Teachers

shaping tomorrow's Dance champions

Brenda Mckinlay

Owner Director

Mrs. Brenda begun her Ballet training at a very young age in her Native country Peru, at the Miraflores Ballet Academy under the Direction of the Russian ballet Master: Dimitry Rostoff ,she also has a bachelor degree in education .Mrs. Brenda founded La Danse back in 2013 in the city of Ontario with 10 students and now La Danse is the home studio of more than 150 talented dancers, she wish to continue growing in the future and keep passing the beautiful art of dance to the next generations.

ISABELLA MESONES

Miss Bella is in charge to teach our Pre Ballet and Intermediate ballet divisions, she also directs our competition team and is the main choreographer of LDO.Miss Bella started dance at the age of 7 with classical ballet and character dance, she participated in many dance competitions obtaining awards .some of those competitions includes the Youth American Grand Prix of Ballet ,she had the opportunity to attend a lot of seminars based on the Vaganova Russian Method of Ballet ,modern and contemporary workshops,She loves to share her passion for Ballet with her young dancers.

ARIANNA OVALLE

Miss Ari (this is the way all our dancers call her)begun her dance training at 9 years old at LDO, she started learning ballet and Acro dance, later she learned modern and contemporary dance .She attended very famous dance competitions like the Youth American Grand Prix she obtained many Awards as well as scholarships, she just graduated from High School with honors and she wants to pursue a career in Finances, but at the same time she will keep teaching at LDO, we are very thankful for all her hard work and dedication to our young dancers.