Makenna Williams

Makenna is a recent graduate of the Hazleton Area High School class of 2021. She has been a student of the studio since the young age of two. She has studied all genres of dance and tumble. Growing up in the studio with her mom she started competing at the age of 3, winning many awards and attending multiple competitions throughout the Northeastern Pennsylvania, leading her to continue dance as her main focus throughout her high school career.

To take her dancing to the next level she started studying privately with multiple instructors from Los Angeles and Philadelphia, in addition to others near western Pennsylvania.

She traveled to Los Angeles to premier on the Katrina Stuart show where she performed and met with fellow dancers and trained. Following her trip she trained monthly with her group – DMS Dance Crew – under the direction of Dmac Sandoz. She was chosen to return to LA to dance in a music video for Latino artist Jesse Melendez to be filmed in March 2020.

Makenna also auditioned and was accepted into the Joffrey School of Ballet, located in New York City, for their three week summer intensive hip hop dance program. She has taken class in NYC with well known dancers such as Matt Stefanina, Keenan Cooks, and Rep Young, and also at Millenium Dance Complex and The Playground LA. She has privately studied under Bizzy Linder, Reggie Oliver, Elijah Morton and Dmac Sandoz.

Most recently Makenna was awarded the Regional Champion title at Dancers Inc. Competition where she earned a scholarship and was a Top 5 National Champion Runner up at BTS Talent Competition located in Cape May, NJ.

While instructing full-time at Tracey’s Academy of Dance, Makenna will continue to train and take classes.