2024-2025 Staff:
Miss Alaina
Alaina Pfeiffer began dancing at Dawn’s School of Dance in King William, Virginia, where she went on to teach beginning ballet and serve as president of the Student Dance Company. While attending Bridgewater College, Alaina served as captain and choreographer for the Bridgewater College Dance Team and founded the Lyrical Dance Ensemble. She has danced and taught at InMotion since 2006, and became the owner and director of the studio in 2011. Alaina received her Bachelor’s of Science degree in Physics & Mathematics in 2010. Miss Alaina will be teaching ballet and pointe classes during the 2024-2025 season.
Miss Caroline
Miss Caroline has been dancing for over 14 years and is trained in ballet, jazz, contemporary, pointe, hip-hop, and tap! She grew up in New Jersey and danced at the Perna Dance Center all throughout her childhood. She currently attends JMU where she studies Communication Sciences and Disorders with hopes to be a pediatric speech-language pathologist. Some of her favorite dance memories include dancing in the Miss America parade in Atlantic City, dancing in parades at Walt Disney World, opening for the Rockettes at Radio City Music Hall, performing at basketball games for her high school dance team as the captain, and being a part of the Dancing Dukes performance troupe at JMU. Miss Caroline is teaching hiphop during the 2024-2025 season!
Miss Haley
Haley Gillespie has 18 years of combined dance experience in tap, jazz, lyrical, contemporary, ballet, pointe, and clogging dance styles. She trained at Floyd Ward School of Dance in Roanoke, Virginia, where she served as a student dance teacher and substitute teacher. While attending James Madison University, Haley was a member and secretary of UREC Madison Dance Club. Haley received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Graphic Design and a minor in Dance in 2023. Along with working as a campus minister at JMU BCM, Miss Haley will be teaching tap during the 2024-2025 season.
Miss Megan
Miss Megan has 17 years of dance experience in ballet, contemporary, jazz, and modern dance styles. She trained at Ashburn Academy of Dance growing up, where she served as the ambassador for their special education dance program called Darby’s Dancers. She was a member of the Ballet Theatre of Ashburn from 2013-2021 where she danced leading roles such as Snow White in Snow White, Sugarplum Fairy and Clara in the Nutcracker, The Wiz in The Wizard of Oz, and Alice in Alice in Wonderland. She was a member of Edge Contemporary Dance Company from 2013-2021 and went on to choreograph pieces for the company in 2022. She has worked with choreographers such as Rasta Thomas, Grace Buckley, Courtney Thurston, Jose Soto, and Richard Smith. During her studio training, she was a teachers assistant and intern as part of the capstone program. She is currently a student in JMU’s dance program as a dance minor. She will be teaching lyrical, ballet, jazz, and pointe for the 2024-2025 season.
Miss Miriam
Miriam Zorc has danced around the East Coast competitively and in the professional world for 10 years. She has placed at numerous competitions, won multiple talent scholarships, trained in New York City, and choreographed for various shows. She is now studying at James Madison University and continues to dance with the Dancing Dukes club. Miss Mira will be teaching jazz during the 2023-2024 season.
Miss Pilar
Pilar Jones started dancing at InMotion at the age of 11 and started with only taking musical theater. Over the years she has grown to love all styles ballet, jazz, tap, hiphop you name it. She has spread her love for dance through musicals she performed at Broadway High School where she was dance captain for two years. Since she was 15 Pilar has been assisting classes and by 16 she was teaching her first class. Pilar is a second year in Massanutten Technical Centers LPN program and plans to continue nursing in the future. In the 2023-2024 season she will be teaching tap & hiphop
Miss Sara
Sara Barnes began dancing at the age of four in Maryland, training at Bloom Dance Studio and Dee Buchanan Studio of Dance. She continued her studies at the Barbara Ingram School for the Arts, specializing in Cecchetti-style ballet, Fassi-style jazz, and contemporary dance. Over the years, she has shared her passion by teaching numerous ballet, jazz, and contemporary classes. Sara earned her Associate of Science in Business Administration and is set to graduate in December 2025 with a degree in Health Services Administration Management and General Business. She is currently interning at Merck while continuing to inspire through dance.
Miss Seneca
Seneca Humphries has been dancing for over 12 years with experience in ballet, contemporary, jazz, and tap. While she loves all dance styles, contemporary dance holds a special place in her heart because of its expressiveness and fluidity. She started ballet and modern at Arts Ballet Academy in Newport News, VA where she discovered how much she loves storytelling through dance. In the annual ballets, she danced in roles such as Wendy in Peter Pan and the Music Box Doll in Fairy Doll. After developing an interest in contemporary dance and jazz, she moved to Virginia Regional Ballet (VRB) in Yorktown, VA where she refined her ballet technique and was pushed outside her comfort zone in new dance styles. She loved performing in the annual recitals because each year presented new moves to master and different teachers to learn from. During her senior year of high school, Miss Seneca taught tap/jazz to young dancers at VRB and choreographed their recital number, during which she discovered her love of choreography. She also danced with the YCSD School of the Arts program where she learned to cha-cha and expanded on her choreography skills as she created a piece for audition. She is currently a sophomore at James Madison University majoring in Anthropology and minoring in Geography. Miss Seneca will be teaching ballet, tap, and jazz during the 2023-2024 season.
Miss Shana
Miss Shana has 17 years of dance experience in ballet, pointe, contemporary, and jazz. She grew up in a small town in Virginia and was trained at Dance It Out Studios throughout her childhood. She is currently pursuing a degree in Dietetics with a minor in Dance at James Madison University, with plans to become a Registered Dietician. She has enjoyed a variety of experiences throughout her dance journey, including founding and choreographing for her high school dance team and student teaching for several years. Miss Shana is teaching junior jazz during the 2024-2025 season.
Miss Taylor
Miss Taylor started dancing at the age of 5 and has studied dance at Tacoma City Ballet in Tacoma, WA, Dance Design School in Hudson Valley, NY, MWR Unlimited Skies in Stuttgart, Germany, Festival Ballet Providence in Providence, RI, and James Madison University in Harrisonburg, VA. She also participated in cheerleading and performed in many musicals. She is a rising senior at JMU, where she studies dance.
Miss Gail
Miss Gail is likely the friendly face you’ll see in the InMotion lobby while other staff are teaching our fabulous dancers! She was captain of the drill team at Turner Ashby High School, a drill team member at Shepherd College, and began taking ballet classes in 2004. She regularly participates in adult ballet classes and recently found a new joy in tap dancing! If you catch her during a lull in duties, young dancers and siblings can enjoy storytime with her! Her official roles at InMotion include: Front Desk Management, Studio Grandma, Costume Captain, SetMaster, Prop Proprietor, SuperSeamstress, Housekeeping & Maintenance Departments, and Keeper of the Glitter!
Student Teachers:
Miss Zoe
Zoe Walker has nine years of dance experience in ballet, lyrical, jazz, pointe, and hiphop. Zoe joined InMotion at age 10 after moving to Virginia. She has been a part of InMotion’s Cast Ensemble as well as the InMotion Perform Group for the last five years. She has also traveled to Winston-Salem, North Carolina with the Perform group for the last several years to perform at Dance Revolution. She assisted Beginning I Ballet for three years and is excited to now be teaching it in the 2024-2025 season!