Mrs. Aonisty Kashwer has owned and directed Dreamcatcher's Dance Company for 12 years and has been teaching for nearly 18 years. She continues her education and personal skills as a dancer and instructor through many dance conventions and dance business seminars.
Her dancers have competed with the best of the best and have received several of the highest honors possible – overall high score winners. Aonisty’s dancers have won overall cash prizes as well as many coveted titles, including: Dancer of the Year Honors, Special Performance selections, judge's awards, and Scholarships. Aonisty has been awarded the teacher of the year by the Rainbow Connection Dance Competitions and our studio was selected by Dancer Magazine as one of the top competitive dance companies in the state. Her dancers have been invited to perform all over the country.
Aonisty is most proud of her two greatest accomplishments - her children, Jackson and Grayson. She hopes to be able to continue dancing and teaching for a long, long time.
Mrs. Malissa Rednour has been on Dreamcatcher’s Dance staff for eight years and is very loved by her students. She is a Chandler High School graduate, and has danced for many years. Malissa had the privilege of leading her High School Pom Team to a National Championship in 2002 and several State Championships. She has coached and developed choreography for several schools in Oklahoma. Malissa has also achieved many academic honors and is very active in her community. She is working on her degree in Early Childhood Education and continues her dance education with a variety of dance classes, conferences, and seminars.
Malissa's goals are to share her love of dance with her students and to help inspire them to reach their full potential, gain confidence and self esteem. Malissa, and her husband Tony, are quite proud of their beautiful children - Aiden & Autumn.
Miss Olivia Graeff has been dancing since age 4. She trained and competed at Rhythmic Notions Dance Studio, in Owasso Oklahoma, and graduated from Owasso High School in 2006. She has been trained in Ballet, Jazz, Contemporary ,Modern, Tap, and Hip Hop. She currently lives in Edmond, and is wrapping up her last few classes as a student at UCO where she is earning her BFA in dance performance. Olivia was a very decorated member of the Kaleidoscope Dancers Company.
Olivia has earned numerous awards as a dancer and she earned two regional choreography awards this year. Olivia was awarded the '"Outstanding Achievement in Performance Dance" from the College of Arts, Media, and Design at UCO, twice and her collaborative choreography was chosen to be presented at the American College Dance Festival – quite an honor! This is Olivia's fourth year to teach and choreograph for DCDC and loves her students very much!
Mrs. Natalie Lewis is a new addition to our dance family and know she will be a tremendous asset to our team this year. She received her degree in 1994 from Oklahoma City University and she has traveled internationally and in almost every major city in the USA performing professionally, teaching, choreographing, and ministering. She has credits in television, industrials, theatre, cruise ships and concert tours in the music industry. Some of her favorite career highlights are her most recent professional achievements: performing with Carman as dance captain on the Heart of the Champion Tour with other artists Zoe Girl and Russ Lee in 2000/2001; working as a dance company member for Ad Deum (a professional Christian ballet/modern company); teaching jazz and hip hop for Dance Revolution Dance Convention; and performing as company member/choreographer at the Feast of Tabernacles in Israel with ICEJ.Lewis continues to guest teach for Dance Revolution, Project Dance, YWAM, and ICDF ( International Christian Dance Fellowship). She recently co-labored with her husband choreographing and performing with music artist Chuck King in his concert. Most excitingly, Lewis is co-director with her husband Jeff Lewis in their ministry Arrows International where they prepare teams to use their gifts and talents to minister to the nations.
Mrs. Kelly Taylor Beck was an exciting addition to the DCDC faculty last year, and a very accomplished tumbling and cheer coach. She has Coached 17 national AAU Tumbling and Trampoline Titles and 57 state titles! Kelly’s team was National Cheer Champion 2007 at Level 4. She has coached many High school regional championships, is Pilates certified, as well as certified as an AAU Coach and Judge. She was nominated as Coach of the year in 2007 and is Safety certified, first aid and CPR certified. Kelly is very loved and trusted by her students and is a fun, enthusiastic, capable and talented coach - we are absolutely thrilled to have this talented lady on our team.
Jeree Milligan is our Administrative Director, although you may know her as "Jalen's Mom." Jeree's love of dance and the performing arts began at age 4 when she started the first of what would become nine years of dance with Gloria Carver. While these days she prefers to dance when no one is watching, she does love the stage! On occasion, you may catch Jeree and her husband, Will, in a performance at Lincoln County On-Stage.
Jeree graduated from CHS and earned her BA in Corporate Communication from the University of Central Oklahoma. She has managed the public relations strategies, advertising, public speaking engagements, special events, and web site content for several companies; including Children's Hospital, OU Medical Center, Accord Human Resources, and Ball Auction Service.
In addition to her work at the DCDC studio, she also takes on PR, web design, and advertising projects for small to medium-sized business and works as a freelance writer. Jeree LOVES her work at DCDC and is looking forward to doing so much this year!
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