Highland dancing has been a major aspect of Cassandra’s life for over twenty-one years. She received the majority of her dance training at the Sandra Bald Jones Dance Studio in Hamilton, Ontario. Cassandra is a very accomplished competitive dancer, competing across Canada, the United States and Scotland for over 10 years. Performing is and always will be one of Cassandra’s favourite aspects of dance. She has been associated with three performing Highland Dance groups. She was a member of the Schiehallion Dancers, based out of Hamilton, was choreographer for the Argyllshire Dancers also based of out Hamilton. Currently she is directing and choreographing the Chisholm Highland Dancers; a dance group who performs with the Halton Regional Police Service Pipes and Drums. Performing has taken her many places including Scotland, as she performed at Edinburgh Military Tattoo in 2003. She has also danced at the Calgary Stampede, the Pleasanton Highland Games, the Hawaiian Highland Games, a Toronto Raptor’s halftime show, as well as several Kingston, Rochester and Hamilton Tattoos. Cassandra has been teaching the art of Highland Dancing for 10 years. She has been with the Caledonia Studio of Dance since January 2004 and has treasured every moment. With a little hard work and dedication the Highland Dance students here at the studio have competed across Canada, as well as performed throughout Ontario. The ultimate reward for Cassandra is having the ability to support her students get the same love and enjoyment out of highland dance.

Dance has been a part of Amy's life for over 20 years.  She taught in Burlington for 5 years and shares a true passion of the art with her students. She spent her years of dance training at Dancers Burlington Inc and Premiere Dance Inc.  Amy loves and thoroughly enjoys teaching kids of all ages at both recreational and competitive levels. Amy has experienced training in ballet, pointe, jazz, tap, lyrical and modern dance and has been dancing since the age of 4.  She competed for years across Canada and the United States at both regional and national levels and received many overall awards for her performances.
Throughout the years she's also taught at summer dance camps as well as attended DMA workshops.  Amy has studied ballet in the cecchetti method, completed her intermediate exam and plans to complete her advanced 1 exam.   From there she wishes to pursue and complete the associate ballet exam as well as her DMA exams in both jazz and tap.
Amy enjoys challenging herself and is always anxious to get in the studio to teach!  She is very excited to continue her teaching career at Caledonia Studio of Dance.  Amy is always inspiring her students to dance from the heart and encourages them to pursue their dreams.
"To touch, to move, to inspire, this is the true gift of dance."

Dancing since the age of 4, Jes has never spent a day without the sport in her life and the idea of leaving dance behind when moving 2 hours from the studios she grew up with, became a little easier when she was welcomed into the family of dancers at Caledonia Studio of Dance in 2010.  Jes has been been teaching competitive classes as well as developing recreational dancers since she was 15 years old.  While attending at McMaster University she brought with her, her dance shoes and joined the McMaster dance community as President of the McMaster Dance Club and participating in O.U.C.H. (Ontario University Competition for Hip Hop) in 2008; at that point McMaster had won 4 out of the 5 annual Province wide competitions.  Jes' experience includes developing the dance skills of Children from 18 months up to 21 +.  Jes' primary focus is to encourage her dancers to perform at their best (and point their toes!!) whether its in her favourite styles of Jazz and Acro or styles that have proven this teacher, choregrapher and dancer successful at competitions.  Before joining CSOD Jes travelled to competitions earning Choregraphy awards for Modern and Musical theatre and top spots for her dancers in Acro, Jazz, Hip Hop, Lyrical, Modern and MT.  Jes is looking forward to the proud moments with the dancers at CSOD as they take on the 2011 Competition season

Rebecca began in gymnastics and trained at the provincial level until the age of 10.  At 11 years old she decided dance was her true passion and studied Jazz, Tap, Ballet, Acro, Hip Hop, Contemporary/Lyrical and Modern/Open. Since her training she has won numerous overalls including Senior Miss CanDance 2009 and 2010 and held a place on the CanDance show team for Spain.  She instructs and choreographs for all ages at Premiere Dance Inc. and has done freelance choreography in Ontario.  She has been an assistant to numerous teachers all over Ontario and in the US.  Her choreography has received numerous special awards and overalls.  She appeared on Much Music in 2010 under working for Caroline Torti (So You think You Can Dance Top 20 Contestant). She also trained in New York, Las Vegas and LA at workshops and prestigious studios. Currently she is an instructor and choreographer attending Wilfrid Laurier and Nipissing University for Concurrent Education. She has a great passion for teaching and a drive to inspire and motivate. She takes great pride in her students and adores working with kids!  

Miguel Ramirez Dancer/Choreographer/Drummer started dancing around age 8 when his mom taught him how to moonwalk.  He then took his natural freestyle ability and perfected it by performing any chance he had.  Miguel is trained in Hip Hop, Jazz, Ballet and Contemporary.  He is a dancer with Airtight Entertainment- which has given him the opportunity to open for Busta Rhymes, Fabolous, Rick Ross and T Pain. This young choreographer has won many awards for choreography and genius concepts, he is well known for his extremely clean routines because of the time and effort he puts into his work. Miguel also choreographs fitness routines for UFE competitors.  As a teacher he mentors students with a fundamental message: that with hard work and dedication anyone can achieve greatness.  Miguel continues to develop his technique and refining his talents by taking classes and workshops with amazing choreographers. Miguel is also known for sharing his talents with the community. These range from running food drives to sponsoring families, and organizing performances to raise money for the construction of a hospital and school in Guatemala CHE project.  Volunteering his talents by teaching dance and afro Caribbean drumming at an orphanage in Trinidad and Tobago,  Miguel has always gotten his students involved in these projects because it builds character.  "Great dancers can also be great people; they don't have to fall into the cliche of being stuck up, so the teachers have to be the example". 

Andrea has been dancing at the Caledonia Studio of Dance since the age of 6.  She has been trained in Jazz, Hip Hop, Ballet, Lyrical, Modern, Acro, Musical Theatre and Contemporary. Andrea has attended many workshops ad taken numerous classes throughout Canada and the US. She has taken classes with well known choreographers such as Mia Michaels, Tyce Diorio, Blake McGrath, Luther Brown all from So You Think You Can Dance US and Canada.  Andrea has won countless awards, special recognitions, and scholarships at Competitions including the opportunity to train in LA.  She continues to compete with CSOD and takes classes to learn and grow as much as she can as a Dancer.  We are so happy that she is following her dream in begin a Dance Teacher.

Emily has been dancing at the Caledonia Studio of Dance since she was six years old. She is trained in the styles of Jazz, Hip Hop, Ballet, Lyrical, Modern, Acro, Musical Theatre, Tap and Contemporary. Emily is well known for her story telling through her movement and the emotion she gives while she is on stage. She has been to countless competitions and awarded for her passion. Emily started out as an assistant for our Competitive Program and now teaches her own Recreational classes in Jazz, Lyrical and Theatre.  Emily had the privilege for a life changing experience to travel to Haiti to visit schools and orphanages and teach them how to dance. She continues to compete at CSOD and take classes to learn and grow as a dancer and teacher.