josie moss
owner / director
Josie Moss was born and raised in the small town of Troy, IL where she started her heightened dance training at age 9 under the direction of Jane Mannion. After graduation, her dance training took her to Chapman University where she graduated with a BFA in Dance Performance in 2017. Josie has trained in a variety of styles such as hip-hop, contemporary, jazz, tap, modern, ballroom, ballet and trained under prestigious choreographers such as Will Johnston, Nick Watkins, Kelly Fulton and many more. During her Chapman years, Josie has performed in a variety of different shows including the Fall Faculty Concert performing in Will Johnston’s “You”, Chapman Dance Alliance, and the Spring Dance Concert. Josie was also the president of Chapman's elite hiphop crew, Team Shaka. Josie has choreographed and taught for many studios and dance teams including McKendree University, PAVE School of the Arts, Jane Mannion’s School of Dance, Professional Dance Center, just to name a few. Josie is apart of Collective Vision, a choreography duo with Emily Roberson that travels to different high schools for dance team choreography. Josie was the head dance team coach for Triad High School for 3 years. Josie has also traveled with Hall of Fame Dance Challenge. Josie and her husband Cole opened their studio, Dance Network, in 2020. Since then the studio has flourished into what it is today. They are excited to provide opportunities for students for years to come.
Elaine Baer
dance staff
Elaine Baer currently resides in Highland, Illinois with her husband and four children. Her life in the dance world has been widespread. She has been fortunate enough to make a life of it, professionally and recreationally. As a child, Elaine grew up in dance education at Pat Fields School of Dance, as well as on the Highland Varsity Dance Team, and continued her love for it until after she graduated high school. Elaine was a Rams Cheerleader for 7 years and served as a line captain. Elaine went on to coach for Central Cheerleading, Triad Dance Team, and she is the current Highland Middle School dance team coach, her team receiving the Grand Championship at IDTA state. Elaine has taught at Jane Mannion's for the past 16 years. She enjoys getting to educate young minds, and share her love and passion for dance with them, with the hope they will love it as much as she does. Elaine looks forward to being able to continue to share her passion with the youth of the community for many years to come
Tayler Macios grew up as a competition kid in St. Louis. She is the winner of many regional and national championships. After graduating high school Tayler moved to Los Angeles to continue her training as a scholarship student at the EDGE Performing Arts Center. Now a graduate, Tayler has started her career as a professional dancer. Her credits include many live performances with former Pussycat Doll, Kaya Jones, where they toured all over Asia and the United States. Tayler has also performed at the Bellagio in Las Vegas for the Eplus New Years Eve show and Eplus’s After Grammy Party featuring Jessie J. She can also be seen in the Daft Punk ft Pharrell Williams music video “Loose Yourself to Dance” and TLC’s “What Not to Wear”. Tayler’s career is just getting started and she plans on living her dream as a dancer for many years.
Tayler Macios
dance staff
Emily Roberson
dance staff
Emily Roberson grew up in Edwardsville IL, where she has been dancing since she was 2 years old. She trained in the competition world until she graduated high school and then went on to study at the University of Arts, in Philadelphia: where she graduated in 2020, cum laude with a BFA in dance. In high school Emily was on varsity dance team for four years. She was captain of the dance team, a four time all american and won miss IDTA in 2015. She trained at Jane Mannion’s School of Dance where she won many regional and national titles. In 2014-2016 she was a company member of Hollywood Vibe. Then in 2016-2017 she was apart of the MVA+ program with Velocity Dance Convention. Within these two conventions she traveled and assisted many choreographers. Emily has studied and performed in works by Tommie-Waheed Evans, Wayne St. David, Thomas White, Kyle Hanagami, Sidra Bell, among many others. While attending the University of the Arts Emily performed in many works from students and outside choreographers. In 2019 she performed in the Young Choreographers Festival at the Symphony Space in NYC. She also presented her senior thesis “and never done;” in that same year. Among the years she has choreographed for many dance teams and studios in the Illinois and Missouri area. In 2021 Emily was a company member of the K/P Project and performed a piece at the City Foundry in St. Louis.
Raechel Roberson
dance staff
Raechel Roberson grew up in Edwardsville Illinois and has been dancing since she was 2 years old. She started dancing at Jane mansions school of dance when she was 11 and danced with her high school varsity dance team for her freshman and sophomore years of high school. She graduated in 2019 and now attends Southern Illinois University of Edwardsville. She is majoring in chemistry and minoring in dance. She is also a part of SIUE’s University Dance Company which trains her to be on a professional dance company and provides opportunities for performing. She spends a lot of her time assisting many choreographers in the Illinois and Missouri area. She loves teaching ballet to young dancers, and choreographing pieces to be performed on stage.
Sean Sessions
ballet / modern
Sean is a native of Columbia Maryland. He received his early dance training under Donna Pidel. He also trained at Butler University and Pittsburgh Ballet Theater. He has had the privilege of working under dance luminaries Suzanne Farrell and Anne Marie Holmes. Sean can currently be found dancing with The St. Louis Ballet under the direction of Gen Horiuchi. Sean is excited to be passing on his passion of ballet To the next generation.
Danielle carey
dance staff
Danielle Carey grew up in the town of Troy, Illinois and has been dancing since she was 10 years old. She started her training at Turning Pointe Academy of Dance from ages 10-15, and proceeded to train and compete at Dance Network her senior year. In high school, Danielle was on the varsity dance team for four years. She was captain her senior year, a 3x IDTA Rising Star, and an NDA All American. She graduated from Triad high school with Summa Cum Lade, and is now currently attending Southern Illinois University of Edwardsville. Danielle is majoring in both dance and psychology, as well as, minoring in math with a plan to pursue dance movement therapy. She is also a part of SIUE’s University Dance Company, which gives her the opportunity to continue training, working with various choreographers, and perform. In addition, Danielle is a member of SIUE’s dance team participating in many community, school, and spirit events as well as the team’s own practices and competitions. In addition to teaching, Danielle loves to assist choreographers such as Collective Vision Choreo, and create her own work to be performed. She is extremely grateful and cherishes these opportunities of having another extension doing what she loves, and sharing it with her students.
Abby HANNUKSELA
ballet
Abby grew up in Seattle, Washington and received most of her ballet training from the Pacific Northwest Ballet School under the direction of Peter Boal. There she had the privilege of working with many acclaimed teachers who now inspire her own teaching. She has also attended summer dance programs at the School of American Ballet, Miami City Ballet, BalletMet, Cincinnati Ballet, and Carolina Ballet. Abby moved to St. Louis, Missouri in 2022 to join Saint Louis Ballet as a company dancer under the direction of Gen Horiuchi. She has enjoyed dancing works by George Balanchine, Christopher Wheeldon, Kent Stowell, and many more. She hopes to inspire creativity and confidence in the next generation of dancers.
Mary Grace Wiedt
dance staff
Mary Grace was born and raised in STL where she grew up dancing competitively. During her senior year of highschool she attended Webster University for a semester training under Xi ``Cecillia” Zhao, Michael Uthoff, and Maggi Dueker. From there she attended Marymount Manhattan College in New York where she trained in Cunningham, Limón, Graham, Horton, Butoh, Gaga, Nikolais, O’Donnell, Taylor, Improvisation, Composition, and many others. During her time at Marymount she performed works by Crystal Pite, Gallim, Jose Limón, and Ohad Naharin. Besides her training at Marymount she attended numerous intensives and workshops working with choreographers such as Sidra Bell, Sonya Tayeh, Jenn Freeman, and AnoukVan Dijk. Her next endeavor is to obtain her Masters in Education from Lindenwood University. Aside from dancing and performing, Mary Grace has a large passion for teaching and choreography. She has set numerous works around the St. Louis area as well as other studios around the country including South Carolina, Michigan, Iowa, and Kentucky.