ABOUT DEFYING GRAVITY DANCE STUDIO
Dance From Your Heart
Defying Gravity Dance Studio's main focus is to teach dance as an art form. Dancers will learn technique as well as dance vocabulary. We aim to make dance fun and educational.
With a variety of dance styles and classes we hope that everyone can find what they are looking for. There will also be personalized attention for the students. We want dancers to feel as if they are not only stronger dancers but stronger people as well.
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Sarah Radabaugh - Owner
Sarah has been teaching for over 30 years and has a Bachelors degree in Dance Education from Bowling Green State University. She has owned Defying Gravity Dance studio since 2014. She teaches Ballet, Tap, Jazz, Modern, Lyrical and Pointe. She also loves teaching Creative Movement and Junior Combo classes. Before opening the studio she directed her own pre-professional dance company for 11 years. Many of her students have gone on to dance in college or have made dance their career. Dancing has been her passion as long as she remembers. She is so happy and feels so lucky that she gets to pass this on to so many students!
Grace Gregory
Grace Gregory Teaches Acro, Hip Hop, and Junior Lyrical. Grace has been teaching at Defying Gravity for 4 years.
She danced for 4 years at Defying Gravity Dance Studio before she graduated from Otsego. She was a cheerleader in high-school.
Grace also teaches at Positive Image in Northwood. She trained in acro through Acrobatic Arts.
Ella Kosinski
Ella has been a student of Defying Gravity Dance Studio since 2015. She studies many dance styles such as Ballet, Jazz, Lyrical, Contemporary, Modern, Pointe and Tap. She has been a part of the performance group Defying Gravity Dancers for 8 years. She has been an assistant teacher for 6 years. In her free time she participates in Girls Golf, Track and Field and her High School Musicals. The 2023-2024 season was her first teaching on her own. She can not wait to see what the future holds for her dancers!
Hayley Babcock
Hayley Babcock comes to Defying Gravity dance studio with eight years formal dance training, 25 years of musical theater experience, and a drive for helping our students find their passions and grow as well-rounded individuals on and off the stage. When not at Defying Gravity, or involved in a theater project, Hayley can be found working at Liberty Center Schools and enjoying time with her family!
Gabriel Radabaugh
Gabriel Radabaugh has been dancing for almost his entire life, indulging in areas of Jazz, Ballet, and Tap. He has been assisting Tap classes since around 2021. He began teaching Tap in 2024. He is also part of the Defying Gravity Dancers. He is happy and excited to have the opportunity to teach at the Defying Gravity Dance Studio.
Evie Borders
Evie has been a student at Defying Gravity since 2016. She has trained in many forms of dance. She has been a cheerleader at Otsego High School and Patrick Henry. She is a senior at Otsego. In her free time she likes singing, playing guitar and shopping]. In the summer of 2024, she was involved in the mock government program Buckeye Girls State.
She is excited to work with her students this year!
Miriam Baorn
Miriam has been a student at Defying Gravity since 2014. She studies ballet, lyrical, pointe, jazz, tap, and modern. She has been an assistant teacher in classes for 1 year and this will be her first year teaching on her own. She enjoys participating in the local Grand Rapids theater productions, volunteering at her church to teach Sunday school classes, and participating at her youth group in her free-time. She is super excited to continue learning from Miss Sarah and teaching and watching her dancers grow!