Kelsey Faulk Pérez, Owner & Artistic Director

Kelsey Faulk Pérez, Owner & Artistic Director

Director and Owner of Everything Goes Dance Studio, Kelsey Renee Faulk Pérez has been part of the “EGD Familia” since the young age of 7, where she began taking tap classes in 1998 under the direction of the late Shannon Calderon-Primeau. Quickly falling in love with dance and performing, Kelsey added ballet, jazz, musical theatre, modern, and pointe to her repertoire not long after. Kelsey grew up on the stage, not limited to dancing. Her love for acting & singing blossomed alongside dance, where she has performed in dozens of plays & musicals throughout her years on the stage. Some of her favorite roles include Barbara Allen in Dark of the Moon (Jewel Box Theatre), Sandy in Grease (NWO PAC), Chrissy in Hair (UCO), and Chava in Fiddler on the Roof (PCN). Over her years of performing in theatre & dance, she has won multiple awards, including Best Female Newcomer Performer at Jewel Box Theatre, Excellence in Tap, Excellence in Ballet, Excellence in Modern Dance, and both Junior & Senior Miss Elegance at Everything Goes Dance Studio. She was also awarded the Senior Superlative of “Most Likely to be on Broadway” at her alma mater, Putnam City North High School. Kelsey discovered her love of choreographing and teaching in 2008, when her high school theatre teacher took on a brand new dance class outside the scope of her teaching experience. Kelsey took on the task of teaching the class, and led 15 of her peers, level beginner to advanced, through a successful semester of learning ballet, jazz, modern, and tap. Kelsey has since taught Creative Movement, Tap, Ballet, Jazz, Musical Theatre, and Modern dance. She was head choreographer and stage manager at NW Optimist Performing Arts Center, where she has choreographed dozens of shows, including Oklahoma!, Fame Jr., Anything Goes, The Apple Tree, Grease, Aladdin, and Cinderella, to name a few. In 2014, she choreographed, produced, and directed Project: Choreograph It, a showcase of movement meant to help break the stigma on mental illness, helping raise hundreds of dollars for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. Kelsey received her official certification to teach dance in August of 2018 through Dance Teacher University. She is also an Acrobatic Arts© Certified teacher, receiving training in safety, spotting, and technique of teaching Acro dance. In 2022, Kelsey was a member of Prairie Dance Theatre’s Semi-Professional Company, continuing her training under the direction of Lynna Tallchief. Kelsey proudly served as a member of the Programming Committee for the inaugural Calderón Dance Festival, helping ensure that the festival stayed true to the wishes of the beloved Miss Shannon Calderón, and plans to continue her position in the many years to come. Kelsey has worked and trained with dozens of dance and theatre instructors & choreographers, including Gail Vines, Jennifer Connaughty, Emily South, Hui Cha Poos, Michelle Moeller, Julie Kay Stallcup, Louis Kavouras, Angela D’Valda Sirico, Steve Sirico, Simone DePaulo, Tony Coppola, Dolly Kelepecz, Toby Tobin, Chuck Tweed, and Rosemary Martinez-Baker. Kelsey is not afraid to try new things—she sees dance and instructing as a forever-changing art form and will always continue her training, research, and learning in order to become a better teacher, choreographer, and artist. Kelsey takes sincere pride in her art and loves to spread her joy of creativity to anyone who shares her passion. She feels honored and extremely blessed to be in her 4th year of Owner/Artistic Director of Everything Goes Dance Studio and is dedicated to keeping Shannon Calderon-Primeau’s legacy and dreams alive through the studio’s passionate and whole-hearted presence in the community.

Erika Carmen Vasquez, Instructor

Erika Carmen Vasquez, Instructor

Erika Carmen Reyes -Vasquez has been dancing since she was three years old. She began her Flamenco training under the direction of her aunt, the late Shannon Calderon Primeau at the age of eight. Erika is a graduate of Classen School of Advanced Studies where she was a dance major 6th-12th grade. She trained heavily in classical ballet and modern dance. Erika has taught various genres at the Everything Goes Dance Studio since the age of eighteen from Mexican Folkloric to Beginning Ballet classes. She took a brief time off from teaching at the studio to focus on her B.A. in Dance Education from the University of Central Oklahoma and was part of the first graduating class with the Dance Ed degree in 2011. Erika began teaching for Oklahoma City Public Schools fall of 2011. In 2014, Erika graduated from UCO with her M.Ed. in Secondary Education. She taught as head dance director at Capitol Hill High School for eight years. She is now the second dance director at Classen School of Advanced Studies High School. Erika proudly served as the interim artistic director of Everything Goes Dance Studio 2015-2018. She founded the Shannon Calderon–Primeau Memorial Scholarship. Erika now continues her history with Everything Goes Dance Studio as a Flamenco Instructor, teaching K1st, Advanced, and Adult Levels, as well as Manton (Shawl) Technique.

Kevieion Johnson, Instructor & Company Director

Kevieion Johnson, Instructor & Company Director

Kevieion Johnson, aka KJay, started out as an assistant choreographer/student under Ernesto Calderon at Everything Goes Dance Studio back in 2010. Even with classes in high school, Francis Tuttle, and BPA he still tried to squeeze in and help as many classes as he could. After graduating both high school and Francis Tuttle, he decided to dedicate most of his time to the studio. KJay has now been with EGD for 12 years. He started as a Hip Hop instructor and Hip Hop Crew Dance Company Director in 2018. His true-to-traditional-hip-hop choreography has won our EGD Hip Hop Crew multiple awards at competitions, including Judge’s Award “Beast in the Making”, PAC Attack Callback, and Most Creative Concept. He is excited for his 5th year as EGD’s Hip Hop Instructor, and says he has many years to come. KJay teaches intermediate through advanced hip hop and is Director of our Senior Hip Hop Crew.

Adelita Dixon-Hernandez, Instructor

Adelita Dixon-Hernandez, Instructor

Adelita was a member of the University of Central Oklahoma’s (UCO) Kaleidoscope Dance Company from 2002-2005. After graduating from UCO with her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance Performance, she attained her K through 12th Dance Education Certificate, and taught dance at both the middle and high school levels. Her accomplishments include Capitol Hill High School’s Teacher of the Year, Multi-Cultural Teacher of the Year and the state Fine Arts Educator of the Year. Adelita spent over 18 years dancing and performing as one of the principal dancers with Norahua Mexican Folklorico Dancers of Oklahoma. She attended summer intensives in the areas of Mexican Folkloric Dance from the University of Chihuahua (Bellas Artes). She also studied under professor Isidro Salas of Houston Texas, and was the official contemporary director for the world famous dance company Compania Folklorico Alegria Mexicana. Adelita is an internationally known choreographer in the area of Mexican Folkloric Dance. Her choreography has been featured in Mexico’s Festival Del Mundo, various award winning Mexican Folkloric Dance Companies in Texas, and at the International Festival in Disneyland. Miss Hernandez teaches K-1st through Advanced Mexican Folklorico, as well as Adult Mexican Folklorico.

Halee Harder, Instructor & Company Director

Halee Harder, Instructor & Company Director

Halee Harder started dancing when she was three years old under the direction of the late Shannon Calderon Primeau. Halee has been with the Everything Goes Dance Studio for fifteen years where she has trained in flamenco, hip hop, ballet, pointe, modern, tap, and jazz, as well as being a part of the studio's tap, jazz, flamenco, and hip hop companies and has now been teaching at the studio for three years. For two years Halee spent two weeks out of the summer at the Oklahoma Summer Arts Institute, where she would train intensely in modern dance under the guidance of Andrew Palmero and Levi Marsman. She has been awarded the 2019 Destined 2 Dance Award for Most Prestigious Youth or Teen Dancer/Choreographer of the Year and was awarded the 2019 State Superintendent Award for Excellence in Dance. Halee graduated from Classen School of Advanced Studies as a dance major in the spring of 2019. After graduating she spent a year in Chicago at Columbia College training in dance and is now attending the University of Central Oklahoma as a senior in dance performance and a member of UCO’s Kaleidoscope Dance Company. In 2019-2021 Halee had the opportunity to work as the Awards Coordinator for Precision Arts Challenge. In 2022 Halee had the opportunity to perform with the Kaleidoscope Dance Company as a guest with Bare Dance Company under the direction of Mike Esperanza in New York City. She also has been awarded UCO’s RCSA Grant to create a choreographic piece for the 2022 Fall Semester. Halee teaches Modern, Leaps & Turns, Jazz, Flamenco, and is Director of EGD’s Flamenco Fantastico Company.

Liz Kraft, Instructor

Liz Kraft, Instructor

Liz is a native of the Northern Virginia/Washington D.C. metropolitan area. She had the privilege of training with some of the most renowned teachers and ballet schools on the East Coast. She spent 10 years under the direction of Robin Conrad Sturm and Robert Sturm at the Northern Virginia Dance Academy. Her professional training also included The Washington School of Ballet, The Russell School of Ballet, American Ballet Theatre and Ballet Magnificat. While living in the Washington Metro area she danced for 5 years with the Asaph Dance Ensemble, a professional dance company. The Asaph Dance Ensemble performed in the District of Columbia at venues including The Kennedy Center, Constitution Hall, the Lisner Auditorium, and several venues in Northern Virginia. She also danced with Ballet Magnificat, another professional dance company, from 2006-2009. In 2007, she was one of three Ballet Magnificat dancers selected to choreograph and perform in the live PBS filming of John Tesh’s show, "Alive." Liz danced with Arrows International, in Costa Rica and Guatemala. She has also danced internationally in New Zealand, Africa, and London, England. Liz has taught dance for over 13 years in Virginia, Mississippi and Oklahoma. In 2009, Liz moved to Oklahoma City where she began teaching at several local dance studios. From 2015 until Spring of 2019 Liz owned her own dance studio where she enjoyed teaching classical ballet as well as setting full length ballets on her students such as: Peter Pan, Cinderella, Peter and the Wolf, The Sleeping Beauty and Don Quixote. Liz currently enjoys teaching dance as well as group fitness in the Oklahoma City metro. We are proud to have Liz teaching Ballet Intensive I & II at EGD.

Miguel Ybarra, Parking Lot Attendant

Miguel Ybarra, Parking Lot Attendant

Megan Murray, Instructor & Company Director

Megan Murray, Instructor & Company Director

Oklahoma native, Megan Murray, began tapping when she was 8 years old. While most tappers grew up in the inner cities, Megan grew up on a large ranch in central Oklahoma. She has been under the directorship of Professor Robert L. Reed until his passing in July, 2015. As his protege, she has danced with or performed the choreography of some of tap's greatest including Jason Samuel Smith, Karen Calloway Williams, Avi Miller & Ofer Ben, Bill Irwin and Cathie Nicholas, to name a few. Megan has studied the history of America's first unique dance style - tap, which originated from slaves as a form of communication. It is one of her many goals to keep tap alive by teaching, choreographing and performing the Tradition of Tap. ..."I'm so glad to see you continue to carry on his legacy (Robert L Reed) and I think you are the best one to do it..."; Diana (Lady Di) Walker. Megan’s exciting and traditional rhythmic tap choreography has won many of our EGD Tap Companies and Tap Soloists top awards at competitions and are a favorite of the stage during community events. Megan teaches beginning through advanced tap, ages 7 through Adult, as well as Directs our Teen Tap Company.

Elizabeth Kabrick, Instructor

Elizabeth Kabrick, Instructor

Elizabeth Kabrick began dance at age three at Bill Graham Dance Studio as an outlet for an abundance of energy. Two years later, she joined the Lawrence School of Scottish Highland Dance under the direction of Betty Lawrence, who remained her teacher and mentor for over 20 years. Along with learning the dances, history and technique were important components of Elizabeth's education in Scottish Highland. With her first exam at age eight, Elizabeth tested regularly under the British Association of Teachers of Dancing (BATD) and Scottish Official Board of Highland Dancing (SOBHD) eventually earning Highly Commended Member status at age sixteen. Scottish Highland helped open the world to Elizabeth as she trained and competed in Canada, Australia, England, and of course Scotland, as well as numerous US cities. Highlights from her competitive years include performing in Glasgow’s Lord Provost Procession, competing in the Sydney Opera House, and qualifying for the US Championship three times. In 2011, Elizabeth received an unexpected, yet life-changing invitation from Professor Robert L. Reed to join a tap class. She learned as much as she could from him until his passing in 2015, continues to study rhythm tap under his protégé, Megan Murray, and attends tap workshops such as The Big Apple Tap Festival in NYC when possible. Elizabeth is thrilled to share her joy in dance at Everything Goes Dance Studio, where everyone is welcome on the dance floor. Elizabeth teaches Scottish Highland technique at EGD.

Heidi Costello, Instructor & Company Director

Heidi Costello, Instructor & Company Director

Heidi is originally from Phoenix, Arizona where she began dancing at the age of three. She is classically trained in ballet, pointe, jazz, modern, tap, hip-hop, and contemporary. Heidi received her Bachelor's degree in Arts Entrepreneurship with an emphasis in Dance Performance from the University of Central Oklahoma. She also earned her masters degree in Adult and Higher Education at the University of Oklahoma. As an avid Arts advocate, Heidi currently serves as the Events Manager for Oklahoma City’s Scissortail Park. She believes in the power of the arts and building relationships within the arts community. Heidi’s pedagogy is strongly rooted in fostering dancers' skills and artistry with each individual taking ownership of their dance experience. Heidi teaches Leaps & Turns II & Stretch & Strength, and is Director of EGD’s Senior & Pre-Professional Companies.

Oscaar Kabrick, Instructor

Oscaar Kabrick, Instructor

Oscaar has been dancing at Everything Goes Dance Studio since he was 9 years old, starting in Tap and Hip Hop. Oscaar has trained in Jazz, Ballet, Mexican Folkloric, and Break Dancing in his total of ten years of dance experience. During his time at EGD, Oscaar was involved in Hip Hop Company and Spirit of Mexico. Oscaar has also been a dancer in the Race Dance Academy from the years 2016-2019. With his time at Race he has had the opportunity to dance for a number of community events in Oklahoma as well as special performances, such as dancing with New Kid on the Block and performing Thriller with the Oklahoma Philharmonic. Oscaar is now a trainee with Race Dance Company. Oscaar has also choreographed for Harding Fine Arts Academy’s musicals of Shrek and School House Rock. Oscaar is incredibly excited to teach Hip Hop & Tap, levels K1st through I, at Everything Goes. He is also the director of our Junior Tap Company.

Kayla Smith, Instructor

Kayla Smith, Instructor

Miss Kayla Smith is originally from Highland, Michigan, and has been dancing since she was five years old. Kayla graduated from the Ann Lacy School of American Dance and Entertainment at Oklahoma City University in May 2020 with a Bachelors of Science in American Dance Pedagogy, and a minor in English. Some of her favorite courses were Jazz, Tap, and Ballet Pedagogy, History of Teaching Dance, and Choreography Theory. Kayla performed with the American Spirit Dance Company in the annual Home For The Holidays and Broadway Revue productions. When she wasn’t performing, Kayla worked with the wardrobe team as the Assistant Wardrobe Supervisor and Assistant Costume Shop Manager to help create many of the costumes used in the American Spirit productions. Her favorite style of dance is Jazz. Kayla is also a Pure Barre instructor. Miss Kayla teaches PreK & K1st Creative Movement, Ballet I & Adult Ballet, Jazz I & II & Adult Jazz, Leaps & Turns I, and Acro I.

Christy Harder, Front Desk Manager

Christy Harder, Front Desk Manager

Christy Harder became a part of the EGD Familia when her daughter, Halee Harder, became a student in 2004. Over the years, Christy has become our studio “PTA” mom, stepping up with organizing fundraising for our dance companies throughout each dance season. As of fall of 2021, Christy stepped into the role of Front Desk Manager. Her dedication, organization, and easy-going attitude keeps the studio running smoothly! She makes sure parents, teachers, and students are informed, costumes look great, tuition is collected, and everything is in ship-shape condition. Christy’s oldest daughter, Halee, is an instructor at EGD, and her youngest, Ashlee, can be found in almost every dance class EGD has to offer! When not at the studio, Christy can be found spending time with her family, attending her son’s baseball games, going to the movie theatre, attending local performing arts events, or vacationing in her family’s favorite spot- Disney! She is our director, Kelsey’s, right-hand, and always does a wonderful job of making sure families, dancers, and anyone that walks through our doors feels welcome.

Thyrsa Da Rosa, Instructor

Thyrsa Da Rosa, Instructor

Ms. Da Rosa is a native of Asuncion, Paraguay. She graduated from the National Institute of Fine Arts of Paraguay with a degree in Classical Ballet Pedagogy, and then studied modern dance at the University of Oklahoma, with an extensive focus on Graham and Limón techniques, a certified Pilates instructor and also an American Ballet Theatre® National Training Curriculum Fellowship Teacher, who has completed certification in Primary through Level 5 of the American Ballet Theatre® National Training Curriculum. She has performed with the National Ballet of Paraguay, and was a member of Momentum Dance Company of Guatemala City, touring Guatemala and Mexico. As a founding member and Executive Director of the OKC-based Hartel Dance Group, she has performed in Oklahoma City and Tulsa, Sioux Falls, SD; Fort Myers and Orlando, FL; Austin, TX; New York City; Barcelona, Spain, and Asuncion, Paraguay. Ms. Da Rosa has been a member of the jury of the Seminario Internacional de Danca de Brasilia since 2014, teaching classes, coaching, and judging one of the oldest dance competitions in Brazil. Every summer since 2016 she has traveled to teach and coach dancers at the Centre de la Dansa de Catalunya in Barcelona, Spain. Currently, she is the programs and communications director of the Oklahoma International Dance Festival, a yearly summer intensive focused in bringing world-class instructors to the OKC Metro area. Thyrsa is excited to be teaching Ballet Intensive 2A, Pointe, and Pre-Pointe for Everything Goes Dance Studio.