Our Teachers

 Denicka Davis is the owner of High Voltage Dance Academy. Ms. Vaca has been dancing since she was 5 years old, and joined a competitive team when she was only 6. Ever since then her dream was to one day open her own studio where she could inspire students with the love of dance like she was inspired. 

Ms. Vaca has been teaching dance for 10 years and opened HVDA in 2018 to share her love of dance with her cmmunity.  Ms. Vaca has received numerous distinctions through her years of dancing including Miss Encore, Senior Miss Spotlight, and selected for the prestigious Encore Elite Dance Team three times. She has had the privilege to work with professional dancers and choreographers over the years including Meisha Lee, Ashlee Nino, Mandy Moore, and Marco Germar.

Cassidy Gempler specializes in our competition team along with workshops during the summer. Cassidy an ambitious and hard working performer, is a California native who moved to Los Angeles to continue her professional career in dance. Cassidy was selected to be a two year work study student at Millennium Dance Complex, as well as being involved in their five week summer intensive with artists such as Matt Steffanina, Wildebeest Adam and Brinn Nicole. Cassidy is a graduate of Loyola Marymount University where she trained in tap, hiphop, ballet, modern and jazz working with choreographers such as Maggie and Maureen Gonzalez, Rosalynde LeBlanc Loo and Rihanna`s choreographer, Jason Myhre. She is a member of hiphop dance crew Kuumba Beatz and has performed at LMU`s Best Dance Crew and Midnight Madness. Cassidy is currently living in Denmark pursuing her dream of being an international choreographer and help spread her knowledge and love to dance to students all around the world.