Qualified & Dedicated

As the Executive Director of Dance Hues Studio, the founder of our community partner; a non profit organization: The DAISY Studios Inc., and one of our most qualified teachers and choreographers, Miss Bri takes utmost pride in her work with our studio.

At the young age of 19, Bri took ownership of Dance Hues Studio in January of 2014 when the program needed to regroup and relocate financially and physically. Before making this decision, she was developing her technical, choreographic, and pedagogical skills as a student in the dance department at KU, as well as being an active teacher, choreographer and a program director at varying area local studios and dance programs.

During her time at the University of Kansas, she studied techniques including ballet, modern, jazz, flamenco, and hip hop. She also excelled in many courses that were focused in pedagogy and choreography. She also performed in modern, contemporary and hip hop faculty-choreographed works with The University Dance Company, a pre-professional company for dance-department-enrolled students. In addition, Bri also performed in the campus hip hop crew, Unity. For the last three of her four and a half years at KU, she simultaneously  operated her sole proprietorship, Dance Hues, without pay to ensure the doors would stay open.

In July of 2016, Bri founded The D.A.I.S.Y. Studios, a non profit organization dedicated to helping provide access to arts education to all.  She created the non profit organization and made her sister, Amber, her official business partner. Bri firmly believes every individual should have equal access to dance and arts education. As a young girl, she was fortunate to have someone offer very inexpensive dance lessons to her and her friends. Her life mission is to give back to her community and do the same for our youth. She believes the youth are our future and art plays a huge part in their development as they become respectful and hardworking citizens.

Bri received her Bachelor's of Arts in Dance from the University of Kansas in December of 2016. In the summer of 2019, she received her certification in Acrobatic Arts, and continued with their module two training in July of 2022. Acrobatic Arts is an acro curriculum that focuses on safety, injury prevention and progressions.  

In addition to directing the studio, she specializes in teaching acro, jazz, ballet and lyrical. 

Malyiah received her high school diploma from Free State High School in 2018 and is a longtime former member of our Sunflower Company. Malyiah was promoted to our Assistant Director, August 2020 after being our desk admin, our team assistant and Bri & Amber's right hand woman for two years. Malyiah is the organization behind all of the little details of DHS, she helps with everything from shoe fittings to fun projects and attendance reports. She now is the head of curriculum development. Malyiah has also become very involved with our STAMPP team icluding choreographing, coaching, administrative work and more.  She first took hip hop with Dance Hues Studio at the age of eight. After her first class, she fell in love with dance and continued her training in ballet, lyrical, jazz, contemporary, hip hop, tap, and some modern. Malyiah has a love for performance and the self-gain and escape from reality that dance provides. She is a perfectionist and a hard worker. She challenges her students to push themselves and work for refinement. She understands the hard work and commitment that is required to invest oneself into the art of dance.  She received her degree in Education in Spring of 2022 from the University of Kansas, in order to continue to share a lifetime of her passion in dance with others. She received her certification in Progressive Ballet Technique with Miss Amber in 2020. Malyiah specializes in teaching contemporary, tap, and lyrical but she has also recently gained a love for funk and hip hop! Her choreography is always so stylized, groovy, and funky!