OUR TEACHERS
Oliviah Fisher
Instructor
With BDA since: 2020
Oliviah, born and raised in Idaho began her passion for dance at the age of 3. She danced at Studio C, Kennedy School of Dance, and found a home at Xpressions Dance Academy. At Xpressions, Oliviah joined company and traveled to out of state conventions until she moved to Boise. She trained in various dance styles in search for another home studio. Oliviah later joined Timberline’s Sliver Legacy Dance Team her sophomore year and found some of her closest friends.
Her objective as a teacher is to help others fall in love with expressing themselves through dance. She recognized through the years, many negative stereotypical faults in the dance community and hopes to model breaking barriers and staying confident and true to oneself.
Oliviah is currently embracing the unknown. She is happily learning more about herself and finding the simple joys in life while making plans to travel.
Skyler Wemple
Instructor
Skyler Wemple grew up in San Luis Obispo, California, and she is now attending her first year at Boise State University studying psychology. She plans to go on to earn her doctorate of psychology emphasizing in child psychology. This is also Skyler’s first year with BDA.
Skyler was a principal dancer with the Civic Ballet where she took on many leading roles in ballets and contemporary shows. She has had a wide range of training in ballet, contemporary, lyrical, jazz, and hip hop. She spent two summers with Ballet West in Salt Lake City.
Skyler has also choreographed for numerous musicals in her home town as well as choreographed for her own company, and taught at intensives at her original studio.
Bella Flath
Instructor
Bella grew up in Orlando, FL and later moved to Southern California at the age of 13. She currently attends Boise State University, majoring in Kinesiology with a minor in Dance. After graduation, Bella hopes to continue dancing and teaching the next generation. With her degree, she wants to share the importance of injury prevention and maintaining health for dancers.
Bella trained and danced competitively at The Rage Dance Complex in Los Angeles, California. She trained in all styles of dance including ballet, jazz, tap, lyrical, hip hop, and contemporary. In high school, she was a member of the Hart Dance Team and was captain her senior year. While competing with her studio and high school dance team, Bella was a member of the Tremaine Performance Company. This consisted of traveling nationally and working alongside a renowned faculty. Before attending Boise State, Bella was a member of the AZ Aces All-Star worlds team in Phoenix, AZ. She had the opportunity to be co-captain and compete against teams from around the world.
Bella is now a member of the Boise State Mane Line Dance Team, where she performs at sporting events and competes at NDA Nationals in both jazz and hip hop.
Addi Davis
Instructor
Addi, a Boise, Idaho native, began her dancing career at the age of 3. She then tried numerous other sports before deciding that dance, specifically hip hop, was her true passion at the age of 9. Her first year of dancing competitively was 2 years later after exploring more styles of dance and growing an appreciation and love for them. She trained at Echo School of Dance and Artistic Dance Company before joining the Timberline Silver Legacy Dance Team her sophomore year of high school. The years on that team provided the biggest love for the sport she had ever felt and a great sense of being part of a team.
Addi is now a student at Boise State University studying Mechanical Engineering. She has hopes to one day have a career in the Aerospace Engineering field while continuing her passion by teaching a variety of dance classes. Her love for astronomy developed at a very young age, and the addition of math and engineering interests were added through her years of schooling.
The opportunity to teach at BDA was something she never expected to happen, but she is immensely grateful that it did. Training others has brought a whole new sense of purpose into the sport for her, and she has found that her fondness of it has vastly grown. Her love for her students and coworkers is ever growing, and she is excited for what the future holds for BDA.
Gia Contino
Instructor
Gia started dancing at the age of 2 in Fresno, California. She trained in Ballet, Tap, Jazz, Hip Hop, Contemporary, and Pointe. She danced at The Dance Studio of Fresno and worked with many well known choreographers such as Mia Michaels, Talia Favia, Ricky Malouf, and many more.
She is currently a 2nd year member of Boise State’s Maneline dance team, where she performs at sporting events and competes at NDA nationals in Florida.
She started teaching at the age of 15. She has done many solos and a variety of group dances. In the summers, She teaches at Dolce Dance Studio as well.
Riley Cardoza
Instructor
Riley was born and raised in a small town called Manteca California, and moved to Idaho to attend Boise State University in 2015. She began dancing at the age of 2, and started competing at the age of 4. She has trained in Ballet, Jazz, Hip Hop, Lyrical, and Tap, and traveled and competed across the nation. After moving to college, she couldn’t give up dance just yet, and was grateful enough to be on the Madeline Dance team. While cheering on the Broncos, she has also competed at a national collegiate level with her team.
In 2019, Riley graduated from Boise State with a Degree in Business and Marketing, and continued along her journey at BSU to graduate with her Master in Business Administration in 2021. Currently, Riley is in a Tech Sales position here in Boise, and is so grateful she is able to continue to teach dance, and is able to have best of both worlds!
In her free time, Riley loves to be outdoors, camp, spend time with her family and friends, and especially her black lab, Ruby! She is very excited to continue to share her passion and love for dance with the students at Boise Dance Alliance.
Beaver Builder Tech
Instructor
2020
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