was Alyssa apart of company ballet, jazz and tap teams with her studio, she also was apart of San Ramon’s California High School Varsity Song (Dance) Team all four years of high school. While being apart of Varsity Song, Alyssa and her team competed at regional and national competitions in styles jazz and pom. Although she loves a good competition, she has found a love for choreographing because it allows her to have a creative outlet. She first gained teaching experience when she was 14 years old at her studio assisting classes for students aged 3 to 14. At The Dancer’s Institute, she teaches jazz, pre-competition jazz, tap, ballet and hip hop to ages 3 to 15. Alyssa strives to teach her students to appreciate the everything that comes with being a dancer: the highs, the lows, the good and the bad — it is all apart of the process to become an amazing athlete. Along with being an instructor and choreographer at The Dancer’s Institute, she is a full time student at San Jose State University majoring in Communication Studies, graduating Fall 2023.