Rhonda Gillrie (Miss Rhonda)

Rhonda began dancing at the age of three and has never stopped. She has studied and continues to study many styles of dance. Rhonda owns and operates the Rhonda McCulloch Danceology that began over 24 years ago. She has trained dancers who are now professionally performing and/or pursuing Fine Arts Degrees in Dance, as well as those students who are now teaching themselves. Miss Rhonda's dancers have won numerous awards for high scores and choreography.

Rhonda is pleased to be able to provide quality dance instruction in a fun and non-threatening environment.
Some highlights of Rhonda's dance career are as follows:

Rhonda is pleased to be able to provide quality dance instruction in a fun and non-threatening environment.
Some highlights of Rhonda's dance career are as follows:

• Holds a Dance and Dance Teaching Diploma from Grant MacEwan Community College.
• Holds a Full Membership Status in Ballet, Jazz & Tap with the Canadian Dance Teachers' Association.
• Is an Examiner of Ballet, Tap & Jazz Amateur and Professional levels for the CDTA.
• Holds a Full membership in Highland with the Scottish Official Board.
• Is familiar with RAD, Cecchetti, and Vagoniva methods and terminology
• Has served on the executive of the Alberta Branch of the CDTA for the past ten years and as President for six of those.
• Has been the head Coordinator for the Ballet Division of the CDTA for the past seven years, and serves on the committee that created the CDTA Nationalized Syllabi.
• Is a former Director with the CDTA National Board.
• Former Ballet rehearsal Mistress for the children's roles in Alberta Ballet's "Nutcracker"
• Has worked with Competitive Gymnasts, Figure Skaters and even choreographs stage shows for singing performers.
• Rhonda was hired to do the choreography for the 2006 Alberta Summer Games opening ceremonies.
• Has choreographed major musicals for various community and High School programs. Her last five include:
• Evita
• Anne of Green Gables
• Grease
• The Wizard of Oz
• Peter Pan
• Oliver
• Seussical the Musical

Recently Miss Rhonda began the Dance 15, 25, 35 programs at William E. Hay High school in Stettler.  She is excited and pleased to be able to offer dance to students right in the public school setting.

Many of Miss Rhonda's former students have continued to dance and are now teaching themselves, manyotheres still dance for the love of it!

Miss Rhonda continues to study and train in order to stay on top of the new developments in technical execution of movements, the safe and proper training of dancers and the physiology of teaching young people. She loves to teach and feels that every child deserves the right to dance and feel good about themselves through movement and music. She also believes that all children deserve the right to proper, ethical and safe dance instruction. She looks forward to sharing ideas and knowledge with dancers and their instructors and learning from them as well.

Miss Rhonda has been married to Hal for 18 years and is the proud mother of two wonderful children, Hailey, 17 and Tyler, 14.  

Carla VanOers

I began dancing at the age of three.  My dance training includes tap, Jazz, Lyrical acrobatics and Ballet, although I was most extensively trained in tap and Jazz.  I have completed the AL Gilbert dance syllabus and examinations for both tap and jazz, along with most of the Brian Foley dance syllabus.  I had opportunity to compete for many years at the annual Alberta Dance Festival in Edmonton with various groups, duets, and solos with many awards and winnings.

At the age of fifteen, I began teaching and choreographing dance for younger students at ta small studio in Strathmore.  This same year I attended a weeklong dance workshop in Los Angeles.  In High school I joined the Cheer and Stunt team and competed at the National Cheerleading Competition.  During my grade 12 year I auditioned for and was accepted as a dancer for the opening ceremonies of the 1988 Olympic Winter Games.

From 1988 to 1992, I attended the U of C to complete a degree in Education.  While there, I auditioned for and attended advanced dance classes.  I have been teaching school at the elementary level since then.  During this time I met and married Daram.  We have three beautiful children who also love to dance.
Soon after my oldest daughter began dancing at Danceology, I was given the opportunity to return to dancing myself as a teacher.  Over the past three years at Danceology, I have gained experience with choreography and have won a number of awards.

Throughout my dancing career I have enjoyed and benefited from a large variety of dance workshops, including an International Dance Teachers’ Convention in Boston in 2007, all which continue to help me grow and learn as a dance teacher.

Stephanie Nixon

Recently married, Miss Stephanie is coming into her second year as a Danceology instructor with great excitement and a new last name!

Focusing mainly on the Pre-Dance and preliminary dance programs comes naturally as she is a third year kindergarten teacher.   Miss Stephanie holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree with a major in Physical Education, a Bachelor of Education degree with a major in Elementary School and an Early Childhood Certificate.  Also on the list of achievements is a level one coaching certificate for gymnastics, trampoline, and youth soccer.

All of these combined with 20 years of dance experience and passion leads to tons of excitement, creativity and learning!

Cally Strandquist

Hi I am Cally, I have been dancing for 11 years so far and hope to continue for the rest of my life.  I train 12 hours a week, including dancing at the studio and high school.  I do almost every type of dance that’s offered at the studio.  I have danced in the Opening Ceremonies of the Alberta Summer Games, and have also danced in a number of plays.  I have lots of experience working with children star teaming for many years.  I go to as many dance workshops and camps as I possibly can so I will always have fresh ideas.
Dance is a major part of my life: It’s shat I want to do forever!   Teaching has been a dream that has finally come true.  Ever Since I was little I would look up to the “Big Girls” and want to be “Just like them”.  I can’t imagine myself not dancing; I’m very excited about getting to share my love of dance with others.  Dreaming and Always thinking of dance is just what I do and it will be that way forever.  I LOVE DANCE.

Sheila Cutts

Hi I am Miss Sheila and have moved to this fast growing, friendly town of Stettler 3 ½ years ago and am delighted to have made the move.  My family and I had previously lived in the small town of Chauvin, where I was born and raised.  In past years, I have worked at banks, engineering companies and so on.  Just before we moved to Stettler, I was with Talisman Energy running their office.  During the time in between I have raised three children, staying at home with them in their younger years.  I was on the town council for 4 years, president of the community library for 3 on FCSS board for 3years, and on my perish council for so many years I have lost count.  When my children were younger, the teachers decided that they did not have time for a Christmas concert…No way I thought, so for the next three years, I added that to my list of tasks.  I took a chance on applying to Rhonda and low and behold she took me on, I have enjoyed every moment since then being with the students and parents at the studio. 

My children have all but grown.