PRECISION DANCE ASSOCIATION
INSTRUCTORS
Miss. Jadra began dancing when she was 4 years old, competed in her first competition at the age of 5 and fell in love with performing. She has been dancing for 18 years, and has trained heavily in ballet, contemporary, modern, lyrical, and jazz, and has experience with most other styles as well. She has won various awards at competitions, the most notable being Senior Miss Candance 2018 and 2019 and Teen Elite Dancer at Elite Dance Productions 2017.
Throughout Jadra’s dance training, she has attended various summer intensives. She attended the Junior Training Program at the Broadway Dance Center in New York, the Complexions Contemporary Ballet summer intensive in L.A., the Be Discovered Summer in L.A. intensive, and had the opportunity to perform in the Carnival Choreographer’s Ball. Jadra spent a year in Toronto dancing at York University and taking drop-in classes at studios including the Underground Dance Centre and City Dance Corps.
Jadra has received her Bachelor of Science degree from Acadia University as a Mathematics and Statistics major. She was the captain for the Dance Acadia team and has experience choreographing in contemporary, modern, lyrical, acro, hip hop and jazz. She has been the lead competitive instructor and choreographer for Precision Dance for the last 2 years. The dances she has choreographed have won numerous awards, and has a passion for the art of choreographing!
Jadra Hannam-Gaulton
Competitive Teams/recreational acro & hip hop
The arts have always been a huge part of Miss Jordan's life. She was enrolled in her first dance class at the age of two, and just kept on twirling. She brings with her fifteen years of dance teaching experience. She has ​taught ballet, tap and jazz to a wide range of ages, both recreationally and competitively. She graduated from the Maritime Conservatory of Performing Arts' two year post-secondary Dance Teacher Training Program in ballet and stage. She is also a certified dance instructor through CDTA, in jazz, tap and ballet. She successfully passed her Associate level BATD stage certification, and is an ADAPT qualified instructor as well.
Outside of the studio, Miss Jordan is a mom to her little boy and is a middle level English Language Arts and Social Studies teacher. In the school system she also has experience teaching workshops as well as teaching drama and dance courses at the high school level. Throughout her career she has assisted with many high school musical productions, has traveled across Canada and to New York for dance events, has had her students accepted into programs at the National Ballet School of Canada and Canada's Royal Winnipeg Ballet, and has prepared dancers for CDTA exams: from the lowest grades up to Advanced. Miss Jordan has a true love for dance and loves sharing her passion and knowledge with the dancers at PDA!
Jordan Sanford
Competitive & Recreational Ballet
Laurie Cook
Recreational pre dance & jazz/lyrical
Laurie is 16 years old and has been dancing for 11 years. She is in grade 11 this year.
Her favorite style of dance is Jazz. She was one of the Saturday teachers last year as well as a helper with the Spark team. She has been a helper for a four years now.
