Sydney Rebeck started dancing and competitive gymnastics when she was three years old. She spent most of her dance career at Le Dance studio in Overland Park, and continued on to dance in college at the University of Kansas. She was a Rock Chalk Dancer for four years and captain for two. During her time at KU she competed Pom and Hip Hop at UDA Nationals in Orlando Florida, attended Pro Action Dance Convention in Las Vegas and Choreography Pros Dance Convention in Phoenix, AZ, and danced at the NCAA Final Four in San Antonio. She choreographed many game-day routines for RCD, while also choreographing multiple award winning Rock Chalk Revue performances. Sydney started her own choreography business with her college best friend and has been traveling the U.S. for the past 4 years choreographing for high school dance teams, studios, and college dance teams. She also had the pleasure of coaching Free State High School’s dance team for two years and frequently goes back to help with cleaning and choreography.

Sydney hopes to continue coaching and teaching, as she is very passionate about building the next generation of dancers and women. She is now attending the University of Missouri – Kansas City pursuing her Master’s degree in non-profit administration and hopes to use her degree to serve her community! Sydney’s philosophy has always been built upon hard work, drive, and becoming a better version of yourself. She loves building relationships with others and does her best to be a role model to each young dancer she meets. Her mantra is “hard work beats talent, when talent doesn’t work hard”!

Olivia Ryan started her dance career at the age of 4 right here at Dance Gallery. She has danced competitively for 14 years and taught for 5. Now at 20 years old, she is a sophomore in college at Kansas State University studying Public Relations and Advertising. Throughout her years of dancing, Olivia became a 5x national solo champion and was a part of winning six group dance championships. She also attended several ballet and dance intensives starting at the young age of 9 such as the Joffrey Ballet Intensive in New York and San Francisco, the American Ballet Theater Intensive in New York, Transform, The Sessions, and many more. Olivia has worked closely with choreographers such as Shannon Mather, and Teri Day, and hopes to continue to learn and grow from those around her. For the past two years in college, Olivia has been a member of the Kansas State dance team the Classy Cats. She was able to dance on the field at the BIG12 Championship in AT&T Stadium, and the Sugar Bowl in the Superdome. 

Olivia now primarily focuses on teaching, choreographing, and continuing her dance career. Olivia’s variety of choreography ranges from solos to productions of 60-plus dancers. She specializes in musical theater, lyrical, ballroom, and teaching technique, while also teaching jazz, tap, acro, and tiny tots classes. Students would describe Olivia as determined, passionate, and thoughtful. Olivia’s goals are to help dancers build self-confidence and grow their love for dance. She wants to push dancers to be the best they can be while building relationships with them and being a role model to look up to.

Lauren Finke grew up dancing for Above the Barre Dance Academy in Overland Park, Kansas. There she trained in modern, contemporary, jazz, tap, and ballet. She was also a member of the dance team at Blue Valley Southwest where she served as captain for two years and led the team to multiple top ten national placements. She now continues her dance training as a member of the University of Kansas’ Rock Chalk Dance team. There she also studies Exercise Science on the Pre-physical therapy track. 

Lauren began teaching in high school at Above the Barre Dance Academy where she taught a majority of the recreational classes for two years as well as mini company and tap classes. She has experience teaching dancers age 2-18. She started teaching at Dance Gallery in the fall of 2023 and loves every minute of it! 

Hannah Bailey began her dance career at the age of 2 at Miller Marley School of Dance in Voice in Overland Park, KS. During her time she was involved in multiple performing arts troupes and the competition dance team. She continued her dance career at Oklahoma City University in Oklahoma City, OK and obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Dance Management. She has been a dance instructor at a couple local dance studios since graduating from college and is excited to be here at Dance Gallery! Hannah also teaches preschool dance at several local daycares and she is the Dance Team Coach at Basehor Linwood High School. She loves teaching young dancers the foundation of dance and watching them grow!

Hannah currently lives in Basehor, KS with her husband Terrance and her two kids Gracie and Cash.

Alyssa Bevitt began her dance training at age 3 in Winona, Minnesota at the Minnesota Conservatory for the Arts. She was a member of the Dance Repertoire Company and trained in Ballet, Pas de Deux, Modern, Jazz, & Contemporary. As a dancer she spent her summers training with the American Ballet Theater, Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, Fort Wayne Ballet and The Milwaukee Ballet. While still in high school Alyssa attended Perpich Center for Arts Education and later St. Mary’s University to further her dance education. She has performed principal roles in numerous Ballet’s including Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, Cinderella & La Bayadere.

Alyssa went on to attend the University of Missouri-Kansas City’s Conservatory of Music and Dance where she studied a dual emphasis in both ballet and modern performance. In her time at UMKC, she performed for the opening Gala at the Kauffman Center for Performing Arts in West Side Story, as well as Carmina Burana and Dark Elegies by Antony Tudor. Alyssa holds a bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance Performance from the University of Missouri-Kansas City and went on to dance professionally with Ballet Emmanuel & Thorn Productions before moving back to the Kansas City Area. Alyssa strives to instill in her students that dance is not about being perfect, but it is about the joy of creating movement.