Staff

Arielle Gates

Arielle began her dance training at the age of 6 at a local Southern California dance studio. Throughout her dance career, she has studied in the styles of jazz, lyrical, tap, ballet, and hip hop. Arielle earned her BA in Dance at California State University, Long Beach where she studied jazz, ballet, and modern under various professional dancers and choreographers. While studying at CSULB, Arielle performed in numerous faculty, MFA, and contemporary concerts. In 2012, one of Arielle's self-choreographed pieces was selected to perform in dance department's Contemporary Concert. She was also a member of the nationally ranked Long Beach State Dance Team for from 2009-2012 where she performed at sporting events, community events, and competed at the national level. In 2010 Arielle was one of the Dance Team members selected to perform with the Black Eyed Peas at the Kids Choice Awards. After graduating, Arielle was a member of the Pace Elite All Star International Competition Team, with whom she is a two time Dance World Champion, competing against some of the most talented teams and countries in the world.. Before teaching high school dance, Arielle taught and choreographed for numerous dance studios and high school dance teams in Southern California. She has also judged for multiple dance competitions both nationally and internationally. Over the past eight years Arielle has been teaching dance in the classroom, as well as coaching at the high school level. It is important to her to not only teach her students the art form, but to help them grow into hard working, independent, and creative adults. Arielle loves sharing her passion and love for dance with her students at Troy!