2026 STAFF
McKenzie Quarnberg
McKenzie Quarnberg grew up in Monroe, Utah, where she developed a lifelong passion for ballet, jazz, lyrical, and hip hop at her mother’s studio, Elan Dance Company. As a young dancer, McKenzie was an active solo competitor and performed at a wide variety of venues. She began her career as an instructor and choreographer at Elan Dance Company during her freshman year of high school, the same year she contributed to the 2008 state championship win for the South Sevier High School drill team.
In 2012, McKenzie danced professionally for the Utah Blaze Arena Football League. She later returned to Sevier County, where she served as an assistant coach for the Richfield High School drill team for three years while earning her nursing degree from Snow College. During this period, she also choreographed kick and military routines for several local drill teams.
Currently, McKenzie is a Registered Nurse and a dedicated wife and mother. She remains deeply passionate about the art of dance and finds great fulfillment in teaching and mentoring her students as they grow.
Bonnie Church
Bonnie developed a passion for dance and movement at an early age, exploring a wide range of styles including ballet, tap, baton, acrobatics, jazz, tumbling, modern, and cultural folk dance. While she enjoyed all disciplines, she felt the strongest affinity for ballet and acrobatics. During her time at Richfield High School, she focused on cheer, gymnastics, lyrical, contemporary, and jazz. It was also during this time that she began choreographing for dance classes and pageant solos. Notably, she was named the Richfield High School Sterling Scholar in Art, representing dance within that category.
Bonnie continued her dance education at Brigham Young University as a member of the BYU International Folk Dancers. While attending UVU (formerly UTC), she performed a Spanish Flamenco piece to win the Miss Sevier County pageant and later placed as first attendant in the Miss UTC scholarship pageant.
Over the past 20 years of teaching ballet, Bonnie’s focus has evolved to embrace a broad range of contemporary movements and styles. She prioritizes a collaborative environment, encouraging creative feedback from her students. Choreography remains her favorite aspect of teaching, and she finds great fulfillment in watching her students’ confidence and technical skills grow.
Bonnie currently offers instruction in technique, classical ballet, lyrical ballet, and pointe..
Joelle McCarthy
Joelle has a lifelong love of ballet and a passion for teaching technique that helps dancers feel strong, capable, and confident. She trained under ballet masters at more than five schools across Wisconsin and at the National Academy of Arts performing arts high school in Illinois. She has performed in many classic productions, including The Nutcracker and Peter Rabbit.
She once ran a free dance school in Kanosh, Utah, where all kids were welcome to learn and move. More recently, she taught at Burn Bright Dance School, where she choreographed original pieces and helped guide students through performances with structure and support.
Joelle’s classes are thoughtful, disciplined, and technique-driven—with a focus on helping students build a strong foundation they can take with them into any ballet class. She also teaches Pilates, which she weaves into her training to help dancers build strength, improve alignment, and move with confidence.
Lacie Peterson
Lacie grew her love for dance at a very young age. She started dancing at Green Valley dance studio and continued there for over ten years. She learned various styles of dance such as Jazz, clogging and ballet. When she entered high school she continued dancing with Limited edition dance studio and excelled in ballet and technical Jazz training. She taught classes there for two years while dancing as a member of the RHS drill team for four years. After graduating Lacie married the love of her life and they started a family here in Richfield. She is currently one of the assistant coaches for the Radiance drill team at RHS. Lacie enjoys teaching dances in the lyrical genre and loves competitive teams. She hopes to share her love and passion for dance to many others here at Limitless.
Brinlee Jolley
Brinlee grew up in Richfield, Utah where her love for dance started. She began learning ballet, jazz, hip-hop, and tap dance as a youth. Brinlee competed in team competitions, and has performed many times. Brinlee was a member of Richfield High School drill team for four years. One year she spent as wardrobe manager and another year as Vice President. She also was part of other high school dance committees, and classes. After graduation Brinlee went on to complete her Associates degree in Science Business at Snow College and is enrolled at SUU to receive her bachelors in Business as well. She currently works as a Dental Assistant, and recently married. Brinlee has always loved dance and is excited for her time with Limitless.
Lauren Wood
Lauren Wood grew up in Spanish Fork Utah, selling cherries from her family's tree, cleaning houses, mowing lawns, and any other scheme she could come up with to afford first gymnastics, where she competed through level seven at the state level, and then cheerleading, where she and her high school team made town history by being the first ever to find success nationally, placing third. Lauren went on to cheer at Snow College, trailblazing there as well as part of the first team to compete at all, winning a bid to Nationals and later placing first. Snow college was also where Lauren met her husband. She went on to graduate from Utah Valley University in English and taught high school for a year before the family relocated to Monroe. Lauren is now also the proud mother of a rambunctious little boy.
Since starting at the age of fourteen, Lauren has gained over a decade of experience coaching gymnastics, tumbling, and cheerleading. She has led teams as a head coach, raised bars for recreational, and built lasting skills through private lessons. Lauren has worked with all ages and skill levels – from three to eighteen, from forward rolls to double backs. As a coach, Lauren loves to see athletes find joy in the struggle and take pride in their accomplishments. She has high expectations for all athletes and believes that through hard work and dedication, every child's potential is truly limitless.
Cameo Pinder
Cameo grew up in Las Vegas doing both dance and gymnastics. She decided to pursued gymnastics under the instruction of Vitaly Scherbo, reaching to a level 9 before experiencing a burnout and deciding to take a break. After a while, she rediscovered her passion for dance and tried out for her high school dance team. She took as many classes as she could in ballet, jazz, lyrical, hip hop and modern. After graduation she pursued a dance performance degree at Southern Utah University, completing the degree in just three years. She was selected to study abroad for 3 weeks in Taiwan, and had one of her choregraphed pieces featured at a show in Orem, UT.
After graduation she and her husband moved to New York City where she continued dancing for some smaller dance companies in the city. She performed in off-broadway theaters, and got to experience being an artist in NYC. She moved back to Vegas before settling down to have kids and took a job at dance studio. It was there she helped build them an acro and tumbling program and taught students various acro tricks and lifts for 9 years. She has moved to Richfield, Utah to be closer to family and is excited to get the opportunity to share her knowledge and passion for dance and tumbling with the community here.
Cora Coates
Cora grew up in St. George, UT and started dancing at the age of 16 where she took many ballet and jazz classes. She attended Dixie High School and was a part of the Jetettes Drill team and also had the pleasure of being a part of a hip-hop dance team called Kalamity.
Cora attended Dixie State University and earned her Bachelor’s degree in Dance while minoring in English. She enjoyed being president of the Modern Dance and Improvisation Club and performing with the Dance Company during her time at DSU. Although she loves all the styles she’s been trained in, contemporary is the style she truly fell in love with.
Cora is happily married to her husband, John and adores her two dogs, Louie and Katie. If she’s not dancing she’s practicing dog agility with them, one of her other favorite hobbies.
Cora is very excited to start teaching and can’t wait to share her love and passion of dance with Limitless.
Emily Hyde
Emily started her love for dance at a young age. She started competing in Clogging, Jazz & Ballet with Green Valley Dance Studio and Elite Street. She was on the SSHS Drill Team all 4 years of high school, serving as Co-Captain her junior and Senior Year. After graduation Emily obtained her Associates of Science in Business Administration and currently working as an Office Manager. Emily is excited to be a part of Limitless and share her love for dance.
Kaitlin Christensen
Kaitlin’s love for dance began in childhood and never let go. With over 15 years of experience, she trained and performed in a wide range of styles—including clogging, jazz, lyrical, swing, and drill team. Her dedication led her to Southern Utah University, where she continued refining her technique through collegiate dance courses. After her own time performing, Kaitlin shared her passion with others as an assistant coach for the RHS drill team for three years. Whether on stage or in the studio, she brings energy, rhythm, and heart to everything she does.
In recent years, Kaitlin has focused on raising her young family as a devoted mom of four children under the ages five and younger. Though dance took a temporary back seat, the spark never faded—and now, as her daughter begins to fall in love with dance too, Kaitlin is thrilled to be back in the studio, sharing her passion and helping the next generation of dancers grow into their full potential.
