Coast City Ballet / Pacific Dance Center / Huntington Beach / OC

YEAR-ROUND FACULTY
Pacific Dance Center provides personal attention and professional training that allows each student with opportunity to develop his or her full
potential. The faculty is comprised of highly motivated and skilled instructors, who instill the highest standard of dance training to each student.

Kelli Kelly
Licensed to teach Zumba Basic and Zumbatomic , Kelli started taking Zumba classes for fun and exercise
and “fell in love with Zumba for the simple reason that every class feels like a party”.
She has attended Zumba Fitness Conferences and workshops such as "Brazilian Heat", "The Business of
Zumba" and "Zumba Formula" where she learned Brazilian rhythms common to Brazil as well as
choreography. Kelli joined Pacific Dance Center faculty in 2010

Clara D’Autilia, Artistic Director

Born and raised in Southern California, Clara began dancing at the age of three. She received her
early ballet training at Long Beach Ballet Arts Center with Terry Lewis, Dudley Davis, and Linda
Gonzalez. At age 9 she was accepted to the Centro Polivalente de Arte in Argentina where she
studied for 5 years Ballet, Jazz, Modern, Art, and interpretive dance. She studied with Maestro Ruben
Chayan, Marilyn Monaco, Patricia Enciso, and Roxana Doglio. While in Argentina she also trained
with Olga Ferri and attended workshops at the Escuela del Teatro Colon de Bs. As. Returning to the
US at age 14, Clara continued her dance studies at Long Beach Ballet with David Wilcox; she
became a member of Millikan H.S. Advance dance in which she remained in thru her 4 years in HS.
Additionally she trained in Pointe and Variations with Galina Shlyapina, Alla Khaniashvilli-Artyushkina
and Maya Plisetskaya. She trained in Jazz, lyrical and modern with Mia Michaels, Steve Sirico and
Angela D'asilva Sirico, Cathy Roe, Sherri King, Charles Kelly. She has danced nationally and
internationally with Ballet Estable Mar del Plata, Los Angeles Ballet, Metropolitan Ballet, SCDT,
performing soloist and principal roles in, among others Cinderella, Romeo and Juliet, Hansel & Gretel

Miss Clara began teaching in 1990, in 2004 she became owner and Director of Pacific Dance Center of HB, and in 2005, co-founded Coast
City Ballet, a nonprofit dance organization. The newest addition to her curriculum vitae was in 2007 when she became Dance Team Coach
for Edison HS. A prolific choreographer and recipient of numerous awards, her choreographies have been presented locally and abroad.
Dancing is a vital part of her life; teaching, developing new works, and sharing her love for dance with her students are her passions.

Danielle McDonell

Danielle has been dancing since the age of 4. She received her dance training at The Colony, Clifton Dance
Project, Southland Ballet Academy & Pacific Dance Center. Studying with Dan Collins, Keith Clifton, Crissy
Tackett, Clara D'Autilia, Karen Coe and Jen Shetland. Was a member of Edison H. S. Dance Team
(Lieutenant, co-captain,and captain) until her graduation in 2004. Danielle is Coast City Ballet's rehearsal
assistant and Edison’s HS Dance Team Assistant Coach. She has danced principal roles in several ballets,
including The Nutcracker, and has danced locally and in Barcelona, Spain. An imaginative and boundless
choreographer, her works have won numerous awards, her skills also include costuming, theatrical make-up
and hair. She has danced at Pacific Dance Center since 2002 and joined the faculty in 2003.

Hayley Davis

Born and raised in Long Beach, CA, Hayley began dance at the age of 4. She attended SCDA, training in
classical ballet, pointe, jazz, modern, and lyrical. She continued her dance training at Maple Conservatory, also
attending summer intensives with The Boston Ballet, Ballet Austin, Kansas City Ballet, and Dance arts
academy. After graduating Los Angeles High School for the Arts, she continued training at The Boston
conservatory. She has dance principal roles in several ballets including the Dewdrop Fairy in The Nutcracker.
Hayley joined Pacific Dance Center faculty in 2008 and currently instructs Tot-Ballet, Pre-Ballet and Children’s
levels.

Guest Faculty and choreographers

Charity T Hauke - Ballet Mistress, Liaison
Lindsay Fleichmann - Guest choreographer
Shelley Neal - Guest Instructor - Master Classes
Danielle Scholz - Guest Instructor
Tim Stevenson - Guest Choreographer (Anaheim White House Charity Event - EHS Dance Team)
Shawn Vitale - Guest Instructor - Choreographer

Sarah Johnston

Had her first dance class at the age of three, and received a BFA in Dance from the University of Arizona.
While at UA, she also trained at France Academy of Dance, and performed professionally with Paul Powell
Productions and Steps Dance Company. She was a principal/soloist with Tucson Metropolitan Ballet and
Dance Southwest. She danced professionally with Canyon Movement Company in Flagstaff, Arizona for six
years, and was a founding instructor at Canyon Dance Academy and the director of their student company,
Bravura. As part of Canyon Movement Company, she performed at the Dance Grand Prix Italia in Italy, taught
at the Dance and the Child International Conference in the Netherlands, and danced the role of the Sugarplum

Fairy while co-directing the now-annual "Nutcracker Suite in Modern Bare Feet." Sarah coached the Flagstaff High School Dance Team,
taught ballet, modern, and jazz at Coconino Community College and Flagstaff Arts and Leadership Academy, and was an assistant to
dance anthropologist Dr. Joann Kealiinohomoku at the Cross-Cultural Dance Resource Lab. Sarah dances in Disneyland Parades, she
joined Pacific Dance Center's faculty in 2010.