J'Adore Dance

Jilly

Instructor

Jilly has been dancing for 15 years and is looking forward to continuing to take after her mom, her mentor. Jilly graduated from Culinary Arts at NAIT and is currently studying Professional Meat Cutting and Merchandising and is looking forward to completing the Baking and Pastry Arts program in the future. Jilly is on Jr Team Canada training towards the World Culinary Cup and recently won Silver at both the IKA Culinary Olympics in Stuttgart Germany with the olympics’ first all women’s team as well as the Taste Canada Student Culinary Challenge in Toronto Ontario. Over the years, Jilly danced for many studios in addition to J'Adore but found her home here as this became her family's studio.  She began her teaching path as a junior class assistant 9 years ago and successfully completed the Teaching Internship program 3 years ago, loves teaching all her dancers and continues to dance in the adult programs. Jilly is grateful that she has had many opportunities to dance in events such as the Festival of Trees, Heritage Days, St. Patrick's Day shows, and halftime shows for the Edmonton Oil Kings and Edmonton Stingers. She competed in Irish Dance and won the first Feis Award when she was only 6 years old. Jillian disciplines include Irish, Ballet, Jazz, Hip Hop, Contemporary but her true love is Tap. Jilly is grateful to ahve learned from Ms. Jenna, Ms. Bridget, and Michael and Tara Toal and her mom Ms. Chantel. Jilly loves to be on as many sports teams as she can, including soccer and basketball, as well as track and field events including 800m, 1500m, and Triple Jump. She enjoys being a member of a team because she can encourage and assist others in achieving their goals. Jilly can't wait to share her passion for the arts with her young dancers.

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Register For A Program With Jilly

Full Year Performance 2025-2026

Program
Duration
Instructor
Saturday 9:10 AM - 9:55 AM
Sep 6th, 2025 - May 24th, 2026
Price: $969.98
Saturday 9:10 AM - 9:55 AM
Sep 6th, 2025 - May 24th, 2026
Price: $969.98