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Marcel Tremel is a dance educator, choreographer, and dance adjudicator based in the Vancouver area. He is a fully certified Dance Teacher with ADAPT Syllabus (Jazz, Tap), Canadian Dance Teachers’ Association (Jazz, Tap, Acro), Acrobatic Arts, Progressing Ballet Technique, Alixa Flexibility. Marcel is also a graduate of the Canadian College of Performing Arts (CCPA) where he completed the full three-year program, earning him a Diploma in Applied Performing Arts. He also holds certification specifically for adjudicating with the ADA Adjudicator (ADTA), and is a proud member of the Professional Adjudicators Alliance.

Over the years, Marcel has had several exciting opportunities to perform and showcase his choreography. Some of the highlights include: touring Western Canada and parts of the United States with a song and dance group called Saskatchewan Express, co-choreographing CCPA’s production of 'Young Frankenstein', starring in CCPA’s production of 'Lend Me A Tenor', choreographing 'Hello, Dolly!' with Fraser Valley Stage, setting choreography and dancing in a production of ‘The Nutcracker’ with The Sunshine Coast Youth Dance Association, and touring to England to dance in the Gilbert and Sullivan International Festival in a production of 'The Gondoliers'.

Marcel’s versatility has allowed him to push the boundaries of basic dance routines and create exciting new pieces to share with his community. He has been recognized with numerous choreography awards, and high score/overall wins with his pieces. Marcel has had students be accepted into prestigious post secondary institutions, and various former students have created professional careers in the performing arts industry, becoming performers, teachers, and choreographers themselves.

Marcel is passionate about dance education and continues to train and perform as a working professional artist around the West Coast. He looks forward to another year of sharing his knowledge and love of dance with you all.

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Shania has 22 years of dance experience in various genres, focusing mostly on R.A.D classical & character ballet, variations, modern, contemporary, lyrical & jazz. Shania has received numerous awards in dance and is now passing along the same opportunities to her students. Shania has been scouted out by Barcelona Ballet Project and offered a scholarship, but chose to decline the offer to stay local to raise her son near family, while focusing on various other dance studies. Shania has been taught by renowned R.A.D mentors such as Anushka Roes T.T.P Director, Barbra Chonin R.A.D examiner and educator, Teresa Randall R.A.D examiner and teacher all from the Canada National Ballet (CNB). She’s also had the privilege to be educated by numerous other outstanding teachers such as Jo-Ann Adams, Marissa Visnjak, Mary-Anne Stephans, Carlin Swift and Judi Kellet to name a few. Shania has also performed in ballet teaching intensives along side dancers from some of the worlds most well known classical ballet schools such as the GOH academy, Coastal City Ballet, and Royal Winnipeg ballet. Shania has 10 years teaching experience in R.A.D ballet, contemporary, modern, lyrical, and jazz. As well as has achieved all 3 levels of Progressing In Ballet Technique (PBT). Shes actively working towards achieving multiple other teaching courses. Her biggest joy is dance and having the opportunity to create and inspire todays youth by creating a safe environment, where all students develop proper understanding of music, technique and foundations of dance, to enhance artistic quality of movement, and bring out each students confidence as an individual. She believes everybody can learn to dance, and that dance is therapeutic way to express oneself freely.

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Brianna has been training as a competitive dancer since she was 5 years old. She explored as many styles as were available to her, training in Jazz, Lyrical, Contemporary, Musical Theatre, Tap, HipHop, and Ballet. Brianna knew from a young age that she had a passion for teaching and thus wanted to get started as soon as she could. She began teaching at 15 years old and has continued developing her craft ever since. She’s utilized her abundance of training to create pieces that are inventive and challenging for her students. Her devotion to developing both her students and her choreography has enabled her to find success in both local and international competitions. As a result, Brianna has won a variety of awards for her choreography. Furthermore, Brianna has performed in the 2010 Paralympic opening ceremonies, as well as in a variety of performances at the PNE. Brianna also trained with United by Unify, under the direction of Lex Burnham and Alex Shigetomi. She aims to share her love of dance and learning with her students in a fun and constructive environment.

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Sophia has been dancing for 16 years, 13 competitively. Sophia has won several overall high score awards and special recognition from judges. In the past year she has begun choreographing solos for other competitive dancers, instructing advanced combo classes and creating and delivering curriculum for dance camps and our summer intensive. She has been a natural teacher since she first started assisting classes several years ago. Under the mentorship of Mary-Anne Langstaff Sophia is becoming a promising young teacher and chorSophia loves teaching and is thrilled to be able to share her love of dance with her students while helping them develop technique and their own individual passion for dance!

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Leticia’s passion for dance began at the early age of 4. Her studies began in the local dance studio where she grew up in Maple Ridge, BC. Starting out with jazz and tap. It instantly became evident to her family that Leticia was a natural performer. She then started taking on different styles of dance including hip hop, lyrical, contemporary, musical theatre, and ballet. Leticia was part of the Northwest Dance Project, competitive dance team in her teens. She has had the opportunity to travel and train in New York City, perform, compete, and has trained under many well-known choreographers in the industry. She was the lead choreographer in her High School Dance Program and received Best Choreographer awards each year. Leticia has continued to enhance her skills professionally by attending Dance Conventions in Canada and the US, taking classes at Harbour Dance Center in Vancouver, BC, and was a member of Elevate Dance Crew directed by Leigh Hilary Lee. Leticia believes education is key to keeping things fresh and current. She attended the Dance Life Teacher Conference in Arizona ran by Rhee Gold in the Summer of 2015 and most recently got certified in Sugarfoot Therapy, a physical therapy-based conditioning for dancers. Leticia has had many performance opportunities including the 2015 Western Summer Games in “Big Spirit Sky.” Vancity Project, Monsters of Hip Hop, Next Level Hip Hop, and the BC Ride to Conquer Cancer to name a few. Leticia’s journey led her to Fort McMurray, AB in 2013 where she resided and taught for 5 years. She enjoyed being apart of such a unique city and tight knit dance community full of such wonderful opportunities; Leticia choreographed for Keyano Theatre Company’s 2013 Farce “Boeing Boeing.“ She also was a celebrity dancer in Fort McMurray’s 2014 Dancing with the Stars in support of the SPCA. Leticia was the Dance Director/Choreographer for Keyano Theatre’s Drama Force Youth Intensive. She choreographed 2014 Jr. Musical “Disney’s Aladdin,” and 2015 Jr. Musical “Disney’s The Little Mermaid,” and the 2016 Jr. Musical “Disney’s The Jungle Book Kids.” She also spent her time as a Dance Instructor and Educational Assistant with the Fort McMurray Public School District. Leticia has been back in BC for about 5 years now after becoming a mom, and has been enjoying teaching and doing choreography through out the lower mainland. Leticia has extensive experience teaching students of all ages, levels, and styles and her choreography has been recognized for numerous awards at competitions and festivals. Leticia brings a fun and positive vibe to all of her classes at Creative Edge.

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Keira took her first ballet class when she was 3 years old, and knew that she had fallen in love. Since then, she has continued training in ballet and later pointe work, as well as lyrical, jazz and musical theatre. Keira has trained in RAD levels from Grade 1 to Intermediate and has been dancing competitively for 9 years. In 2016, Keira begin her teacher training as a volunteer assistant in ballet classes. She continued assisting for several years and started substitute teaching dance and ballet classes in 2021 before taking on classes of her own in 2023.

Keira has attended the Shine Top Ten Dancer workshops in 2020, 2021, and 2023. These workshops gave her opportunities to learn from Canadian dancers and choreographers in the industry, like Louise Hradsky and Sarah Brewer Clowes. In 2023, Keira won a scholarship for the Lightning Elite Performance Team. The team consisted of dancers from across Canada and the USA. She performed with Lightning Elite in Disneyland and while there, got the opportunity to attend a workshop taught by a Disney cast member.

Keira hopes to share her love of dance with her students, and aims to make the class environment fun and engaging.

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Nevada has been involved in the arts since the age of 5. She has studied both dance and drama during this time and has been in the classroom as a student, assistant and teacher. Nevada has studied many genres of dance including ballet, contemporary, lyrical, musical theatre, acro, hip hop, tap, song and dance and jazz. In addition, she has been very involved in our drama program and has taken part in all of our mainstage productions as well as being our music program.

Nevada enjoys working with young children and sharing her love of dance. Nevada has been working with young children as a teacher or assistant for many years and delights in their energy and playfulness. She is one of 5 children and has always been around young children.

Nevada is excited to spread her love of the arts with her students.