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IGNITE is a local family-owned and operated business now in its 8th season and growing stronger each year.

Knowing the importance of creating healthy dancers, IGNITE spared no expense in building a dance studio into a carefully designed state-of-the-art facility.

Professional sprung floors, viewing windows and safety mirrors are just a few of the many features of the studio.

All of our current instructors are extremely passionate about providing an excellent dance education and building poise and self confidence in their students.

Our staff boasts multiple certifications in many different programs. We are a certified Acrobatic Arts studio, use the Twinkle Star Dance curriculum and working to get our instructors certified in TSD method. We also hold multiple Aerial certifications in Aerial Arts through Acrobatic Arts, The Circus Arts Institute and Progressing Ballet Technique.  

We love your children like family, and you will experience a studio culture like no other when you walk into the doors of IGNITE DANCE ARTS.


a glimpse into what ignites our soul

Our Why

Why do we do what we do?

What are our values?

safety and inclusion

to bring quality dance education and programs in the movement arts to Carroll County and surrounding areas

Dance is in our blood, and we can’t imagine life without it. Dance nurtures the mind, body and soul. We know the importance of dance in your child’s life


We value teaching not only dance, but good morals and model our values from Galatians 5:22-23 Fruits of the Spirit: Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness, Faithfulness, Gentleness, and Self-Control.


We value to create a safe space for all kids and adults to thrive regardless of their size, experience, or religious backgrounds. We love and embrace all!

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

Her son, Jensen has danced with the studio for 5 years and is on the competition team. 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 they have two beautiful children, Cora and Lane.

Jerilynn Cabellero

Sarah Parker 

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.


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.

Kelci miranda

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. 

Holly White

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, The Nutcracker 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

Admin tEam

Twinkle Stars, Aerial Arts, Showstars

Showstars

Ballet, Aerial Arts

Admin Team

Ignite birthday parties are made to be custom, one of a kind experiences tailored to your child

Birthday Parties at Ignite

We offer a variety of party options including some of our personal favorites: Princess Party, Circus Party, and Tumbling party

Parents love our parties because we do all the set up, lead the party with fun activities, and provide the clean up as well

That means you can have a stress free day that your child will remember for years to come!

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interested in renting our studio space?

make a rental request

When we aren’t using the studio for classes, we would love to have you!


Ignite Dance Arts has 3 studios available for rent.

 All studios are equipped with a stereo sound system available for iPod/phone hookup. Two of the rooms also include sprung floors and wall to wall mirrors. Also available- 40 chairs, mats & props, and 2 folding tables. A comfortable waiting area is available on the dance studio side, with restroom and dressing area available as well.  


Rooms are available for one time use or ongoing. Ongoing renters pay a flat monthly fee averaging a month with 4 weeks. Rent is auto deducted the 1st of the month. Renters must provide their own liability insurance.  


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