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One Day Dance Intensive featuring some of today's hottest choreographers!

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Team Wild

Jill Wolins

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Jill Wolins Pate

Creative Director

Jill’s street cred started with her pro dance career at Disney????. She continued to dance as a NYC???? Rockette????, Broadway National Tours, dancing on NBC, CBS, ABC, Universal and Columbia Pictures????, for numerous recording artists and at Lincoln Center. She has been associate choreographer for the opening number of Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade????, and has been a master teacher across the country and around the world????. She has worked with Starpower???? since 2001, and is honored to say the Star Dance Alliance???? is her life. She is co-creator and co-director of the World Dance Pageant????, and has been a part of the inaugural seasons of Nexstar⭐️, Believe????, Imagine????, DreamMaker????, and the World Dance Championships????. The real fun began when she accepted the role as Junior ????Power Pak???? Director/Choreographer. She joined Team Wild???? as a Faculty member where she taught for over a decade before accepting the role as creative director. What she loves best about Wild????, aside from the amazing apprentices and dancers, is that each event is an SDA Team effort. Wild???? brings the best of what the Star Dance Alliance???? has to offer: incredible SDA???? competition staff and the best diverse faculty working together to create fun memorable dance events for kids! Oh, and she can’t help that she loves the Wild Child room! ❤️

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Madison O’Malley

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Madison O'Malley

Managing Director

Mad Dog basically grew up at the Star Dance Alliance????, attending all SDA???? comps, Wild????, and Power Pak???? as a kid. She began her SDA???? career as a Team Leader for Power Pak. Soon after she graduated to a number of roles with in the SDA: regional director for Starpower????, Power Pak???? assistant director, World Dance Pageant ???? coordinator, World Dance Championship???? Corespondent, and International Assistant for Starpower International in UK????????, Costa Rica????????, Battle on the Seas???? and Australia????????. Madison can not help that her favorite part of being a member of Team Wild???? includes her gettin down as “Captain SDA.” ????

Best SDA Kid Memory: Getting called out for the first time as a featured dancer in Ade Obayomi’s????????class in AC

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Lauren Fahlman

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Lauren Fahlman

Venue Liaison, Tabulator, Registration

Ms Fahlman has been part of the Star Dance Alliance???? for almost a decade. She is a regional director and senior tabulator???? for Nexstar⭐️, Petite Coordinator for the World Dance Pageant????, and correspondent for the World Dance Championship????. She started getting Wild???? in 2017 as tabulator????, and is now exercising her boss lady skills as venue, accommodation and travel facilitator. She started as a competitive dancer, has a BFA???? in dance, has taught a numerous schools in the Detroit metropolitan area, but her first love was ballet???? and is certified in Progressing Ballet Technique????.

*Proud SDA Moment: Directing the SDA????/Youth Villages and Janie’s Fund campaign to raise almost $200,000???? at our first event to help young women across the country affected by domestic and sexual abuse. Lauren loves the opportunity to help others❤️

Ryan McCarty

Ryan McCarty

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Ryan McCarty

AV Specialist, Senior Room Director, Social Media and Digital Coordinator

Ryan has been part of the SDA???? for over a decade and is currently the Assistant National???????? Director of Nexstar⭐️ Talent Competition. He choreographed for and directed a competitive dance studio for 12 years as he travelled the globe???? teaching hip hop master classes and setting choreography. Ryan joined Team Wild???? in 2021 and loves the opportunity to enjoy the many aspects the dance workshop world has to offer. He programs media and monitors????, teaches on faculty, creates social media???? content, directs the senior dance room, and is even an MC???? for the events!

Alexandra DeTrolio

Alex DeTrolio

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Alex Detrolio

Apprentice Coordinator, Social Media Specialist

Alex is Regional Director of Imagine Dance Challenge????, World Dance Championship???? corespondent, and Star Dance Alliance???? Social Media???? Specialist. Alex started her dance performance career as a kid dancing in NYC???? with Liberty???? “Lil Torches” and at Madison Square Garden with both Knick???? City kids, and Knick???? City Dancers. Her unique “Leaps and Turns” technique have been shared across the country???????? at competitive studios and many US college dance teams such as Rutgers and Holy Angels. Alex joined the Wild???? party in 2021 as Social Media???? Specialist, Apprentice Coordinator and Teen Dance Room Director.

*Best SDA Memory: hosting the Final Five for the first time with none other than Kacy Combs!

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Tammy Richins

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Chrystan Sheatzley

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Daniella Buxbaum

Sydney Lewis (1)

Sydney Lewis

Jenna Knepper - TEAM WILD (1)

Jenna Knepper

Production Team

  • Paco Powell - in spirit always!
  • Brad Harper
  • Julian Gaulding
  • Tysac Johnson
  • Chad Hudson
  • Cody Stewart
  • Michael Baker
  • Baldwin Twite
  • Kyle McGee
  • Zach Shoaf
  • Phill Morris
  • Ryan Fremder
  • Ta’Shaun Wilson
  • Jeff Goodrich
  • James Doles
  • B.A. Schollaert
  • Cornell Larkin
  • Trevor Ewart
  • Thyme Hodges

A Danceone Company

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