Meet The Team

Owner & Director of Dance Collective

Madeleine Rady Hall

Madeleine opened the studio 8 years ago in 2016. She wanted to create a dance space that she had not experienced in her personal dance career. A place of body positivity, morals, love, and encouragement. She started dancing at the age of 3 with her main focus on ballet, but she had a joy in learning all styles of dance growing up. Ms. Maddie went on to win first place at the Youth American Grand Prix, one of the highest honors in the dance world. She then went on to open Dance Collective at only 18 years old! Crazy dreams lead to amazing things...Ms. Maddie has now gone on to be a multiple time award-winning choreographer with pieces winning regionally and being nominated for multiple awards including Choreography of the Year. She continues learning and growing her own personal abilities and goals and recently was a part of a professional contemporary company in Atlanta. She has extensive teaching experience in multiple genres including Ballet, Pointe, Contemporary, Lyrical, Tap, Jazz, Musical Theatre, and Hip Hop. Ms. Maddie also has extended her teaching skill set by certifying herself through the Acro Dance Teacher Association (ADTA). Of course when not dancing, Ms. Maddie loves spending time with her husband, daughter, and family!

Owners & Directors of Acting Collective and Co-Director of Dance Collective

Michael and Heather Rady

A love for Jesus, children, young adults and the performing arts led Michael and Heather Rady to create what has now become Acting Collective over 18 years ago.  Through creating captivating stories along with elaborate production elements and stage sets, the main goal of Acting Collective will always be to spread the word of Jesus to everyone who walks through our doors. Michael and Heather developed a love for community theater upon their children's interest in the arts. Years later, they now work with their daughter Madeleine to not only bring joy to children through acting but through dance as well with the creation of Acting Collective's sister company Dance Collective founded in 2016. Managing the business aspects and supporting each other in this endeavor has brought them as a family -  happiness and joy to reach the community through the arts!

Office Manager

Belinda Scott

Belinda was a military wife for 22 years and has been a homeschool mom of her 6 kids for 18 years and counting. She has a Bachelor’s of Social Work degree but being called by the Lord to serve full time at home, her work experience includes various different volunteer positions in both Christian ministries and homeschool programs. Her first daughter started  at Dance Collective in 2017 and her sisters followed in 2018 and 2020. All three girls are now members of the competition teams with Dance Collective. Belinda works at the front desk in many different support roles and is happy to be able to spend time in the studio with her girls and other families nurturing the gifts and talents of the kids as well as helping to foster a healthy Christian environment where kids can learn and have fun. 

Ellle Coach and Competitive Coach

Faith Scott

Faith has been dancing for 6 years, competing for 4. She specializes in contemporary and jazz but is trained in and enjoys all genres of dance. She loves that dance allows her the opportunity to express herself and embody different personas depending on the piece she’s performing. She has a passion for teaching kids the proper technique and challenging them to set and obtain seemingly hard to reach goals. Together with her team, she has received many accolades and awards at national competitions including multiple 1st and 2nd overalls. In the 2024 season, she won first overall at Revolution National Dance Competition for her contemporary solo.  Faith is excited to start another season at Dance Collective, to continue to share her love of dance with others and can’t wait to see what the future holds for her in dance!

MI-HI Coach, Adult Coach, and Competitive Coach

MACKENZIE SHORT

Mackenzie has had the love for dance ever since the age of 13. She danced competitively all 4 years of high school and in those years, she won numerous awards with her award winning team and for her solos as well! She has had extensive training in ballet, jazz, pointe, musical theater, lyrical, contemporary and more. As a graduate of Dance Collective, Mackenzie is excited to share her passion for dance with her students and hopes that they will find as much joy in dancing as she did 5 years ago. While she loves for her class to be a fun environment, she is also passionate about putting in the work to achieve your goals. Mackenzie is thrilled to be coaching with DC again this year and is ready to work with you!

Adult Coach and Competitive Coach

Kyla Coakley

Kyla has been dancing for 11 years, competing for 8 and coaching for 2! As an alumni of Dance Collective, she is getting the opportunity to work with adults for the first time this coming season and is more than excited. She enjoys working with students who are eager to learn as much as possible. Her favorite style of dance is ballet and she has spent the majority of her dance career focused on the technical genre. Her specialty in coaching is private lessons and smaller classes where each student gets the help they need. If you are serious about improving your skills, Kyla is your girl. Contact @ Kylamichelle06@gmail.com for classes taught and lessons hosted @dance.collective

Kinder and Elle Coach

Alaina Martin

Alaina started dancing at 9 years old and has been dancing ever since. She began competing in 2021 and started teaching in 2023. She specializes in contemporary, jazz, and musical theatre. In 2022, she was awarded the “Artist of The Year” nomination at Platinum National Dance Competition with her contemporary solo. She aspires to teach her students the ways of dance while keeping an energetic and safe environment for the kids.

Kinder Coach

Shayla Hohenstern

Shayla started dancing at 5 years old and joined Dance Collective in 2020 where she’s been a member of the award winning Senior Competition Team for the past 3 years, competing in numerous competitions and taking away numerous awards including 1st place over all in the teen duo/trio category at Imagine Dance Challenge 2024.  She is trained in many styles of dance, including tap, ballet, pointe, acro, jazz, hip hop, contemporary/lyrical, and musical theater but her favorites are tap and musical theater. Shayla has been coaching in our kinder program for the past three years.

Elle Coach

Sophia Hall

Over the past 4 years, Sophia has enjoyed working with students of all ages in a wide variety of genres. She strives for her students to build confidence in their dancing, and teaches them both the technical and performance aspects of dance. Sophia began dancing 6 years ago, and has competed for 4 of those years. She is honored to dance with the award-winning Team Empires at Dance Collective, and to have taught Team United classes. Eager to expand her dance knowledge and experience, Sophia has taken technical dance classes in Colorado, Germany, and at Dance Revolution in Orlando Florida. Sophia is trained in Ballet, Pointe, Lyrical, Contemporary, Jazz, Musical Theater, Tap and Hip Hop, and she prides herself in being a well-rounded dancer. 

Elle assistant and Kinder assistant

Hope Scott

Hope has been dancing for 7 years, competing for 4. Hope’s passion for the stage was evident from the first time she stepped onto one at a very young age. Hope is trained in all disciplines of dance understanding that in order to be a truly great dancer it’s important to be a well rounded one. It’s in musical theater however where she finds her greatest joy. She can bring any character to life and enjoys using dance to do so. Hope loves working with the younger kids and seeing them find joy in dance and performing just like she does.  Together with her team, she has received many accolades and awards at national competitions including multiple 1st and 2nd overalls. In the 2024 season, she won 1st overall at Revolution National Talent Competition for her modern solo. Hope is looking forward to seeing her past students return and to meeting more budding dancers this season at Dance Collective!

Kinder assistant

Jillian Rady

As the sister of a dance studio owner, Jillian was put straight into dance classes the moment that she was able to walk. From then on, she began her dance journey for herself to see if she too was passionate about dancing - and she found that she couldn't love it more. Yet more than that, she found a love for teaching little ones to dance their hearts out! So along with competing and winning many accolades and awards, Jillian assists in Kinder classes weekly and is fondly known by her students as silly Ms. Jill!

Elle assistant

Jenna King

Jenna has been on her dancing journey for quite some time and joined DC, starting as a tiny mini herself, at age 4. She Also participated in gymnastics for almost 3 years, and still enjoys working on new acro tricks everyday. She is coming up on her fourth year as a part of the DC competition team, and is honored to have been a part of many award winning dance pieces. Jenna is excited to share her love for all types of dance genres with her students, and hopes that she can be a guide and inspiration for all the young dancers!