Ashley Guske
Studio Owner/Director

Ashley is the owner and director of Dance Alliance. She also teaches many classes at the studio. Ashley has been dancing since she could walk. She won over 50 gold, platinum, and double platinum medals in various national competitions. She attended Utah Valley University majoring in Dance Education. While at UVU Ashley performed with two dance companies: Synergy Modern Company and Mosaic Hip Hop Company. She previously danced for the Newbury Park High School Varsity Dance Team, was the dance team captain, and now continues to advance her dance technique by attending professional classes in Los Angeles. Ashley also attends dance teacher summits, networks with other studio directors and teachers, and is continually looking for ways to improve Dance Alliance. Ashley is skilled in ballet, lyrical, jazz, hip hop, tumbling and contemporary, but mostly teaching!

Jessica Eubank
Elite Director/ Instructor

Jess has been dancing for 20+ years and was born and raised in Camarillo, CA. Jess has worked with some of the best in the industry such as Robert Roldan and Mandy Moore. She has also worked with CBS on their popular show Big Bang Theory. Jess has taught classes at all ages and all levels for many years. She has also worked as an assistant too choreographer, Elizabeth Petrin and was a coach for Newbury Park High School Dance Team. Along with teaching at Dance Alliance, Jess holds a Bachelors Degree in Liberal Studies from CSUCI and is currently an instructor for Rancho Campana High School where she also is the Dance Team director. She is currently working on her Masters degree in Secondary education with Grand Canyon University. Jess has won several Judge’s Choice awards for her choreography at regional and national competitions with our Dance Alliance Elite team. Jess is our Elite team Director where she wears many hats such as coordinating competitions, choreographing pieces, communicate with parents to name a few. She has been with DA for about 12 years now and is so excited to continue training our young dancers!

Mia Clark
Instructor

Mia Clark is a dancer and choreographer, from Newbury Park, California, that has trained in dance for over 15 years, and she began her training at a dance studio and eventually joined her high school’s dance team. She continued her dance studies at California State University, Long Beach where she received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in dance. Mia specializes in modern, contemporary, hip hop, and jazz, but has trained in ballet and tap as well. She has worked with well-known choreographers like Colleen Dunagan, Andrew Vaca, Brenna Monroe-Cook teaching her “Sphinx” an excerpt of The Winged by José Limón, Azuki Umeda, Nancy Rivera, Scotty Nguyen, Mandy Korpinen, Elizabeth Petrin, Chad McCall, and Will Loftis. Nancy Rivera included Clark in two of her BlatinX Dance Festival works and a concept video titled Binding Perceptions. Mia has taught at dance studios, including Bobbies School of Performing Arts and Dance Alliance, and choreographs solo work for local high school dance teams. She will continue choreographing and teaching for Dance alliance and hopes to continue choreographing for high schools as well. Mia wants to continue to perform and train, which she has the opportunity to in Geometry Contemporary Dance Company and she would love to work with independent artists.

Delaney Prado
Instructor

Delaney has been dancing for 18 years and has worked as both a dancer and a choreographer. You can find her her featured in many things such as The Voice with CeeLo Green and MTV awards with Brittany Spears. She has also done many commercials and music videos with artists such as Willow Smith and Skrillex. With a switch in direction, she has changed form dancing to choreographing. With that, she has now become the lead dance team coach at Newbury Park High School. She is currently at California State University, Northridge to pursue a degree in Nutrition. We are so excited for Delaney to bring her expertise to the Dance Alliance Family!

Shayli Voyles
Instructor

Shayli began dancing at the age of 9 and has trained in various styles such as jazz, tap, contemporary, lyrical, ballet, pointe, hip hop and tumbling. Shayli was on The Dance Company’s competitive team for 6 years. She has also been a teacher’s assistant in classes and summer camps at TDC for 4 years with children ages two to eight. In addition to her training, Shayli was chosen to join TDC’s Leadership Program which required her to set a good example for younger dancers to look up to. Shayli’s dancing continued with Rancho Campana High School, where she held Officer positions with the team all 3 years. She became one of the seven girls to form the high school’s competitive dance team which won two national titles their first year. Shayli is really looking forward to the opportunity to work with younger dancers. She found it is something she is passionate about and finds joy in watching young dancers grow. Shayli is going into her third year teaching at Dance Alliance and is excited to train our young dancers!

Bella Murphree
Instructor

Bella began dancing at a very young age, and has been pursuing her passion for 19 years. She danced competitively with a local studio during her high school years winning many titles such as top elite studio, and best new groups. She was a captain of the Newbury Park Dance Team her junior and senior year. Her sophomore year the team won national titles in all divisions including lyrical, jazz, hip-hop, contemporary, and novelty. Towards the end of her high school career with her senior solo she won the regional title at one of the USA competitions. Also during her senior year she was nominated for student of the month, and received the award on the Laker’s basketball court for outstanding academic achievements. She has learned from many influential choreographers such as Robert Roldan, Will Loftis, Talia Favia, Andrew Winghart, Denise Wall, Mandy Moore and many more! She just recently graduated from the University of California Santa Barbara with a degree is Psychological and brain sciences and a minor in clinical neurology. She now aspires to attend Chapman University attending Physician Assistant School. Bella is one of the 3 Elite coaches here at Dance Alliance and is looking forward to year 5!

Katrina Spencer
Instructor

Katrina Spencer is a small town sweetheart from Pennsylvania. She started dance at the age of four at a small studio called The Dance Company. She started competing at the age of ten and had multiple awards and scholarships. She trained thirty hours a week in ballet from when she was thirteen to sixteen years old, and then transferred to a competition studio called Dancers Studio. She trained at Point Park University’s International Six Week Summer Dance Intensive for five summers in a row, graduated high school and moved to LA at the age of eighteen to pursue her dance and acting career. From there, she attended Hussian College In Studio Los Angeles, and gradated in May with her BFA in Commercial Dance. Since moving to LA, Katrina has been in multiple live dance performances/concept videos, plays, musicals, short films, and plays the role of Anita in an upcoming sci-fi drama series “Anita”. She has worked with many choreographers such as Nicky Anderson, Cameron Lee, Lauren Froderman, KC Monnie, & Kiesha Lalama. Aside from performing, Katrina has always had a passion for teaching and hopes to help her students to reach their goals & shoot for the stars while spreading positivity & love.

Jayme Smarinsky
Instructor

Jayme Smarinsky has been dancing since the age of 3. She trained in Chinese traditional dance and eventually made her way to loving numerous of other styles. She has trained in ballet, jazz, lyrical, contemporary, hip hop and much more. She joined the Rancho Campana High School’s competitive dance team in 2020 where she eventually became team captain her senior year. Jayme also was a member of our ELITE company for two years and has assisted many classes along the way. She has won numerous regional and national awards on both teams. Jayme is currently attending Cal Lutheran University where she continues her dance education. We are so excited to have Jayme on the other side of classes now teaching!

Shalynne Armstrong
Instructor

Shalynne Armstrong trained at Retter’s Academy of Dance as a Rhythm Machine Company and Dancer’s Bridge Member in Los Angeles. She graduated Summa Cum Laude from Pace University in New York City with a BFA in Commercial Dance and Minor in Arts & Entertainment Management.

Some of her performance credits include Nickelodeon’s The Thundermans, commercials for VROOM & TikTok, music videos Shawn Amos “Ain’t Gonna Name Names”, Rich Brian “100 Degrees”, & Pavel Kazarian “Pandora” which appeared at Rio WebFest & Divulge Dancers’ Film Festival, Corps de Ballet in Pacific Ballet Dance Theatre and Tampa City Ballet, Crown City Theater Company’s “Nosferatu”, and many other live stage performances, site specific work, devised theater, short films, television, immersive events, and print ads & artworks.

Shalynne’s years of being a student, performer, and teacher has provided her with a diversity of expertise. She looks forward to sharing the art of dance with you!

Gianna Bates
Instructor

Gianna has been dancing since the age of 3 and has trained in various styles such as ballet/pointe, jazz, contemporary, lyrical, tap, ballroom, musical theater, and hip hop. She has been a part of DA for the last 11 years and assisted tiny toes classes for several of those years. She is currently on our ELITE team for her 8th year and an officer on the Rancho Campana High School Dance Team. Throughout her years competing at regional and national competitions, Gianna has been a part of multiple award and national winning routines. Gianna is very excited to start her teaching career here at Dance Alliance and can’t wait to work with our tiny dancers!