Owner and Founder of DC2

Co-Owner and Company Director

Co-Owner and Company Director

Jordyn Berry is a DC2 Alumni who has been dancing for 20 years. She started dance at the age of four and never looked back! She is a previous DC2 Scholarship Winner #twinwin and was a DC2 Company member for 10 years. She attended Pepperdine University where she was a member of their Dance In Flight company and captain of the Pepperdine Step Team. She loves all styles but especially jazz and fun fact she’s a dance teacher by night but a Portfolio Manager for an investment bank by day.

A DC2 Alumni, Ms. Erica began her dance training at 3 years old. It was soon obvious that this was her passion and chosen career as she started actively teaching at only 16 years old. Excelling as a studio competition dancer, she was later drawn to pursue Latin Ballroom, both for its challenging intensity and feminine beauty. In less than 1 1/2 years into her training, Erica won a World Championship title in her division. This sparked her to move to New York City to continue her training as a professional under top champion coaches. Later moving to Los Angeles, she was able to continue her love for teaching and training. There she was able to realize the true magic of exposing ballroom to studios across the country and traveling as faculty for JUMP Dance Convention.

She is an excelling choreographer using elements of Jazz and Latin to create high intensity classes and fierce choreography. She recently was a 2017 Capezio Ace Finalist. Teaching ballroom with a unique approach leaves students feeling inspired! She has helped DC2 earn several awards for her in-house Ballroom Choreography, including Best Ballroom Studio at the 2022 Dance Awards.

As an Arizona native, Angela grew up dancing around the Valley training in Ballet, Jazz, Contemporary, Lyrical, and Ballroom since the age of six. At ten years old, she began competing and at 15, she had performed with Becky G and was on tour with Velocity Dance Convention training with their commercial faculty. Her senior year, Angela performed at The Ace Awards in Erica Marr’s piece, “Dangerous”. She trained under Erica since she was twelve in ballroom, began competing in ballroom at 15 and relates a lot of her passion for teaching to Erica’s care and guidance in the classroom.

Angela proudly graduated from Arizona State in 2022 with a Bachelor’s of Science in Kinesiology. She finds that her educational background helps to strengthen her teaching in the classroom and builds dancers’ awareness of the strength of their bodies. Angela’s passion for teaching began at the age of 16 and she hasn’t looked back since! She is looking forward to continuing to share her love for dance with young dancers and assisting them to succeed in all of their goals.

Jenefer is a native of Michigan and is a tap dancer, teacher, choreographer, director, writer, and producer. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in the Performing Arts from Oakland University and a Master of Arts in Education from the University of Phoenix. Jenefer recently performed with the MusicaNova Orchestra and was commissioned to interpret and perform Morton Gould’s Tap Dance Concerto at the Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix. Ms. Miller was also featured in a short film by Screenvision Media’s Corner Stories which aired in movie theatres across the United States. She has appeared on stage with Tap 24.7, Mike Wittmer’s Scuff'd Up, Especially Tap Chicago, the Detroit Tap Festival honoring the legendary Nicholas Brothers, Dance Chicago, Sesame Street Live, and Oakland Dance Theatre. Mentored by Dianne Walker and the late Robert Reed, Jen has performed in shows with legends such as the Nicholas Brothers, Ben Vereen, Debbie Allen, Savion Glover, Chloe Arnold, Sarah Reich, Jason Samuels Smith, Dianne Walker, Jimmy Slyde, Barbara Duffy, Robert Reed, Prince Spencer, Harold "Stumpy" Cromer, and Heather Cornell.

A proud DC2 company teacher and alumni. Her love for the art of dance has grown through teaching. Tanya was given the opportunity to direct the Dynamite Express performing program in 2007-2016. She has since spent most of my time teaching the company dancers jazz technique, flexibility, and full body conditioning. Her true love and biggest reward is getting to work with the kids 1-on-1. It's such a special time to focus on individual strengths and weaknesses. This is where Tanya truly shines as a teacher/mentor. She is a certified barre/pilates instructor, which has allowed her to push and help the DC2 dancers understand their bodies better. Tanya is working towards becoming a certified health and wellness practitioner. She loves sharing valuable information to set these dancers up for success. It's her joy! Dance Connection 2 is home. Thank you for letting me be a small part of your legacy.

Hailey was born and raised in Phoenix, AZ and started dancing at DC2 at age 7! From Rec, to Dynamite Express, to Company, to the 2012 Scholarship Winner she’s a DC2er thru n thru! At 19 Hailey moved to LA to peruse her dance career. She has performed in several live shows and music videos with artists such as Tyler Hilton and Little Big Town. After holding the title of Miss Adrenaline her senior year she has worked her way up to being a faculty member with Revive Dance Convention and loves teaching and choreographing at studios all over the country. Since moving back to Arizona she is excited to continue her teaching career in the valley!

Ceci was born & raised in Arizona and has been dancing since the age of 6. When she first started she was in crews around the valley and later moved to the studio scene. Ceci specializes in hip-hop and happily teaches all levels & any ages. She graduated from the University of Arizona in 2019. Ceci has been teaching since 2016 and has loved being able to make an impact on student’s confidence in Hip Hop!

Jennifer grew up dancing at DC2 and was a member of our company and scholarship winner in 2000. Jennifer and her husband, Matt, have three daughters who have continued her love of dance and are a part of our DC2 Company. Along with teaching at the studio, Jennifer also teaches in the CUSD.

Jennifer has a passion for teaching and seeing the joy in her students faces when they master something new. She teaches all age groups from 2 years to teens and loves the variety in all styles of dance.
You will probably hear Jennifer in our hallways greeting everyone and handing out all the hugs. She is always the loudest in the crowd supporting her students, daughters and DC2. Teaching brings such joy to her heart and she loves every minute of it!

Megan started her dance journey with DC2 at age three. She trained in all genres of dance for 21 years ending her dance career at Arizona State University where she was on the dance team for three years. While at ASU, Megan was a part of the Worlds Dance Team who took home Gold and she graduated with dual degrees in Marketing and Supply Chain Management.

Being a teacher at DC2 is Megan’s passion and she has had the privilege of being a part of DC2 staff for 12 years. She has taught many groups and styles of dance while at DC2, including Director of the Dynamite Express program. She currently teaches Jazz and Lyrical for Squad and the DCTutus. She loves watching her students grow (including her two dancing daughters!) and is so honored that she gets to be a part of their lives.

DeQuan Lewis is a native of Gilbert, AZ, where he is currently working as a choreographer and instructor around the valley. He received his BFA in dance from the University of Arizona where he performed works by José Limón, Ohad Naharin, Alexei Ratmansky, & Darrell Moultrie. Upon graduation, DeQuan has had the opportunity to work as a guest artist for Justin Giles, SoulEscape, and Vim Vigor at Springboard Danse Montreal. DeQuan last began working with Doug Varone and Dancers in 2019 and had his farewell performance in the fall of 2021.

Sierra started dancing at age 2 at Dance Connection in MaryAnna’s combo class. At age 4 she joined the Dynamite Express performing team. She then went on to join DC2’s company in which she trained under Tally Nikolaus, Chelsea Foster and many others in all styles of dance. In 2009, she was chosen by her peers and teachers to be the winner of the DC2 Senior Company scholarship. Sierra started assisting in classes and choreography at age 16. She continued assisting and teaching at DC2 through her college years.

In 2013, Sierra started assisting DE, then took on the role of co-director from 2018-2021. Sierra now has 2 kids of her own, including a daughter that is in classes at DC2. DC2 has always been Sierra’s “second home” and is so thankful to be part of the DC2 family.

Taylor has been dancing for over 16 years and DC2 has been her home away from home. She was a member of our DC2 company for 10 years and was lucky enough to be named our 2019 DC2 Scholarship winner! Taylor has trained and competed in 7 different styles of dance under the amazing company instructors and was Moveo Dance Company at Perry High School. She has been a solo choreographer for 3 years.

Taylor is a student at Arizona State University majoring in accounting and a professional dancer with the Arizona Rattlers Sidewinders!

We are proud to have her instructing our intermediate ballroom, recreational ballet/tap/tumbling and assisting our DC2 Squad and Company.