Tiffany Spithas

Tiffany is a graduate of James Madison University where she received a B.F.A. in Dance. Tiffany has performed with the Montgomery College Dance Co., D.C. Dance Collective, The Virginia Repertory Dance Co. and The LA Contemporary Dance Company. Tiffany is enjoying her tenth year as the Owner/Director of Impact Performing Arts and Artistic Director for DanceWorx.

Giavanna Hershey

Giavanna is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro with a BFA in Dance. While in school she worked with choreographers such as B.J. Sullivan, Jan Van Dyke, John Gamble and Gerri Houllihan. Gia has taught Modern, Jazz, Lyrical and Poms at several studios in the DC Metro Area. She has performed with and choreographed for companies such as FloydProject and Full Circle Dance Company.

Nicole Tapiero

Nicole is a graduate of the University of Maryland, College Park where she majored in Journalism. Nicole started dancing when she was 3 and is trained in ballet, jazz, lyrical, modern, hip hop and tap. She has worked at Impact for the past 7 years as the front desk manager and helps facilitate and organize programming, marketing and other Impact and DanceWorx initiatives.

Michelle Workman

While Michelle’s career path led her down the corporate path, her first love has always been dance and she is thrilled to be coming back to support Impact Dance Studio.

Michelle trained at Point Park College in Pittsburgh, PA, earning her degree in Dance. She also has attended classes in New York City at The Broadway Dance Center. Michelle has danced with various dance companies, including The Pittsburgh Ballet Theater. She has also taught dance for various studio’s, including Patricia Kelbaugh Dance Studio.

Jess Pedretti

Jess was born and raised in Baltimore and started dancing competitively at the age of 6. At 16, she started choreographing for dance companies In the MD area. She discovered her passion for choreography, which quickly became well known at several Dance conventions where Jess was later asked to Join as a Guest choreographer. She moved to LA to continue to pursue her passion for dance. She has choreographed for dancers on AGT, Independent Films, and Music Videos. Her goal as a choreographer and teacher is for dancers to find their own individuality and artist within themselves. She enjoys training the next generation of working dancers in hopes of helping them achieve their goals in the dance industry.

Jasmine Waters

Jasmine fell in love with dance at the age of 7, and has been dancing ever since. She studied urban dance abroad in the Netherlands and while overseas, taught classes, performed and travel all over Europe to compete in National, European and World championships. After 10 years, Jasmine made her way back to Maryland. Jasmine teaches hip hop, afro hip hop, jazz and street jazz.

Allie Compton

Allie has been dancing since she was young. She trained at Impact and was a member of DWX Silver for many years. We’re happy to have her back as a friendly face at our front desk and as an instructor!

Kendyll Morandi

Kendyll is a sophomore at Winston Churchill High School and has been dancing with DanceWorx/Impact since the 5th grade. Kendyll is currently training in modern, lyrical, jazz, contemporary, modern, hip hop, and ballet/pointe. Her favorites are lyrical and contemporary.

Karina Carrasco

Karina is a Senior at Winston Churchill High School and has been a member of DanceWorx for 5 years. She started dancing ballet when she was 6. When she joined DanceWorx, she started trained in jazz, modern, contemporary, lyrical, hip hop, and ballet. Karina especially enjoys modern and contemporary.

Abby Lin

Abby is a junior at Northwest High School and has been a member of DanceWorx for six years. Prior to that, she danced at Impact for 4 years. Her favorite styles are contemporary and jazz but she also loves acro and learning new tricks!

Veronica Yeager

Veronica was awarded Utah's Best in State Individual Dancer and has been a Principal dancer with Odyssey Dance Theatre for the past 19 years. She’s appeared in productions such as Newsies, Shrek, Mamma Mia, Peter Pan,  Cinderella, Matilda, Prince of Egypt, Footloose and more. She’s also appeared in films such as High School Musical 2 and HSM 3. Her international tours include Broadway National Tour Footloose (USA) Mia Micheals RAW (Europe), U.S. Ballroom Champion (Ukraine) and Odyssey Dance Theatre (China, Europe, South Korea, Istanbul, Costa Rica, Mexico).  She is currently the Associate Director of Odyssey Dance Theatre. She is grateful and blessed to be doing what she loves to do. She has a passion for the arts and is excited to encourage the next generation of dancers.

Charlotte Nash

Charlotte is a Junior at Quince Orchard High School and has been a member of DanceWorx for 6 years. She started dancing ballet when she was 4. When she joined DanceWorx, she trained in jazz, modern, contemporary, lyrical, hip hop, and ballet. Charlotte especially enjoys modern and contemporary.