Katie Hignett
Owner/Director/Lead Instructor

Katie has over 25 years of dance training in ballet, pointe, tap, jazz, lyrical, acro-jazz, and hip hop. She has studied dance at several studios throughout New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Virginia and continues her training by taking classes and seminars throughout New England. She has had the opportunity to take classes from master instructors such as Andy Blankenbuehler, Rhonda Miller, Joe Lanteri, A.C. Ciulla, and Drika Overton among others.

Katie began sharing her love of dance first as an assistant instructor at the age of 13, and was bitten by the choreographer-bug at the age of 16 - when she first competed her own choreography. She has since had the opportunity to teach and choreograph not only for recreational classes and competitive dance teams, but also area school productions and pageant competitors. She has instructed for several studios in New Hampshire and her students have performed her award-winning choreography all over New England receiving prestigious platinum awards and many have even been invited to dance on national teams.

Katie is also a 200hr Registered Yoga Teacher and was a Certified Group Fitness Instructor with both the ACE and AFAA. She received her AA and BA from Southern New Hampshire University. In June of 2008, after several years as an instructor at DIDC, Katie became the proud new owner and director of Dance Innovations Dance Center.

Sarah Mosonyi
Instructor

Sarah began dancing at the age of 3. Sarah received the majority of her dance training at Kerry’s Dance Center where she studied many types of dance including tap, jazz, acro, ballet, pointe, modern and hip hop. Sarah also was a member of the senior dance team at Kerry's Dance Center for two seasons where she was invited to perform at the PSU Dance Premier. She has also performed with the award-winning Extreme Cheer Hip Hop Dance Team.

Sarah continues her training by taking classes and seminars all over New England. She attended the Plymouth State University Winter Dance Intensive several times where she had the opportunity to take master dance classes with Joan Weigers, Amanda Schiller and Megan Hiltz just to name a few. Sarah has traveled into Boston to continue taking master classes with Jeanette Neill and she has attended the New England Region American College Dance Festival where she was able to take a variety of classes from teachers including Martha Myers, Bebe Miller, Bilbob Brown, Adele Myers and Ann Ross.

Sarah recently received her Dance Education Certificate from Northern Essex Community College and continues to work towards getting her Associates Degree in Dance Education. Sarah currently teaches for other local studios and Dance Innovations is proud to have Sarah join the staff.

Courtney Coulombe
Instructor

Courtney began her dance training at the age of five at the Derry Dance Center where she studied ballet, pointe, modern, tap, and jazz. She is currently a senior at the University of New Hampshire where she majors in dance. In addition to teaching, she has been dancing professionally for the past two years for Kelley Donovan and Dancers, a modern company based in Cambridge, MA and New York, and has performed at the Dance Complex and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, amongst other venues. Courtney is very excited to be working with and teaching at Dance Innovations!