Abigail Salyer
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Abigail Salyer

Abigail has been dancing at Kings Dance Center since she was just a year old and joined the Dancers Unlimited Competition Team at the age of six. She has trained extensively in jazz, tap, hip hop, contemporary, lyrical, ballet, and pointe. Through Dancers Unlimited, she’s had the opportunity to perform at exciting venues including Disneyland and the Miss California Pageant.

A proud graduate of California State University, Fresno, Abigail earned her Bachelor of Arts in Dance. During her time at Fresno State, she was a three-time member of the Contemporary Dance Ensemble, where she achieved gala status at the American College Dance Association’s 2025 Baja Conference. She danced the principal role in Robert Moses Kin’s The Supplicant, and performed internationally at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland, the largest performing arts festival in the world.

Abigail has received numerous scholarships from Hollywood Connection, Velocity, Jump, Nuvo, Nexstar Talent Competition, Thunderstruck, and Believe Talent Competition. She was named KDC’s Dancer of the Year in 2019 and was crowned Miss Kings County 2024, previously holding the title of Miss Kings County’s Outstanding Teen 2018.

At 18, Abigail became a coach for KDC’s Dancers Unlimited team. Her routines have earned multiple first overall placements, choreography, and judges’ choice awards. She is passionate about mentoring young dancers and is incredibly proud to be part of the KDC team, where she continues to share her lifelong love for dance.

Sarah Verheul
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Sarah Verheul

Sarah Verheul has been dancing at Kings Dance Center since she was 4 years old. She has trained in ballet, pointe, jazz, contemporary, lyrical, and hip-hop. Since she was 14, she has been a teacher’s assistant for the Creative Dance and Dancing Tots programs. She was also on the KDC competition team, Dancer’s Unlimited, for seven years. In addition to being heavily involved in dance, she is also a graduate of California State University, Fresno in Speech Pathology with a minor in dance. She currently works as a Speech Pathologist in Clovis, CA.  At Fresno State, she was also a member of the school’s Contemporary Dance Ensemble, who has put on numerous shows throughout the community, as well as traveling to the American College Dance Association where they placed in the top 10 out of 40 numbers in 2017.  She looks forward to continuing her teaching career and sharing her love of dance.

Meghan Verheul
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Meghan Verheul

Meghan Verheul has been dancing at Kings Dance Center since the age of 3. She has trained in numerous styles including ballet, pointe, jazz, lyrical, contemporary, and tap. Meghan was also a member of KDC’s Dancers Unlimited from a young age, winning various awards such as the Fame award and Icon runner-up at Hollywood Connection as well as a scholarship to AMDA performing arts college. In addition, she was accepted into the Joffrey Chicago ballet summer intensive. She was also named KDC Dancer of the Year in 2017! Meghan earned her Master’s Degree in Speech-Language Pathology from Fresno State and currently works as a Speech Pathologist in Clovis, CA. She looks forward to sharing her love of dance with her students!

Martha Kelly-Fierro
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Martha Kelly-Fierro

Martha Kelly­-Fierro has traveled the country and abroad choreographing, instructing, and showcasing her contemporary dance company.  Her unique style of dance was nurtured by assisting and touring with such world renown choreographers as Mia Michaels (So You Think You Can Dance), Keith Clifton (The Edge Dance Studio, Hollywood), and Jeff Amsden (A Few Good Men Dancin' ­ Broadway, NYC).

Her contemporary company, Altered Modalities, has been in existence for over 14 years and has performed in New York, Houston, Washington, Arizona, and throughout California. She has won several awards, including the new choreographer award at the Dance Under the Stars and the prestigious Gold Leo award at the Jazz Dance World Congress in 2000. Several of the dancers she has trained have gone on to dance, choreograph, or instruct professionally. She toured the United States as a faculty member with West Coast Dance Explosion and has been sought after as a master teacher because of her passion for movement and growth.
Currently, Martha and her husband reside with their seven children in Visalia, CA.

Stacie Souza
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Stacie Souza

Stacie Souza has over 30 years in the dance business and over 20 years of teaching experience. She began dancing at KDC at age 8. As a dancer she performed at Nickelodeon Studios in Hollywood, CA as well as Pepperdine University for several dance showcases for Encore Performing Arts. Stacie has trained under choreographers such as Rhonda Miller, Keith Clifton, Tina D'Amato, Adam Parson, Jeff Amsden, Martha Kelly-Fierro and Michael Rooney. She has been the recipient of numerous dance scholarships from Hollywood Connection, LA Dance Magic and LA Underground.

At the age of 16 she became a competition team coach for KDC's Dancers Unlimited. She has won choreography awards from Hollywood Connection, Spotlight, Nexstar, Starbound, Encore and Starpower and her routines have won many 1st Overall Awards. She became Miss Kings County in 2006, ran for Miss California, and is currently the President of the Miss Kings County & MKC Teen Program. Stacie received her Bachelors Degree in Interior Design in 2007 from Fresno State and moved with her husband Chad to Champaign, IL. There she worked as a dance teacher for Christine Rich Studio and Art In Motion Dance Studio, as well as an Interior Designer during the day. While there, she was given the opportunity to choreograph principal dancers from the Joffrey Ballet company. Stacie moved back to Kings County in 2009 and assisted with running the Dancers Unlimited competitive dance team for KDC. She took over as owner of the studio in 2014. Since becoming the owner, she has made several changes at the studio, including building a brand new, state of the art dance facility that opened in July of 2020. Stacie enjoys focusing on performance, flexibility, technique and building confidence in her dancers.
Stacie and her husband have two daughters and reside in Hanford, CA.

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