Haydyn Sybert

Haydyn grew up in a small town outside of Kansas City, MO. She grew up doing competitive dance and then joined Artists Revealed, a pre professional contemporary ballet company. Haydyn had the chance to be an assistant with the convention Dance League and Embody Dance Conference. Haydyn moved to Texas and became a jazz and contemporary trainee with the Joffrey Ballet School. She went to New Mexico this past summer to be a trainee with the Zeitgeist company in New Mexico. She is now moving to Utah to join Salt2 and can’t wait to see what else is in store. She looks forward to sharing her knowledge and passion with the next generation of students. 

Meridith Ethington

Meridith received her ballet training at Lancaster School of Ballet and has danced in several Mountain West Ballet productions including The Nutcracker, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, A Midsummer's Night Dream, and Alice in Wonderland. Her favorite roll was that of the Wicked Stepmother in Cinderella. She loves teaching and seeing her students grow and develop as dancers. She is excited to be back again for her 11th year at Kaleidoscope because she loves sharing her love of ballet with her students. Meridith also serves on the Executive Board of Mountain West Ballet and works as a Graphic Designer at the Natural History Museum of Utah.

LeeAnn Evans

LeeAnn has been dancing since she was 3 years old.  In her teens, she especially loved drill and clogging.  After high school, she went to Ricks College where she was able to teach clogging classes and was president of their women’s clogging team. While studying Elementary Education at BYU, she furthered her dance experience with a variety of dance classes as well as performing with their Folk Dance Ensemble. During her college years, she taught dance classes for Granite Community Education in the summer.  LeeAnn taught 6th grade at Crescent Elementary for 7 years and every year her students performed a song and dance program.  The highlight of these programs was the opportunity for her kids to perform for various Olympic venues during the 2002 Olympics.  She lives in Sandy with her sweet husband and 4 fantastic kids. LeeAnn is a certified Essentrics instructor. She has been part of the team at Kaleidoscope Dance for 10 years. 

Kristina Goldhardt

Kristina began dancing at the age of 4. When she was 8, she trained in classical ballet from Gretchen Rowe. Kristina continued her dance education at UVU on scholarship. Under the direction of Dr. Li Lei, she continued her studies dancing a variety of genres at Dixie State University on scholarship from 2010-2013. There she developed a love for contemporary dance. While at Dixie, she was awarded: Student of the Semester for Dance, Outstanding Choreographer, and Outstanding Dancer. Kristina has spent over twenty years training, performing leading roles, and choreographing for various companies and productions throughout Utah and has enjoyed teaching for the past ten years. In 2016 Kristina earned her B.S. from the University of Utah. She now resides in Salt Lake City with her husband and her two baby boys. Kristina loves teaching here at Kaleidoscope Dance and would like to thank her husband and parents for the endless support throughout the years.

Brendan Baker

When Brendan was twelve years old, he joined a Ballroom class with his friend because they needed boys. Little did he understand how quickly he would find himself completely addicted to dance. After two years, he auditioned for a more competitive company and stayed with that company until he graduated high school. He was able to help his team achieve three second-place national titles while he danced with this company, earning the company’s reputation as one of the best ballroom studios in the country. 

After graduating High School he discontinued his serious study of ballroom to study more styles. At Brigham Young University-Idaho, he was able to learn and fall in love with many different styles including Folk, Tap, Clog, Irish, and Modern. His love and experience in many different styles has made Brendan a very versatile dancer and choreographer. His goal is to share the versatility and variety of dance through dancers from many different backgrounds. Brendan has performed with Hale Center Theatre in Mary Poppins, Seussical the Musical, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, and A Light in the Piazza. Brendan is a member of Percussive Footworks Ensemble and has taught for Kaleidoscope for 5 years.

Jessica Larsson

Jessica has been dancing pretty much her whole life.  She started at age 3, training at the Academy of Ballet Arts where she studied ballet and pointe. She was also a member of Hillcrest High School's Dance Company where she was introduced to, and fell in love with contemporary dance! She went on to receive more training in ballet, modern and tap from Southern Utah University and graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in dance performance in 2010. While at SUU she was on Orchesis Dance Company and performed in student and faculty dance concerts each year. She has enjoyed teaching dance since 2014 and is excited to continue her teaching journey here at Kaleidoscope!

Halee Young-Ballash

In addition to over two decades of teaching experience across the country, Halee performed on the Utah Valley University Song ‘n Dance Company where she was privileged to perform on dance and theater scholarships and earn her degree. She has toured nationally and internationally with Encore Academy of Entertainment and with the company she founded at The Center for the Performing Arts. Halee was a featured soloist on the Utah Artists’ Ballet Company. She has been privileged to perform on cruise ships, at theme parks, and in professional venues such as Disney, Hale Center Theater, HBO, Ballet West, the 2002 Olympics, and more. Halee was a choreographer for the Jordan River Temple Rededication Celebration “Ready” and for 90&9’s original cirque musical “Fighter”. She has taught, choreographed, and judged in many venues such as America On Stage National Dance Competition, Trumbauer Theatre Competition, and the Arizona Adrenaline professional arena football dance team.

Miranda Brock

Miranda was born and raised in Cedar Hills, Utah. At a young age, she started tap dancing at the local recreation center. She always jokes that the only thing she did during tap performances was run onto the stage, stomp her feet, and then run off. But, the gold and red tutu with her permed hair were really cute. 

At the age of 5, Miranda began dancing for Utah Regional Ballet, now Utah Metropolitan Ballet. She trained under Jaqueline College and her daughters, Heather and Brittany. Along with ballet she became versed in Jazz, Modern, and Contemporary. During this time, Miranda performed in Utah County’s largest production of the Nutcracker in a variety of different roles. 

After 15 years of ballet training, Miranda became eager for more training in a different style. She began dancing for Ballroom Universe under champion Ray Backlund. Within the first year, Miranda was asked to join the highest-ranking team at the studio. The following year she competed in Open Smooth and placed 6th at the National Amateur Dancesport Championships. Out of 30+ couples, Miranda credits this moment to her years of ballet training. 

Miranda graduated from the University of Utah with B.S in Human Development and Family Studies. Throughout College, she continued to train in Ballroom, Modern, Contemporary, and Ballet. She has taught and substituted at several studios across Utah Valley. 

Miranda currently lives in Sandy with her husband, Thomas, and her son, Jax. She also loves the Utah mountains, paddle boarding, playing cards, rock climbing, and a good movie night.

Abbie Mathews

Abbie has been dancing since the age of 4 and was on the performing team at her studio. She started dancing competitively at the age of 10 and has earned many awards and titles.  Abbie has trained in ballet, jazz, hip hop, contemporary, tap, and lyrical.  She loves all dance genres, but her favorite is hip hop!  She was on her high school dance team for three years and choreographed many dances for them.  She continues to choreograph for the high school dance team.  Abbie was part of a mentorship program at “The House” and was privileged to work with working choreographers in the dance industry.  Abbie has been in dance music videos and commercials and has performed at several award ceremonies, Knotts Berry Farm, Disneyland, and Ventura County Fair.  Abbie was part of the UVU Dance Team last year. She has had the opportunity to teach hip hop classes and just loves it!  She wants to pass her joy and passion for dance to her students and is grateful for the opportunity to teach.

Olivia Ethington

 Olivia started her ballet training at 3 years old with Lancaster School of Ballet and has participated in many Mountain West Ballet productions including the Nutcracker, a Midsummer’s Night's Dream, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Coppelia, and Alice in Wonderland. She recently graduated from Utah State University with her BFA and has been working as a wedding photographer and videographer for the last 4 years. She is so excited to be a part of the Kaleidoscope family and help her students grow!