Kim is owner, director, and choreographer of the exciting new Dance Factory studio. Kim grew up Shawnee and has recieved training from Judy Lampl, Selynn Lampl, and Missy Verona at La Dance Vivante. She has been on the stage competing in dance, attending conventions and workshops since the age of 7. As a child Kim was always performing on stage in pageants and modeling for catalogs and special events with Bill Cloughly. She has been teaching dance since she graduated high school. Kim graduated from OBU’s nursing program in 1997 and opened Express Yourself Dance apparel in 2003. Kim teaches most competitive level students age’s 4 years to 18 at the Dance Factory. Her passion is dance!

Stefany has been dancing for 18 years and found her love for ballet at a very young age. Stefany has received her training from local and out of the area instructors and choreographers. She has won many dance awards and competitions in Pointe, ballet, lyrical, and jazz. Stefany's dance training includes a dance education from Saint Gregory's University. She wants to keep the tradition of classical Ballet alive and teach young children so that they too can become ballerinas someday.

Nicole Curry has been on stage dancing and performing since she was 3. She began competitive level dance at the age of 6. By 8 she won her first scholarship at Depree Dance Convention. At the young age of nine she made the Jr. Oklahoma University ballet intensive program. At age 11 Nicole danced in the Moscow Ballet with many professional Russian ballerina's. Nicole has won "overall "awards every year since she began dancing solo's at 7 years. She has won over 8 scholarships and has hundreds of trophies, metals, and ribbons, Nicole's training includes teachers such as Emily Carter-Shaw,Destiny Rogers( “So You Think You Can Dance” finalist) & other well known instructors. Nicole began her teaching career 3 years ago as an assistant teacher and now has been solo teaching for the last 2 years. Nicole teaches hip-hop, lyrical, and private lessons. Nicole plans to be a professional dancer & intertainer as well as a dance educator.

Lyndsy comes to us with a strong music and dance background. She has studied ballet, jazz and modern dance extensively and performed the Ballet Coppelia with Allen Fields, Director of the Minnesota Ballet, as well as being on the State Dance Team two years in a row. She is majoring in music composition and plays piano and sings. Whether she plays a physical instrument or uses her voice or body as the instrument, Lyndsy has a passion for all forms of musical expression and strives to instill that in her students!  Lyndsy is a NDCA Certified Social Bronze.