Instructors

 

Ms. "Nicole" Cote

Starting at the early age of 8, Nicole registered for a single Jazz Class at a local dance studio in New York. After 4 years of studying jazz classes, she then moved to Florida with her family to a local town called Palm Bay. Growing a passion for dance, she desperately searched for a new dance school to continue her dancing career. Se began dancing with "Patricia's School of Dance" under the direction of Patricia Snellman and Kim Cole. She has made many wonderful accomplishments throughout her dancing career that she will never forget. Nicole Cote was competing at age 14 with solos, duets, and small groups and has received many first place and even high score awards for tap, ballet, lyrical, and jazz. Not only dancing for awards, Nicole has also performed at such exhibits as the "Melbourne Arts Festivals" and local Florida Pageants. Se has also danced with professionals from Broadway.

Even though Nicole has stayed busy competing and performing locally, she was offered a teachers assistant position and soon began teaching on her own. She became a full-time dance instructor for "Patricia's School of Dance" for 3 years and then became a full-time instructor for "Kim Cole Dance Studio" for 8 years. She has had the privilege of teaching her competition team choreography that has been awarded first place and platinum awards throughout the state of Florida. Teaching from ages 2-adult for 11 years has taught Ms. Nicole the tricks of the trades of becoming a successful dance instructor.

Now, Nicole Cote has had the opportunity of becoming a Director of her own school. Ms. Nicole has decided to stick with her lifelong passion of dance for many years to come. She will continue to direct, instruct, dance, and manage "Nicole Cote School of Dance" and continue to attend dance conventions and competitions around the state of Florida to gain better knowledge that she can pass down to her students for years to come.

Ms. Nicole Cote has received her "Bachelors in Arts" degree from the University of Central Florida, received her Certification in Dance from "Dance Masters" in October 2006, and is currently working on her masters degree in Leadership & Management from Webster University.

Brianna Dipaolo

Brianna has been dancing since the time she was seven years old and now at the age of twenty she continues her love for dance. Brianna has danced at a number of studios in Palm Bay and Melbourne and has competed with various Jazz, Hip Hop, and Lyrical teams Some awards that she has won include platinum, high gold, gold and silver medals in all three areas of dance. Her favorite and most skilled area of dance is hip hop, along with training in break-dancing.

While in school she has held titles of captain, co-captain and choreographer for the West Shore Perfections Dance Team winning for best choreography and style. Brianna was also a member of the Brevard Community College hip hop dance team performing at college basketball games here in Brevard County. She is currently the Drama Dance Ministry director at her local church, traveling with her dance team to various talent competitions throughout the state of Florida. She is also the director of a youth hip hop outreach program in Palm Bay for the past year and a half. Brianna will continue dancing for as long as she can and is looking forward to what her dancing career may bring.

Stephanie Vanhorn

I began my dancing career at the age 4 in Pennsylvania at Thomas Kovaleski Dance Academy. I took tap and ballet for four (4) years there and performed twice each year in their show. My very first dance recital was "I Love Dancin'". We also had performances at the local fair each year, and in our annual October "Halloween Parade". At the age of eight (8), we moved from Pennsylvania to Florida, where I looked for a local dance studio that would enhance my dance experience and my need to learn more.

We found it with Kim Cole Dance Studio, which later changed to Nicole Cote School of Dance. It was great to find a studio that I felt I could express myself and feel that the teachers there had a love for dance. I registered for three classes and by the next year I was in unlimited, wanting to learn every aspect of dance. This year, I have also added a duet and will be performing a solo. I have since used what I learned to make my own performance up that won me a spot with a talent agency. Because of my love for dance, I spent this year assisting teachers with their classes to learn more, and I am looking forward to teaching classes this coming year. My future is in dance, and I would someday like to own and run my own dance studio.