Rebel Faculty

Miss Morgan

Owner/Artistic Director/Instructor

Acrobatic Arts, ADE Jazz and Acro, ADTA

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Morgan Hazelwood started her dance journey at age 3 and began competing at age 8 with the No Limits Dance Company in Peterborough, Ontario under Joanne Agar.

She has danced and taught with some incredible studios, including Premiere Studio of Dance, A Frost Dance Experience, The Academy of Dance, Inside Out, and Maracle Center for the Arts. She began teaching at age 13, and never looked back. Performing with the St. James Players, and Theatre Guild on a few occasions, dancing as a backup dancer for Toronto based impersonation acts, guest instructing the dance program with Lakefield College, and performing in various shows and parades, it was no surprise that dance had a permanent spot in her life, and she was just getting started. 

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Morgan joined the military in 2014, and shortly after her training, she was relocated to Cold Lake AB. Pirouette School of Dance was her home for 5 years. Working there was an incredible opportunity to experience the difference between Ontario programs and Alberta programs, as well as work alongside some really inspirational faculty. Then, the military spoke again and she was relocated back to Trenton, ON. 

Moving looked different this time. As hard as it is for a child to move around place to place, dance teachers bond with their students and it was becoming more and more difficult to imagine starting over another time at another studio. With 23 years teaching experience and 33 years dancing it was time she followed her heart and in 2019 Rebel Dance Company was born. 

Morgan has been Acrobatic Arts (AA) qualified since 2012, including her Acro Dance Adjudicator Certification, and currently holds additional certifications from Acro Dance Teachers Association (ADTA), and Artistic Dance Educators (ADE) as a certified instructor. She has studied RAD ballet and BATD ballet, jazz, and tap and completed exams. She completed her specialty Aerial and Back handspring certification, achieved a teaching contortion certification, and currently is working on her certification with MuvMethod. Over the many years of dancing, she has done and taught so many genres of dance including, ballet, jazz, tap, musical theatre, lyrical, modern, contemporary, hip-hop, and of course acrobatics :) Morgan has been hired as a guest choreographer in Ontario and Alberta for various competitive routines, and has been the mentor to many dancers who have gone on to perform, become educators, and scientists to name a few. Always in pursuit of learning, attending conventions and expos to continue growing as a dance educator.
 

She believes in smart dancers, teaching why something works or doesn’t work and making sure they are body aware to encourage injury prevention. Her favorite part of being a teacher is being in the wings and knowing that the dancers onstage can count on her to be there, no matter what happens onstage that she will be there when they come offstage. 
 

All 3 of her children dance with Rebel Dance Company and her fiancé Mat, has been a carpenter, a handyman, a parade driver, and a supportive dance dad throughout this busy time in their lives.

Miss Deejay

Instructor/Assistant Director

Circus/Hiphop/Tiny Dancers/

Tiny Acro /Musical Theatre

Ms Deejay aka Electric Hoopster, quickly found a home with RDC when we opened in the fall of 2019. She is always smiling, the dancers adore her and are always blown away at her talent. We are lucky to have her and excited for Season 6 ! 

Ms. Deejay started learning ballet, jazz and tap at 5 years old. Her love of dance continued to grow throughout her years of school, but it wasn’t until 2010 when she was given her first Hula Hoop. With no classes or other hoopers locally Ms. Deejay ended up teaching herself and ‘Electric Hoopster’ became reality. At this time, Deejay was working with the Quinte West Y.M.C.A. where she taught kids dance and ran all other kinds of kids classes/camps.

In 2011 she moved to Hastings and got a part time job Hula Hooping on stage with DJs, about a month later Deejay found “Peterborough Circus Arts Group” A bunch of people who not only hula hooped but were artists with all kinds of other circus flow toys. She had finally found a place to fit in! They showed her all the fun the circus arts had to offer including introducing her to LED light and fire spinning! Ms. Deejay and five other members from the circus arts group worked very hard to create a new circus show from scratch with props and fire. The show was such a huge hit that they started getting asked to perform all over Peterborough…. It was then the Performance troupe ‘The Pyroflys’ were born. 

Deejay spent the next few years training, traveling, teaching, and performing all over Ontario with The Pyroflys. From birthdays and weddings to corporate and charity events, they did it all and made everyone smile. Near the end of 2013 Ms. Deejay decided to move back to the Quinte Area to be closer to her family. She took different jobs teaching hoop classes, assisting in other genres of dance classes, and even began booking performances locally as Electric Hoopster. 

By developing her own hoop training syllabus, her classes take students through the learning, knowing and mastering the progressions of easier skills to the more difficult ones. Ms. Deejay has now been Hula Hooping for over 10 years! You may have seen her performing all over the Quinte and P.E.C. areas at all kinds of events and parades. She was even featured with her fire hooping in the Cold Creek County - Our Town Music Video. 

Continued learning is so important and Deejay has recently become Acro Dance Pre-school certified through acrobatic Arts, and has also continued to take training and classes from some of the best hip-hop instructors to expand her love, creativity and style. Attending conventions and Expos to continue exploring more of what the dance world has to offer, attending workshops for exceptional children development, which is very important to her and RDCs inclusive mission statement. 

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Deejay has been a Rebel since RDC was born and we couldn't be more excited to keep growing and see where this crazy road takes us.

Miss Megan

Instructor- Tap/Ballet/Jazz/Tech

Miss Madilyn

Madilyn started dance when she was 3 years old at Inside out Dance Academy in Belleville. Ballet and tap were her first introductions into the dance world. Madilyn continued from there learning new styles in jazz, acro, musical theatre, and lyrical. When she was 12, she joined the Quinte Ballet School of Canada where she primarily trained in ballet, modern, and pointe work. After 6 years of ballet training Madilyn graduated and moved onto university. She has experience teaching young dancers, as well as coordinating a 3 week long summer dance intensive for QBSC. She hopes to continue to spread her love for dance to many other young dancers and inspire them to keep chasing their passions. We are so happy to have Madilyn as part of the Rebel family!

Miss Frost