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Meet our amazing team. You will find we have a true love for what we do and a love to inspire your children to go after the same.
The dream has always been to inspire our youth & build the confidence in themselves.
We have been serving dancers in the West Suburbs of Chicago since June 2013 with a studio in Sandwich IL and multiple mobile locations. Ultimate Dance opened a pop-up dance studio in downtown Plano in September 2016 which has now expanded to a permanent full running studio location in January 2017. We continue to grow our mobile program to daycares and schools in the area. In 2019 we opened our pop up Naperville dance studio that is continuously growing. We are committed to continued growth in the studio, staff and students at Ultimate Dance On The Move.
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No matter their background, experience, or level of confidence at their first class, every child that joins us at Ultimate Dance on the Move leaves a more confident child and certainly a better dancer. Our mission is inspiring the you through dance, care to join?
Meet our amazing team. You will find we have a true love for what we do and a love to inspire your children to go after the same.
Cheyanne is the owner and founder of Ultimate Dance On the Move. Dance has been in her life since she was 3 years old. She was involved in recreational, competition, and pre-professional dancing. Cheyanne has experience in gymnastics and cheerleading as well and her passion for all 3 lead to her opening a dance studio 8 years ago to inspire the youth through movement and building confidence in any avenue they take at Ultimate Dance On The Move!
Ava began her more serious dance training at Faubourg Ballet in 2016, where she competed at Youth America Grand Prix and received top 24 and a summer scholarship to Boston Ballet. She attended her first summer intensive in 2021 at American Ballet Theatre, both virtually in the New York program and then in person during the Florida program. Through Faubourg Ballet’s partnership with Literacy Through the Arts, she has been able to teach many of their classes, where she first discovered her love for teaching. In the fall of 2021, she continued her dance training at Hinsdale Dance Academy and went on to attend Colorado Ballet’s Summer Intensive this past summer. This year she has joined A&A Ballet’s Youth Company for the 2022-2023 season.
She is excited to be working with Ultimate Dance on the Move this year because she loves to teach new students and help them discover their love for styles like ballet, lyrical, and jazz!
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Lexi has been dancing for over 18 years, receiving her technical training at Sole Dance Academy and Revolution Dance Studio. Throughout her competitive career, she has trained under and assisted many choreographers including Emily Shock, Jonas Shumpert, Justin Tyda, Mary Tisa, and Zada Cheeks. In addition to her competitive experience, Lexi led the Yorkville Varsity Dance Team as captain during her high school years, choreographing routines for the football field, basketball court, and competitive arena. Lexi continued dancing at North Central College, and served as the treasurer and president of the Cardinal Dance Company during her time as a Cardinal. She graduated from NCC with honors in 2020, earning her B.A. in Molecular Neuroscience.
Lexi has been teaching at Ultimate Dance On The Move since 2016. She is passionate about helping her students identify and achieve their dance goals, as well as explore their creativity through improvisation. She is eager to pursue these passions with her students in the upcoming year!
Zada Cheeks, a native of Aurora, IL, began his dance training at the age of 10. He became a member of The Cartier Collective and Chicago Human Rhythm Project's "BAM!" while graduating from West Aurora High School. Since then, Mr. Cheeks has preformed with other dance companies such as: Chicago Dance Crash, Civic Ballet of Chicago, Corpo Dance company, Inaside Chicago Dance, Kanopy Dance Company, River North Chicago Dance, Tapmen Productions, and Winifred and Dancers. He has performed nationally and internationally in China, Italy, Spain, and Venezuela. Currently, Zada teaches around the Chicagoland area, as well as workshops and master classes helping students with their dance education.
Sarah has been working at Ultimate Dance on the Move since fall of 2016. At Ultimate Dance on the Move she has taught all styles of dance, coached award winning competition teams, and taught master classes and special events. Along with Ultimate Dance, she has also taught at the Naperville Park District, Spotlight Youth Theater, and Christian Youth Theater. She has choreographed full stage musical productions, taught dance summer camps, and a variety of dance classes from ages 18 months-adult. She danced with Aurora's Project Dance team for 4 years during high school performing in lyrical, jazz, and hip-hop dances and danced at College of DuPage and Hubbard Street during her senior year of high school, she also performed as a dancer in over 20 stage productions.
Sarah graduated from North Central College in 2017 with a bachelors in Psychology and a minor in dance. While at North Central she performed with the Cardinal Dance Company and performed a solo in a choreography showcase. In summer of 2020, she graduated from Lewis University with her masters in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Counseling. Sarah loves getting to meet new students and helping them find their passion for dance and seeing her current students grow in their dance ability and confidence. Her favorite dance styles include musical theater, tap, contemporary, lyrical, jazz, and ballet. She can't wait to meet you and your student!
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Erzsi Bernath, from Geneva, Illinois, began her dance training at the age of seven in the suburbs of Chicago. She continued her studies by attending Western Michigan University. She graduated Summa Cum Laude from the Lee Honors College with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance in Spring 2017. Throughout her time at WMU, Erzsi had the honor of performing Ohad Naharin’s Excerpts from “Kyr and Anaphase”, Rennie Harris’ “Continuum”, Lew Christensen’s “Con Amore”, Frank Chaves’ “Charanga”, Antony Tudor’s “Lilac Garden”, as well as original works by Peter Chu, Alivia Schaffer, Marlo Martin, Terk Lewis Waters, and multiple faculty members. Erzsi had the pleasure of performing with Western Michigan University’s touring company, Western Dance Project in their 2015-2016 season and was also selected to represent the University at the American College Dance Festival in 2016 and 2017 in ensemble pieces. After graduation she toured on Royal Caribbean’s Freedom of the Seas for 8 months performing in “Marquee” and “Once Upon A Time”. That next season she was hired by Odyssey Dance Theater in Salt Lake City, Utah and performed there for one year as an ensemble member and swing, then was promoted to soloist her second season. Over the pandemic and it’s recovery period for the entertainment industry, she has been training and teaching in the Midwest. Most recently she performances as the principle dancer in Netflix’s Bridgerton Experience in Chicago this past summer.
Born and raised in St Louis, Tiger has had the love for music since as far back as he can remember. Growing up in a very musical family Tiger was exposed to all kinds of music, instruments and dance. Tiger started dancing at the young age of six. He was so intrigued the first time he watched a Michael Jackson video. From that point on Tiger knew he wanted to dance. With other influences such as movies like Breakin, and Beat Street, Tiger would just watch dance movies and videos and would practice what he saw by imitation. Tiger then grew up entering many talent shows, dancing any and everywhere he could, winning dacne battles all over. Tiger booked his first dance job at age 19 where R&B singing group Naturally Smooth noticed him just daning at a club. From there Tiger went on tour for 2 years with Naturally Smooth all over the country including the 1999 Superbowl in Atlanta Georgia and the 2002 All Star Game in Philadelphia. After touring Tiger came home and practiced and joined the dance crew "The Flyboyz" in St Louis, doing many performances all over the city. At age 29 Tiger was discovered by artistic director Ashley Tate of the Ashleyliane Dance Company (ADC) dancing in a club where she asked him to come and study under her direction. Tiger had 9 years with ADC where he studied Ballet, Jazz, Contemporary, Modern, and other forms of dance. He aslo at this time Started teaching and coaching competition teams. During his coaching Tiger would take his teams to many dance conventions all over the country such as The Pulse, Monsters of Hip Hop, Jump and many more. He aslo presented dance peices in front of some of the worlds most amazing choreographers and trained up close and personal with Chris Judd, Tabitha and Napoleon D'umo, Brain Friedman, and Ian Eastwood. When Tiger is not dancing he enjoys his free time at the movies or trying new restaurants, cooking or just hanging with friends, and traveling. Tigers goals for dance are to travel the world teaching his love for hip hop, dance and life. Some of tigers acheivements are 6 time grand national dance champion in 4 years, 15 choreographer awards, 3 invites to be a special performanc group at the Pulse on Tour and Monsters of Hip hop. Performing with Morris Day and the TIme, Raven Simon, 311, Sonique, Black Eye Peas and Kirk Franklin. Dance teachers teach more than just dance, we teach life lessons through music
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