School of Dance

Motion & Music Graduate • SFU BFA (Dance) Student

Abby has been dancing since the age of three, at Motion & Music. She fell in love with the movement and feeling of dance immediately, and never stopped. She has been taking a range of styles from an early age, such as ballet, jazz, lyrical, contemporary, and hip hop. 

Abby is a graduate of Motion Dance Company and has been since its creation in 2015. She began volunteering at the studio in 2019, and loves being able to help young dancers experience the joys of the art as much as herself. 

In 2024 Abby was the inaugural recipient of the Michelle Hebert Joy of Dance scholarship and is now a student at SFU’s Contemporary Arts Program to further her love of dance.

Bruce Bryant, also known as B_Almighty, is a hyper-passionate teacher with over 15 years experience instructing dance and is an active member and leader of several facets of the street dance community. Bruce is skilled in providing high energy education on the movement, history, and philosophy of dance. As well as presenting it in a manner in which it can be well received and applied.

Bruce is well versed in numerous styles; such as Memphis Jookin', popping, hip hop, & locking and is a veteran dancer, freestyler, battler, and choreographer.

Having had to work through extreme health circumstances as a childhood cancer survivor, Bruce has gained an immensely deep and unique understanding of human motion and expression capacity. Developing a special radiance from true appreciation for life and dance. He actively channels honed techniques to push the uplifting potential of rhythmic movement of each of his students.

SFU Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance) • Acrobatic Arts Certified

Camryn is a contemporary dance artist from the small town of Cayley, Alberta. From an early age, she studied and competed in various dance styles including Jazz, Ballet, Hip Hop, Contemporary, Tap, Acro, Lyrical, and Musical Theatre, to name a few. When not at the studio, Camryn focused on studying piano, and flute, and participating in her school’s choir group. 

Through her exploration of different dance techniques, she fell in love with contemporary dance and pursued and completed her Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts at Simon Fraser University’s School for the Contemporary Arts. During her time at Simon Fraser University, she has had the opportunity to choreograph, lead, and participate in various shows and perform as part of the Dance Repertoire shows. In addition to her dance experience, she had the opportunity to collaborate with various composers and explore the relationship between music and movement, and the importance of sound within her works.  

Camryn has always been passionate about sharing her love for dance, music, and the arts, and dreamed of being an educator since she was little. She is super excited to be a part of Motion & Music and the ability to share her passion with her students!

Acrobatic Arts Certified • So You Think You Can Dance (s.3) Finalist

Born and raised in Canada, Charlene began dancing at the age of 3. She has continued for 33 strong years, and her career is only growing more substantial. She has accomplished many dreams and continues to thrive for what she wants.

Most recognizable, Charlene achieved the title of final top 5 girls in the hit TV show, "So You Think You Can Dance Canada" Season 3. Charlene competed against thousands to make the Top 22. Since the completion and filming of SYTYCDC, Charlene has returned to BC where she is working hard and travelling the lower mainland teaching workshops, master classes, setting choreography and highlighting in numerous shows.

Charlene has appeared in such shows as: Carnival LA 2010, The Annual Sports BC Award Ceremonies 2011, Women's Resource Society Show against "Abuse Towards Women," Vancouver's Choreography and Talent Showcase '11 and Cliff House Entertainment production of "Fest of Fools." Charlene has choreographed, in addition to highlighting with her own solo work, for Song, Strings and Steps productions of "Talent," "A Christmas Tale" and "Hits from Broadway." Film credits include the movie, from the famous Nickelodeon Production, "Ragz."

Charlene choreographed for Team Canada West, where they placed Top 5th Finalist Jr. Small Group Modern Formations Division @ 'World's' in Poland. She was titled 'Head Instructor' in charge of cleaning all of Team Canada West Routines to prepare them for Worlds 2014. Charlene also had the privilege of being the head choreographer for 'Fraser Valley Stage's Production of Oklahoma', where they received standing ovations and sold-out performances! In 2011, she was chosen and awarded by the Abbotsford Arts Council the 'Arty Award for Outstanding Artist in the Performing Arts, Dance.’

Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines and Holland America Cruise Lines (as Dance Captain), were amongst Charlene's professional jobs at the age of 18. After dabbling in the creative side of dance, Charlene became a production assistant and choreographer for Stiletto Entertainment. She was then inspired to move to New York City to train with the best of the best, and expanded her education in dance into the world of Ballroom, and Latin. Whilst digging into this new training, Charlene also continued to study hard with some of the world’s top teachers and choreographers that are constantly sought after: Stacey Tookey, Mia Michaels, Maria Torres, Blake McGrath, Luther Brown, Jean-Marc Genereux, Sergio Trujillo, Danny Arbour, Gustavo Vargas, ShowTyme, Melissa Williams, Bill T. Jones, Christiana Woodard, and the staff of Alvin Ailey to name a few.

Additionally, she has completed the Royal Academy of Dance graded and vocational exams. She has her certification in Acrobatic Arts and continues to train and extend her certification levels in this field of dance.

When Charlene is not performing or studying her art, you can find her sharing her abundance of knowledge, experience, and insight - shaping and developing young dancers to chase after their dreams. Charlene's passion for teaching reflects the same passion and love she feels towards dancing herself.

Motion & Music Dance Graduate

Ciara has been dancing for over a decade. She started at the community centre in Coquitlam with Jessica as her teacher, and has continued to dance with her when she started Motion and Music. Ciara danced with the MDC performance companies and finished her career being recognized for her contemporary solo at multiple competitions. She has experience in styles such as; contemporary, lyrical, jazz, contemporary, ballet, hip hop and highland. 

RAD Certified • PBT

Emma has 13 years of dance experience in various styles but took a special interest in ballet.

She trained in Saskatchewan at Doris Sitter School of Dance and spent many summers attending The Royal Winnipeg Ballet intensives. After completing all of her RAD examinations, Emma finished her teaching certificate and has been working as a Royal Academy of Dance registered teacher for the past 5 years. She is also Progressing Ballet Technique (PBT) certified and enjoys bringing elements of PBT into her classes.

Emma is also attending the University of British Columbia to complete her psychology degree.

SFU Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance 2025)

Gaby was born in Tamaulipas, Mexico, where she started her dance journey at the age of 3. At 11 years old, she immigrated to Vancouver, Canada with her family. Here, she continued to explore and challenge her potential in dance through the Dance program at Burnaby Mountain Secondary, in which she was a company member and part of the leadership program throughout all her high school years. Gaby is now heading into her fourth year as a Dance Major at the School for the Contemporary Arts, SFU- where she works to obtain her Bachelor in Fine Arts with a Minor in Kinesiology. She has had the opportunity to learn under, work and perform for Vancouver-based artists Justine A. Chambers, Ninin Dongnier, Marla Eist, Rob Kitsos, Emmalena Fredriksson, Daisy Thompson, Henry Daniel, and Megan Walker Straight. Gaby is also an active community member, where she has volunteered for Company 605 and Ballet BC. She is also part of Samba Fusion as a trainee, dancer and performer and she has recently began exploring various Latin dance styles, such as bachata, salsa, and mambo.

Gaby is a passionate and energetic individual interested in the never-ending exploration of movement through dance, music, physical activity and mind-body connection. She is ecstatic to be joining the Motion & Music family as a Dance Instructor for the 2024 season. By sharing her lifelong passion for the arts, encouraging exploration through self-expression and fostering individuality and diversity, she hopes to create a safe and fun space for her students to explore the magic of dance and reach their full potential!

Academy Director • SFU Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance) • Kinesiology & Fitness Cert.

Jessica's love for dance started at the early age of three at a small studio in Whitecourt, Alberta. There she studied and competed in ballet, jazz, tap, lyrical, modern, hip hop, musical theatre and highland. Jessica's passion for teaching began when she was given the opportunity to instruct her own beginner classes, which eventually led to her teaching the tap and ballet programs for her dance school. Jessica shared her passion for dance by volunteering regularly for the Boys and Girls Club, Go-Girl Conference (a girl’s self-esteem camp), and other recreational dance programs and elementary schools to help encourage kids creativity and physical activity. As a dancer in high school, Jessica trained many hours per week, which included the opportunity to train on scholarship at The Edge Performing Arts Centre in Los Angeles.

Jessica was brought out to British Columbia after being accepted into The Source Dance Company, a semi-professional dance company based in downtown Vancouver. While in The Source, Jessica performed around the Pacific Northwest for events such as the BC Sports Awards, Vancouver International Dance Festival and many other art festivals. From The Source, she branched out to Simon Fraser University’s Contemporary Arts program, where she obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts in dance, with a Minor in kinesiology, a professional Fitness & Nutrition Certificate.

Jessica extends her gratitude to the families who make up K.Y.M. and feels extremely blessed to have the opportunity to engage young minds through dance and watch them develop as both artists and unique individuals.

Professional Breakdance

Magnus has been breaking for 13 years, Teaching for 8, and online for 5, teaching all over the lower mainland in studios, and throughout the whole world through youtube and privately.

Growing up he never felt like he knew his place, or identity in life, until he found breaking. Being a Bboy was not just a chance to do the art form for him, it became the way he gained confidence, social skills, health, wealth, relationships, from close friends to family and then all the way to romantic relationships.

His dance family is Now Or Never Crew, he now has the opportunity to dance, perform and compete next to his teachers/mentors and now brothers, which to him was always his main goal growing up, to be fair what child doesn’t want to be exactly like their mentors? Well, he was lucky enough to be able to have achieved that.

Dancing to him is the greatest foundation for life, as it was and still is his foundation to everything. There are countless mental, physical and emotional tools concepts and lessons that dance has taught him, that he applies to his life daily. He can proudly say that dance has supported him full-time since the very beginning, he is blessed enough to be able to have over 100 students locally, along with over 20,000 students internationally that follow his online endeavours.

His single goal with teaching is to become the best version of himself possible, by providing his students the tools they need to become the best versions of themselves possible, so that they can become the version of themselves that they’ve always dreamt of becoming.

Nicole is a dancer, award-winning choreographer, and musical enthusiast from Stoney Creek, Ontario. She earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours from York University, double-majoring in Dance Education and Economics. Nicole has been a lifelong performer, competing in dance into her adulthood and appearing in West Side Story with Theatre Ancaster during the Summer of 2025.

Nicole began dancing as soon as she could walk and comes from a family of movers. At age 12 she began competing in dance and has never looked back. Through attending an Arts Secondary School she became exposed to the arts outside of dance and became more well rounded and versatile in her training. Nicole has been working with children, both in and out of a dance studio setting, for 9 years. Her flair for the dramatic and outgoing personality has contributed to her performance and teaching ability.

Her enthusiasm for dance, passion for working with the next generation of artists, and her expertise in communication and client relations makes her an invaluable member of our team. Nicole believes that dance is a powerful form of expression and is proud to contribute to a studio that fosters both creativity and community.