About Ovation Dance Studio

More than just a dance studio, Ovation Performing Arts Studio is a place where students of all ages can come and learn dance, singing, and theatre. With the help from Ovation staff, each student will grow as a performer as well as a person. Ovation Performing Arts studio is a place you can call home. Our studio is a place to connect, make new friends, and grow.

Our dance and performing arts studios provide classes in multiple performing arts, including voice, dance, and theater classes, in Sycamore, Illinois and the greater DeKalb area.

Alana Chilton

Alana Chilton

Ever since she was a little girl, Founder and artistic director Alana Chilton wanted to share her passion with others. She wanted to create a place that brought together different types of performing arts and help to create real triple-threats. With this vision in hand, she created Ovation Performing Arts Studio.

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Miss Aaliyah

Miss Aaliyah is currently an online student at Southern New Hampshire University for their psych program. She danced for 10 years and did cheerleading all 4 years of high school. She has been dancing at Ovation, as a student, for the last few years. When she is not dancing at Ovation she is working in special education. Miss aaliyah currently teaches beginners/intermediate jazz and hip-hop for all ages.


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Miss Regan

Miss Regan is 16 and currently a junior at Genoa Kingston High School where she takes multiple AP classes and has a gpa above a 4.0. Besides dance, she also does sideline cheer and competes in basketball and track and field. Miss Regan started dancing at Ovation at 8. Her first classes were tumbling and hip hop. She now dances four nights a week in multiple genres. This is her first year helping to assist classes and is loving it!! She is hoping to provide the same happy safe space to dancers that dance has given her.

 

 

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