Meet the Teachers

Director & Lead Instructor

Miss Katie

Miss Katie has been the director and lead instructor of the Loch Raven Dance Troupe for 20 years. Although, this is her 31st year as a member of the troupe since she started dancing with LRDT at 10 years old. Miss Katie has been directing shows since 2006. That makes this year her 21st LRDT recital as Director. Miss Katie has directed Dream TV- 2006, Wizard of Oz-2007, Grease-2008, Sound of Music-2009, Sleeping Beauty & Michael Jackson Tribute-2010, Beauty and the Beast & Broadway-2011, Peter Pan-2012, Tangled-2013, Hairspray-2014, Aladdin-2015, Grease-2016, Wizard of Oz-2017, Beauty and the Beast-2018, The Little Mermaid-2019, Peter Pan-2020, High School Musical-2021, The Lion King-2022, The Greatest Showman-2023, Hairspray- 2024, and Tangled- 2025. She started dancing when she was two years old at DJ's Dance Studio and later became a member of the studio's invitational performance group. After eight years with DJ's, Miss Katie started dancing and assisting at LRDT where she continued training in Ballet, Tap, Jazz, and Pointe. Miss Katie is a Middle School Math teacher and Math Department Chair at Immaculate Conception School in Towson. She is honored to be able to work and teach dance in the community where she grew up.

co-Director & Lead Instructor

Miss Jaya

Miss Jaya has been with the Loch Raven Dance Troupe for 16 years as a dancer, teacher, and now co-director. She has been an instructor for the past nine years, returning even when away at college during the summer sessions and on school breaks. Since returning from college, Miss Jaya has taught during 2020-2021 for High School Musical and lead the troupe as co-director in 2021-2022 for The Lion King, 2022-2023 for The Greatest Showman, 2023-2024 for Hairspray, and 2024-2025 for Tangled. Jaya began dancing at six years old, and has taken classes in Ballet, Tap, Jazz, Hip Hop, Musical Theatre, Modern, Lyrical, Liturgical and Pointe. In college, she was a member of the dance team where she served on the executive board for three years holding the positions of Treasurer, Assistant Chairperson and Chairperson. Miss Jaya teaches Pointe, Ballet, Tap, Jazz, Hip Hop, and Contemporary. She also directs, choreographs, and teaches acting scenes and character dances for the recitals.

Instructor

Miss Jess

Miss Jess has been teaching dance with the Loch Raven Dance Troupe for 17 years. She started taking dance classes with LRDT under the instruction of Miss Earline Kelly at the age of 5. Her favorite style of dance is Jazz. Ms. Jess loves all things Disney, Harry Potter, and the Baltimore O’s!

Instructor

Miss Raquel

This will be Raquel’s fifth year teaching with the troupe. However, she danced with the troupe for 13 years and assisted for seven of those years. Raquel took a break from dance while in college, but she is very excited to be back teaching the younger dancers again this year!

Instructor

Miss Gabby

Gabby is 21, and a senior at Loyola University Maryland. She has been with the troupe since she was two years old, assisting for seven of those years. Gabby took Ballet, Tap, Jazz, Hip Hop, Contemporary, and Pointe as a dancer with LRDT. Gabby also danced on Parkville High School's dance company for four years and was casted as the Snow Queen in the 2022 LRDT invitational production of "The Nutcracker"!

Instructor

Miss Caitlin

This is Caitlin’s first year as a teacher with LRDT! She has been dancing with the troupe since she was 3, and assisted for 6 years. She was recently a Nicest Kid in “Hairspray” and in the past has played Troy in “High School Musical,” *Peter Pan, Ursula in “The Little Mermaid,” and Lefou in “Beauty and the Beast.” She is so excited to get involved this year!

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