ABOUT OUR STUDIO

Charisma School of Dance was founded in 1998 in Lakewood, WA by Erin Fay. Ms. Erin began her dance studies at eight years of age. She became an assistant and substitute teacher at the age of eleven and by fourteen was a teacher at Suburban Dance Studio in Puyallup where she studied with Ms. Valli Hale and Tony Gamlieli. Ms. Erin has studied at Tacoma City Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet and was a private student of Kabby Mitchell. She has studied at Dance on Capitol Hill, Spectrum Dance Theater and Westlake Dance Center. During spring break she would study at Tremaine Dance Studio in Los Angeles. She studied with Joe Tremaine, Barry Lathers and Marguerite Derricks. Ms. Erin is a national and an international award winning choreographer. She opened Charisma at the age of twenty two and her dream was to own a school that was welcoming and encouraging to all dancers of every age, body style and ability. It is important to Ms. Erin that her school supports diversity and inclusion of all the dancers who walk through her studio doors.