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Arianna received an academic and a talent scholarship from Brigham Young University-Idaho. She was a member of the BYU-Idaho Collegiate Contemporary Team for four seasons; dancing principle roles. She was also a member of the university’s traveling tour team; Dance Alliance. She had contemporary and ballet solos in the 2012 tour to New York City and New England.

 

Arianna graduated with honors in her dance minor and business major from Brigham Young University-Idaho where she received education in all forms of dance such as jazz and world dance with a heavy emphasis in modern and ballet.
 

Arianna was a company member of the modern dance company Aspire for one season before moving to Salt Lake. She has over 12 years of teaching experience in creative dance, ballet, contemporary, jazz, and modern in children and advanced adult classes and works as a guest choreographer and teacher; most recently guest teaching in the Bay Area.

 

Arianna Mevs recently concluded her time as a member of the professional contemporary company Oquirrh West & honored as Holladay Artist for the city of Holladay. 
 

Arianna constantly immerses and engages herself in the professional and academic dance community as a student, performer, and observer, to aid in keeping the art and instruction within The Dance Box fresh, informed, and relevant.

Arianna Mevs

Owner & Director 

As a child, Arianna was introduced to movement through creative dance with the Virginia Tanner Program. She then began her training in classical ballet with Jacqueline's School of Ballet (Utah Metropolitan Ballet) and Wasatch Ballet in Utah County; dancing solos en pointe for full-length ballets. She has over 18 years of classical ballet training.

Arianna was the captain of her high school dance team and a member of BYU Youth Ballroom’s  esteemed competitive traveling tour team; earning the highest titles at the National DanceSport Competition.

 

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a note from Miss Arianna

We are humbled to help our students know their bodies & minds are very, very special. 

I have observed a shift in dance education as it has pulled away from a focus on dance as a meaningful art form. We are committed within The Dance Box to remain firmly rooted in educating & practicing the purity of the art & facilitating the encouragement & positivity it can provide our community & its children.

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Louisa is the 2018 recipient of the L. Scott Marsh Mentorship Award at the University of Utah, and has taught dance workshops in New York, Texas, Utah, Idaho, and the New England area.

 

She has performed with U of U Performing Dance Company, BYU - Idaho Dance Alliance, The Dance Collaborative, and Aspire Modern Dance Company, and has worked with Stephen Koester, Shannon Vance Mckechnie, Wendy Bone, Ashley Hoopes, and Gary Larsen.

 

Louisa Killian

Faculty Member

Louisa Killian is a dance advocate, educator, and choreographer. She received an M.F.A. in Modern Dance from the University of Utah and has served as a faculty member of the Brigham Young University and Snow College Dance Department.

Her interests began as a drummer and creative writer and accumulated in the study of dance. Louisa is inspired by diverse rhythmic patterns, sound design, and movement generated through improvisation.

Louisa advocates for dance as a significant academic pursuit and is a strong proponent of dance education for all ages. Louisa has over 15 years of experience teaching dance in genres of ballet, creative movement, improvisation, jazz, contemporary and modern. Her classes focus on Bartenieff fundamentals, release technique, kinesiology, core conditioning, and somatic work.

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Samantha Tagge

Faculty Member & Assistant Teacher

Miss Samantha trained under the direction of Ms. Janet Gray in ballet, modern, and jazz for 15 years. She has performed in Ballet West’s “The Nutcracker” and studied at Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and Broadway Dance Center in New York City.

Samantha has her Bachelor's degree in Dance Education from Utah Valley University where she was a member of the Synergy Dance Company. Sam is thrilled to continue her teaching career at The Dance Box Studio.

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Miss Sam was awarded Holladay Artist of the Month in the City Journal and recognized at Holladay's annual Reflections in Dance event in 2019. 

Miss Sam choreographs for student companies, most recently setting a piece for Olympus Jr High's performing company. 

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Shelley Swapp

Faculty Member

Shelley grew up dancing in the Salt Lake Valley, studying ballet, tap, jazz and modern dance with the Jolene Kennedy School of Dance.

Shelley studied and competed at the University of Utah. 

 

For the past 20+ years Shelley has had the opportunity to teach in studios in Massachusetts, Virginia, Florida, California, and Utah and is thrilled to be back in her home state sharing her love of dance with the students at The Dance Box.

Miss Shelley teaches Kindergarten and Pre-K dance classes within The Dance Box and nurtures an undeniable spirit of creativity and kindness in her classes.

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Alex Seager

Faculty Member & Assistant Teacher

Alex Seager is a performer, choreographer, teacher, and movement artist based in Salt Lake City, UT. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Contemporary Performance and Choreography and a minor in Film, Animation, & New Genres from the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. During undergrad, she collaborated with and performed in the works of artists such as Dani Kuepper, Emma Draves, Maria Gillespie, and Daniel Burkholder.

 

From the summer of 2019 through her graduation, she also worked as a research student under the direction of Simone Ferro, conducting movement practices and artistic outreach throughout Milwaukee. For four years, she performed as a main company member of Water Street Dance Milwaukee, having traveled to showcase repertoire in cities such as San Francisco, CA, New York, NY, St. Louis, MO, Madison, WI, Milwaukee, WI, and Chicago, IL. She has also performed as a member of the Gina Laurenzi Dance Project.

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In 2022 she performed with SALT2 and currently works with FLEET as a freelancer in Salt Lake. Her drive for artistic exploration has also taken her beyond the United States. In June of 2019, she lived in Brazil for a month while studying African influence in Brazilian art and culture. More recently, Alex traveled to Moncalvo, Italy to work with Juliano Nunes and duo FLOCK for their 2022 summer creation program at Orsolina28, and this past summer traveled to Berlin, Germany to perform at b12 Research Festival.

 

Alex has shared her love for dance as an instructor at numerous studios in Wisconsin and Utah and adores the ever-changing journey dance has provided and continues to allow.

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Lindsey has dedicated the last 23 years to teaching ballet with more body awareness and brain connectivity for safer movement than is generally the standard within the field. She developed a body awareness and posture program in which she travels and teaches students and teachers her methodology and how to apply better awareness to dance technique and movement. As a result of her program, her dancers have decreased injuries, increased longevity in their careers and have made marked progress.

She has been hired to create ballet and pointe syllabi to increase ballet technique in cohesive programs for studios. She has trained studio staff on how to teach technical concepts and cues for better results in student correction. As a teacher, she trains dancers to self-correct their movements through the autonomic nervous system and brain function.

Lindsey Brown

Ballet Technique Faculty Member

Miss Lindsey Brown studied as a dance major at Brigham Young University with an emphasis on ballet performance and therapeutic Recreation. Miss Lindsey continues her education through trainings and programs with Neuro-Training for Athletes, NDEO, API, Core Balance Training, PBT, ABT, Leap N Learn, Lisa Howell, Maria Vegh, and Finis Jhung.

 

She has performed as a professional ballerina with Queen City Ballet, Oklahoma Ballet, Rocky Mountain Ballet, Kaleidoscope Ballet Company, Theatre Ballet, & Premiere Dance Company.

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