Instructors

Kelly Callese

Kelly Callese

Kelly Callese is the founder and Artisitc director of Aspirations Dance Company in Lombard, IL.

Kelly has been dancing since the age of eight starting out at Gotta Dance Studio where she found her passion. She has extensive training in all areas of dance including Jazz, Tap, Ballet, Hip Hop, Lyrical and Modern. She’s danced with master instructors such as: Michele Broviak,Ted Jackson, Kacy Combs, Roland Dupree, and Jay Fagan. Kelly was a member of the Starlite Dance Company at Gotta Dance Studio where she competed locally as well as nationally traveling to Texas, Minnesota and Las Vegas, picking up numerous awards and achievements, as well as being awarded World Dance Champions numerous years in a row. She then began teaching at Gotta Dance Studio specializing in hip-hop, jazz, tap and children’s classes for two years. Kelly has also performed with The Chicago Human Rhythm Project in tap under the direction of Jay Fagan. After being a part of Gotta Dance for 10 years she decided to move on and dance professionally and landed a spot on the 2000-2001 basketball season as a “Chicago Luvabuls Dancer”. In 2003 she auditioned and made callbacks on the Fox Family Television show “Dance Fever.” From 2001-2004 Kelly was the Artistic Director of the Discover Dance Team at Villa Park Recreation as well as instructing dance for children and adults.
 

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Autumn Broviak

Autumn Broviak

Autumn’s training began at Gotta Dance Studio in Addison, Illinois and was a member of the Starlite Dance Company for 12 years.  Since then she competed with a Midwest Movement and Xtreme Dance force through 2009.  

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Michele Broviak

Michele Broviak

Michele Broviak offers 25 years of experience; judging regional and national dance competitions across the nation.  She owned and operated Gotta Dance Studio in Illinois for 17 years instructing and choreographing all forms of dance.

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Jennifer Grapes

Jennifer Grapes

Ms. Grapes-McIntyre is originally from Kansas City, Missouri, where she received her early training from Melissa Morris (Blue Springs Ballet), Yvonne Craig, Sharon Romine, Luba Gulyaeva, Michael Simms, and the Kansas City Ballet School as well as receiving scholarships to study at the Joffrey Ballet, Boston Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, and the Rock School.

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Zoltan Katona

Zoltan Katona

oltán Katona (Oroszlány, Hungary) received his dance training at the Györi Tánc - és Képzömüvészeti iskola (Dance and Fine Arts School of Györ) in Hungary.

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Jesse Keogh

Jesse Keogh

Jesse comes from a family of gymnasts. His dad, brother, and himself all competed on the gymnastics team at Glenbard East High School in Lombard and to this day you can find all 3 of their names on some leader board in the gymnastics gym or in the school halls. 

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Mary Mudd

Mary Mudd

Mary has been coaching youth cheer/pom for the last 17 years. She served as assistant cheer director of the Lombard Falcon cheer program for 2 years and cheer director for 3 years. She currently sits as the 2nd vice president/cheer coordinator for the Lombard Falcons. Mary has judged for local school try-outs and cheer/pom competitions.

Jenna Rivera

Jenna Rivera

Jenna Rivera began her journey into dance at the age of three. Since then she has had exclusive training in tap, jazz, ballet, lyrical, hip hop, and musical theatre. Studying from master instructors and choreographers such as Michele Broviak, Ted Jackson, Jay Fagan, Bruce Stegman, Kacy Combs, Sidney McNeal, and Jan Augistine.

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Mike Rumishek

Mike Rumishek

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Brittany Thele

Brittany Thele

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Victoria Vargas

victoria-vargas

Victoria was born in the city of Maracaibo, Venezuela and has over 20 years of experience as a professional dancer, she studied Ballet at the “School of Fine Arts” and worked with the “Venezuelan National Ballet Company” ( El Ballet Nacional de Venezuela) and “ The Caracas’s Contemporary Ballet” (El Ballet Contemporaneo de Caracas) 

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Eduardo Zuñiga

Eduardo Zuñiga

Eduardo Zuñiga (Santiago, Chile) began his training at age 15 with The Teatro Municipal School before attending the Houston Ballet Academy, where he performed with both Houston Ballet and Houston Ballet II.

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