Certified Studio Owner & Director. Mrs. Tara began dancing at the young age of 18 months where she fell in love with this beautiful art form. She has trained with Travis Wall, Mia Michaels, Alex Wong and Twitch to name a few. Mrs. Tara has been trained in all genres of dance including Ballet, Tap, Jazz, Lyrical, Musical Theatre, Hip-Hop, Gymnastics, Acrobatics and Poms. Mrs. Tara received her dance training from a former NY Rockette and the Captain of the Washington Redskins Cheerleaders. Mrs. Tara has been the Director of EDC for over 18 years. Mrs. Tara has won over 100 Choreography awards, and has been named choreographer of the year in 2016, 2018, 2019 and 2022. In 2021 she received the prestigious Contemporary choreography award at the Collective Dance Awards in Chicago IL. Mrs. Tara's dance students have won numerous National and Regional Titles, College Scholarships, Cash Prizes and Special Awards. She has led her dancers and studio to receiving the Top Overall Highest Scoring studio at several competitions as well as receiving the Studio of Excellence Award presented by the ADCC. Her passion and love for dance is what drives her to make EDC more of a family than a dance studio. Mrs. Tara is happily married and the mom of 3 wonderful children.
Mr. Jacob has been dancing and doing gymnastics since the age of 2.
In 2008, he attended a summer intensive with The Dance Theatre Of Harlem on full scholarship under the direction of Arthur Mitchell and Robert Garland.
He is an accomplished musical theatre soloist who excels in acro technique. He was a high scoring soloist and achieved regional and national titles in all age categories with multiple prominent competition venues. In 2016, he won 1st place overall in Senior Solos at the “Turn It Up” National Dance Championship and 2nd runner up in the Senior Men’s Division at the prestigious “World Dance Pageant”. He continued his passion for competitive dance as a Backstage Manager for the Star Dance Alliance.
He also trained with the Men’s Bulgarian National Team and served as a FIG Judge in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Mr. Jacob is USAG and CPR/AED certified, with a current background security clearance.
He has an Associate’s Degree in General Studies, with an emphasis in Business Administration.
Mr. Jacob is currently a Professional Dancer with Manassas Ballet Theatre.
Miss Jewel started dancing at the young age of two years old. She has 20 years of dance training and experience in the industry. Jewel received a college scholarship to study dance at the Studio School in Los Angeles CA. Jewel attended the Studio Schools and majored in the fine arts program learning from some of the top commercial artists and choreographers in the nation. She has since moved back home to Maryland where she now passes on all her education and training to her students. Jewel has been a dance teacher for nine years both in the recreational and competitive dance circuit. Jewel has choregraphed multiple National and Regional winning routines with her innovative and unique choreography. Growing up miss Jewel has trained with Radio city Rockettes, Moscow Ballet , Washington Football team dancers. Jewel has attended and completed numerous workshops with world named choreographers and dancers. Miss jewel is a honored member of the National Dance Education Organization and is IDTS certified. Jewel is very passionate about teaching dance, passing on her years of training and knowledge and keeping a positive environment for her students.
Miss Courtney has been dancing since the age of 2 years old. Through her 29 years of experience she has danced at a recreational and competitive level, and continued her studies outside of studio while taking dance courses throughout her time in college. Throughout her years as a competiive dancer she was able to work with many different choreogrphers on both the East and West coast, won serveral competition workshop scholarshiops to continue her studies and love for dance, and recieved many overall placements within competitions throughout the United States. She has been a dance teacher at EDC for 7 years working with both the recreational and competitive dancers and has experience with teacher several styles of dance including Ballet, Jazz, Lyrical, Gymnastics, Contemporary and Hip-Hop. Miss Courtney thrives on make sure that her students experience in class is one where they not only learn the fundamentals and proper technique of dance, but where they also can have fun and be themselves creatively.
Miss Kelsie has been dancing since the age of two years old, where she fell in love with the art of dance. Miss Kelsie has since been trained under Mrs. Tara DeMarr. Kelsie has taken multiple classes and workshops with world renown dance professionals such as Travis Wall, Alex Wong, and The Radio City Rockettes. Miss Kelsie was hand selected a scholarship for AMDA's Highschool summer program in 2020. Miss Kelsie's favorite genres of dance are Contemporary, Lyrical and Acrobatics. Currently, Miss Kelsie is enrolled in college majoring in Mass Communications and minoring in Dance to pursue her passion and to further her education. During her dance career, Miss Kelsie has achieved many first overalls and titles including "Junior Miss Starpower" and "Junior Miss USTD". In 2018, she was hand selected to be a part of the "Contemporary Company" from "USTD". In 2019, she performed in the Moscow Ballets show as a Russian Dancer. Kelsie is passionate and dedicated to her craft and loves being able to share her love of dance with her students.
Miss Taylor is a student teacher and has been dancing since the age of 2 when she found her passion for the art. She has been training under Mrs. Tara for over 16 years. She has also had dance training from well known dancers like Twitch, Alison Holker, Alex Wong, The Radio City Rockettes and many more. Taylor has won many first overalls and been apart of top scoring dance routines. She won first overall at "Starpower National Competition" and was also named "Miss Showbiz" She has had training in all genres including ballet, lyrical, tap, jazz, hip hop ect.