Staff Bio's

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 Brooke Wetzstein is an upcoming Junior at Williston State College studying Business Administration. She has been dancing since age 5 and has traveled to Los Angeles, New York, Saint Paul, and Long Beach to pursue it. In New York City, 2014, Brooke took part in the All-Star Dancer program where she was educated by several Broadway stars from shows such as Newsies and Phantom of the Opera. Brooke also took part in a Rockettes Summer Intensive where days were spent training as a Rockette and participating in a mock audition which led to her completing the audition with a near perfect score. In 2015 Brooke traveled to Long Beach, CA as a part of Team USA to compete at the World Championship of Performing Arts. After a two- week competition with performing artists specializing in dance, modeling, singing, and acting from 54 different countries, Brooke was awarded the Junior Musical Theatre Dance Champion of the World and made it into the Semifinals. Brooke was offered meetings with three different talent agents throughout this competition and was also the recipient of a 1 Year scholarship to Millennium Dance Complex in North Hollywood, CA. This was awarded to her personally by professional dancer and choreographer, Kenya Clay. Brooke also spent days during her summer months in Saint Paul, MN, training with Nicky Coelho of the James Sewell Ballet. During her competition days, Brooke was a standout amongst the judges as she was awarded a Judge’s Choice award every year for 10 years consecutively and often placed in overalls, scoring platinum’s and above. Over the last few years, Brooke has taken upon the world of choreography. Within the last two dance seasons, she has won 10 Choreography awards as well as many overall placements for her choreography. Last year, as the reigning Miss Williston, Brooke made it in to the Top 10 at Miss North Dakota and was awarded the highest scoring dancer award. She has a passion for dance and loves to educate kids who share the same passion.

Miranda Iblings began studying dance at the age of three. Over a 13-year dance career she studied in the following genres: ballet, tap,

jazz, lyrical, modern, pointe, and hip hop. She has competed in numerous competitions including Spotlight Dance Cup, International Dance Challenge, Hollywood Vibe Dance Competition, I Love Dance, Montana Dance Challenge, and Dance Olympus. Miranda has earned multiple awards, including a first-place student choreography duo. Miranda

was in the Cinderella ballet in 2004 and has performed halftime at the Dakota Wizards basketball games. Some of the instructors that Miranda has studied under include: Jack Dyville, Angela Ekblad, Mike Minery, Doug Caldwell, and James Robey. In 2015, Miranda received the Certification in Jazz Dance Technique & Syllabus by James Robey. Miranda graduated with honors from Williston High School in 2007. She went on to obtain multiple degrees from Williston State College including Associates of Arts, Associates of Science, and Associates of Applied Science Speech Language Pathology Assistant. Miranda currently works for the Williston Parks and Rec as the Assistant Manager in Child Sitting at the ARC. She has been teaching dance with an emphasis in tap in Williston for eight years. Miranda was married to Jonathan Iblings in July of 2011in Williston, ND. Together they have two girls; Ainsleigh and Hattie, and son Colby just arrived this past May. They currently reside just outside of Williston.

My name is Samantha aka Miss Sam :)

It may sound cliché to say but I have loved dance before I even knew how or what it was. My childhood favorite Idol was the legendary Micheal Jackson. I started dancing in a studio at the young age of 3 continuing until I graduated high school. I loved every style of dancing, but I will have to say my all-time favorite has always been tap and hip hop. Since graduating high school, I have taken a few dance courses in college and in

my later adult years. I’ve enjoyed taking salsa/bachata lessons. I am so blessed to continue my love of dance, learning and teaching at Studio 89. They are my second family! I currently teach recreational tap, jazz and a 5/6-year combo class. Dance is not only a huge part of my life, but it has also carried into my children as both of my daughters are on the competition team. In our house we eat, breathe and sleep dance!

I am so excited to get to meet you and your little ones and look forward to having them fall in love with dancing as much as we have.