Director

Marissa has been dancing for 23 years and has been teaching for 14 years. She teaches all genres of dance, with specialty in Contemporary and Hip Hop. She has trained with Broadway Dance Center in NYC, Tremaine Dance Convention, Excel Dance Convention, Titans of Dance and many others. She has performed pre-game and halftime for the Atlanta Hawks. She has trained under many professional dancers such as Marty Dew, Jason Kalish, Alex Wong, Twitch, Fik-shun, Brian Henniger, Jamie Goodwin, Casey Noblett, Casie Goshow, Kent Boyd and many others. She performed at Disney in 2013. She has competed at many National and Regional competitions and holds many top awards and has received many scholarships. Marissa’s students have received many top place awards at competition, taken home many scholarships and moved on to professional dance careers. Marissa also works as a Registered Nurse. Outside of work she enjoys swimming, tanning, cooking and most importantly, spending time with her husband Evan and daughter Ryann.  She loves to watch her students grow in the their dance education and strives to help them achieve the best of their abilities. Marissa is so excited to share her knowledge and love for dance with her students. 

Assistant Director

Sierra has been dancing for over 12 years and teaching for 5 years. She has taught tumble, ballet, jazz, hip hop, tap, and contemporary at various ages and levels.  She has been a competitive dancer and has won various awards.  Her passion is not only teaching but also choreographing routines for classes, solos, and small groups.  Sierra pushes her students to meet their potential.  This is her second year teaching at Voltage and she cannot wait to see what the students accomplish this season. 

Tumble Director

Brandy Jones was born and raised in Gilmer County. She graduated from Gilmer High School in 2004 then pursued a career in Bank Corporate Security and Compliance. She has 16 years of experience in cheerleading, both competition and sideline as well as tumbling. After her daughter showed interest in gymnastics and cheer at the age of three, she decided to start coaching cheerleading and that led to coaching tumble lessons. God continues to open doors and bless much more than words can describe. She is grateful to be a part of Voltage Dance Factory and can't wait to see each child develop new skills and become strong athletes.

Andrea began her training at the age of 2 at Academy of Dance Arts. For over 24 years, she has taught many dancers of all ages and levels in many forms of dance, many whom have continued with professional dance careers. Andrea was awarded a ballet scholarship to attend Brenau University, where she majored in Dance Education and was invited to join the Gainesville Ballet. She ultimately received her Bachelor’s degree in Accounting from Kennesaw State University, where she trained and performed with the Wings Dance Ensemble. Furthermore, she had trained with Broadway Dance Center, Studio 1, and Georgia Ballet, where she was invited to join the Georgia Ballet Company. Andrea is very excited to be teaching at Voltage Dance Factory!

Ella has been training in all dance genres for 12 years, but she specializes in acrobatics, contemporary, jazz, lyrical, and technique.  Ella is a competitive dancer and has won multiple titles in the elite division at various competitions all over the Southeast.  She loves to teach, choreograph, and help others advance their dance training while sharing her passion.  Ella is enjoying being an instructor at The Voltage Dance Factory!

Kayla has been dancing for 11 years and started dancing competitively when she was 7. Kayla is teaching our Kinder Hip Hop and Beginner Hip Hop. Her favorite style of dance is hip hop and she loves teaching the younger ones. Kayla hopes to one day become a primary school teacher.

Anna's passion for dance began at the age of three, and it has remained her passion ever since! She began her training under Kathy Thomas, Director of 'En Pointe School of Dance', at the satellite school 'Discipleship through Dance' in Maysville, GA. At the age of thirteen she was accepted into 'Praise in Motion', En Pointe's dance company in Lilburn, GA. Anna then moved her dance education to 'The Royal Dance Academy' in Suwanee, GA and spent four years training at a pre-professional level in their Conservatory Program. With this training, she completed the Intermediate, Advanced 1 and Advanced 2 levels of the Royal Acadamy of Dance's graded syllabus. She was selected out of over 300 dancers to be awarded a Rockette's Summer Intensive Scholarship at the dance competition NYCDA in 2014. Anna has been assisting and teaching her own classes, including ballet, pointe, tap, and contemporary since the age of seventeen. Anna's motto for dance has always been "You don't have to be the best dancer in the room, as long as you're trying your best to improve!". She tries to direct her dancers towards success, motivating them to accept that even on their "off days", growth can, and will, happen!