Doris Ann has been dancing ever since she was seven years old. She started dancing at the Lancaster Recreation Commission in their dance program under the instruction of Miss. Eloise Dirk. She advanced onto Pointe at a young age, participated in the Nutcracker, StarPower competitions and helped teach multiple younger classes. Always involved in inspirational choreography dances at church and various school performances; inspiring others through dance has been a passion for years. She attended the Lancaster School of Ballet under the instruction of Viktor Yeliohin for a short time before going on tour with a Christian touring company The Continental Singers as a singer, dancer and assistant director and toured across America and to New Zealand & Thailand. She has years of experience working with young children as it is her passion to see them grow in confidence in themselves and who God made them to be. 

Beth is grateful and blessed to come on staff at Doris Ann’s Dance Studio!  She began her dancing journey at age 5 at Encore Dance Studio here in Lancaster. After graduating high school, Beth attended Messiah College (now Messiah University) where she participated in a variety of dance classes and taught Ballet I for the Acclamation Dance Ministry.  After college, Beth moved to Northern Virginia to begin her teaching career as an Elementary School Teacher.  She enjoyed teaching first grade for six years before she and her husband, Kirk, welcomed their first daughter in 2011.  After moving back to Lancaster, Beth worked for several years teaching at a local Montessori school where she served in a variety of roles during her time there including assistant toddler teacher, head toddler teacher, assistant primary teacher, head primary teacher, primary art enrichment teacher, and creative movement teacher for children of all ages (toddler-elementary).  Beth also spent several years serving as the leader of the Renana Dance Ministry at Manor Church where she enjoyed choreographing and dancing worship dance pieces alongside girls in grades 9-12 for services and an annual concert.  Most recently, Beth has enjoyed being a stay-at-home mom and homeschool teacher to her three daughters, all of whom seem to have come to share her deep love for worship and dancing!  She is so grateful and excited to continue to use her gifts of teaching and dance for the glory of God at Doris Ann’s Dance Studio! “Let them praise His name with dancing!” -Psalm 149:3

Victoria started dancing in elementary school at Andrea's Academy of Dance. A few years later, she began attending a wide variety of classes at Debbie's School of Dance which later led to her love of competing. In high school, Victoria was a member of the DSOD Senior Competition Team and attended many different regional competitions and local events. In her senior year, she served as the dance team captain and gained experience as a student teacher. She also competed in the Miss Solanco Scholarship Pageant where she won 2nd runner-up and received a college scholarship. Her platform was Traveling Tutus, a nonprofit organization that provides dance shoes and costumes to children all over the world that want to dance but cannot afford the expenses.  After graduating from high school, Victoria taught technique classes for her studio’s competition teams as well as multiple recreational classes. In 2020-2022, she had the opportunity to coach the DSOD Petite Competition Team and choreograph several other routines for competition season. Victoria graduated Southern New Hampshire University with honors. She is also an ACE certified group fitness instructor and a certified Uplifted yoga teacher. She is very excited to be given the chance to teach in such a positive, Christian atmosphere and aims to grow each student’s confidence in themselves every week.

Jennifer is praising God for introducing her to Doris Ann’s Dance studio! Jennifer took tap, jazz and hip hop at a very young age and stopped dancing, but God has brought her joy and passion of dance back into her life and she has been choreographing and teaching Christ center dances to all the children at her church now for the past 5 years. She has three different groups she teaches, 3-6year old girls, 7-13 year old girls and also a group of young girls and boys of the church! She has helped teach at Doris Ann’s dance studio as of 2023 and also has substituted and lead her own Creative Movement classes. Her two daughters dance at Doris Ann’s Dance studio and she also has a son at home. Her husband is a preacher at church and encourages others through his words and Jennifer is excited to do the same but with dance! She can’t wait to dance with Joy for Jesus with her students! 

Savannah has been helping to teach at Doris Anns Dance Studio since the very beginning! She has been dancing since she was 3 at True Beauty in Quarryville and has experience dancing tap, jazz, lyrical, hip-hop and ballet. She loves dancing at True Beauty on Thursdays, teaching tap/jazz on Mondays and Pre Ballet, Ballet & Worship Dance on Tuesdays! She absolutely loves to dance and so enjoys  helping teach our little dancers!

Keeley started dancing when she was four years old and has loved dance ever since. When Keeley was ten she started competing on the competition team at Andrea's Academy of dance. She has won multiple awards dancing ballet, jazz, tap, contemporary and more. She also has loved sharing her joy for agriculture and leadership through FFA. She has competed in Miss Solanco where she got to share her passion for dance with others in her community. She is so thankful that God led her to Doris Ann's Dance Studio. She is so excited to empower and teach about the joy and love that comes through dance!