Torey began dancing at the age of 3 at Carol Lloyd School of Dance. She continued her training at Sheffield School of the dance where she started competing at the age of 7 where she studied jazz, tap, ballet, pointe, and lyrical. Torey competed in many cities including Las Vegas and Orlando, FL. She has performed for celebrities such as Chita Rivera, Liza Minnelli, Paula Abdul, Wade Robson, Christina Applegate and many others. She also studied at Mobile Ballet and after graduating high school, Torey continued her dancing at the University of South Alabama where she was a member of the nationally ranked Prowler dance team.

Ethan Mayo is and a native of Mobile, Alabama. He grew up on the gulf coast and started dancing when he was 12 years old. In his youth Ethan trained in many different styles of dance such as Jazz, Tap, Musical Theater, Contemporary, Modern, Lyrical, Hip Hop and Ballet.

At the age of 17 Ethan received an apprenticeship with Celebrity Dance Competition. This gave him the opportunity to train in Miami, FL and Phoenix, AZ for a show he performed in with CDC on the Royal Caribbean ship, Majesty of the Seas! After he graduated high school Ethan was accepted to the University of Alabama Theatre and Dance department. As a freshman Ethan pursued a work study program with the Walt Disney Company as a character performer in Orlando, FL. While working with Disney Ethan became very close with many popular Disney characters and performed in various shows and parades including Star Wars Weekends events! Once his Disney experience concluded Ethan returned to UA to finish his schooling and also began teaching and choreographing for The Academy of Ballet and Jazz in Tuscaloosa concurrently.

After a couple more years of studying at UA, while also teaching, Ethan was hired as a faculty member at the world-famous, Broadway Dance Center in New York City! When he began his journey to NY in 2013 Ethan joined the BDC family as a faculty member with the Children and Teen Program. While working in the CTP Ethan got to experience many different positions as a dance professional such as teaching and judging auditions for NY dance companies, giving private group classes to studios/organizations traveling to or visiting NYC, coaching and rehearsing performers in Broadway shows and much more!

Ethan is well-equipped with the experience he has gained in his career thus far, but is still eager to learn and do MORE! Now that he is back on the gulf coast Ethan is ready to explore a new chapter of his life- and he's glad that it's right here in his home town!

Originally from Detroit, MI, Kori Ross started dancing and competing at the age of nine in her hometown studio The Dance Place. Her path to becoming a professional dancer began in 1996 while attending Jazz Dance World Congress in Washington D.C. It was there she received a two year apprentice scholarship to study with Gus Giordano Jazz Dance Chicago, an opportunity that had given her the foundation to be a professional dancer, teacher and choreographer.

Two years later she came to the Gulf Coast and became a company member with Pure Gold Productions. It was there she was promoted to lead dancer and co-choreographer at the age of twenty one. For the next five years she performed and choreographed in a number of casinos and shows around the country. This was an experience that she can now reflect on to her students today of what it takes to be a professional dancer.

For the past ten years Kori has been a dance educator and national award winning choreographer. In addition to teaching and doing company work with Broadway South, she has taught at Donnas Visual and Performing Arts in Ocean Springs, MS. She has trained students who hold National Titles, have been awarded National Scholarships and dancers who are successful professionals in the industry today. We are honored to have Ms. Kori in our Broadway family!

Lauren Michelle Weaver began dancing at the age of three, and began competing at the age of five. She studied ballet, jazz, tap and lyrical dance at Sheffield's School of the Dance. She has had the privilege of participating in a number of national competitions in places such as New York, Las Vegas, Orlando, and Los Angeles where she had the opportunity to perform and dance with Chita Rivera, Liza Minnelli, Paula Abdul, Wade Robson, and many other dance legends. Individually, she received many dance scholarships and titles through dance organizations such as: Tremaine Dance Conventions, New York City Dance Alliance, West Coast Dance Explosion, Company Dance, and LA Dance Force. She was a member of the dance team at the University of South Alabama for 3 years where they have been ranked as one of the top dance teams in the nation. She has choreographed dances that have competed in competitions receiving first place, highest score, top choreography, and numerous special judges awards. She has also judged for the dance competition, Dance Magic Inc. She was one of the choreographers for Distinguished Young Women's "Rock The Runway" benefit. In addition to dance, she was a cheerleader at Murphy High School where she was captain and named an All-Star. Her choreography has won many local, regional, and national top awards.

Ms. Jayne began her dance training at age 3 in Titusville, FL. There she became a company dancer with Edith Royal of the Royal School of Dance in Orlando, FL. While dancing in the Royal Company ,she performed with Denise Jackson & Greg Huffman of the Joffrey Ballet, Suzanne Farrell & Sean Lavery of the New York City Ballet as well as Russell Saltzback of the Joffrey Ballet. Ms. Jayne was also a dancer in the Easter Parade at Walt Disney World and was selected at age 9 to perform on the hit national television show "Bozo". She has also performed in Nutcracker, Hansel and Gretel, The Emperors Clothes and several Evening of Ballet performances. Ms.Jayne has also taken several master classes with Gus Giordano and Russell Saltzback of the Joffrey Ballet as well as additional classes in New York City and Paris, France. After moving to Mobile approx. 16 years ago, she became a Cheerleader Director for the Mobile Youth Football Conference as well as coaching several cheerleading teams where she helped earn several cheerleading competition wins. Ms. Jayne is also company assistant to Ms. Michelle in the Broadway South Dance Company.

Glen Jenkins has been involved in dance, voice, and piano the majority of his life. He was a 1998 recipient of the Alabama State Piano Sonatina Scholarship allowing him to perform with the Alabama State Symphony at age 18. Turning his focus to dance, Glen is a former "Mr. Dance America 2001", former principal dancer with "Souletry Performance Ensemble" out of Panama City, principal dancer with "Alabama Contemporary Dance Company", dancer for the Nationally Televised "America’s Junior Miss Scholarship Program", and Finalist to "Mr. Senior West Coast Dance Explosion" held in Las Vegas. He has performed with artists such as "Third Phaze", Billy Gilman and worked along side of choreographers Bradley Taylor, DJ Guthrie, Nick Watkins, and Dena Rizzo. His performance credits include extensive roles in many musicals including "CATS", "Oklahoma", "Fantastics", "Best Little Whore House in Texas", & "Fiddler on the Roof" just to name a few. Glen has been a guest Teacher/Choreographer for studios & organizations across the United States. His choreography has won him numerous awards and has been featured on ESPN & Oxygen cable networks. He is currently performing with the "Eastern Shore Choral Society" and is on staff as a Judge and Master Teacher with "Masquerade National Dance Competition" and "Fire & Ice National Talent Competition". Glen’s former dancers can be seen in many collegiate dance lines, in national commercials for Target, Old Navy, JC Penny, Gap, performing in Las Vegas/Disney World, and along side Chris Judd on the WE TV series "Dirty Dancing". Glen is also member of "Dance Teachers United".

Wendy Horton-Hardwick began her early dance training at Herndon’s Dance Center in Mobile, AL. At the age of 14 she began performing as a soloist with the Parapluie dance company in Mobile, AL. She has received summer scholarships to Gus Giordano Jazz Dance Chicago and to Debbie Reynolds, Studio F, in L.A. On several occasions she has attended summer programs in New York City, at Broadway Dance Center, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Steps on Broadway, and Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance. During high school she was chosen to attend the Broadway Musical Theatre Project and study with professionals, including, Gregory Hines, Ann Reinking, Vanessa Williams, and Ben Vereen. After graduation from high school she was awarded a full tuition dance scholarship to attend college at New World School of the Arts in Miami. While there she studied with world famous master teachers and choreographers, among them, Daniel Lewis, Peter London, and Tina Santos. She has also performed as a principle dancer with Alabama Contemporary Dance (formerly Parapluie), where she worked with world famous choreographers and master teachers, Gary Abbott, Chuck Davis, and David Anderson. She also choreographed and served as rehearsal director for the company. While dancing with the company she had the opportunity to perform with the Chuck Davis African American Dance Ensemble. She was also invited to perform in England. Her performance credits include performing as a guest artist at Broadway Dance Center’s annual showcase. In 2002 she traveled to New York City to perform at the High School of the Performing Arts and in Central Park for the commemoration of the September 11th tragedies. She has also performed for Disney in the Hunchback of Notre Dame Festival of Fun Parade. Currently she is a local dance teacher and choreographer, as well as, a preschool teacher at Hutchens Elementary School.

Kyndall Ransom is currently a senior at the University of South Alabama majoring in biochemistry, with a minor in kinesiology and health. She took one year of graduate level dance classes at the University of Mobile prior to attending USA college. While at USA college, she has worked as part of the stage crew for the drama department at South Alabama for multiple performances. She has 17 years of recreational dance training and 5 years of dance education. She has trained at Melinda Leigh’s Performing Arts Center, Broadway South Dance studio and with Davidson High School’s dance company Kinetics. She has taken classes from instructors across the US, including choreographers that work with New York dance companies, Twitch, Kathryn McCormick from the movie Step Up Revolution, and Chris Brown’s choreographer Josh Smith. She has received extensive training in contemporary, ballet, jazz, tap, lyrical, hip hop and musical theater. She also has experience in weight sharing, ballroom, African culture dance, yoga, and pilates. She joined the Broadway South dance family and faculty in spring 2022 as a dance instructor.

Breleigh trained at Broadway South Dance Studio for 8 years where she competed on the competition team. On the competition team, she had the opportunity to be in numbers choreographed by well-known professional dancers and choreographers such as Erica Sobol and Mark Villaver. While on company, she competed at many conventions such as DanceMakersInc, NRG, LA Dance Magic (LADM), Streetz Dance Convention and many more. She has found dance as a peace in the storm and hopes to spread that with all of her students to come. Bre wants to use the art of movement to help these kids develop as people while helping them grow as dancers.

Annie started her career training at Broadway South Dance. After two years of training under Broadway South’s Performance Group (intermediate team), she auditioned and made Broadway South Dance Company (advanced team). While on company, Annie went to various competitions and conventions to compete against many young dancers from across the country. Many conventions include DanceMakersInc. (DMI), West Coast Dance Explosion (WCDE), New York City Dance Alliance (NYCDA), NRG, Art of Movement, Hollywood Vibe, LA Dance Magic (LADM), Streetz Dance Convention, and more! She also had many opportunities to work with well-known professional dancers and choreographers such as Matt Cady, Blake McGrath, Erica Sobol, Tommy Alexander, Ricky Lam, JaciRoyal, Seth Zibalese, etc.

As Annie approached the idea of a professional career, she decided to attend University of the Arts in Philadelphia to study Choreography for her BFA. After over a year of training professionally under the guidance of many brilliant teachers, such as Shayla-Vie Jenkins, Paul Matteson, Katie Swords-Thurman and even Tommie Waheed, she decided to shift her career to becoming a teacher and mentor herself. Annie wishes to “plant a seed” in young kids, just like her mentors have done for her, and encourage dancers to express themselves through dance.

Abby began dancing at the age of 2 and started competing at age 9. She trained in ballet, tap, jazz, lyrical, contemporary, and hip hop starting at Debbie’s School of Dance and eventually moving to Broadway South. During this time she travelled to cities like New York and learned from choreographers Keri LaGrande, Desiree Robbins, Sonya Tayeh, and others. She was also part of Encore Dance Company at her high school where she focused more on modern and the storytelling side of dance. She wishes to create a love for dance in her students while still focusing on technique so they will have all the tools they need for wherever dance takes them.