Meet the instructors at Rhythmic Soles Dance Academy!
Learn why they are Passionate about what they do...



Trina Jones ...

Trina Jones is the Founder and Artistic Director of Rhythmic Soles Dance Academy. She holds a Grant MacEwan College Fine Arts Dance Diploma with First Class Standing in Performance and Choreography and is a certified A.D.A.P.T. teacher. Trina specializes in jazz, tap and modern. As well as a dancer Trina was a competitive gymnast and a national level tumbler.

Trina has travelled and performed extensively, including a trip with Calgary Dance Express to Australia and New Zealand. Her ongoing education for dance has taken her to many workshops and teacher training seminars throughout Canada and the United States including, Edge Performing Arts in Los Angeles, Broadway Dance Center in New York and the famed Harbour Dance Centre in Vancouver. She also has had the opportunity to study in Orlando and most recently in Boston under such greats as Joe Tremaine and Gregg Russell.

Trina has brought her love of dance, experience and past achievements with her to Rhythmic Soles Dance Academy and looks forward to another successful and unforgettable season with her students and teachers.



Alia Ruemper ...

Alia Ruemper is originally from Northern British Columbia. During her training she won many awards and represented her region at the BC Provincial Dance competition, three times. She also won “best overall” and “most entertaining” awards from the Calgary Triple Threat Dance conventions in 2003 and 2004.

Alia is a fully certified ADAPT jazz and tap teacher and completed her Canadian Dance Teachers Association (CDTA) Gold medal jazz and tap exams with Honors status. She has a BA Dance and a BKin General Kinesiology from the University of Calgary and recently finished her MSc in Dance Science at Laban in London, England. While she was completing her Masters degree in England she performed in a charity showcase of the musical, “Me and My Girl” at the famous London Palladium, and also participated in the Jack Petchey Theatre Challenge at Her Majesty’s Theatre. She has taught for many Calgary dance studios and organizations including: The School of Alberta Ballet, Dance on Edge, McDonald Wilson Dance Academy, Alberta Dance Theatre, The Gardyn Theatre Company and The University of Calgary. Summer 2008 she was a teaching assistant and teacher at the Laban International Summer School in London, England and in October 2009 she returned to Europe to present her MSc thesis at the International Association of Dance Medicine and Science conference.

Alia is a member of the Canadian branch of Dance and the Child International (daCi), The International Association of Dance Medicine and Science (IADMS), and the Dance UK foundation. As a member of the International Dance Council she attended their 2008 conference in Greece. Alia is also a Certified STOTT Pilates teacher for matwork.

Alia is passionate about the art of dance education and believes that high quality dance training not only improves the body physically by developing strength, flexibility and co-ordination, but also psychologically. Psychological dance benefits include enhancing self esteem and building confidence as well developing respect for fellow dancers and teachers. Through high quality training, dancers also develop decision training skills and team work. Alia believes that it is important to train students to be intelligent dancers, by teaching them not just the ‘what’ part of dance but also the ‘how’ and ‘why’. Through high quality dance training students develop skills that they will use for the rest of their lives. Dance makes an enormous contribution to physical, social and creative health and well-being.



Elena Kinozerova...

Elena started her professional ballet training in St. Petersburg, Russia.  She graduated with Honors, from the State Choreographic School in Russia in 1995 and went on to participate as a professional and often principal dancer in several National and International tours.  She has been privileged to work with world wide know classical and modern choreographers from Russia, Argentina, Mexico, Germany and has also participated in numerous international Ballet Festivals and Tours (Germany, Switzerland, Serbia, Canada, Estonia, Finland, Argentina and Russia).  Elena has been a ballet teacher for 8 years.  She enjoys teaching students of all ages and has been credited for having students accepted into major ballet schools such as Royal Winnipeg Ballet and Quinte Ballet School of Canada.  She is excited to share her passion for ballet with the students of RSDA.

Jessica Christman Bgirl *Zing*...

Growing up Jessica was a competitive gymnast from the age of 3, but then decided to pursue dance instead and joined a hip-hop team called Soul Rhythm. Later she decided to get creative and find a way to combine her gymnastic abilities with dancing, and started attending J-Fish crew's breakdance classes on a weekly basis from 2003-2005. After entering many breaking battles, and attending workshops with pro b-boys, poppers, lockers, and hip-hop choreographer's, she decided to pursue dance even further. She soon became a crew member of J-Fish and voluntarily taught breaking to over 100 students on a weekly basis for drop in classes in the year 2005 and 2006. Throughout junior high and highschool, she spent her summers out at Eagle's Nest Ranch co-teaching the hip-hop specialty camps to all ages. 

After one year of general studies at college, Jessica spent two years performing worldwide with a group called GX International. GX is one of the four featured performing teams that travel with Impact World Tour. Producing a multimedia production of urban culture, GX is a global expression of extreme skating, hip hop dancing, breaking, freestyle motor-cross, bmx, and djs. The team consists of people who are recruited from all over the world to spread their style and bring raw truth into the chaos of reality. This group performs shows at school assemblies to challenge the youth with a positive message and inspire young people. Jessica performed as a dancer / breaker with GX across the United States, Europe, Africa, South Africa, and Asia, doing shows for crowds as large as 12,000 people. 

Most recently she has been a part of helping launch GX Canada, which is based out of her home town; Medicine Hat, AB. Jessica loves to continually broaden her knowledge by attending hip-hop workshops and breakdance battle's on the weekends to stay in the loop.

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