About
Canyon Dance Academy is a family-friendly studio for students of all ages and skill levels.
We strive to provide the highest quality dance education in a positive and supportive environment.
Our skilled and caring instructors teach classical technique, contemporary choreography and performance skills.
Sharing our love of dance and movement with the community is our ultimate goal.
The CDA Team
Heather Jensen
Owner
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Dance has always been a part of my life in one way or another. I loved taking lessons as a child and an adult. I love watching my kids experience dance. This love for dance and my desire to ensure that others could have dance in their lives led me to take over the 20-year legacy of Canyon Dance Academy.
Leah Orza
Dance Instructor
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Leah comes from a large family of ballerinas. All five of her siblings and both of her parents were all professional dancers, choreographers, and now teachers, training and dancing with the San Francisco Ballet School and Company, School of American Ballet, and Joffrey Ballet School in New York City.
Leah has been training and developing dancers age 2 to adults in Ballet, Pointe, Jazz, Lyrical, Contemporary, Modern, Hip Hop, Tap, Acro, Ballroom, and Improv for the last 25 years.
Many of her students have trained at schools like Juliard, UC Berkeley, Sony Price, and more, then gone on to become professional dancers.
Leah is very excited to be a part of this dance experience in Caldwell/ Nampa for you and your families.
Jovanna Mendoza Hernandez
Dance Instructor
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My name is Jovanna Mendoza Hernandez “Jovy” I am a mother to a beautiful baby girl. Our world definitely is always on the go being not only a choreographer but a Pre-K teacher as well. Dancing runs deep in my family, my parents met dancing. I started dancing around the age of 11 and went on to dance with a National award-winning and state champion Drill/Dance team Wildpride. I have technical/professional training in styles such as jazz, contemporary, hip-hop lyrical, etc. I stick to my roots with being Latina I specialize in Latin fusion/hip-hop styles. I’ve been a choreographer/instructor for 7 years and continue to train in various styles of dance such as Animation, Popping, House, Krump, etc. I love the dance. It is a blessing to not only teach but learn and grow with each and every one of my students!
Sammi Grant
Dance Instructor
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My name Sammi Grant and I am a dance teacher at Canyon Dance Academy. I am a student at Boise State University, and I am pursuing my Bachelor’s degree in Sociology and a minor in Spanish. I love all types of dance, but my favorites are jazz and hip hop. I am a Choreographer and run my own Choreography business, “Amore Choreography.” I am a Disney freak and love all things scary!
Kaitlyn Fajardo
Dance Instructor
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Hi my name is Kaitlyn Fajardo and I am a dance teacher at Canyon Dance Academy. I am a recent graduate from Northwest Nazarene University with a degree in global business and financial economics. I have been dancing since I was in preschool all the way through my senior year of high school and taught dance for a year and a half at my hometown dance academy, Candy’s Dance Academy. I absolutely love tap and jazz and enjoy teaching young dancers to find the passion of dance that my past dance teachers have helped me find. I am so excited to be a part of Canyon Dance Academy and to help the students learn and grow into the best version of themselves.
Payton Liffick
Dance Instructor
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Heidi Browning
Dance Instructor
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My name Sammi Grant and I am a dance teacher at Canyon Dance Academy. I am a student at Boise State University, and I am pursuing my Bachelor’s degree in Sociology and a minor in Spanish. I love all types of dance, but my favorites are jazz and hip hop. I am a Choreographer and run my own Choreography business, “Amore Choreography.” I am a Disney freak and love all things scary!