Dance Dimensions Faculty
    Amy M. Nevius
    Co-Owner/Co-Director
    Darla J. Baltrush
    Co-Owner/Co-Director
    Amy is the Co-Owner of Dance Dimensions and Co-Director of the studio’s youth
    performance group, Fusion Dance Company.  She is currently listed among the
    Oklahoma Arts Council’s Teaching Artist Roster, and additionally serves as a
    teaching artist through Community Arts Programming of the Arts Council of
    Oklahoma City.  Through both arts organizations, she has brought arts education
    in the form of dance and creative movement to a wide range of populations
    including at risk youth as well as children and adults with special needs
    throughout Oklahoma.  Her passion for dance and creative movement has also
    led her to serve as a dance artist among several elementary, middle, and high
    school settings, including her most recent work through the "Dancewise" project
    within the Putnam City School District.  Amy holds a B.F.A. in Dance Education
    from the University of Central Oklahoma and performed on scholarship with the
    Kaleidoscope Dancers Company during her four years there.  Her professional
    training comes from a variety of institutions, workshops, and seminars throughout
    the nation.  Amy is a recipient of the State Superintendent's Award for Arts
    Excellence, and her choreography has been performed at New Mexico State
    University, Northeastern State University, The University of Central Oklahoma, and
    many other venues throughout Oklahoma.  As a founding member of Perpetual
    Motion, Modern Dance Oklahoma, Amy enjoys expressing her love of dance by
    performing challenging choreography both in modern dance and Perpetual
    Motion's latest explorations in aerial dance.
    Darla  is the Co-Owner of Dance Dimensions and Co-Director of the studio’s youth
    performance group, Fusion Dance Company.  She has a background in child
    psychology with an emphasis in early childhood development.  She has studied a
    range of disciplines since she began her dance education at age 3.  Darla has
    been teaching all levels of dance and a range of disciplines since 1999, through
    community outreach dance programs.  She is currently employed through Moore
    Public Schools as a media assistant.
    Shanon has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance Education from the University of
    Central Oklahoma. She has over 15 years of experience teaching several dance
    technique styles. She has taught dance in a variety of programs throughout
    Oklahoma including the OKC Public Schools. Currently, she is working with
    DanceWise, a grant project in the Putnam City School District. She was privileged
    to spend a few years focusing on her two beautiful daughters, and was blessed to
    have the opportunity to join the Dance Dimensions staff last year.
    Shanon M. Lanthripe
    Dance Instructor
    Kayla Jenkins
    Dance Instructor

    Kayla received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance Education from the University of
    Central Oklahoma, where she was also a member of the Kaleidoscope Dance
    Company.  She has also danced for the OKC Yard Dawgz Arena Football Dance
    Team for the past four years.  Her teaching experience includes Victory School of
    the Arts, Legacy Ministries, and National Dance Alliance, along with
    choreography for Unfold, Resonation, and Wait Praise and Worship DVD's affiliated
    for Victory Church.  Kayla's solo work "Inside" was selected for the 2007 American
    College Dance Festival at Texas Christian University.  Kayla is currently a
    performing member of Perpetual Motion Modern Dance Oklahoma.
    Gina Garriott
    Zumba Instructor
    Gina has been a certified group fitness instructor for over 3 years and teaches
    many exercise formats like step and hi/lo aerobics, boot camp, strength
    conditioning, stability ball, interval training, kickboxing, pilates, senior aerobics and
    yoga, among others.   She is certified to teach Zumba and Zumba Gold and is a
    current member of the Zumba Instructor Network (ZIN).  Gina LOVES to get
    people off the treadmill and exercising in ways that don't feel like exercise, and
    she looks forward to getting to know all those wanting to "Join the Party!"  
                                                            Ditch the Workout and Join the Party!!!
    Do you like to party?  Would like to combine party and fitness?  Then Zumba® is THE fitness
    solution you've been waiting for! Zumba® is a Latin inspired dance fitness class, which
    combines Latin and other international rhythms…dance styles like: Salsa, Rumba, Merengue,
    Samba, Quebradita, Bellydance, Cumbia, Mambo, Bachata, Cha Cha, Flamenco, Tango,
    Calypso, Reggaeton, Hip-Hop, Axe Brasil and many more along with up to 30% of the songs
    being those that you may already recognize from the radio!!  I am NOT a classically trained
    dancer, but that’s what’s great about Zumba…you don’t have to be!