Ileah has completed ADAPT Jazz Instructor certification, is Acrobatic Arts level 1 certified and is currently working on her Modern CDTA and her International Dance Teaching Standards certification. She has trained with Leah Correia and Monica Kapelar, has taken part in dance workshops and teacher programs in L.A, Arizona and Toronto. Ileah participated in the Pacific Northwest Music Festival in her younger years and is now the owner and head coach of Dance Kitimat!
Jaydean Braham
Jaydean grew up in Alberta and moved to Kelowna as a teen, she has
trained in Cecchetti Ballet Syllabus and ADAPT Jazz Syllabus. She has completed exams in Ballet, Jazz and
Tap!
Unity Kukulies
Unity has grown up in the Dance Kitimat family training under Leah Correia, Monica Kapelar and ileah Lutz. She spent many years on the competition team competing in Terrace, Prince George and Prince Rupert! She is so thrilled to be involved in the studio again to help guid our dancers through another fantastic season!
Gabby Goffinet
Gabby has taken hip hop classes in Kitimat, Victoria, and North Vancouver. She has taught kids of all ages, and
adults alike previously through the Riverlodge Community program, and will be teaching hip hop with Dance
Kitimat this season! She looks forward to providing a fun, high energy class.
Lakayla Franklin
Lakayla has grown up in the Dance Kitimat family and has taken all of our various classes, but Hip
Hop has always been her passion! She was an integral part of our competition team in her years with
us and attended multiple competitions. We are thrilled she is able to come back and share her love of
Hip Hop with our students!
Ayelet Freedman
Ayelet has been dancing for twenty-five years, ten of which she has been teaching younger students. Ayelet’s passion for dance and working with tiny humans has led her to pursue a career in education. When not at the studio, Ayelet is a teacher at Nechako Elementary School here in Kitimat.
Ayelet has many years of experience teaching and choreographing ballet, jazz and tap to children and adults ranging from the ages of two to 45 years old. She loves having fun with her students while watching and helping them grow. Ayelet is excited to share her training with a new generation of dancers and strongly believes that everyone is a life-long learner and it is never too early or too late to begin dancing.
Ayelet is thrilled to be joining the Dance Kitimat team!
Maddison Hoffos
Born and raised in Terrace, British Columbia, Madison grew a love for dance and performing from an early age. Her passion brought her to summer intensives at Harbour Dance Centre (Vancouver BC) and Fraser Valley Academy of Dance (Mission, BC)
Madison started choreographing at the age of 12, winning the highest mark for Junior Choreography at the Pacific Northwest Music Festival the following season.
Her performance credits include dance and music performances in the Terrace area alongside regional dance competitions. Her personal highlights include performances with Ballet Jorgen in Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty, and Anastasia as a local participant as well as representing the Northwest at the BC Performing Arts Provincial Festival in 2018 as a merited participant and 2019 as a Ballet III delegate.