Summer Intensive Faculty
We at Step with Style strongly feel that the kind of quality instruction we provide cannot be found anywhere else. With both male and female instructors that come straight from the entertainment industry, your children are given every insight to the world of dance. View our Upcoming Workshops.
Amanda Coatham
Artistic Director
Amanda Coatham has been an instructor /choreographer in the Greater Toronto Area for the past ten years. She has been called upon to instruct for competitive and recreational studios, as well as professional and educational institutions. Learn More...
Alexander (Sasha) Chifman
Assistant Artistic Director
Alexander (Sasha) Chifman was born and raised in Moscow, Russia. This is where he began his dance training at the age of five at the Academy of Pyatnetsky, Moscow, and Young Dancers Studio, Moscow.
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Tiffany McLean
Tiffany McLean is the former owner and director of a very successful and innovative studio called Tiffany’s Dance Elite in Hamilton, Ontario. She trained extensively in all areas of dance across the U.S and Canada. She resided in Los Angeles while on a one year dance scholarship at Tremaine Dance Centre. Learn More...
Theresa Ruth Howard
Theresa Ruth Howard began her professional career with the Philadelphia Civic Ballet Company at the age of twelve. In 1989 joined Dance Theatre of Harlem, where she had the opportunity to travel extensively throughout the United States, Europe and Africa. She has worked with choreographer Donald Byrd as a soloist in his staging of New York City Opera's Carmina Burana, his critically acclaimed Harlem Nutcracker, as well as the controversial domestic violence work The Beast. Learn More...
Linda Garneau
Linda has worked on both sides of the industry, as a dancer (commercial, industrial, film and television), choreographer (Pippin', Chorus Line, National Jazz Awards, Chorus Line, Oscar Peterson Tribute, Bravo, Toronto 1 Show, MAC), adjudicator and director (Integration, Road to Love, and West Side Stories). Learn More...
Danny Davalos
From the age of seven, Danny Davalos has been involved with the performing arts, and through Toronto's premiere dance company - Do Dat Entertainment -his passion for the arts turned into a labour of love and a career. Trained in jazz, folklore, contemporary, and hip hop dance, Davalos is a sought after choreographer and dancer known for his professionalism, artistic versatility, and creativity. Learn More...
Almitra McMillan
Almitra McMillan is a dynamic instructor who has a long history in dance. At a very young age she joined the Denise Lester Dance Academy in Toronto where she spent 12 years training, competing, and choreographing. During her time at Denise Lester’s, Almitra not only competed on a national and international level, she also found time to help a fellow team mate start her own dance studio. Learn More...
Dane Gulston
Tap, Jazz, Hip Hop and Acro Instructor
Born December 14, 1985 in Belmont, Trinidad & Tobago, Devon Dane Daniel Gulston also knows as Tall Up, had the makings of a true dancer even at a very early age. Continually in motion, this young man has always had an interest in music. At the age of 3, he would be found imitating music videos of Michael Jackson and Wham! His dance has been enriched with the island beat pulsing through his veins, giving him a unique sense of timing and groove. Learn More..
Tamara Freethy
Tamara Freethy is a well known dancer choreographer and instructor in the dance industry. Her style as well as technical ability, have made her an outstanding performer as well as a brilliant instructor/choreographer. Learn More...
Rachel Cleland-Ainsworth
Soprano, Rachel Cleland-Ainsworth received critical acclaim for her portrayal of Sharon Graham singing Lady Macbeth’s Entrance Aria and Cabaletta in Terrence McNally’s play Masterclass. Her operatic repertoire includes: Donna Anna in Don Giovanni (Mozart), Euridice in Orfeo ed Euridice, Pamina and Zweite Dame in Die Zauberflote (Mozart), Nanetta in Falstaff (Verdi), Norina in Don Pasquale, Musetta in La Boheme (Puccini), Fiordiligi in Cosi fan Tutte (Mozart), Ophelie in Hamlet (Thomas), Cissie Woodger and Lady Billows in Albert Herring, and Leonore in Fidelio (Beethoven). Learn More...
Stephen Greig
Stephen Greig began performing professionally at the age of fourteen with the National Tap Dance Company of Canada, appearing with the company across Canada, The Unites States and The Orient. He has made numerous television and commercial appearances. Learn More...
Tatiana Parker
Tatiana started dancing at the age of five and has since then been able to travel between Toronto and Los Angeles training with many of the industries top leaders. Her passion for the art was one she could not ignore. A career as a dancer and choreographer was inevitable. Learn More...