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Kristi Hill

Kristi Hill is a music teacher, vocalist, songwriter, and voice instructor with 15+ years of classroom experience making music come alive for students. She is passionate about creating joy and instilling confidence in young performers, teaching them to excel in their craft while cultivating dependence and trust in the Lord along the way. You can find her online at www.kristihillmusic.com, and her recording projects are available on Spotify and Apple Music.

Grace Nichols

Grace began her dance journey 6 years ago with Turning Pointe. Her passion for the arts has grown since then. In those years she has been able to study ballet, modern, hip-hop, musical theater, jazz, and a bit of ballroom and swing. She performed with Starz Theater Company for 2 years, in a lead understudy role and dance captain. The teachers assistant program was brought to her attention 4 years ago, and she worked as a TA for 2 years before becoming an intern, and finally a teacher in 2021. Grace has always had a heart for children of all ages, and worked with them as a teacher or aide through multiple organizations. She currently works as a preschool teacher at a daycare, pursuing a higher education in teaching. She loves the beauty of dance and seeing God's love and light shine through her students!

Taylor Ellen

Taylor began her dance training at age three in her hometown of LaGrange, Georgia at the LaGrange School of Ballet under the direction of Nancy Thuesen Gell and Amy Orr. She studied classical ballet, pointe, modern, contemporary, jazz, and tap, and completed an assistant and student teacher training program, and began instructing dance to young students. 

She then went on to major in dance at Belhaven University in Jackson, Mississippi, where she graduated cum laude in 2015 with her BFA in dance with an emphasis in classical ballet. While at Belhaven, Taylor studied classical and contemporary ballet, modern, choreography, dance production, dance kinesiology, and dance pedagogy. She also had the opportunity to work with many skilled instructors and guest artists including Ravenna Tucker Wagnon and Henry Danton (The Royal Ballet), and Caleb Mitchell (Houston Ballet) and several others who still influence her dancing and teaching today. Throughout the years, she expanded her training at various summer intensives including Ballet Magnificat!, Nashville Ballet, The Rock School for Dance Education, and The American Ballet Theatre. 

After graduating, Taylor moved back to Georgia to teach at the Statesboro Youth Ballet, the dance program under the umbrella of the Averitt Center for the Arts in Statesboro, Georgia. In 2017, she was promoted to Artistic Director of the program where she served until 2021. While at SYB, Taylor taught classes in Creative Movement, Classical and Contemporary Ballet, Pointe, Variations, Modern, Tap, Jazz, and Conditioning to students ages three to adult. In 2018, while continuing to direct and teach at SYB, Taylor moved to nearby Savannah, Georgia where she began teaching at The Habersham School, a private classical Christian school in historic downtown Savannah. There, she taught classical ballet as part of the P.E. requirements to students in grades Pre-K4 through eleventh grade. Between Statesboro Youth Ballet and The Habersham School, Taylor choreographed and directed several full length ballets including The Nutcracker (2017, 2019), Cinderella (2018), Snow White (2020), Alice in Wonderland (2018), and The Wizard of Oz (2021), and created four modern dance showcases, An Evening of Modern Dance, annually from 2018-2021.   


Abby Woodford

Abby Woodford grew up in Colorado Springs, CO, and began dance training at a young age. Dance quickly became a driving passion in her life and Abby decided to further her training by joining a pre-professional company at Turning Pointe School of Dance, when she was 9 years old. In addition to joining the company, Abby trained in the advanced levels of Pointe, Jazz, Modern, Contemporary, Worship and Musical Theatre. Abby also trained in teaching dance as a Teacher’s Assistant and a Training Division Intern. After graduation, Abby continued her dance journey, by pursuing an undergraduate degree in Dance Performance at Colorado Christian University. She is entering her sophomore year at Colorado Christian, where she is currently working with the University to pioneer a dance major and will be the first person to graduate with a Dance Performance Degree. Abby recently joined the staff at Turning Pointe Staff and is teaching in the Training Division. After completing her undergraduate, Abby plans on joining a Contemporary/Ballet or Modern dance company in Denver, and share her love of dance by continuing to teach.

Gabby Zietlow

Gabby has been dancing since she was old enough to pull herself into a standing position and bop to whatever music was playing. She began taking dance classes at the age of 3 - training at a variety of schools and intensives including Colorado Mesa University, the University of Wyoming, Snowy Range Dance Festival (scholarship recipient), multiple Disney workshops including her favorite, Broadway Magic Workshop. Always the enthusiastic performer, Gabby was hired by Disney to perform in the Walt Disney World Parks - the highlight of her dance career. Gabby not only loves to dance - but also loves to teach others to dance so she always has someone to dance with. Gabby has a passion for helping her students discover the performer within, the joy of dance and a love for Jesus. When not dancing, Gabby spends her time working as a pediatric registered nurse supervisor.

Meghan Sundquist

Meghan has danced in studio and church ministries since she was ten. Through high school and college and into her first job, Meghan has worked with children in multiple settings. She has taught academic summer camps, dance classes in church ministry, and in school classrooms. Her heart is to provide a safe space for students to learn, grow, fall down, get back up again, and discover who they are as human beings, image bearers of God. Dance, as an art, has a unique ability to cut straight to the hearts of both the dancers and the audience. It is an incredible opportunity to love on students and help them grow in their love of self, God, and neighbor.