Shelby Smith - Competition Team Co-Director

Shelby is an alumni of Temple University with a Bachelor's degree in Health & Physical Education and a Masters from Wilmington University in School Leadership.

Shelby is trained in ballet, jazz, hip hop, and cheer. She was a former Temple University Cheerleader and NBA dancer where she had the opportunity to perform with Kelly Clarkson, Outkast, Pit Bull, Kevin Rudolf, Ludacris.  She has performed at numerous NBA & WNBA Allstar games, USA basketball games, and NBA International games. She also performed at the 2004 Olympics in Athens, 2008 Olympics in Beijing and 2012 Pre Olympic Tour in England. She is also a bronze medalist at The Cheerleading Worlds.

Shelby coached high school dance for 11 years. She founded South Jersey Storm All Star Dance Teams program, growing it from one team to 10 in 7 years.   In 2015 her South Jersey team won the silver medal in the large Senior Hip Hop division. Since joining Adrenaline Studio, she has worked with teams across all divisions. In 2017 her team won the US Trials for the Open All Girl Division and Worlds Open Hip Hop Silver Medal. Since working with Adrenaline Studio, she continues to coach teams across all age levels and has continued to inspire creativity and challenge our dancers.

Samuel Hall - Next Level Groups Co-Director

Sam originally from England, graduated from VCU with a BFA in Dance and Choreography.  He later moved to NYC where he danced professionally with contemporary company “Megan Doyle Dance” and taught at the historic Harkness Dance Center while also assisting at Broadway Dance Center.  After 5 years in NYC, Sam decided to move back home to London where he taught at both Pineapple Dance Studio and BASE, two of the biggest professional dance studios in the country and was a member of Dane Bates’ “Brother of Dance Company” who competed on BBC One’s The Greatest Dancer Season 2 and made the semifinals. After returning to Virginia Sam jumped into coaching dance teams and teaching classes with Adrenaline Dance Studio.

Elizabeth Drlik

Originally from Ohio, Elizabeth graduated from Bowling Green State University, with a Bachelor’s of Science in Dance Education and minor in psychology. She was a member of the University Performing Dancers and the University Dance Alliance. She also interned with Open Window Dance Company as their Executive Production Assistant, and later a dancer for the company. After graduating, Elizabeth taught creative dance, jazz, and ballet at Dance Expressions Dance Studio. In 2011, she moved to California and became a member of ONE Performing Arts. During her time with OPA, she performed with the adult dance company and had the opportunity to choreograph for the ONE II Youth Company. In 2017, Elizabeth moved to northern Virginia and pursued her career as a dance instructor. Elizabeth is amazing with our Tiny dancers. She is a major part of our community programs at the Community Centers, and teaches a fantastic tap class. Elizabeth is a certified Acro instructor and has brought new skills to our program. She is magical with our tiny dancers, she bring so much joy to the program.

Amanda Rice  

Amanda began her dance career very young at a local studio.  She was a competitive dancer for her high school Cherry Hill West in New Jersey. While in high school she also competed with South Jersey Storm All Stars dance teams. She continued to dance competitively in college at West Chester University and was the captain her senior year leading her team to a 3rd place at UDA Nationals. Amanda has continued her All Star competitive dancing at Adrenaline Studio where she competes on the Open teams.  Amanda has been coaching at Adrenaline Studio since  2020 and has coached all levels.

Holly Colbert

Holly grew up in Reston, VA and received her ballet training at The Reston Conservatory Ballet under the direction of Julia Cziller Redick.  She was accepted to multiple prestigious ballet summer intensives that include The School of American Ballet (The school of New York City Ballet), Princeton Ballet (The school of American Repertory Ballet), Southern Ballet Theatre (now Orlando Ballet) and Ballet Internationale.  Holly has been trained by some of the most world-renowned ballet teachers and dancers.  She has had the opportunity to train with Andrei Kramarevsky, Antonina Tumkovsky, Sheryl Ware, Richard Rapp, Suki Shorer, Elisabeth Carroll, Katherine Magno, Gelsey Kirkland, Irina Kolpakova, Fernando Bujones, Vladilen Semenov, Kyra Nichols, Amanda McKerrow, Robert Hill, and Valentina Kozlova just to name a few.

She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Classical Ballet from Radford University where she trained under Frano Jelincic (former Artistic Director of The National Croatian Ballet and Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre), Dagmar Kessler (former dancer with the London Festival Ballet and Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre), Danah Bella, and Margaret Devaney.  

Holly has performed dances from numerous ballets such as The Nutcracker, Giselle, Swan Lake, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, La Bayadere, La Corsaire, Paquita, Les Sylphides, Coppelia and many more.

Holly has been with Adrenaline Studio since the beginning and loves her work with our young ballerinas.  She has given so many dancers an amazing start to their dance career with our introductory ballet classes.   Holly additionally coaches some of our technical competitive teams. You will surely gain new knowledge and skills by enrolling in her classes. 

Melissa Dolan - Next Level Groups Co-Director

Melissa started dancing locally at a young age with a focus in ballet while also training in jazz, lyrical and hip hop. Melissa danced competitively with the Herndon High school dance team and continued to dance throughout college. Melissa graduated from George Mason with a degree in communications and holds a Master's in Education. She worked as a special education teacher before setting her sights on a career in dance education. Melissa has taught dance and managed a local studio for 10 years before joining the Adrenaline team. She continues her love for teaching dance through All Star coaching and working with our studio competition teams. In addition, Melissa has expanded her skill set as a Registered Acro Dance Teachers Association Instructor.

Jacob Myers

Adrenaline Studios welcomes our new Acro-Gymnastics, and professional ballet dancer, Jacob Myers. As a competitive dancer, Jacob excelled in contemporary, musical theatre and acro technique. It was not unusual to see him tumbling across the stage, doing acro tricks not seen before in all the various dance genres. He is a master instructor of aerials, back handsprings, tucks and twists. As a Professional Dancer with Manassas Ballet, he has secured prestigious roles in the well-known Nutcracker as Harlequin, Military Doll, Russian and Flowers. Don’t miss the new opportunity to work with Mr. Jacob!

Kristen Fish

Kristen is a technician and passionate educator with over 16 years of formal training in Classical Ballet and Variations under director Ilona Russel.  As a company member and solost of The Russel School of Ballet, Kristen performed several works such as Balanchine's The Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty, and Giselle. During her years as a student, Kristen advanced in all technical forms of ballet, pointe, lyrical, modern, contemporary, improvisation, choreography, broadway, hip hop and tap.  She competed nationally as the captain and four year member of the nationally ranked Oakton High School dance team in pom and kick and won several national titles, solo awards and scholarships.  Kristen was recruited by Universal Dance Association as a head instructor in 2010, and by 2015 was promoted to head of training and education for new, veteran and head instructors.  Her years with UDA continue today as a technique and choreography judge for local and national competitions.  Kristen was a captain and four year member of the National Champion titled James Madison University Dukettes Dance Team.  With her team she competed in national competitions,  performed in the Macy's Day Parade, and was featured all around the country with The Marching Royal Dukes.  Kristen was the only 4x NDA Collegiate All American to represent JMU.  After graduating from James Madison University, Kristen returned as a coach of the Dukettes and led the team to their first of many Collegiate National Champion titles in the D1 Jazz division. In 2017 Kristen returned to the northern Virginia area to continue her passion for coaching and choreography.  She began her career as an independent choreographer and now holds several prestigious awards including Universal Dance Association’s Best Choreography for 2020 varsity Jazz.  Kristen has coached the James Madison High School dance team, the Herndon High School dance team, and several all star teams in the area.  As a performer Kristen holds a 3rd place finish in Worlds in the Open Jazz category. In 2022 Kristen created her own local Dance Convention, the ‘Open Convention Series’.  

Kristen is now a dedicated and full time teacher in ballet, pointe, lyrical, contemporary, and jazz teacher at Rhythm Street Adrenaline.  Out of everything Kristen has accomplished, it is the success of her students that is most meaningful.  Not only are her students equipped with proper technical knowledge and vocabulary, they are supported in all aspects of learning.  Kristen is proud to have created a method of dance education that fosters personal creativity and growth towards each individual’s unique potential, while continuously challenging herself and her students both as artist and human beings.  Many of her students have received national recognition and scholarships to various well respected summer intensive, dance colleges and dance teams.  

Colleen Hayes

Colleen is a Frederick, MD native and has spent the majority of her career as a performer and teacher in New York City. She recently relocated to the DMV and is thrilled to be back in the area to continue her work and be closer to family.

Her performing career began with the first national tour of Catch Me If You Can. Other credits include Crazy for You (Patsy) at The Rev Theatre Company, and The Producers and Cinderella at Fulton Opera House. TV commercial credit includes Roaring 20s for DC Lotto. Additional NYC credits include Nickelodeon’s Butterbean’s Café, Corn and Peg, Paw Patrol, and Dora the Explorer where she currently works as an audiobook narrator for their digital app.

In addition to her time in New York, she has worked locally at theatres including Signature Theatre and Olney Theatre Center. Her Signature Theatre credits include the world premiere of the musical Diner (music by Sheryl Crow, book by Barry Levinson, directed by Kathleen Marshall), Helen Hayes Award winning Cabaret, Helen Hayes nominated West Side Story (Velma), and Crazy for You (Patsy). She also appeared in Helen Hayes Award winning A Chorus Line (Sheila) and How to Succeed… (Hedy LaRue) at Olney Theatre Center.

In addition to performing, Colleen judges and teaches at dance conventions and is a member of the adjunct faculty at George Mason University teaching Intermediate Broadway Jazz. Colleen holds a degree in Theatre and Dance with a Musical Theatre Concentration from James Madison University and is represented by CESD Talent Agency.

Robel Kabtiymer

Robel began dancing at a young age training in ballet, jazz, contemporary / modern & hip hop.  Robel began competing with Adrenaline Studio in his senior year of high school on the Coed Senior Hip Hop team where they placed top 5 at Dance Worlds. After graduating high school he dedicated himself in training intensely in hip-hop by continuing to compete with Adrenaline's Open All Male team, again placing top 5 at the Dance Worlds.  He has danced with professional dance organizations such as Culture Shock DC & Capitol Movement, and performed internationally in Canada, taught workshops at the George Mason University, DC, Northern Virginia, West Virginia, and South Carolina, as well as Gear Up Dance Convention in Rock Hill, SC and Myrtle Beach. 

Robel is a choreographer, and creative artist.  He takes his teaching and training very seriously and loves to encourage his students to be their very best.  Every class he teaches, he motivates his students to give their all.

Catherine Bacha

Catherine Bacha, a Fairfax native, has been dancing since the age of 4 and teaching dance since age 16.  She trained in ballet, pointe, jazz, tap, lyrical, pom and hip-hop at local dance studios and with the Washington School of Ballet.  In the summer of 1995, Catherine was accepted to the Virginia Governors School Summer Program where she studied ballet, jazz and modern. During her senior year at Herndon High she was on the Drill Team where she won the honor of Universal Dance Association All Star.  She graduated with an advanced degree from Herndon High School.

 Catherine was accepted to the Conservatory at Shenandoah University receivING her bachelor’s in fine arts in Dance, as well as the Terpsichore Award for the graduating dance major who increased the visibility and prestige of the dance division through efforts as a working artist. While at Shenandoah, Catherine was a member of the “Sensations” Dance/Cheer team for two years and co-captain her last year with the team. 

Catherine was a featured dancer in the Russian Dance Trepak with the Fairfax Ballet Company Nutcracker. That same year she performed a tap duo with Glenda Huntley at Tap Fest.  She had the pleasure of dancing in Kelly Ottaviano’s dance piece “Urban Kyst” in the Leo’s Jazz Dance Choreography Competitive Event in 2000.  In 2000 Catherine was invited to perform for Ting-yu Chen at the Maryland Public Play House.  She also studied ballet at Ulyanovsk State University in Russia in the summer of 2001.  During her stay she was invited to perform traditional Russian dances along with a jazz piece choreographed by Alan Arnett at the Ulyanovsk State University’s graduation ceremony that was aired internationally.

In 2002 she choreographed for her senior concert at Shenandoah University, submitting it to the World Jazz Congress and Leo’s Jazz Dance Competitive Event. Her piece, “Point of View”, was selected as one of 26 pieces (from over 250 submissions) to perform in the Leo’s Jazz Competition in 2002.  In 2003 she was honored with the Reston’s Character Counts Coalition Award. 

Catherine has taught classes throughout Fairfax, Loudoun, and Frederick County Virginia.   She wants her love, passion and appreciation of dance to be passed on to as many people as possible.  Here energy is contagious in class, you won’t want to miss out on an evening with Ms. Cat. 

Nicole Wofford

Nicole graduated with honors in 2016, receiving a BFA in Dance Performance and a minor in Exercise and Sport Sciences from East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. In her senior year, she served as president of the National Honor Society for Dance Arts and presented dance science research at their annual conference in Phoenix, Arizona. Nicole also served as secretary for the East Carolina Dance Association and founding senior representative for the East Carolina Dance Science Club. In college, she earned her certification as an Ultra Barre instructor while working as a biomechanics research assistant with its founder, Teal Darkenwald.  After college, Nicole moved to Chicago, Illinois to dance with Inaside Chicago Dance, and has also had the opportunity to perform with Alluvion Dance Chicago. She then moved to the coast of North Carolina where she taught Jazz, Ballet, Pointe, Tap, Hiphop, Contemporary, Ultra barre, and Modern at Swansboro Dance Studio and Emerald Isle Dance Studio.  Nicole is a Certified Personal Trainer and Health Coach through the American Council on Exercise. She is currently located in Northern Virginia where she runs her own business, Flourish Fitness. Nicole not only teaches dance, but is also a Fitness Coach and Personal Trainer. She is also in her 6th year as a regional and national Head Judge for Edge Talent Competition. Alignment and technique are very important, especially in this generation of dancers!  As an instructor and judge, Nicole places emphasis on a solid technical foundation and efficiency in movement. She enjoys teaching and performing in all styles, but most of all she loves to watch dancers grow in technique and artistry.