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Infinity Instructors
Studio Director
Rebecca
Alyssa
Studio Manager
Alyssa began her dance training at the age of 4, primarily at the Tri Cities Academy of Ballet in Washington State. Throughout the years, Alyssa trained in various styles including tap, jazz, and musical theatre, with an emphasis on ballet, contemporary, and modern. After receiving her first pair of pointe shoes at the age of 11, Alyssa was also trained en pointe. Alyssa was invited to join the Mid-Columbia Ballet, a pre-professional ballet company at the age of 9, and was promoted to the top tier (senior company) at the age of 14. She participated in Regional Dance America with the Mid-Columbia ballet during her 4 years in senior company. At the age of 16, Alyssa received a full tuition scholarship for Sacramento Ballet’s Summer intensive. At the age of 17, Alyssa was invited to join various university dance departments including Cornish College of the Arts and the University of Utah.​ Alyssa began student teaching at the age of 11 and began independently teaching at the age of 17.
Competition Team Manager
Valerie
Valerie dove deep into the study of contemporary dance, improvisation, ballet, choreography, and hip hop as a student at Western Washington University. In June 2020, she earned her BFA in Dance and BS in Psychology. Prior to Western, she trained in and performed contemporary, ballet, jazz, hip hop, musical theater, and tap with Allegro Performing Arts Academy in Kent, WA. Valerie also works as a choreographer for professional musical theater shows in Bellingham.
Valerie is excited to encourage dancers to build a strong technical foundation, explore new and exciting ways to dance, and get in touch with their own unique movement style and artistry.
Zoe
Zoe started dancing when she was three years old and has been with the same studio ever since. She has taken ballet, jazz, contemporary, pointe, tap and more. For seven years, she was a part of the competition and performance teams with Infinity. She started choreographing solos about three years ago and started teaching classes one year ago. She got into teaching by assisting many years alongside another teacher, and has since stuck with it. Zoe played the character Joy in our 2021 spring performance of “Inside Out” along with other characters in our past shows. Zoe loves getting to know the students, working with them, and helping them grow into better dancers!
Erinn
Erinn began dancing at the age of 4 at “Dance Fusion” in Las Vegas, NV. Since then, Erinn has studied tap, ballet, pointe, jazz, contemporary, musical theatre, heels, and hip hop. For 13 years, Erinn danced competitively throughout the southwest U.S. and has won many titles including Miss Dance America 2018 and a KAR Dance People’s Choice Award. Erinn also trained at a variety of conventions from industry-level dancers and choreographers such as The Rockettes, Mandy Moore, and Bonnie Story throughout the years.
Erinn loves teaching artistry and fostering an environment of positivity and hard work!
Kaesey
Kaesey Van Dyken is a mom of 4, hobby farm owner, and lover of anything related to dance and getting your body moving. She was an avid dancer in elementary and middle school when she then switched to cheer where she enjoyed the camaraderie of the team mixed with aspects of dance. Kaesey enjoyed coaching cheer at NVHS for three years where she enjoyed putting on mini-cheer camp each year and teaching dance routines. Along with coaching of the cheer squad, she has also coached many preschool to elementary sports teams and loves teaching and training little minds! She is excited to be back sharing her love of movement and dance specifically with little ones!
Loke
Loke was born and raised in Southern California where she began her dance journey at the age of 5. Loke grew up dancing at Nonosina Polynesia under the direction of Tiana Nonosina Liufau. It was at Nonosina where she discovered the beauty of her own Polynesian Culture and Dance. Loke also found herself growing interest in Hip-Hop. Her teaching experiences come from co-teaching with her sisters at ALHS and the Inland Conservatory of Performing Arts. At Utah Valley University, she became a D1 athlete in Volleyball and Rugby all while continuing her career in Polynesian and Hip-Hop dance. Loke was a part of UVU's Cultural Envoy Leadership Program and was the Assistant for the Pacific Islander Section. She carries her culture, her people and her knowledge with her as motivation to be better and humble. Loke loves teaching, performing and creating.
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Jessica
Jessica Whitesell is a dancer from Denver, Colorado. She is a senior at Western Washington university, pursuing a bachelor's degree in geology. She has been dancing since she was 6 years old, training intensively in Vaganova ballet, modern, jazz, contemporary, musical theatre, and other various styles through the years. At age 13, she joined a pre-professional division company at the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities at which time she became an assistant teacher, and later a substitute teacher. Her experiences instilled a love of teaching in her, which has encouraged her to dance in college, and attend masterclasses in many varieties of dance in order to learn new techniques and teaching styles to share with the next generation of dancers.
Lucretia
Lucretia was introduced to dance at 7, learning tap, jazz, and ballet. She began assisting other students at 12 and began teaching 25 years ago.
She has been a part of Susan Vaughn School of Dance, A Gift of Dance, and Infinity Dance. She has performed in countless recitals and multiple Nutcracker productions. Lucretia has participated in Chicago National Association of Dance Masters conventions many times in Chicago and completed Dance Masters of America certification in Buffalo. Her focus is on the fundamentals, providing developing students structure to carry them through their dancing adventures.
Brittyn
Brittyn began dancing in Eastern Washington, where she quickly developed a passion for dance at the age of three. She started competing at six, focusing on jazz and clogging, and later moved and joined Infinity, where she continued her love and passion for the art. Through her training, Brittyn competed and was on performance team through Infinity. She takes part in jazz, hip hop, contemporary, and ballet, while exploring tap, modern, and numerous other styles! Brittyn is excited to start teaching and sharing her knowledge as she begins her teaching career. She plans on making dance a part of her career and has high hopes to continue her education in dance at the collegiate level.
Tiana
Tiana has been dancing since she was 8 years old. She fell in love with dance after taking her very first ballet class at Infinity Dance Academy. She’s performed in many recitals with Infinity and hopes to perform in many more! She is a student at Infinity currently and is a part of the competition team. Tiana also choreographed her school’s winter musical for 2024-2025. She is excited to teach here at Infinity and to help grow and teach the next generation of young dancers!
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