History

Pisgah Dance Academy was founded in 2008, and is family owned and operated. The academy is committed to providing expert dance training in a nurturing environment. It is a place to study, to grow, to discover and to excel. We instill in our dancers an appreciation of all dance disciplines. We believe dance is an artistic, theatrical and entertaining art form where the history never stands still. Our dancers appreciate that a performance is a group effort where each and every participant is important.

We believe all dancers benefit from an environment of high expectations and structure that comes from our goal oriented program. Dancers are evaluated annually to empower parents to make decisions about proper program placements for their children. We have created a blend of technique which focuses on personal development and challenges our dancers. Even the youngest dancers learn terminology and technique without even realizing it, while having fun at the same time. Our class size is limited to ensure individual attention to our students. Our goal is to offer your child a quality dance education with a conservative emphasis.

Kristen Pangle – Owner, Director

Kristen is owner and director of PDA she has been dancing for 25 years. She has competed in Classical Ballet, Tap, Jazz, Contemporary and Musical Theater for the past 19 years.  Her accomplishments include golds, gold graduate, gold with honors as well as platinum and diamond recognition.  She also competed with her professional partner in the United Country Western Dance Ballroom organization, where she performed eight different styles of dance to qualify her for 2008 Worlds placing third in her division.

She has trained for 17 years in classical ballet.  She has attended numerous master classes in tap, jazz, contemporary and classical ballet including the renowned Gus Giordano School of Dance in Chicago. She is a member of the national dance education organization. Kristen has choreographed in all phases of dance for the past 13 years.  She has been the choreographer of numerous Brevard Little Theater productions, as well as teaching dance at the summer camp for Transylvania County Arts Council for the past twelve years.

She is also a certified Zumba instructor with Zumba classes offered at the studio. She taught several styles of dance at Brevard Academy CFA grades K-8 for three years. This is her twelfth year as director of Pisgah Dance Academy.  She feels truly blessed to be able to pass the love of dance and the quality of the art along to her students.

Lindsey Pangle – Dance Instructor

Lindsey began her dancing career at the age of two. She has studied jazz, hip-hop, musical theater, clogging, contemporary, ballet and tap.  She has also attended numerous master classes in all of the above mentioned styles of dance including training at the renowned Gus Giordano School of dance in Chicago. She currently trains under the direction of  the world renowned tapper Mark Goodman. She has won numerous solo and team awards with placements of high golds, platinum, and diamonds.

Lindsey has had the honor of being a petite, junior & teen national grand champion in tap. Tap is her forté, although she loves all styles of dance. Tap is truly an American genre that is now danced worldwide, and she believes it is a joy to “create” music while you dance. It is her personal goal to teach the traditional tap steps from the past, along with effective new rhythms moving forward in an entertaining way.  Her love and passion for tap is inspired by teaching this true American art form. She is excited to be teaching tap as a full time instructor who loves watching her students improve and grow to love the art of tap at Pisgah Dance Academy!