Our Story

DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS AND MARKETING
Born and raised in the beautiful town of Boone, NC, Kathleen discovered her passion for dance at an early age. Those formative years spent twirling and leaping fueled her love for the arts, but as life unfolded, she found herself venturing into the corporate world as a manager.

For several years she honed her management skills at a prominent retail music store. It was a fulfilling chapter, but deep down she knew her true calling was within the arts community. By a stroke of serendipity, Kathleen found Music in Motion and began an incredible journey. Starting as a front desk assistant, she found herself taking on more and became deeply attached to the studios and the families that walk through the doors.

In her current position, she is able to combine her love for dance with her expertise in management, ensuring that MIM dancers and their families have an extraordinary experience at Music in Motion.

DANCE TEACHER & Office Staff (Jazz, Dance Company)

Miss Skylar started dancing when she was three years old at a dance studio in Virginia Beach, Virginia. She mainly studied at Wilkins School of Dance where she trained in a variety of genres such a jazz, ballet, tap, pointe, hip-hop, and lyrical. Throughout her years of dancing, she eventually joined the company at her studio and started competing in competitions around Virginia.

At this studio, she also started assisting classes at the age of 16. Miss Skylar knew she was passionate about teaching kids through this experience as well as when she had a job helping tutor children at Sylvan Learning Center during her sophomore year of high school. Throughout her high school career, Miss Skylar was a member of the First Colonial High School Patriettes Dance Team and by senior year became captain and was even able to choreograph her own performance for their senior night.

After a quite unordinary pandemic graduation in June 2020, Miss Skylar started furthering her education at Tidewater Community College where she is currently studying to get her general studies degree. Once completing this, she plans on continuing to study in child development and the arts.

In her time away from the studio, Miss Skylar can usually be found doing homework, hanging out with her family and friends, going to concerts, antiquing, watching her favorite shows and movies, and going to the bay for sunset picnics. Miss Skylar’s biggest passion has always been dance which makes her so excited to help all her students grow as dancers this year and perform beautifully on recital day - which just happens to be her favorite day of the year!!!

JUNIOR TEAM DANCE COMPANY DIRECTOR AND DANCE TEACHER (Kinderdance)
Jessica wolf is a Music In Motion alum, having trained here as a student and a company member.  Jessica currently choreographs for the Music In Motion Dance Company and teaches Ballet 1, Tap/Tumble, Ballet/Tap/Tumble, Hip-Hop 1 and Modern 1/2. She is proficient in all styles of dance including Jazz, ballet, tap, modern and musical theater.  She is beloved by her students as a kind, technical and compassionate, yet firm educator.  Jessica currently is a full time employee of the Virginia Beach City Public Schools as a special education teacher.

DANCE TEACHER, DANCE COMPANY LIASION (Acro, Tap, Ballet, Contemporary, Rehearsal Director)
With over 30 years of dance experience, Jaymey Dilley has traveled the world as a professional dancer and choreographer. He studied dance at Virginia Intermont College on a full scholarship and trained at Broadway Dance Center, Nevada Ballet and Tampa Ballet. Some of Jay’s extensive performing credits include his role in the original cast of the Broadway hit “Mamma Mia” in Las Vegas. He had a role as the dance captain and lead dancer for “Triumph,” which was created by Chet Walker the creator of Fosse on Broadway and he was the lead dancer and dance captain at Rio’s “Show in the Sky” in Las Vegas.

Jay also adds the roles featured dancer/singer and dance captain at Busch Gardens Florida and Busch Gardens Virginia to his resume and he was an Equity performer at Walt Disney World. He served as dance captain for Cirque ‘s Allure Call of The Ocean and had that same title while working for Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, Holland America Cruise Lines and Princess Cruise Lines. Jamey was a part of Cedar Points Live Entertainment as one of the Entertainment Supervisors, Casting and Choreographers.

Jamey’s choreographer credits include Cedar Point Live Entertainment main stage show, Real Vegas Show Girls, Holland America Cruise Christmas Show, the Las Vegas Legend Girls professional soccer cheerleaders Las Vegas’ Goddess arena football cheerleaders, University of South Florida dance team the Sun Dolls, and was the director and choreographer for the Mrs. U.S.A. pageant. His choreography also has appeared on ESPN, Fox and ABC.

Jamey is known for his award-winning choreography for competitions teams and has been seen all over the USA and Canada as a Master Class teacher. Jamey was the Head of Performing Arts Department at SLAM Charter School in Tampa Florida and was the competition director for a few dance studios in the Las Vegas and Florida area. Jamey also works as judge and master class teacher for Groove, Believe and DanceXplosion.

DANCE TEACHER (Contemporary, Jazz, Kinderdance, Tap and Dance Company Rehearsal Director)

Madison Houck was born in Virginia Beach, Virginia. She embarked on her dance journey at the age of 3. She trained extensively at a local dance studio where she learned various styles, including jazz, contemporary, ballet, hip-hop, and tap. Madison was a competitive dancer for 10 years and earned numerous accolades and recognition for her performances.

In 2018, she commenced her formal dance training at James Madison University (JMU), studying under renowned instructors such as Matt Pardo, Rubén Graciani, Ryan Corriston, Suzanne Miller-Corso, Shane O'Hara, and Cynthia Thompson. During her time at JMU, Madison had the distinct honor of joining the Virginia Repertory Dance Company, providing her with invaluable experiences working alongside esteemed artists and companies such as Ballet Hispanico, DanceWorks Chicago, Xiang Xu, Ricky Ruiz, and many others.

In 2022, Madison graduated Cum Laude from JMU with a bachelor's degree in dance performance and a K-12 licensure in dance education. Her commitment to dance education extends to her role as the upper school dance instructor at Cape Henry Collegiate along with teaching at Music in Motion. This is where she shares her passion for dance with young aspiring artists. This is Madison’s second year at Music in Motion. She teaches Jazz, Contemporary, Musical Theatre, and Leaps and Turns. She also Choreographs and is Rehearsal director for the MIM dance company. She is deeply passionate about the education and safety of her students and strives to make her classroom a safe space. She is very passionate about MIM and loves the studio environment!

Madison is deeply grateful to embark on her first professional dance season with Norfolk Dance Collective, where she continues to pursue her passion for dance at the highest level.

DANCE TEACHER (Pre-School, Kinderdance, Ballet, Tap, Tumble)

Alyssa began her dance training at 3 years old at her preschool where she danced for 2 years. She later joined Music In Motion Dance Studio in 2011 when she took her first dance camp. The following year, in 2012, she started taking one ballet class per week. In 2015, Alyssa joined the dance company at Music In Motion and since then, she has had experience in many other dance styles including jazz, contemporary, modern, pointe, hip-hop, acro, and more.

In late 2021, Alyssa started taking classes at Todd Rosenlieb Dance in Norfolk, VA. Ever since, she has performed in their pre-professional ensembles, Virginia Ballet Theatre (ballet), and TRDance (modern/contemporary). Through these ensembles, Alyssa is very often rehearsing and performing new and old choreographic works.

At Music In Motion, Alyssa’s teaching experience started with being a class assistant, beginning at 9 years old. Over the years of assisting, she has learned many teaching skills, tips, and tricks from observing experienced instructors. She has also assisted and taught for Music In Motion’s summer camps for many summers. In recent years, Alyssa has been subbing classes at the studio often. In the summer of 2021, she started teaching a couple classes of her own for the first time. In the 2022-2023 dance season, Alyssa started officially teaching a full season class and loved every second.

Alyssa strives to provide a safe, fun, and

progressive dance education for her students. With a basic knowledge of children’s development, she understands the needs and capabilities of her young students. One of Alyssa’s favorite parts of teaching is seeing her students’ confidence and love of dance grow throughout the season.

Alyssa is super excited to start another great season of teaching at Music In Motion Dance Studio!

DANCE TEACHER (HIP HOP)
Jalyn Lasala is currently the hip hop dance instructor at Music in Motion Dance Studio and Moonlight Dance Studio. She is currently apart of CREWcial Dance Crew that is based in the Virginia Beach area. Through CREWcial, Jalyn has performed and competed in many shows along the DMV area. Being the current Executive Director of the crew, she strives to be a better leader, teacher and student while hoping to inspire along the way!

DANCE TEACHER (BALLET, MODERN)
Veronica got a late start in dance at the age of 10, when her family settled in the Virginia Beach area. She trained in ballet, jazz, lyrical, modern, contemporary, and tap. Veronica was taught by many teachers like Lisa Longworth, Sheena Jeffers, Joppa Whitehead, Kim Lavyer, Mariah Lopez, Gabe Hyman, Janice Rosario and many, many more. Her main focus became ballet and modern/contemporary as she spent more time at the studio and learning things outside of the studio to really round out her knowledge. Veronica has performed in local parades, danced at Disney, and has had multiple lead roles in performances, and is currently training to perform a contemporary piece in February for Raw Artists of Virginia.

DANCE TEACHER (Jazz, Lyrical, Leaps & Turns, Dance Company)

DANCE TEACHER (intro to Dance)

Joanne has called Music in Motion her second home since 2001. Joanne danced with and choreographed for Music in Motion Dance Company for 14 years, from 2001-2015. Prior to joining the Music in Motion family, Joanne danced with Virginia Tech’s Contemporary Dance Ensemble from 1996-2000. Growing up in Lynchburg, VA, Joanne studied dance at Forest Dance Academy. Her favorite genres are jazz and contemporary.