Meet Our Heels Teachers

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Sam teaches a mixture of intermediate and beginner levels of heels dancing. She has been dancing for 20 years and has a lot of experience as an adult student in the heels dance and hip hop competition communities. 

She has an immense passion for teaching and confidence building in which really comes out in her teaching style. She is very excited that ConfiDanse has re started and nothing is standing in the way this time. 

Catch her in class, living her best life and rocking the body she is in! 

Dorian has about 12 years of dance experience and continues to learn and share his knowledge of dance with others. He took his first hiphop class when he was 11 years old and has fallen in love with dance since then! He’s done everything from competitions and travelling around Canada to becoming a heels teacher and teaching weekly combos! Dancing in heels has really allowed him to become so much more confident in himself and has made him feel like such a sexy badass. He can’t wait to be in class with you and create some dance magic!! 

Billie fell in love with dance at her first ballet class at age 3. Over her childhood, she trained heavily in multiple different disciplines as well as cheerleading. As an adult, she added heels to her discipline and with that her dance career has allowed her to train younger generations of dancers and adults in a heels environment. 

Billie is very excited to join Sam and Dorian as teachers for ConfiDanse as well as performing herself as apart of the intermediate group. After having 3 kids, heels dance has help her self love and re-ignite her flame for dance.

Christi has been dancing all her life; beginning as a child, and continuing through high school, where she attended an intensive Fine Arts program for musical theatre. She earned her BFA/bED at University of Calgary and went on to teach JR/SR high school, where she brought dance programming to a rural school. As an adult dancer, Christi taught Zumba and dance fitness for several years before discovering heels dance. Heels brought her a renewed passion for technique and performance. Christi has always been a teacher and creator at heart, and is excited to be a part of the ConfiDanse faculty, extending the company's reach beyond the Calgary city limits.

Aurelle has been dancing since the age of three & studied various styles of dance. Aurelle grew up learning RAD, and ADAPT and was an extensive competitive dancer in jazz, lyrical, tap, ballet, hip hop, musical theatre and pointe. She started teaching dance at the age of 18, and completed a minor in Dance at the University of Calgary, during her degree. Aurelle continued her adult dance education by training in aerial hoop, aerial silks classes and heels classes. Aurelle’s certifications include acrobatic arts, YPAD, BFA minor and various health and fitness certifications. She is excited to be sharing her passion and love of dance to other dancers hoping to gain skills in the heels dance world!