Juliette began her dance journey at New England Dance Center in Westfield, MA where she trained and competed for over 12 years in several styles, including contemporary, ballet, jazz, acrobatics, and hip hop. Throughout her competitive career, Juliette discovered her passion for performing, and had the privilege of attending some of the country’s largest competitions including New York City Dance Alliance and Starpower National Talent Competition. Juliette is currently attends Villanova University, where she is the Technique Captain of the Villanova Dance Team. As a member of VUDT, Juliette performs at some of the world’s most prominent arenas, including Madison Square Garden and the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia. Juliette’s passion for dance extends to teaching and choreographing, where she hopes to inspire the next generation of artists. Juliette is also a competition choreographer for our ContempraYouth Dancers.

Rachel  has a BFA in English (Writing) and Dance from  Eastern University. She is from Salisbury, Maryland, and has 18 years of dance experience mostly from Salisbury Dance Academy where she grew proficiency in numerous styles such as ballet, tap, jazz, modern, musical theater, contemporary, lyrical, and hip hop. She participated in multiple nonprofit organizations like First Position Performance Troupe where she danced for numerous charity events, such as Relay For Life and Horizon, and at Disney World twice on their stage in Disney Springs and in the World Dance parade. With the Eastern Shore Ballet Theater, another nonprofit which she spent 15 years with, she participated in numerous ballets such as Alice in Wonderland, Snow White, Cinderella, Peter Pan, and The Nutcracker. She has choreographed for her school drama, The Addams Family and a solo entitled In The Rain. At Eastern University, she choreographed Hanging On, Differences Aside, and her senior thesis Found Wandering. Rachel is currently a member of the Glorify Performing Arts Company in West Chester Pa. Rachel is also choreographer for the ContempraYouth Dance Team. She is excited to be part of ContempraDance faculty.

Jess  began dancing at age 5 and really started to love it when she tried tap at age 10. She later explored more styles and has tried almost everything, but loves modern, contemporary, jazz, musical theatre, and tap the most. While Jess was studying for her dual major in fine arts and art education at Millersville University, she was a member of Expressions dance and served as the organization’s Modern teacher for 5 semesters.

Along with Expressions, Jess worked as choreographer with the All Campus Musical Organization (ACMO) on two of its main stage productions: Anything Goes (2018), and Pippin (2019). She was awarded for excellence in choreography at the KCACTF for her work on Pippin. In addition to dance, Jess is an art teacher for the Consortium of the Arts program in Upper Merion Township and works as a paraprofessional helping autistic students in Upper Merion School District. Jess is autistic herself and it is her passion to help make the voices of her students heard. She’s currently assistant director and choreographer for the ContempraYouth Dancers. It’s such a joy to have Ms. Jess on faculty at ContempraDance School!

Cassandra “Cass” is a dancer, choreographer, and educator from Allentown, PA. She has a B.A. in Dance and Psychology from Eastern University. She has been dancing in several genres (ballet, jazz, tap, hip-hop, pointe, lyrical, modern, contemporary, and african) for 17  years. Cassandra is currently  performing with Roger Lee Arts in Philadelphia, PA.

Jahzara is currently attending Eastern University, pursuing a BA in Dance and BS in Exercise Science. Jahzara was a Company Member of the Artist Simply Human’s 2023-2024 Season, is featured in the ballet training system, “Grunt if you Understand”, and has been a member of Eastern University’s Dance team since 2023. Dancing competitively since the age of 5, she has vast experienced in jazz, tap, ballet, street funk, hip hop, acrobatics, lyrical, african, and contemporary dance styles. Over the years, she has trained under the leadership of award-winning choreographers, distinguished teachers and various artists from East to West Coast. Artists that have poured into her include Lisa Gottlieb, Kimberly Landle, Michelle Wurtz, Heather Jean Wilson, Gabby Wright, Julie Berardi, Larissa Haberle, Leigh Anna Kennett, Dez Soliven, Trovaris Wilson, Maud Arnold, Lisette Bustamante, Matt Smith and Hannah Gossett to name a few. Jahzara has been teaching since 2019, sharing her love of dance, bright smile, and joyous laughter with her students, who lovingly call her, “Miss Jazzy”. She is eager to make the world a little brighter through artistic expression. Jahzara enjoys teaching all age ranges, various styles, and is excited to continue sharing her love of dance with others!

Beth Ann has a BA in Dance and Drama from Bard College, NY and an MA in Dance/Movement Therapy from Drexel/Hahnemann University. Beth Ann began her dance training with the Swarthmore Ballet Theater where she learned ballet, Martha Graham and Horton modern techniques, and jazz. She continued in college where she added Limon, and Cunningham techniques as well as Hip Hop/Street Funk and Flamenco dance to her repertoire. Beth Ann has been teaching creative movement, modern, ballet, jazz and musical theater dance for over 25 years. She has choreographed and performed numerous original pieces in Philadelphia and New York. She has also choregraphed for a variety of children and adult musical theater productions including “The Music Man”, “Baby”, “Peter Pan”, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”.  Beth Ann is a long time faculty member and fantastic! 

Sophia began dance classes at age 3 and fell in love with movement. She began assistant teaching at age 12, where she learned of love teaching dance. She has performed many leading roles in her pre-professional dance career and placed top 12 at YAGP her senior year for classical variations. After high school she spent two years dancing with Nashville Ballet Company in the trainee program and taught her second year there. Afterwards she went to Eastern University where she earned a degree in kinesiology. She is a member of the American College of Sports Medicine. She currently performs with the Roger Lee Dance Company and KCBC. She teaches ballet/pre-pointe/pointe, contemporary, lyrical, and conditioning classes. She has choreographed for competitions such as YAGP, Elite, Elevate, and Access Broadway. She has also choreographed for independent shows and Eastern University’s Dance Department Showcases. Sophia is currently assistant director and choreographer for the ContempraYouth Dancers and a member of our professional company, ContempraDANCE Theatre Company. We are so excited to have Sophia as part of our Contempra faculty!