Beginner Level
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Jazz
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Lyrical
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Tap
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Hip Hop
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Improv & Skills video
Beginner Level
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Jazz
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Lyrical
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Tap
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Hip Hop
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Improv & Skills video
512.383.5714
Office Hours: Monday - Friday 3-6pm
10203 Old Manchaca Road
Austin, TX 78748
Instructors & Choreographers
Choreographer, and Instructor / Jazz, Tap, Hip-Hop, Ballet, Lyrical, Character
Carly started performing at three years old. At five she joined the competitive world of dance. She danced in competitions all over Texas for 18 years, winning Top Soloist Awards and Choreography Awards for her solo routines and group dances. She danced all through high school with the WHS Texans and was honored to be trained by Kitty Nichols, owner of Wimberley Dance Studio. At sixteen, Carly started teaching and choreographing professionally. For six years Carly taught a competitive team called “The Fundanzers” which has been South Austin's elite dance troupe for 30 years! Her choreography placed Top 1st Overall in a variety of different competitions. Carly is classically trained in Ballet, Tap, Lyrical, Hip-Hop and Jazz. In 2010 Carly opened her own dance company inside Lifetime Fitness South Austin. When she successfully ran and operated her own studio inside the nation’s biggest gym, this began her journey into opening her own dance company, "Dance by Carly." Dance by Carly offers a variety of dance classes for ages two to adults along with Austin's DBC Academy Dance Troupe! DBC Academy dancers compete on a Regional and National level all over Texas and perform in shows locally all over Austin such as Harlem Globetrotters, San Antonio Spurs and more! Within 7 months of opening the studio, her competitive troupe known as The DBC Academy won 1st place overall in the Starbound National Dance Competition. This award carried the company to placing in the National Championship. The “Pearl” group was the youngest group in the entire 2013 Championship. In her new company holding 30 competitive dancers, DBC Academy brought home over a dozen Choreography, Best Performer, Elite Gold, High Gold and Gold awards. Carly has over a 20 years of experience in teaching and choreographing for competitions, movies, music videos and much more! Carly is inspired by the children she teaches and strives to create and provide a healthy lifestyle in South Austin's youth.
"BETTER TO PERFORM FOR YOURSELF AND HAVE NO PUBLIC,
THAN TO PERFORM FOR THE PUBLIC AND HAVE NO SELF." C.C.
Owner, Carly Bell "Ms. Carly"
Izabella Segura "Ms. Izabella"
Executive Director, Choreographer & Instructor
Izabella started dancing at the age of three. She was part of Jackie's Fundancerz and competed with them for 8 years. She then joined DBC Academy in 2013 and has been with us ever since. She is trained in Jazz, Ballet, Hip Hop, Lyrical, and Tap. She is so happy that she is able to share her love for Dance with our dancers. She graduated from Bowie High School in 2018 and is attending Texas State University to obtain her degree in Applied Arts and Science. Being able to teach and express her love of dance to DBC dancers is her passion.
Lilly Brown "Ms. Lilly"
Creative Director, Choreographer & Instructor
Lilly Brown, a local choreographer and dancer in Austin, Texas, has been dancing since she was three years old. Receiving training from a performing arts middle school to then the McCallum High School Fine Arts Academy, Brown has governed technical and creative growth for herself. Brown’s high school career allowed her to craft creative works that embodied vulnerability within oneself to exceed bounds set by society. This personal agency from Brown is now being developed at a greater rigor at The University of Texas at Austin, where she is receiving her BFA in Dance and minor in Arts Administration and Management. Outside of the classroom, Brown teaches at Dance by Carly, a studio in south Austin, to ages two - seventeen. The act of teaching dance has heightened Brown’s passion for dance as well as love for choreography. Brown hopes to continue performing and choreographing for decades to come, while teaching the community the importance of vulnerability in movement and acceptance of personal agency over one's growth.
Matthew Vargas "Mr. Matthew"
Choreographer & Instructor
Matthew Vargas born in Austin, Texas began his dance training at the age of 4 at Tapestry Dance Studio training in hip hop, tap, and ballet Folklorico. At the age of 7, Matthew received a full scholarship to train at Ballet Austin in the Academy where he is trained in ballet 6 days a week. He has performed as Fritz, a party boy, and the Chinese dancer in The Nutcracker, as well as performing as the Junior Card Soloist in Ballet Austins’ production of “ALICE (in Wonderland). Matthew Vargas graduated from McCallum High School where he served as Captain for the award-winning Blue Brigade drill team. He has won multiple awards while on the McCallum Blue Brigade such as multiple 1st places senior solo awards, highest scoring solo overall, best in class dancer, All American Dancer, All American Kick Dancer, Best in class duet, and solo winners circle at the ADTS Texas Dance Championships 2019. He was also in the McCallum Youth Dance Company in the Pre-Professional dance troupe where he has been trained in Flamenco, Modern, House Dance, and Movement Based Contemporary. Matthew also has won scholarships from a Celebrity dance competition as well as 8 National Talent and Starbound competitions where he also holds a national title from both competitions. . He is now apart of the prestigious Tremaine Performance Company where he travels, assists, and performs with Tremaine Dance Conventions. Matthew hopes to continue inspiring young dancers at DBC by helping them grow as dancers and artists through choreographing as well as teaching classes.
Mark Sharon
Ballet Choreographer & Instructor
Mark Joseph Sharon began training in ballet at the age of three in Southeast Texas. He was selected at the age of 15 by the Joffrey Ballet for pre-professional training in New York; however, a few weeks into the program Mark was stricken with brain cancer and left confined to a wheelchair. Inspired by the example of Agnes B. DeMille, he developed a physical rehabilitation regimen applying the knowledge of movement he had gained from years of ballet training. A year later he left his wheelchair behind and began working as an artist-in-residence choreographer at Southeast Texas Arts Council.
With his years of professional dance training and an enhanced awareness of the mechanics of movement learned from his struggle for physical recovery, Mark excelled at teaching both classical ballet and movement awareness. That year the Texas Commission for the Arts and Humanities showcased film of Mark’s dance company, Jefferson Jazz Ballet, as the dance component of their proposal to the Texas Legislature for state funding of the arts.
Relocating to Southern California in his early twenties, Mark taught and choreographed special projects for studio, stage, and screen for over two decades. He was commissioned by universities including USC, UCLA, and Utah State University to choreograph and lecture for special dance projects, and for years he was artistic director for West Coast Performing Arts Center in Mission Viejo, California. Founder of Laguna Beach Dance Invitational, he produced annual weeklong retreats designed to expose students of dance to a higher caliber of professionalism in classical ballet and contemporary dance movement. With this extensive experience, Mark has achieved a unique ability to improve advanced dance technique and to teach the healing effects of movement awareness in all physical activity.
Having recently completed a master’s degree in humanities with an emphasis on dance at St. Edward’s University, Mark now seeks an opportunity to teach his methodology to aspiring students in an academic setting.
Addison Fuller "Ms. Addison"
After School Director & Choreographer
Addison started dancing when she was 8 at a little dance studio in her neighborhood, just East of Seattle, WA. She quickly realized dance was her passion and moved to a larger studio where she joined their competitive team. She committed a minimum of 20 hours a week in studio dancing and competing in Hip Hop, Lyrical, and Jazz. On top of all that she took ballet and strength/conditioning classes to keep up with technique and form. She and her team won several competitions throughout her time there and without fail placed at the top. She graduated with her Associates of Arts degree from Bellevue College and can’t wait to dust off her point shoes and get back to what she loves.
Jennifer Brown "Ms. Jennifer"
Toddler Instructor
Jennifer began dancing with her ‘student’ dolls at 2 years old and finally got the opportunity to take classes at 5 where she made the decision to soak in every and any type of dance available! She was a teacher for almost 20 years and has made it her life to help children find their joy and fulfill their potential.
Lydia Lomax "Ms. Lydia"
Acro Instructor
Miss Lydia has spent the last 15 years mastering her craft in the fitness space. With a wide variety of experience in fitness, gymnastics and dance, she is thrilled to be joining the Dance by Carly staff as an Acro instructor. Lydia grew up in the competitive gymnastics world while also dancing on the side. She was able to incorporate the two when she became an Acro instructor in 2015 in central New York. Miss Lydia is thrilled to be able to share her love of expression through movement with Dance by Carly students!
Sierra Arsitio "Ms. Sierra"
Instructor
Sierra has been dancing since the age of 2. Originally from California, Sierra grew up competing for Dolce Dance Studio where she won numerous regional, national, and international titles. She continued her dance career in college by joining the CLU Dance Team where she became Captain her Junior and Senior year. Sierra has experience teaching jazz, lyrical, contemporary, and ballet at a variety of dance studios throughout Southern California. She can also be seen in the “FAKE” music video choreographed by Abby Lee Miller from “Dance Moms”. She recently moved to Austin to continue her education at the University of St. Augustine where she will eventually receive a Doctorate in Physical Therapy. Sierra is so excited to be teaching at Dance By Carly and can’t wait to share her passion for dance with others!