Bailey Grat

Twinkle Stars, Showstars, Acro & assisting

Bailey has been dancing since the age of 3 years old. She has experienced all varieties of dance from different studios around the states.

She loves laughing to silly jokes and doing fun little crafts! She is a momma to a boxer and a mini AussieDoodle, Nova and Ophelia.

She is excited to get to know each of you and teach your little ones to love dance as much she does! 

Jerilynn has been helping out in the office here at Ignite since 2021.

Her son, Jensen has danced with the studio for 3 years now. She’s originally from Orange County, California but moved to Berryville at the age of 12.

 Her hobbies include kickboxing, hiking, hanging with friends, volunteering at church, and spending time with my family. 

Jurnee Logan Edwards

Jurnee grew up on a farm in Dry Fork where her love for animals and country life flourished.

She started her dance career at Elite when she was 3 years old and the rest was history! She danced until graduation, and started working as an employee that fall.

In 2021, she married Aaron Edwards; and in 2022, they welcomed Cora Rose to the world—and the dance family!

Jerilynn Cabellero-Hover

Coach Shelby Woo is a certified coach and a 6 Time All American Cheerleader.

She has been head of the cheerleading program at Ignite Dance Arts (formerly Elite Dance) since August 2018. She has also been an Acrobatic Arts instructor at Ignite. She is originally from Clarksville, Arkansas.

Coach Woo has a daughter named Lucinda Rose and a golden doodle named Kasper. She has a passion for serving others and attending church. She enjoys trail riding and spending time with her horses. She is an outdoors enthusiast and was born on the Fourth of July! 

Sarah Parker Anderson

Sarah grew up dancing for Ignite (formerly Elite) right here in Berryville, AR. She always knew that she wanted to dance for the rest of her life, so after graduating , she attended Oklahoma City University and was a part of the American Spirit Dance Company.

After college, she became part of the Oklahoma City Ballet Company. Mrs Sarah has taught Ballet, Tap, Jazz and Contemporary at Ignite, and looks forward to expanding talent and confidence in our students, while adding fun and excitement.

She’s blessed with two beautiful daughters, Nora and Olive.

Shelby Woodard (Coach Woo) 

Kelci grew up in Northwest Arkansas. She started dancing when she was 4 years old with Mrs. Rachel Hicks at Adonai Ballet Academy.

Kelci has enjoyed continuing her training with various different studios and teachers, but finally landed in Berryville with Ignite (formerly Elite) Dance Arts. Just a few short years later, Kelci was invited to start teaching Ballet. Kelci is excited to continue inspiring her students through dance, like she was inspired by her first teacher and all her teachers that came after.

In November of 2022 she attained a 25-hour certification to teach Aerial silks from the Circus Arts Institute and she continues to build our Aerial program here at Ignite.

Ashlyn Lindsey

Ashlyn, is 22 years old. She’s been with Ignite (formerly Elite) as a youth Hip Hop instructor for about 2 years. She’s had a passion for dance since she was 4 when she did jazz/tap.

She moved here from California in 2020 and it was one of the best choices she’s ever made. In her free time, she loves to go out on the lake, spend time with her family/friends, and take her dog, Tank, for walks.

Kelci Blevins

Holly has been a part of the team since 2018. When she’s not working in the office at the dance studio, She is going to school to become a librarian and she also teaches preschoolers at church.

She absolutely loves working with children. She has 3 daughters that are dancers and she attended multiple types of dance classes as a child and teenager. 

ChaYse Anderson

Chayse is 15 years old and has been dancing with our studio since 2019 and assisting since 2020! She has trained in Hip hop, Contemporary, and Aerial classes.

 She’s assisted in Twinkle Stars, Hip hop, as well as Kids Aerial, and subs at the studio as well. She’s from Berryville, going into her sophomore year of High School.

Outside of dance, she plays softball, competes in pageants, crochets, and  has the sweetest puppy named Arlo.

Holly White

Elesha Heeren is a proud mom of 2 and a wife for 10 years! She’s originally from Verona, Mo and finally settled in Eureka Springs Ar. She and her family loves to be outside! Trails, hiking, swimming, bikes, and late night family nights in the back yard are the best places to be! She knows God sent her here to help, I'm CNA,MT,CPR,AED First Aid Responder and CDA certified!

She loves Aerial Silks!

Her passion has always been with kids but what better way then to help kids than through Dance!

Elesha Heeren

Ms Melanie has been teaching for over 20 years. She started her dance career dancing at the ripe age of 4, growing up on drill teams & in dance studios.

Her teaching began in Portland, Oregon at Footworks Dance Studio as a ballet teacher, then was teaching full time about 26 classes a week at Sherwood Dance Academy in all areas of dance. She was a dancer in college in Portland and danced for 2 years in professional Modern Dance company Agnieszka Laska Dancers.

 Her love of dance brought her to Eureka Springs in 2006, where she became the Program Director for the after-school arts programs at Main Stage. Her dance programs blossomed into Soul Motion Studio in Eureka Springs, and then she took over Elite Dance Studio (now Ignite) in 2017. Melanie is in her 8th year owning Ignite Dance Arts, and boasts multiple certifications in Twinkle Star Dance, Progressing Ballet Technique, Acrobatic Arts & Aerial Arts.

 In addition to dance, she enjoys directing theatre productions and has produced and directed multiple plays in the area including, Peter Pan, Wizard of Oz, Annie and much more! She has two talented children, William and Teviana, and loves to read, singing on the worship team at church, hiking adventures and rock climbing.

melanie piece

owner, director, lead teacher

Dance has always been a passion of Julie’s starting at the age of 5 at Elite Dance in Berryville, eventually, evolving into teaching in 2011 at both Fayetteville and Berryville locations.

Through the years she has enjoyed the competition , camaraderie, and sheer accomplishment of teaching students from as young as 4 and up to 17 years old. Classes she has taught include Tap , Jazz, Ballet, Hip Hop , Lyrical , Contemporary and Musical Theatre although her favorites will always be Hip Hop and Jazz.

 She values the friends she’s met along the way and being a part of every class each year.

Jazz & Hip Hop & Lyrical

Julie Viglietti

Marley Shock

Marley has been dancing since she was 2 years old! Her favorite dance style is Contemporary.

 When she is not dancing, she loves to make art, drink coffee, and play with her dog, Honey! 

Hip Hop & Contemporary

Admin tEam

Twinkle Stars, Aerial Arts, Showstars

Cheer/ Tumbling coach

Tap, SHowstars, Twinkle Stars

Ballet, Aerial Arts, Homeschool Program

Hip Hop

Admin Team

twinkle stars, hip hop, class assistant

Kids Circus & NINJA COACH