Miss Ryan 
Mrs. Ryan Wilson
Bus. Admin. Diploma – Distinction,
ADAPT, ESB TTP & JR. GRAD.
I have had over 25 years dancing and over 10 years teaching experience in the Vermilion area and am committed to enhancing the lives of youth through creativity, musicality, coordination, determination, self-discipline, team effort and positive attitude. By teaching internationally recognized dancing techniques in an encouraging and motivating environment, my dancers are able to achieve their personal bests and excel both in and out of dance.
For two years, while continuing to teach and pursue a career in dance, I also studied Business Administration with a Professional Accounting Major at Lakeland College. In the spring of 2000 I graduated at the top of my class with a GPA of 3.93 out of 4.0 and along with many scholarships and awards, earned a Diploma with Distinction. The next summer, I decided to combine all my areas of interest, experience, and professional education and invest it into one entity - Dance Impressions by Ryan.
As an innovative, progressive, local instructor, I am dedicated to life-long learning. I continually strive to improve my knowledge, my skills, and myself as an instructor by attending esteemed Workshops and Teacher’s Training Courses across the country. I am a Certified Instructor of both the ESB Junior Grades (Ballet) and the ADAPT (Jazz & Tap) Syllabi. I also graduated with Distinction from the Junior Teacher’s Training Course at the Edmonton School of Ballet . Currently, I am enrolled in the exclusive Professional Teacher’s Training Program at the Edmonton School of Ballet and am working towards my I.S.T.D. Associate (Cecchetti Branch).
As a teacher, I have received numerous awards for “Outstanding Choreography” and my students have received many distinguished “Outstanding” and “First Place” awards. My dancers are renowned for not only their amazing performances and technical abilities, but also for their friendliness and sportsmanship attitudes as well as polite and professional demeanors.
I am very optimistic about the 8th season of Dance Impressions, and look forward to my 11th year as an instructor in Vermilion and all the challenges, opportunities, and rewards it will bring.
Miss Jodi
Dance Impressions would like to announce “Miss Jodi” Schommer as a New DI Instructor. Jodi grew up in Vermilion. At the age of 12 Jodi came to one of Miss Ryan’s “Bring A Friend” classes and instantly discovered her love of dance. She threw herself passionately into training at Dance Impressions in the disciplines of Jazz, Ballet, Lyrical and Tap. At age 16 Jodi auditioned and was accepted into Edmonton School of Ballet’s intensive Pre-Professional Program where she studied dance and trained 6 hours daily for the next three years. Jodi has since graduated from ESB’s Pre-Professional Program and has gone on to complete her Advanced 1 Cecchetti Ballet Majors Exam, while dancing with the Edmonton Contemporary Dancers. Jodi has spent the past three years also training at 3rd Street Beat, discovering an infatuation with various styles of Hip Hop. As a current 3rd Street Beat Company Member, Jodi recently traveled on tour to Malaga, Spain to showcase her talents in the 2008-2009 season, as well as performed in numerous shows and fundraisers abroad, including Hip Hop For Hope. Jodi is extremely excited to begin her teaching career at Dance Impressions, while continuing to dance with 3rd Street Beat Company and training as much as possible!!
Miss Amber
