Elizabeth Falcon - Owner/Director/Instructor

Elizabeth Falcon, also known as "Miss Liz" in the studio, has been teaching dance for over 30 years. Starting out she locally attended dance classes and self taught herself many different styles of dance. When starting at the age of 18, she traveled to various surrounding towns to offer dance instruction in Tioga, Grenora, Alexander, Medicine Lake MT., Westby MT., Flaxville MT., Crosby, Bowbells, Lignite and Kenmare before finally settling down to teach in Williston. The studio then started in the basement of Elizabeth's home in Williston, consisting of 1 dance room. The studio has grown to consist of 2 large dance studio rooms now.  After purchasing the studio she started with less than 50 dancers and has grown to over 160, instructing dancers of all ages, 2 through adult, male and females. Throughout her time teaching she has accompanied many dancers to various classes and conventions including Tremaine, Dance Olympus, Celebration, & Spotlight Dance Cup where she holds a prestigious diamond award membership. She has furthered her dance education by traveling from West Coast to East Coast to take from some of the dance industries best: Gus Giordano, Joe Tremaine, Jo Rowan, Marcea Lane, Doug Caldwell, Shawn Hughes, Mario Velez Jr., Vincent Hicks and Antoine Olds to name just a few. Over the years, Elizabeth has won many awards, including choreography awards from various competitions. Elizabeth has been involved in the pageant community as well as the dance community previously holding her own pageant in Ward County. Elizabeth is a long time member of the "Who's Who" of Professional Businesses. She teaches Tap, Jazz, Ballet, Lyrical, Hip Hop, Combo Classes as well as Privates. Elizabeth and her husband, Kevin, have 1 talented daughter, Krystal - 30, who also teaches at the studio and 1 son, Joren - 22 who is an Engineer. Elizabeth is so happy to continue sharing her love of dance with the Williston community. EDE just celebrated their 31st year!

Krystal Dahl - Instructor

Krystal started dancing at the age of 2, receiving her 15 year dance award as a Junior in High School and as the youngest dancer of EDE to receive the award and continued dancing through her senior year. Krystal was a competition member of EDE for over 6 years and has taught classes for over 13 years. She is very well rounded in her acquired styles of dance and has taken many classes in Canada, Seattle, Detroit, Minneapolis, LA California, and Bismarck just to name a few. Her unique choreography has earned her dancers numerous and various awards throughout the years including 'best choreography' awards. She continues her dance education in various styles, the most recently being tumbling. She finds joy in choreographing, teaching, and inspiring those who love to dance. With many years of dance experience, Krystal also has a background in pageants and has judged the Miss Montana's Pageant. Krystal is a graduate from North Dakota State University with a B.S. in Interior Design and an A.A.S in Business Management. She is also employed in the Oil & Gas Industry in the Human Resources department. Krystal and her husband Lukas and their 2 dogs, Jerzie & Mila live in Williston.

Shauna Staloch - Instructor

Shauna Staloch has been dancing since she was 4 years old, started competing in 5th grade, and has been teaching since she was 16 years old. As a dancer of EDE, she attended Spotlight National dance competition in Las Vegas where she and her sister placed 8th overall with their student-choreographed tap duet. She has attended numerous conventions including Celebration, LA Dance Force, Dance Olympus, and Tremaine, just to name a few. In high school, she was selected to tour with Dance Olympus as a VIP dancer. She has also taken master classes from Joe Tremaine, Eddie Garcia, Scott Hislop, JT Horenstein, Malaya, Adam Parson, Liz Ramos, and Rinat Mousafarov of The Institute for Ballet and Theatre. She has also attended International Dance Camp at the Peace Gardens. At EDE, she co-directed “Fame”, “Frosty the Snowman”, “Christmas in Oz”, and “The Nutcracker” performances. While attending college at NDSU and MSU-Moorhead, she taught dance at Red River Dance & Performing Company for 7 years, and was the Business Manager and competition team director for 4 of those years. She graduated from NDSU with a major in Business Administration and a minor in Dance from MSU-Moorhead. During her college years, she was a dancer with the Fargo-Moorhead Dance Theatre Repertoire. Shauna has been involved in the Miss North Dakota Youth Scholarship Pageant and Miss North Dakota Scholarship Pageant for numerous years as a titleholder and co-director. She is currently involved with 4-H as a Cloverbud Leader and is employed at a local bank. Shauna is married to Andy, and they have a wonderful 11 year old daughter, who is on the EDE dance competition team, and an energetic 8 year old son, who also takes classes at EDE. Shauna enjoys teaching ballet, pointe, tap, jazz and lyrical. Her enthusiasm for teaching our youth and her passion for dance are apparent when she is in class with her students and when they are performing on stage. She believes it is important to teach students great technique as well as teaching them to dance from their hearts while having fun. Her dancers have earned various awards throughout the years including many Judge’s Choice Awards. Shauna is very excited to be with EDE for another fun and awesome year!

Elly Adams - Instructor

Elly started dancing when she was 7 years old at Dance Explosion in New Richmond, Wisconsin. In 6th grade she began dancing competitively and was a student teacher during her 8th grade year. During her time at Dance Explosion she was a part of the studio’s highest competition lines focusing on tap, jazz, hip-hop & pom. In high school Elly danced at the regional and state levels on the Amery Dance Team. Her senior year she was named Co-Captain and was awarded the UDA All-Star and NDA All-American titles. After graduating, Elly took her passion to the professional level. She auditioned for the Minnesota Timberwolves Dancers where she was selected as a finalist and performed at a Lynx game! She then danced at the Semi-Pro level with the Minnesota Sting for two seasons and one season with the Twin Cities Titans. Throughout the years Elly has stayed close to dance by choreographing for high school teams, taking adult/master classes in the Twin Cities and assisting at her hometown studio. Elly moved from Minneapolis to Williston in 2017 with her dogs, Bella & Sammy. She is currently a full-time nanny for 3!