owner/director
Jaclyn Brewer-Poole, owner and director, grew up in Carrollton and Farmers Branch, graduated from Newman Smith High School, and earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts from The Juilliard School in New York City. She has taught at well established dance studios since 2008 and has been an integral part in the pilot process of the elementary school dance program and middle school dance program in CFBISD. She opened Collective Arts Center in the summer of 2022 and has served hundreds of young dancers. With over 17 years of teaching experience, Jaclyn loves to spread the joy of dance and serve our future generations of learners.
Professionally she danced internationally in Spain and Canada, along with local DFW companies including Bruce Wood Dance, Ballet Dallas, and Avant Chamber Ballet. She has worked with a number of choreographers, most notably, Bruce Wood, Bryan Arias, Kimi Nikaidoh, Joy Bollinger, Robert Battle, Doug Varone, Eliot Feld, Jessica Lang, and Ohad Naharin; along with performing works by Antony Tudor and Twyla Tharp.
Jaclyn has taught students who have appeared on So You Think You Can Dance, World of Dance, Dancing with the Stars, and Little Big Shots. Additionally, students have gone on to attend esteemed college dance programs including: The Juilliard School, USC Kaufman, NYU, Purchase College, Chapman University, Point Park University, University of Arizona, Oklahoma University, Texas Tech University, Arkansas State, Kansas State, TCU, SMU, UNT, TWU, Kilgore Rangerettes, and Apache Bells. Students have danced professionally around the world including with companies: Ballet Hispanico, Collage Dance, Kansas City Chiefs dance team and the Jacksonville Jaguars dance team.
She wants to thank her husband and family for their continued love and support through all of her ambitious adventures.
Ms. Allison D’Auteuil. For the past 26 years, Ms. D’Auteuil could be found teaching all forms of dance to students of all ages across the DFW area.
She earned a Master’s degree from Perkins at Southern Methodist University and a B.A. from Hendrix College.
Allison continues to pursue an integrative study of dance for all, participating in the Culturally Responsive Dance Pedagogy workshop at USC, receiving Dance Team Assessment Judge’s Training through TDEA, and assessing the Fine Arts role in the AVID curriculum. Ms. D'Auteuil is a certified instructor through Level Three in American Ballet Theatre’s National Training Curriculum and is a certified Progressing Ballet Technique instructor. She holds accreditation from a variety of other dance curricula.
Ms. D’Auteuil currently teaches and choreographs at Blalack Middle School in CFBISD as well as to students of all ages and levels across the metroplex.
Aaryanna (Audy) Yang grew up in San Antonio, Texas where she began her ballet training with Ballet San Antonio Academy. By the age of 15, she began performing with Montgomery Ballet
as a trainee under the direction of Joseph and Laura Villalobos.
Upon returning to San Antonio, Aaryanna preformed with Sea World San Antonio in a world premier of “Electric Ocean”. She then joined Ballet San Antonio as an apprentice in 2019 and was promoted to corps de ballet in 2021. Later that year, she graduated from Southern New Hampshire University with her Bachelor degree in Creative Writing and English. Aaryanna joined Ballet North Texas as a company dancer in 2024.
Some of her favorite repertoire includes Brian Enos’s Alice in Wonderland, Edward Liang’s Romeo and Juliet, Bruce Wells’ Beauty and the Beast, Arabian in The Nutcracker, Mercedes in
Don Quixote, Balanchine’s Concerto Barocco, Anthony Tudor’s Continuo, Lady Tremaine in Cinderella, and Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Brooke Sanders is from Victoria, TX and trained in various performing art forms including but not limited to: ballet, pointe, jazz, modern and tap dance under the direction of Debbe Busby at Victoria Ballet Theatre. Her training also includes intensives at Gelsey Kirkland Academy of Classical Ballet in New York City.
While attending college at Texas Tech University, Brooke continued training and performing with Ballet Lubbock. Then she moved to the DFW area where she obtained a Bachelor of Science degree with a minor in dance from the University of North Texas. Post baccalaureate, while teaching at multiple dance studios in the DFW area, Brooke took online classes with American Ballet Theatre. She has also attended Bill Evans Somatic Dance Conference to further her understanding of movement.
Currently, she is a performing company member with Brevity Dance Company, working on becoming a Certified Evans Teacher, and pursuing a Master of Fine Arts in Dance degree at Texas Woman's University.
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Hannah Hensley is a Texas native with over 20 years of experience in ballet, jazz, tap, hip-hop, modern, & contemporary. She began dancing recreationally at a young age, and after years of developing a passion for performing, earned an Associate of Arts from Collin College in 2017. There she was a member of Collin Dance Ensemble, the student performing company, under the direction of chair Tiffanee Arnold.
From there, Hannah went on to receive her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance at Sam Houston State University, graduating cum laude in 2019. She had the privilege of studying under professors Andy & Dionne Noble, Jennifer Pontius, Dana Nicolay, Joshua Manculich, & Jared Doster. Her professional performances include Nicolay Dance Works’ A Wynne Home Nutcracker, Wanderlust Dance Project IV, imPULSE dance project's ICONS 2, “Illumination Sensation" at The State Fair of Texas, HYPE Dallas, AIMED Dance’s winter residency, several shows as a company member of Muscle Memory Dance Theatre, the Frisco Fighters Bombshells, Ballet Papillon, & various local dance festivals.
Proudly YPAD certified, Hannah continues her dance education while teaching all across DFW, and most recently began focusing on freelance work as well as instructing Mat Pilates in group fitness settings.
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2540 N. Josey Ln Suite 108
Carrollton, TX 75006
469-900-6884
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