Our facility (located at 348 Bronte St South) boasts two large dance studios. Each studio is fully equipped with Rosco marley flooring ensuring safety for all dancers. Each studio has a separate waiting room which has television screens for parents to watch the dancers class (Covid-19 restrictions in place). We have always kept our classes small to ensure that your dancer is becoming a member of our dance family, and not just a number in our classes. Our acro classes use highly rated props and mats ensuring safety for our littlest dancers through to our oldest. In each studio, we have mounted ballet barres on the wall, as well as individual ballet barres to ensure students safety during Covid-19. All of our equipment is sanitized between classes. Our location provides large parking lot ensuring that you always have a safe space to drop-off and pick up your dancer.

Our Team

Rebecca Hewlett
Creative Director-Instructor

Rebecca has been dancing since the age of 4, and has extensively trained in many disciplines including Jazz, Tap, Lyrical, Acro, Musical Theatre and Ballet. Her early dance career had her competing at a high level for many years across North America. Rebecca spent many of her summers training at different workshops and intensives with many well known teachers from the Canadian dance scene.

At an early age, Rebecca realized that her passion lied with teaching and she quickly made the switch from performing on stage, to being in the studio getting students ready to perform on stage themselves. She has been teaching for over 15 years and has helped students grow in many dance disciplines. Her students have won potential and overall awards and she has won awards for choreography and costuming. Rebecca is certified with Acrobatic Arts (AA2) as well as with Alixa Flexibility. 

Rebecca has been teaching at Dance Etc Milton since its inception, and is delighted to take on a new role as of October 2020 as Owner and Artistic Director. She is excited to watch the studio continue to grow and watch students pursue excellence in the arts and following their passion. 

Natalie Coffa
Instructor

Natalie Coffa is entering her 4th and final year at York University, studying dance and consecutive education. Throughout her years of training, she has won many overall and nationals titles and attended workshops all over Canada and the United States, including the prestigious Joffrey School of Dance.

Natalie is a highly trained dancer in jazz, tap, contemporary, modern, ballet and pointe. Natalie has completed the grade exam levels in Vaganova, including the Advanced 1 in R.A.D, and studies in the Cecchetti ballet syllabus at York University. Natalie also placed 3rd for her jazz solo at the Worlds Dance Competition, when she was nine years old. Natalie has also had the opportunity to have assisted many choreographers with summer workshops and choreography.

Natalie is thrilled to be joining the faculty at Dance Etc Milton and loves being part of the family atmosphere.

Brianna Finucan
Instructor

Brianna Finucan has graduated from York University with her BFA in dance, and is now completing her BEd in teacher’s college, at York University. Throughout her years as a dancer she was taught and trained by many great artists, while also attending many workshops and competitions all over the world. She received many overalls, and scholarships at Jump conventions and was qualified to compete at the Top 20 Best Dancer Awards in New York City. 

Brianna began dancing at the age of four and has had the opportunity to train in many styles of dance including Jazz, Tap, Ballet, Hip Hop, Acro, Lyrical, Open, Contemporary and Pointe. She completed all grade level exams and trained for her Advanced 1 in the Cecchetti ballet syllabus and continues to train in this syllabus at York University. While at York University Brianna has also had the opportunity to train and compete with their competitive dance team, York Lion’s Dance Energy. She continues to train, as well as teach and assist many choreographers.

Brianna is very excited to be a part of the Dance Etc Milton family and can’t wait to see what the future has instore for both her, and her students!

Kerry Lee Hawkins
Instructor

Kerry Lee Hawkins has been involved in the world of dance since the age of three. A trained & accredited dancer in the art of tap, jazz, lyrical, musical theatre, modern & ballet, Kerry Lee started in the world of dance and has never looked back. An accredited member of The British Association of Teachers of Dance, Dance Masters of America – (Canadian Chapter) & Dance Educators of America, Kerry trained under Brian & Faye Foley. Kerry was a successful competitive dancer with numerous awards to her credit travelling across Canada and the United States. Professionally Kerry Lee has performed on television and in trade shows as well as runway modeling, magazine and television ads. Her background also includes singing and dancing in various musicals across Canada. Kerry Lee owned and operated her own dance studio for over 22 years and was proud to be a motivating force behind hundreds of dancers who were successful in exams, competitions and professional work. Many of Kerry Lee’s former students have gone on to open their own dance studios, performed on television, cruise ships & on stage and screen. During her years as a studio owner, Kerry Lee was proud to be President of Dance Masters of America, Chapter 38 and was thrilled to represent Canada at many conventions and workshops in the U.S. Kerry Lee took on another project after taking her students to many dance competitions in Canada and the U.S. In 1990 she started DANCEFEST, a dance competition with an emphasis for the positive. The motto for DANCEFEST is: “Promoting the art of dance through healthy competition”.

Rebecca Jacobs
Instructor

Rebecca’s love for dance started at the young age of three years. Training in Hamilton, Ontario Rebecca trained hard and was a highly competitive dancer by the age of seven. She moved to a studio in Oakville to train at a higher level and was awarded with numerous awards at competitions including scholarships, titles and overall awards.
Trained in all dance forms Rebecca is an accomplished dancer, teacher and choreographer. Ballet training includes both R.A.D. and Cecchetti levels. Rebecca’s love for the stage is evident in choreography reels and pictures from her years of competing.
Rebecca is now enrolled at McMaster University working towards her MBA.
Teaching and choreographing is a passion for Rebecca and she is thrilled to inspire students as a staff member at Dance Etc. Milton. She is hoping to pass on her love of dance to all her students and looks forward to witnessing their growth and success.

Eryn Curran
Instructor

Eryn began dancing at the age of 2.5 and immediately fell in love. She began competing at the age of 4 and continued dancing for 16 years. She performed competitively across Canada and the United States and explored many genres of dance including jazz, tap, ballet, pointe, musical theatre, lyrical and hip hop. She also performed in ballet exams including B.A.T.D and the Society of Russian Ballet scoring top marks.

Not only did she fall in love with dance, but Eryn also discovered her love for teaching. Eryn began assisting dance classes at age 11 and continued training to become an instructor. She loves to create and inspire even the youngest dancers to appreciate the art of dance.

Eryn continued her education in the growth and development of children by graduating the Early Childhood Education program with High Honours. As a Registered Early Childhood Educator, Eryn utilizes her school and dance education to make every class safe and fun for dancers of all ages.

Emily Skorup
Instructor

Emily has been dancing with Dance Etc Milton since it’s inception over 10 years ago. She has trained in all styles of dance including Jazz, Acro, Ballet, Hip Hop and Contemporary.
Emily has been competing since a young age and has won overall awards since she was young.
Emily is a Module 1 certified Acrobatic Arts Assistant and is looking forward to working with the smallest of Dance Etc Milton dancers as she introduces them to concepts, technique and creative imagination through the world of dance.

Rachel Janda
Instructor

Rachel has been dancing since she was 4 years old. She started her training at Canadian Dance Company, and continued at JC Dance Troupe. Rachel started teaching different dance styles at JC Dance Troupe at the age of 18. These dance styles included jazz, tap, hip-hop and lyrical. Rachel has also co-directed her university hip-hop team, NuMonic Dance Team. She thoroughly enjoys, and is very passionate, about what she does.
Rachel is looking forward to meeting and working with the dancers at Dance Etc Milton and sharing her passion for the arts.

Jenna Hadden
Instructor

Jenna recently graduated from York University’s BFA Dance Program with Honours and is currently in the Bachelor of Education Program. Jenna has been a competitive dancer since the age of 5, training extensively in Jazz, Ballet, Tap, Acro, Hip Hop, Lyrical, Contemporary and Modern. She has completed the RAD Ballet, and CDTA Ballet, Jazz and Tap exams, and received the ballet award for outstanding style and technical execution during the Vaganova Russian Ballet exams. She has won top awards and scholarships at competitions across America and has been seen on TV at both the “Regionals and National’s” on Family Channel’s “The Next Step” as well as a featured and back up dancer on “The Next Star”. She was a member of Team Canada that competed in Poland at the World Modern, Jazz and Ballet Dance Championships in 2013 and in Prague for the World Show Dance Championships in 2014.

Jenna looks forward to teaching at Dance Etc Milton each year, and loves watching the students thrive and grow as dancers!