instructors
DIRECTOR, Alicia Springer
Miss Alicia started dancing at age 2. She began assisting classes at age 13 and teaching classes at 17. She coached our studio Junior Company and directed our Company Team. She purchased the studio in 2018 at the age of 24.
Miss Alicia brings with her years of dance, teaching, choreography and competition experience.
Miss Alicia refers to the studio as her "Happy Place." S
Instructor, Brittney Ament
Miss Brittney grew up in Lancaster, CA where her mom, who also dances, enrolled her in dance classes at AV Dance Studio 81 when she was 3 years old. Her first dance teacher was Lidia Landon Michael. She continued dancing through High School on QHHS dance team and on AVD81 Competition Team. She continued on to coach QHHS Dance Team for 2 1/2 years and has choreographed fo
Instructor, Peyton Brockbank
Miss Peyton grew up dancing with AVD81, where she was a competition team member and an assistant before becoming a teacher. She enjoys sharing her love of dance with others.
Instructor, Lynne Convis
Miss Lynne Convis has been dancing since she was 6 years old and had an instant connection with tap dance. She enrolled local classes at age 12 and her love for tap dance grew when she started taking weekly classes from Laurie Johnson at age 16.
In 2014, Lynne became part of a Los Angeles based tap/body percussion company called The FYV Group, that did many shows and event
Instructor, Ethan Cook
Mr. Ethan began dancing with AVD81 2017. He quickly became a stronger dancer and joined AVD81 competition team. He became a KAR Elite Protégé with Kids Artistic Review in 2023 and continues to train and travel with KAR conventions as a KAR Professional Protégé. He really enjoys teaching and helping kids succeed in dance.
Instructor, Madison Dent
Miss Maddie Dent grew up in Lancaster, California. She began taking dance classes at the age of 4 at Extensions Dance Studio. She came to AV Dance Studio 81 when she was 10 years old. She showed great interest and talent in Hip Hop. In 2016, she joined the AVD81 Competition Team. She remained on our Hip Hop Competition Dance team for 3 years. While on team, she became an a
Instructor, Cambree Gage
Miss Cambree grew up dancing with AVD81. She competed with our AVD81 competition for many years. She became an assistant and later a teacher. She works with our competition team as well.
Miss Cambree looks forward to working with younger dancers.
Instructor, Karrah Humphrey
Miss Karrah has been dancing since she was 3 years old and grew up in Lancaster, CA. Her dance journey with AVD81 began in 2015. She has been an assistant since she was 17 in 2018. She enjoys all styles of dance but particularly loves jazz and ballet. She also has experience musical theater and performed in many shows between middle school and high school. In her free ti
Instructor, Lorenzo Guerrero
Mr. Lorenzo Guerrero has been dancing for 14 years; starting with Krumping and leading into Breaking/Breakdancing. He eventually learned Popping and Animated styles with the help of a Krumping background. He has been teaching for a little under 10 years and absolutely loves teaching at AV Dance Studio 81’ where he teaches Hip Hop, Contemporary, Tumbling/Acro, Open, and
Instructor, Laura Henry
Miss Laura grew up in Palmdale, CA. She first began performing when she joined her high school band and Colorguard program. She continued performing through college, taking her first dance classes under the instruction of Kathy Bingham, Cindy Littlefield and Kathleen Burnett.
Miss Laura is a PBT (Progressing Ballet Technique) certified instructor.
Miss Laura previously co
Instructor, Sarah Mann
Miss Sarah Mann started taking dance class when she was three years old. Around the age of 8 or 9 she found that ballet was the type of dance that she was truly passionate about. To Sarah, tap and jazz weren’t as exciting anymore, so she decided to take all the ballet classes she could and eventually made it on to pointe.
When Sarah left for college, she decided that ballet w
Instructor, Maddy McMahan
Instructor, Lidia Michael
Miss Lidia was born to John and Lidia Landon on April 24, 1957. She has one brother, John, and one sister, Tina.
Miss Lidia’s early training was under Joyce Pearson, who was the owner of Caravan School of Dance in Lancaster (The future A.V Dance Studio ’81). During her teen years, she was an assistant instructor at Caravan. She also studied under many well-known L.A. teac
Instructor, Judy Ortiz
Miss Judy Ortiz, who celebrates her Birthday on May 7th, was born in Lancaster, CA and raised in Palmdale, CA. She started dancing at the age of 3 at local dance studios in Palmdale through-out her childhood and
pre teen. At the age of 14 Judy enrolled at Caravan School of Dance in Lancaster (which was to become AV Dance Studio 81) and her teacher was Susie Pearson.This is wh
Instructor, Amber Stewart
Miss Amber has been dancing at AVD'81 since she was 2 years old. Both her mother and sister also dance at AVD'81. She has been teaching going on 6 years and was an assistant for 5 years before that. Miss Amber primarily teaches ballet but she has also taught and taken other styles.
She is also a company member of the Antelope Valley Ballet. As a company member, she has to
Instructor, Megan VanPelt
Miss Megan started dancing at the age of three and started competing at age five. She danced at New World Dance in Santa Clarita, under the direction of Terry Bixler. She danced on the dance team in junior high and was the captain of her dance team in high school. Megan started teaching and choreographing during high school for Hillview Junior High dance team. She has also
Office Staff, Georgina Brown
Miss Georgina began dancing at the age of 4 and fell in love with it right away. She continued dancing in Orange County until she moved to the AV at the age of 11 and signed up for classes at AVD81 shortly after moving here.
Miss Georgina continued dancing in high school and was on her high school colorguard team. Before graduating High School, she began choreographing
