Our Staff

Molly Cundall

Irish Step

Molly grew up in Wheatland and experienced a love of dance early thanks to Mrs. Judy Wilson, Wheatland’s very first dance teacher. Molly estimates she spent almost a decade learning from Mrs. Wilson, and later she was part of Dance Wyoming’s Ceili Dance classes. She has always loved Irish Ceili Dance because it gives her a chance to express her Irish heritage and its music, history, and beauty! Molly danced as a Ceili dancer for four years and is excited to bring it back to Dance Wyoming. Molly is married and has two children who grew up dancing at Dance Wyoming, and she has successfully home-schooled them from kindergarten to graduation! Molly is also a photographer and loves experimenting with that medium.

Sabrina started dancing at the age of four, beginning with a jazz and tap combo class. By fourth grade she was on a competition clogging team for Green Valley Dance Studio, which she continued to do throughout high school. She taught clogging classes at the studio her junior and senior years of high school. She also danced on the drill team for South Sevier High School during all four years of high school, and went on to dance with the Badgerettes at Snow College in Ephraim, UT.
If you don’t see her at the dance studio you will find her in the bleachers cheering any of her six kids on, or in the kitchen baking something. Sometimes late at night when the house is quiet she may binge-read an entire book before bed.

Sabrina Lee

Tap 1 and Sunbeams

Chloe is thrilled to be joining her mother Candice in the fall of 2024 to be another of our teachers at Dance Wyoming. Dancing and performing has been a huge part of her life for many years. She has over fifteen years of dance, cheer/tumbling, and performance experience in many genres and areas, and alongside teaching our tumbling kids she helps her mom with her classes and is a great substitute teacher for many of our dance classes. With her love for teaching and passion for dance she is excited to be a part of the Dance Wyoming family.

Chloe Palmer

Cheer & Tumbling

Candice and her family moved to Wyoming to expand their ranch, and she recently opened Candid Photography. She has over 25 years of teaching and performing experience. She has taught tap, jazz, ballet, lyrical and hip hop, as well as having helped coach poms/dance teams. She has accompanied dancers from New York to California and countless states in between for everything from classes and competitions. to performing at Disneyland, on cruise ships, and on the stages in Branson. They also performed at countless festivals, fairs, and sporting events. Her experience and love for dance runs deep, and feels grateful to be getting to share and expand her dance family with the teachers and family at Dance Wyoming.

Candice Palmer

Cheer, Jazz 2, Performance Combo and Tap 2

Originally from Montana, Colton moved to Wheatland, Wyoming in 2022 and has been proud to call this community home. His jiu-jitsu journey began in San Diego, where he first stepped onto the mats and quickly fell in love with the art. That passion deepened after spending several months immersed in the jiu-jitsu culture of Brazil. As our new BJJ instructor, he is dedicated to helping students develop their skills, build confidence, and achieve their personal goals. "Nothing excites me more than seeing others grow and succeed on their jiu-jitsu journeys. I’m grateful to be part of this academy and look forward to sharing my knowledge and enthusiasm with our team!"

Colton Rau

Brazilian Jiu Jitsu

Jessica Schreiner

Intro Ballet, Lyrical 1,2,3

Jessica was born in Wheatland and moved with her family at an early age. She started dancing at the age of 8 and fell in love with ballet. She has enjoyed many different styles of dance such as ballet, point, lyrical, modern, jazz, tap, musical theater and tap. Jessica was always in the studio dancing and spent time at CSI/IDAA Summer Dance Camp Intensive in southern Idaho working with professional dancers and teacher. After an injury in high school she decided to not dance competitively and instead focused on getting her early childhood degree. She and her husband returned to Wheatland in 2015. She has an associate degree in Childhood Development, and a beautiful family. She is excited to share her love of dance with little ones.

Katie Sherman

Tumbling (on medical leave)

Katie Sherman grew up in Spokane, WA where she competed both club and high school gymnastics at Spokane Junior Gymnastics Academy, and North Central High School. After graduating High School she began coaching both club and High School gymnastics for the teams she previously competed for. In 2006 she moved to Colorado and continued her gymnastics coaching career for the Saint Vrain Valley School District High School district team. In 2014 Katie moved to Wheatland Wyoming and in 2020 had the wonderful experience of coaching tumbling to the Wheatland High School Cheer team. Katie enjoys sharing her knowledge and passion for gymnastics/tumbling with the Platte County community at Dance Wyoming.

Mira Taylor, owner

Studio Manager & Hip Hop

Mira was born and raised in Wheatland, married to the love of her life, Nick, and has been blessed with three precious kids. She grew up loving music and was grateful to get to travel around the country and world with the Continental Singers from '05-'08. After returning to Wheatland, she helped her sister Summer start a youth dance group called IMAJN which had lots of fun performing dances & singing around town for several years. Over the years, IMAJN also traveled to multiple urban dance camps in California taught by the Word In Motion Dance Company. In 2011, Mira was inspired to bring good clean hip hop to Wheatland’s youth, and has taught at Dance Wyoming since then and really enjoys getting to share her passion for music and dance with kids of all ages. In 2017, Joe & Linda Fabian hired Mira to manage the studio, and in October of 2023, Mira and her sister Summer purchased the studio from Linda to carry on the legacy of Dance Wyoming in our community.

Summer Whelchel, owner

BJJ, Hip Hop & Taekwondo TOTAL Workout

Summer was raised in Wheatland before moving to California at age 19, marrying high school sweetheart Randy and starting a family. They returned to Wheatland in 1999 to raise & home school all 3 of their children. She has worked with kids and music all of her life, and has been very involved in youth ministry and music programs at church. In 2006, she organized a Christian song & hip hop dance troupe named IMAJN with the help of her sister Mira. In 2011, Mira started teaching hip hop at Dance Wyoming with Summer's daughter, Skylar. Once Skylar married and moved away in 2017, Summer joined the Dance Wyoming instructors to assist Mira in teaching hip hop, and helped Mira with the management of the studio. She is also a 1st degree black belt in Taekwondo, and in 2020 Taekwondo classes were added to Dance Wyoming, which her son Taran helped teach. He started teaching Brazilian Jiu Jitsu at Dance Wyoming in October of 2022, and Summer helps teach the kid's classes. If she's not at Dance Wyoming, you can find her in the kitchen baking yummy sourdough goodies. As of October 2023, Summer owns and operates Dance Wyoming with her sister Mira and their husbands.

Taran has lived in Wheatland since he was 4 years old, other than when he attended and played football for Black Hills State University in Spearfish, SD, earning his degrees in Exercise Science and Coaching. He moved back to Wheatland in 2020 after coaching one year of football at BHSU and interning with the University of Wyoming's football program, and now works for Capstone Construction. He is a black belt in Taekwondo and a purple belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, he volunteer coaches with the Wheatland High School football team, he loves helping with local ranch brandings, and has assisted mom Summer with teaching Taekwondo classes at Dance Wyoming. In October of 2022, he started teaching Brazilian Jiu Jitsu for Dance Wyoming, and teaches both kid and adult classes.

Coach Taran Whelchel

Brazilian Jiu Jitsu

Ton Winter

Ballet 1,2,3 and Adult Ballet

Ton Winter has a degree in dance performance from Ball State University in Indiana. She is trained in ballet, jazz, modern and musical theatre dance. She has both danced and choreographed for professional and community musical theatre productions. She and her husband Lincoln have lived in Wheatland for many years and have 4 children.

Josephine Young

Josephine moved to Wheatland from Littleton, Colorado in October of 2014. She started swing dancing in 2005, and by 2008 was competing in Lindy Hop, traveling all over the United States. In 2012 she took an internship with Fred Astaire Ballroom Studios. She learned, taught and performed in Foxtrot, Waltz, Tango, Rumba, Cha-Cha, East Coast Swing and Salsa. After moving to Wyoming she started competing for the United Country Western Dance Council, specializing in Waltz, Two-Step, East Coast Swing, West Coast Swing, Polka and Night Club. She enjoys teaching the smallest of our students, and has recently branched out to teach our beginner Jazz students.

Adult Partner Dance, Jazz 1 and Sunbeams