About Us
The Dance Depot mission is to utilize dance to inspire all members of the community by educating dancers, delighting audiences, and fostering an appreciation for dance and the arts. Like all things, to achieve great success it takes hard work and dedication. It is the combine effort of each dancer, parent, teacher and director that ensures the success of our program.
Meet The Team
Jolene Coates:
Realizing that a passion for dance and a need to teach could be fulfilled together, Jolene Coates established Dance Depot, in August 2001. Her life long dance career began as a student of Phyllis and Gayle Tutterow at the age of four. She later became a member of their performance company Stars of Tomorrow. Mrs. Jolene has performed in many cities including New York, Las Vegas, Orlando, and internationally in Denmark and Russia. She has also had the opportunity to perform at venues such as Sea World, Disney World and Busch Gardens. Mrs. Jolene was also a member of the Royalty Theatre group where her dancing was featured in the musicals Anything Goes and West Side Story. Mrs. Jolene teaches the princess classes, combination classes and works with Revolution, the performance company.She also works with the assistants and teachers-in-training.
Bekah Ellis:
Bekah’s love of dance began at Dance Depot at the age of 7. During her time as a student, she enjoyed studying Ballet, Tap, Jazz, Lyrical, Hip Hop, Contemporary, and Pointe. She danced on the Revolution Dance Team for 13 years and the Competitive Team for several years. She started demonstrating in dance classes in middle school, assisted teaching in high school, and began teaching her own classes at 16. She's been teaching dance ever since.
Bekah earned a bachelor's degree in Early Childhood Education and is licensed to teach K-5 in the state of Florida. Her love of dance and passion for teaching make her job at Dance Depot remarkably fulfilling.
Jeryn Coates:
This is where it all began, Jeryn Coates started her dance career at 2 years old with Dance Depot. She was apart of the Revolution Performance Company for 10 years and has danced for 19 years. She had the opportunity to dance on 2 cruise ships, New York on Broadway, Nashville Tennessee at the Country Music Hall of Fame, Disney, and many more. She started interacting with the parents of Dance Depot at age 16 and has continued to manage the office. She also has assisted in classes with her mom since she was 10 years old. In the last 2 years she has taken on her own classes and is choreographing 3 days a week, ages ranging from 2-16. She knew she wanted to be a dance teacher when she saw so much joy it brought to kids. Her mom started this company when she found out she was having a girl so there was something more for little girls to do in the area and that’s exactly what she hopes to continue to bring to the community.
Kaelyn Coates:
Kaelyn joined Dance Depot in the Fall of 2021 bringing with her an extensive background in athletics and management. She has experience not only personally participating in competitive sports but also tending to athletes as an athletic trainer. Her well rounded knowledge, genuine care and work ethic bring a multitude of benefits to our youth at Dance Depot. Kaelyn has six years of business management that she gained while earning her Bachelor's degree in communications from The University of Central Florida which brings depth and organization to our Mount Dora location where she manages the front office.
Stacey Mair:
With over 8 years experience in dance studio management and a decade working in the childcare industry, Stacey brings a passion for the dance community as well as an extensive background in small business administration.
Stacey graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and a Minor in Education from the University of Central Florida in 2014.
She grew up dancing at her hometown studio as well as in her school’s dance and cheer teams in Seminole county. She is well versed as a preschool gymnastics/acrobatics instructor with a specialty in teaching mommy & me dance and tumbling classes. Being a summer camp counselor and an after-school teacher adds to her background working with students from ages 2 to 18 years old.
Stacey has always had a passion for working with children. Now, as a recent mother of two, she is eager to return to the dance industry with a new perspective on family and community. She believes in frequent and detailed communication between parents and studio staff as well as building a strong, friendly connection with students.
Caitlyn Gee:
From a very young age Caitlyn knew dance was something she wanted to do for her entire life. Born and raised in the suburbs outside of Chicago, Illinois, she began dancing at the age of two and began competing at the age of seven. She competed at multiple competitions at the regional and national level. She also competed multiple times at the World Dance Championships. She has taken multiple master classes at Gus Giordanos and Joffrey Chicago. When she graduated high school in 2020 she moved to Florida with her family. After training for a few years she began working at Dance Depot in 2023. Sharing her love and passion is her favorite thing to do and she can’t wait to share it all with you.
Harrison Rustay:
Harrison Rustay is an accomplished and awarded dancer, and choreographer. He has been awarded with multiple scholarships - including Pulse Protégé, Jump VIP, and Radix Core Performer. Growing up competing, he is an experienced performer - he has won numerous awards at many regional, national, and world competitions. Some of these include achieving Overall and Title winner at Starpower World Nationals in Orlando, and Overall and Title winner at Showstoppers in Myrtle Beach. In his years of training he had the privilege to work with and trainning under many of the industry's most notable choreographers - including but not limited to: Mia Michaels, Tyce Diorio, Brian Friedman, Comfort Fedoke, Talia Favia, Ian Eastwood, Victor Smalley, Teddy Forance, Mandy Moore, Nick Lazzarini, Tabitha and Napoleon D'umo, and Tucker Barkley. He was a guest dancer, and scholar-shipped at the Northwest Florida Ballet Academy for their summer program. Along with this program, he has trained extensively with the renowned Katie Garza and Israel Rodriguez from the Orlando ballet. Having been able to work with these diverse sets of choreographers for years, he has had much experience in a myriad of styles of dance, and prides himself on being a versatile dancer. He has not only thrived as a dancer, but also as a choreographer. At the young age of 15, he won his first student choreography award. He has since continued on that success, and has won a multitude of awards at competitions for his choreography set on soloists and groups. Harrison sets himself apart as an artist - pushing the boundaries of what dance is, and can be.
Leeanna Registar:
Leeanna Register started dancing at the age of five right here at Dance Depot and grew up in the Central Florida Dance community. Leeanna competed all throughout Florida, and studied many styles of dance as a student at Edge dance Studios. She started teaching at 17, and continued to teach styles such as Contemporary, Lyrical, Hiphop, And Jazz. After she graduated High School she joined Emotions Dance Company where the main focus was contemporary, she also trained and performed with Crawford Jazz Project in Orlando, Fl. She recently graduated with her AA and plans to go back for her Bachelors to be a School Teacher.
Nicole Pringle:
Nicole has been dancing for seventeen years and teaching for three years. She teaches all styles of dance including Ballet, Hip Hop, Jazz, Lyrical, Tap, and Acro for all skill levels. Nicole also teaches competition dances including solos, duos/ trios, and groups which have received 1st and 2nd place this 2024 season. Nicole has experience dancing with Disney, Dance the Magic in New York City on broadway, Orlando Magic, and she is currently an Orlando Prowler. Nicole enjoys spreading her knowledge of acro and dance to young up coming students.