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.
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 recently graduated 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.
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!
Heidi Browning
Dance Instructor
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My name is Heidi Browning, and I am so excited to be teaching dance at Canyon Dance Academy. I have an amazing husband of 21 years, 3 children, and 2 beautiful grandchildren. I started dancing when I was about 10, which changed my life. My teachers at school and dance impacted me so much that I knew then that I would become a teacher myself one day. I wanted to help others feel the love and confidence I felt. I have now been teaching for the last 18 years and have loved every minute of it. I started to think that my dream of becoming a dance teacher would never happen. Then when I least expected it I was asked to teach at Canyon Dance Academy and I feel like a little kid again. I love every minute of it and can’t believe all my dreams have come true.
Alison Brookshire
Dance Instructor
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Alison (she/her) grew up in San Diego, California, where she began dancing at 6 years old. Transitioning from recreational dance to a more serious training regimen, the dancer began studying at the San Diego School of Creative and Performing Arts in middle and high school with a Dance concentration. At the school, Alison grew her artistic and technical skills in modern, ballet, and concert dance, meanwhile also receiving opportunities such as attending the Regional and National High School Dance Festival in the West and East Coasts, participating in the McCallum Choreography Dance Festival, being featured in Andra Day’s Why I Vote video, and working with choreographers such as Christopher Huggins, Vincent Hardy, and Rachel Berman. Alison continued her dance studies at Dean College, earning her BA in Dance and Exercise Science with many opportunities to train in variations of perform works by college faculty and guest artists like Kurt Douglas and choreograph original works for selected dance concerts at the school. Alison is excited to join the CDA family for the upcoming dance season and to meet all the wonderful dancers, staff, and families.
Delainy Lea
Dance Instructor
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My name is Delainy Lea and I will be joining CDA as a beginner level Tap and Jazz teacher. I am originally from Tillamook Oregon (you may have heard of our delicious ice cream) but have also lived in Arizona and now here in Idaho! I have been dancing since I was four years old all the way through college with a few years of teaching. I have a huge place in my heart for tap and can not wait to help students find the love of dance that I found at a very young age. I have so many special memories growing up where I am in the dance studio, or at one of my many performances and can’t wait to continue to make memories with your students. When I am not at the dance studio you can find me camping at the lake, or up in the woods with my family.