About Us

Dani Sanders, CPT, FMT, is a fitness professional that focus’ on dancer health and performance, and functional fitness. She studied Exercise Sports Science at Texas State University in San Marcos, TX and graduated with her Bachelors. She has worked in multiple gyms and dance studios across Texas teaching her love of health and fitness and sharing the benefits of sport specific training with dancers. Dani started dancing at a young age up until her early twenties when a chronic hip injury pushed her into another direction. This is where her passion for cross training and educating dancers began. Her dance training experience coupled with her copious amounts of kinesiology and physiology knowledge has given her the ability to work with dancers in a unique way that has yet to hit mainstream dance studio training. Her program is designed using scientifically proven muscle training protocols that incorporate both dance techniques and Pilates ideologies. She works hard to cross train dancers in order to keep them dancing longer, injury free, and performing at their best.

Mallorie Marion is a dance choreographer, teacher, studio owner and creative director with a passion for authentic creative expression through dance. She, along with her husband, Julien, owns and manages one of the top-rated dance studios in Texas, where 400+ dancers currently grow and thrive under Mallorie’s individualized direction and artistic vision. Dance has always been central to Mallorie’s life. She grew up dancing at the Atascocita Dance Center and Call to Glory Dance Studios, which were owned and directed by her father, Jeff Lewis. With a strong foundation in dance, she was accepted to Belhaven University, where she pursued a dance major under Laura Morton (a former instructor for the Houston Ballet) and Ravenna Tucker (former principal for the Royal Ballet). After achieving professional-level technique and artistry at Belhaven, she was invited to join Ad Deum Dance Company, under the direction of Randall Flinn. Mallorie’s professional dance career brought her all around the world, where she had the chance to be instructed, inspired, and influenced by many diverse and noteworthy dancers and teachers. Since 2013, Mallorie has dedicated her energy and efforts to building a space where dancers of all kinds can flourish and achieve excellence in a space where their unique minds, bodies and spirits are celebrated and supported. Mallorie brings a wealth of technical training and creative inspiration, which allows her to deliver unforgettable choreography that touches the hearts of dancers and audience members alike. Mallorie’s dance students have been accepted into dance programs at a number of top-tier universities, and achieved notable success as professional dancers and teachers.

Julien Marion is the Owner of More Than Dancers

Tracey Wozny is an accomplished speaker who loves to share her experience on leadership, Generation Z, business and personal growth. She is the owner of a successful dance studio business for over 25 years and founder of Taking Shape non-profit organization whose mission is to grow young leaders Here, Near and Far. She is the author of the Star Leadership curriculum that is taught to over 10,000 students worldwide. She is a small town girl from rural Missouri where she and her husband Patrick have raised their family of five.

Executive Director of 360° Dance Festival

KATIE GROVEN is a holistic health coach, personal trainer, and world champion dancer. She has combined her 25 years of dance and her expertise in nutrition and fitness to create Dancer-Fitness.Com to empower dancers to view themselves as athletes and give them the tools to increase their strength, endurance, injury prevention, and overall performance.

www.emilybufferd.com. Educator @stepsonbroadway