About us - fusion

Sabrina Limoncelli

Owner/Creative Director/Choreographer

Sabrina has been dedicated to physical wellness and activity for most of her life. Enrolled in her first dance class at the young age of 3 it wasn’t long before she fell in love with the art. Over the years she pursued her passion by furthering her dance education through lessons as well as workshops and later began to teach. For the past 25 years Sabrina has taught children of all ages (2- Adulthood) in recreational as well as competitive levels. In the last 15 years she has proven to be a successful choreographer of Jazz, Tap & Hip Hop…including being the recipient of ‘Award Winning Choreographer’ at a well-known Dance Competition.Sabrina has attended many auditions including (making the top 25 out of 400) for the Toronto Raptors as well as auditioning for and becoming a member of the 2001 & 2002 Toronto Argonaut’s Dance Team, performing at all home games and two GREY CUPS.

Sabrina acquired her ZUMBA® certification in February 2009 and completed an intense and in-depth STOTT Pilates course and certification program in November 2009 including Mat Level 1 & 2, ISP, and most recently Total Barre. She obtained her Group Fitness Certification through CanFitPro in November 2010. Sabrina takes great pleasure in sharing her passion with others to inspire them to do more and reach further, but mostly to follow their dreams!

Accreditations

Nominated for ‘Entrepreneur of the Year’ February 2017

Awarded Niagara’s 40U40 award May 2018

STOTT PILATES® Matwork (Beginner/Intermedia/Advanced), ISP, Total Barre

Zumba®

CanFitPro – Fitness Instructor Specialist

DMA Certification“

The Dance Masters of America Teachers Training School is an outstanding educational program for dance teachers.

The Teachers Training School Program provides a comprehensive curriculum and a unique focus on technique and teaching skills.”

-DMA Training Website

Eliza Lister

Instructor/Choreographer

Specializing in Tap & Jazz

Eliza has been dancing since the age of 5. She has won numerous awards as a competitive dancer in Canada and the United States including National and World Champion. Eliza made her television debut at the age of ten dancing on “Tiny Talent Time”. Since then, her performance credits include Garden City productions re-creation of Alan Lund’s Vaudeville, Paul Gordon’s production of Variety 98, a show to help benefit Camp Quality, a summer camp for children with cancer; and the opening ceremonies of the Ontario Summer games held in Guelph Ontario. Eliza held roles in local musical productions of “Oz” and “Wonderland” which raised $20,000 for Breast Cancer Education and Research.Eliza continues to study dance and develop her skills as a teacher and choreographer by attending various workshops in Canada and the United States. She is currently completing her Standard Dance Teacher Certification through International Dance Teaching Standards and has also completed the certification to teach Progressing Ballet Technique. Eliza is an active member of Healthy Dancer Canada, an organization that works to enhance the health, well-being, and performance of dancers. Eliza has graduated with a diploma in Early Childhood Education and a diploma in Business, both from Niagara College. She has also graduated from Durham College with a certificate in Office Technology Administration. Eliza is thrilled to be able to share her 20+ years of teaching experience and passion for dance with her students!

Ashley Robins

Instructor/ Choreographer

Specializing in Musical Theatre

Ashley has been a member of the FUSiON family since our doors first opened in 2010.

As a child, Ashley worked as a model and actor, appearing in print ads, theatre, commercials and television shows but once she started dancing at the age of 13, she fell in love with this form of performing arts.

Under the coaching of Miss Sabrina, Ashley danced competitively all through high school before attending Sheridan College to study performing arts.

Ashley now works full time as an ECE and is also a certified Yoga teacher in the Niagara Region and continues to teach classes and choreograph for FUSiON’s competitive team.

Sydney Hunter

Instructor/ Choreographer
Specializing in Hip Hop & Contemporary

Sydney began dancing at the young age of 2. She went from the little girl who would just stand there and wave to the audience at recital, to giving it her all every time she is on stage. Sydney started competing at the age of 9 years old. She started out with hip hop and tap and eventually ventured off into jazz, contemporary, lyrical, and ballet as well. Throughout high school Sydney was in charge of the dance team and had many opportunities such as; choreographing a routine for Ontario’s special Olympics ceremony, choreographing a routine for a mental health assembly, choreographing routines for NBDC competitions ( won various awards). Mrs.Sabrina ( studio owner) actually taught Sydney since her first year of competitive dance at another studio before FSPA was born. Sydney has been at Fusion as a dancer since the first year. She has been teaching for a couple years now but 2019/2020 was her first year full time teaching both rec and competitive. She was Fusion’s first graduating student in last year’s recital. She wants to continue to share her love and passion for dance and continue to expand in the dance community. She will continue to expand her knowledge in dance and continue to share her passion for the art of dance.

Emma Barker

Instructor/Choreographer

Specializing in Ballet

Born in the UK Emma’s love of dance started at the young age of 3 and from then on she never stopped! Her training began at private dance schools studying disciplines which followed curriculums set by, ISTD (Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing) and IDTA (International Dance Teachers Association) to advanced levels. She graduated from the prestigious school Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts. While studying there she had many opportunities including working with Darren Suarez at The Liverpool Style Awards, joining a popular English band on tour as a back in dancer, partaking in flash mobs, being involved with choreography, narrative and production. Emma furthered her training at Phil Winstons Theatre College obtaining a distinction in IDTA modern.

Throughout her career Emma has danced on the West End, worked professionally in Greece performing 6 nights a week, as well as performing to over 20,000 people at stadiums across the UK as part of the Leeds Rhinos Dance Team and within a dance troupe performing numerous styles such as Bollywood, at many social events. Emma’s true passion lies within teaching she teaches, ballet, pointe, tap, modern, jazz, contemporary, acrobatic arts, commercial, baby ballet, adult classes, street dance, musical theatre, show class and pre school classes. Within Emmas 15 years of teaching experience she has choreographed for many dance school productions, designed and instructed workshops, created 1st place competition performances and assisted 40 children performing at Disney Land Paris. Emma created a successful company in the UK providing music and movement classes to pre schoolers at private groups, nurseries and schools. Additionally within the company Emma designed popular adult dance fitness classes providing a fun and new way to keep fit. Within her classes she has an ability to create an atmosphere in which both dancers and non-dancers can achieve, enjoy and reach their own highest potential.

Teaching is her passion and she endeavours to nurture and develop each child and adults love for dance within every class she teaches.

Amanda Leonetti

Instructor/ Choreographer
Specializing in Acro, Jazz & Ballet

Amanda began dancing competitively at the age six at Premiere Dance Inc (Burlington,

ON). She competed in ballet (trained in Cecchetti – Advanced 2), jazz, acro, lyrical, open, tap,

and contemporary at various competitions in Ontario and the United States; where she won

various awards including Junior Miss Candance in 2006. Amanda began working as an assistant

teacher at Premiere Dance Inc at the age of 16 and fell in love with teaching. She began her

professional teaching career in 2017 and has worked at various studios across Ontario teaching

acro, jazz, lyrical, ballet, open, and contemporary (ages 3-17). She specializes in teaching acro,

jazz, and lyrical and has received choreography and special awards for her routines at

competition. Amanda’s primary goal is to create a safe space for her students to learn, fail,

grow, and express who they are and what they feel through dance. She strives to model and

teach her students skills that will prepare them for their future endeavours such as goal setting,

self-confidence and motivation, communication, and teamwork. Amanda has a passion for

learning and mentorship. She continues to advance her dance knowledge by attending the

Annual Toronto Dance Teacher Expo, acrobatic arts workshops, and holds a Level 1 Adjudicator

Certification to provide the best training for her students. When she is not at the studio, she is

pursuing her Doctorate Degree in Biological Sciences at Brock University where she conducts

research investigating the impact of adolescent stress on brain and social behaviour

development.

Jenn Surtees
Instructor/ Choreographer

Specializing in Lyrical & Jazz

Jenn has been dancing since the age of four and fell in love with it the first time she hit the stage. She has studied dance in her hometown of Oakville at Annex Dance Academy for her entire dance career and began assisting and teaching there in 2013. She started dancing competitively at the age of 8 and has trained in Jazz, Ballet, Musical Theatre, Pointe, Contemporary and Lyrical. She has also completed her RAD graded exam up to grade 8 and vocational up to Intermediate as well as ADAPT jazz up to the intermediate level. Jenn took her love for dance to St.Catharines when she moved her to pursue her education at Brock University in 2016 studying Concurrent Education. At Brock she participated in an on campus club called Brock Dance. In 2017 she took the lead in developing a newly organized competitive team after only 6 weeks of rehearsal. Now, 4 years into the competitive team, the team is made up of 35 dancers from all across Ontario and competes at 3 University level competitions each year. She also takes a lead role in putting on the Brock Dance Benefit performance each year which brings local studios, high schools and universities together to put on a show to raise money for the RAFT Niagara. Jenn is beyond excited to start her first year teaching at Fusion and sharing her love of dance with all the Fusion dancers!

Maya Mucciarelli

Instructor/ Choreographer

Maya has been a FUSiON dancer ever since the first year the opened. Her dance career started at the young age of 2. She started with Tap and Jazz, and fell in love with tap very quickly. Maya then expanded to; hiphop, lyrical, contemporary, acro and ballet when she joined the competitive team at the age of 6. Maya stayed a extra season and graduated from being a competitive dance here at FUSiON last year, her favourite styles of dance are tap and hiphop! Maya loves spending time with the young dancers, in her earlier years of dancing she had to opportunity to be an assistant where she fell in love with assisting, this then turned into teaching the Happy Feet on Saturday mornings!! Maya has been teaching for 2 years and taught her first competitive solo last season!! Outside of dance Maya is attending Brock University where she will be completing the Concurrent Education program to become a teacher. One day she hopes to teach the primary/junior grade such as jk-grade 2. She cannot wait to see what this season has in store for our team and studio!!

Emma Bernard

Instructor/Choreographer

Emma started dancing at three years old, she has been at Fusion ever since they opened, and started competing at the age of 6. Emma has danced many styles, she has competed in hip hop, jazz, open contemporary, ballet, acro, lyrical, modern and tap. contemporary is one of her favourites. Emma is in her second year of university studying commerce. Emma has made so many amazing relationships through the dance world and has become family with everyone at fusion. She is so thrilled that she can continue to be apart of the fusion family even after she graduated. Emma continues to teach dance when she comes home from university, she is happy to continue her love for dance and her dance journey throughout university. She started assisting dance classes in her earlier years at the studio and fell in love with teaching and sharing her love for dance with younger students. Emma can’t wait for this season and what new experiences it will bring!

Ava Limoncelli

Instructor/ Choreographer

Ava has been a part of FUSiON since day one when they opened in 2010. Starting at the age of

2 taking Jazz & Tap classes. As the years went on, Ava added Hip Hop, Acro, Musical Theatre,

Lyrical, Contemporary, and Ballet. Ava joined the competitive team at the age of 6 and

continued throughout the years graduating as a competitive dancer this past June.

Over the years Ava has won many awards & accolades for her group performances as well as

her solos – especially in the Musical Theatre category – one of Ava’s favourite styles of dance

among Hip Hop & Contemporary.

Ava began to assist Recreational classes at the age of 13, helping with the babies and younger

students. With assisting, Ava found the passion in teaching. Ava had the privilege of

choreographing a few Competitive routines last season and is looking forward to continue doing

so on her breaks from University.

Ava is currently at Guelph University studying Child Psychology and hopes to become a

Therapist one day. Ava is excited to continue to be a part of FUSiON and see what this season

brings.

Isabella Carbonara

Instructor/ Choreographer

Bella has been a FUSiON dancer ever since the first year they opened. Her dance career started at the young age of 2. She started with Tap and Jazz, then expanded to; hiphop, lyrical, contemporary, and ballet when she joined the competitive team at the age of 6. Bella graduated from being a competitive dancer here at FUSiON this past season. This season she won an automatic acceptance on Team Canada to compete at the Dance World Cup in Spain in the genres jazz, lyrical and hip hop! Her favourite styles of dance are jazz and lyrical! Bella starting assisting classes with the younger dancers at the age of 12 and quickly fell in love with teaching what she loves to do best! She taught her first competitive solo last season!! Outside of dance, Bella is attending Brock University where she will be studying in the Applied Linguistics program, specifically studying speech and hearing sciences. One day she hopes to become a speech therapist to work with young ones. She cannot wait to see what this season has in store for our team and studio!!

Sophie Cheevers

Instructor/ Choreographer

Sophie has been dancing since the age of 2 and joined her first competitive team at age 6 where she competed in tap, jazz and hip hop. From there she strived to compete as a soloist in her favorite styles acro, contemporary and jazz and found her dance family at Fusion when she was 12. 4 years ago , she was accepted into the Laura Secord Secondary District Niagara Academy of the Arts (DNA) dance program. Here she developed her love of choreography where she was team lead/captain for their junior hip hop and contemporary teams. This past June, 2024 she graduated with honours in this DNA program and received the Excellence in Dance achievement award. She is excited to continue to develop her skills having received her level 1 certification in Acro instruction this past summer. She is beyond proud to continue to be a part of the Fusion staff and team for their 2024 season!

Addison Bisci

Instructor/ Choreographer

Addie started dance at the young age of 3 and quickly found a love for dance. After many years of recreational dance she began her competition dance career at the age of 12 where she trained and competed in multiple forms of dance such as jazz, ballet, hiphop, lyrical, musical theatre and tap ! Addie used her love for dance and performing to act in plays and musicals such as Hairspray and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat to expand her love for the arts. Addie assisted tap and jazz for three years, competed in competitions around Ontario and received an award for the senior musical theatre dancer and a scholarship for your musical theatre solo. Dance has opened doors for her in many ways, she has even danced on a cruise ship. Addie is extremely excited to have the opportunity to share her love for performing with young dancers and can’t wait for this years dance season!

Chantelle Drolias

Admin

Chantelle began dancing at the age of seven. She eagerly assisted younger classes and at sixteen, obtained her Teacher Training Certificate training through Dance Educators of America. From there, she also went on to receive her teaching certificates through Dance Masters of America, Progressing Ballet Technique, Canada’s National Academy of Dance Education Part One and Two, and most recently Module One through Acrobatic Arts, and Youth Protection Advocates in Dance. Chantelle has been teaching for over eighteen years in all styles of dance and continually updates her training through online courses and at the Toronto Dance Teacher Expo. Chantelle has won many awards both as a dancer and choreographer, including a spot at the 5, 6, 7, 8 Showtime Nationals and choreography awards such as age appropriateness and keeping it youthful. Chantelle has dedicated over eighteen years to continuous education, learning, and growth in dance. She is a huge supporter of all inclusive dance for all.

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PROGRAMS

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Dance Programs

Explore the variety of dance and performance programs that FUSiON Studio of Performing Arts has to offer! Whether you are a beginner, looking to sharpen your skills, or an advanced dancer aiming to conquer new heights, we've got a program that caters to your needs.

Tiny Tots

(18 months - 2.5 years)

Jumpstart your child's love for dance with FUSiON's Tiny Tots program. Expertly designed for 18 months to 2 ½ years old, this program introduces young learners to ballet and tap dance. Through playful...

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Twinkle Toes

(2.6 years - 3.5 years)

Nurture your child's fascination for dance with FUSiON's Twinkle Toes program. Tailored for kids aged 2.6 to 3.5 years, this program seamlessly blends ballet and tap dance. It encourages creati...

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Happy Feet

(3.6 years - 5 years)

Let your child step into the rhythm with FUSiON's Happy Feet program. Designed for kids aged 3.6 to 5 years, this program weaves together the fundamentals of ballet, the excitement of tap, and the expressiveness of jazz...

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kinder dance program

(5 years - 6 years)

Step up your child's dance journey with FUSiON's Kinder Dance program. Specially curated for 5 to 6 years old, the program advances the basic jazz and tap dance knowledge gained in Happy Feet. Our expert...

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Jazz Dance Program

(7 years +)

Let your child step into the rhythm of Jazz with FUSiON's Jazz Dance program. This class is focused on laying, practicing, and developing the basic foundations of jazz dance. As students progr...

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Tap Dance Program

(7 years +)

Step into the rhythmic world with FUSiON's Tap Dance program. This course is dedicated to teaching, practicing, and honing the foundational skills and rhythms of tap dance. As students ad

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Ballet Dance Program

(5 years +)

Step into the world of elegance with FUSiON's Ballet Dance program. This class focuses on teaching, practicing, and advancing the foundational skills of ballet. As learners progress through lev...

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Hip Hop Dance Program

(5 years +)

Let your child embrace the energetic world of Hip Hop with FUSiON's Hip Hop Dance program. The class emphasizes rhythm, musicality, and footwork, ensuring age-appropriate content without suggestive...

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Acro Dance Program

(6 years +)

Step into a world where dance meets acrobatics with FUSiON's Acro Dance program. This class combines traditional dance techniques with acrobatic elements, offering students a unique way to express

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Lyrical Dance Program

(7 years +)

Discover the powerful blend of emotion and technique with FUSiON's Lyrical Dance program. This class combines elements of ballet, jazz, and modern dance, allowing students to ex...

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Adult Dance Classes

Unleash your passion for dance with FUSiON's Adult Dance Classes. These classes, running for 10-week sessions, are designed to cater to adults with a variety of skill levels and interes...