Karli Yarid

Dance INSTRUCTOR

Karli Yarid is so excited to join the Fuzion School of the Arts team. She is a passionate and dedicated tap teacher with a love and rhythm and dance. She began her training in all styles (Tap, Ballet, Pointe, Hip hop, Jazz, Modern, Lyrical, and more) of dance at just four years-old with the Lakeway School of Ballet and Dance. It was here she found out her favorite was and is still tap dance. She also studied dance at Studio 180 Dance, adding clogging and contemporary to her repertoire. While studying in both of these schools, she performed as many different roles in Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker including Snow Queen, Dewdrop, etc.
 
 With years of experience in both studying and performing all styles of dance, she is excited to be a part of the other side of it, the teacher. She has had experience working with children of all ages through her opportunities choreographing with the Jefferson County High School theater program’s production of Chicago: Teen edition and Little Mermaid. She choreographed for Rose Center’s Summer Players Willy Wonka Jr. this summer as well as choreographed for the local theater company Encore Theatrical Company. 
 
Karli, outside of dance, earned a degree in Elementary education and hopes to teach in a K-5 classroom someday. When she is not in the studio, she can be found performing in the local theatre company’s productions or at home crocheting. 
 
My Why… 
A lot of my time growing up was spent in the studio. So much so that I considered it my second home. There were so many dance teachers who helped to grow and shape me into the person I am today. Each of them put so much time and effort into training my technique. My tap teacher in particular constantly pushed me to be better than I believed I could be sometimes. He even placed me in the most advanced tap class at eleven-years-old, because he thought I would be challenged more. I want to be the teacher who motivates through belief. Mostly, I want to take the God-given talents my dance teachers nurtured and give to others, just as they did.