Carly Ouimette
Owner/Director
Owner/Director
Owner and Director of Oui dance - Carly is a graduate from Dean College with a Bachelor's Degree in Dance and a minor in Psychology. She has been teaching and choreographing for the past 20 years. Her choreography has been recognized on a regional and national level competitively. Trained at Diane Kelley's Dance Studio in West Boylston MA, she has been dancing since the age of two and hasn't stopped. Carly is trained in all styles of dance including Pedagogy, Kinesiology, Dance History, Dance Composition, and teaches beginner through advanced level dancers. Background in Ballet, Pointe, Tap, Jazz, Modern, Contemporary, Acro, Musical Theater, Hip Hop, Creative Movement, and ballroom. Carly travels around the Country as a dance competition judge regionally and nationally. She has also judged many pageants locally and was on the panel for Miss Worcester/Shrewsbury- a preliminary for Miss Massachusetts. Carly has worked with guest artists through conventions and has been a guest choreographer and artist at many dance studios and Star Dance Alliance Nationals. Her credits include Footloose, Guys and Dolls, Fame, Grease, Giselle the Ballet, and has also performed for the Dean Dance Company, The Dance Extravaganza as a featured dancer under Maurice Hines, and was a featured dancer under Tony Williams in the Urban Nutcracker. Carly was the recipient of the Arthur Pierce Prize in 2007, and was awarded the Joan Phelps Scholarship for Dance. She enjoys the true art of creation through movement and working with aspiring dancers.
Brittany has been exercising her love for dance since the age of 3. She grew up dancing at Paula O'Malley School of Dance and continued her dance education career at Bridgewater State University. She graduated from BSU in 2012 with a Bachelor's Degree in Arts with a dance education concentration and business management minor. Her main focus of teaching is jazz, modern, and lyric. She is also educated and trained in ballet, tap, ballroom and the history of dance. She has had a few opportunities to dance in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. She has been teaching at the studio for 5 years.
Brittany has been exercising her love for dance since the age of 3. She grew up dancing at Paula O'Malley School of Dance and continued her dance education career at Bridgewater State University. She graduated from BSU in 2012 with a Bachelor's Degree in Arts with a dance education concentration and business management minor. Her main focus of teaching is jazz, modern, and lyric. She is also educated and trained in ballet, tap, ballroom and the history of dance. She has had a few opportunities to dance in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. She has been teaching at the studio for 5 years.
Joseph has been in the dance scene for over 8 years now. After joining the Hip Hop team at Bridgewater State back in 2008, he quickly found his new passion. He has trained in many styles from Jazz to Modern but his passion lies with hip-hop. Joseph is currently the business manager at the studio and on occasion will come and guest teach hip hop.
Monika, a graudate of Dean College, has a Bachelor’s degree in dance with a concentration in pedagogy. She is a graduate of The Conservatory School for the Performing Art’s Pre-Professional Dance Program where she studied dance and theatre. Upon graduating from The Conservatory, Monika was awarded an $80,000.00 talent scholarship to attend Dean College Palladino School of Dance. Miss Benson is the former 2016 Miss Dance of New England, and placed in the top ten at the 2016 Miss Dance of America Competition. She is grateful to have the opportunity to train the next generation of dancers and looks forward to a fantastic season of dance.
Kellie Bowe
Kellie grew up in Shrewsbury, Ma and has always had an outgoing, energetic and goofy personality. She began her love for dance at the age of three years old. She studied ballet, tap, jazz, modern, lyrical, contemporary and hip-hop through high school. She danced on Shrewsbury High School’s dance team for four years, and became Captain her senior year. In college, Kellie majored in Early Childhood Education and Communication at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where she continued dancing on Stage Crew Dance Team. She was captain both her junior year and senior year. While in college, Kellie also studied to become a fitness instructor, and has been passionate about it ever since! After graduating, Kellie worked in Walt Disney World as a Recreation Cast Member and provided entertainment for guests at the resorts! She is now working as a Regional Manager for a Preschool Sports and Fitness Program during the day and a dance teacher and choreographer at night! Kellie is excited to continue her career in dance and is looking forward to sharing her love for dance with her students.
Born: Providence, RI. Ashley started her ballet training at Brae Crest School of Ballet in 2003 and later auditioned for The State Ballet of Rhode Island in 2007 as an apprentice dancer and then promoted to a company dancer in 2009. During her time as a company member, Ashley performed roles such as “Harvest”, “Dawn”, and “Swanhilda’s Friend” (Coppelia), “Pas de Six” and “Zulma” (Giselle) and “Titania’s Fairy” (A Midsummer Night’s Dream). After being promoted to soloist in 2016, Ashley played the role “Alice” in the SBRI premier of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. She is looking forward to the State Ballet of Rhode Island’s 60th performing season where she will debut as “Myrtha” in Herci Marsden’s Giselle. She is excited to see what else this year holds. When Ashley is not dancing at SBRI, she is studying at Dean College in Franklin, MA where she is majoring in Arts and Entertainment Management with a concentration in Dance. She could also be found teaching ballet at Oui Dance Studio in Medway, MA. She hopes to continue teaching ballet and to share her passion with young dancers.
Lingo Kelleher (they/them) is a nonbinary dancer, choreographer, and visual artist; they hold a BFA in Dance with a concentration in Choreography from Dean College. A self-proclaimed "swarm of excited bees", Lingo loves to spread their joy for dance, accessibility, and the arts wherever they go! They have been dancing for over 12 years and have a background in acrobatics, ballet, tap, jazz, modern, and contemporary. While at Dean, Lingo choreographed and performed numerous pieces for an array of shows and performances in styles such as contemporary ballet, jazz, tap, ballet, and modern. As their thesis in their final year of their BFA program, Lingo was given the opportunity to create a choreographed work entitled Ever Yours, Vincent. Mentoring under Kristina Berger and Stephen Tracy-Ursprung, they conducted extensive research on the life and art of Vincent van Gogh; their choreography and writings combined primary sources with historical documents into an immersive exploration of how movement in one artistic medium could be transferred into other mediums. Other notable works Lingo has choreographed include Ruminate, Hypnopompia, and Paranoia.