Assistant Director
Director of Clogging/Competition Teams Instructor

Brandi started dancing at the age of three, and found a love for clogging at the age of five. During her youth she danced with the Wild West Cloggers, Steele Family Cloggers, and the Xtreme Power Teams from the Castleview School of Dance. In 1999 she joined CLOG AMERICA, an International Folk Dance Ensemble that represents the United States in folklore festivals around the world. Her travels with CLOG AMERICA have taken her across North and South America, Europe, and Asia. She is currently acting as one of the Dance Directors/Choreographers for the group.

Brandi has won multiple individual and team Grand Champion awards. In 2002, after 10 years of consecutive high freestyle scores, she was inducted into the America on Stage All-American Hall of Fame. She currently serves as the Chairman for the All-American Program and Hall of Fame. She is also the promoter of The Utah State Clogging Championships and is the co-director of the AAU Junior Olympic Games Clogging Competition.

Brandi started teaching clogging at the age of 16. In 1994 she became a certified member of the Center Stage National Faculty. This certification opened doors that allowed her to teach at workshops and dance camps throughout the western United States. She has taught at several studios in the Salt Lake Valley including Dance Attack and Castleview School of Dance. Brandi has been the Clogging Director of Starz Unlimited since 1998. Her Competition Clogging Teams have won multiple High Score and Overall Grand Champion Awards in competitions throughout Utah. She has been named a Director of The Year by America on Stage for the past 8 years.

Clogging Class Instructor

Cheryl began clogging when she was 9 years old. She clogged with Castleview School of Dance on competition teams for the next 10 years. While dancing at Castleview she had the opportunity to travel and perform across the United States. Her favorite places to visit as they performed were Florida, New York and Hawaii. Cheryl was a teaching assistant and also taught her own classes for four of her years at Castleview.

At age 16 Cheryl auditioned for and made the Folk Dance Ensemble, CLOG AMERICA. She had the privilege of going to Europe twice with this group and performing in 7 countries, including the Czech Republic and Italy.

In 2007, Cheryl began teaching clogging at Starz Unlimited and she is excited to be teaching again. She now has three children of her own, who are also beginning to dance. She wants to teach clogging to others so that they may also have the opportunities to travel and perform as she did.

Clogging Team Instructor

Erin has been dancing for 28 years and has been teaching for 19 years. Her areas of expertise include clogging, jazz, and ballet.

Growing up, Erin danced with The Castleview School of Dance, CLOG AMERICA, and various public school groups. She has performed around Europe, Korea,the United States and Mexico, and has also had the opportunity to perform in front of many 4 star generals.

Her past accomplishments include many individual and team Grand Championships as well as High School State Championships. Erin has been on again off again with 'The Clog' but it just keeps pulling her back to it time and time again. She says it just goes to prove that once you learn it, it's a skill for life!

Ballet, Jazz, Modern & Hip Hop Instructor

Ballet Technique & Pointe Instructor

Erin Sierras was born in Salt Lake City and spent her formative years training in Utah. She spent time in Virginia, New Mexico, and Nashville training and dancing with top professionals. She danced as a principle in California and ended her professional ballet career in New York. She has been teaching since 2002 in Utah and New York in ballet, chorus, tap, jazz, hip-hop, etc. She recently traveled to Italy working with international professionals and Cirque du Soleil. She is excited to join the studio and is looking forward to an amazing year.

Ballroom Instructor

Lynne Marie Jacobs took her first dance class at age three & hasn't been able to stop dancing since. She enrolled in every dance class possible, performing and competing in clogging, jazz, ballet, lyrical, ballroom and drill team. She started teaching classes and teams at age 14, took Center Stage staff training, and led "tribes" of dancers as a staff member at summer dance camps. In 1995 she traveled to Europe on her first Clog America tour.

Her dance "addiction" continued in college where she added modern, Irish, tap and folk dance as well as classes in dance history, teaching techniques, production, and more. She performed with BYU's International Folk Dance Ensemble and graduated in 2001 with a major in Print Journalism and a Dance minor.

Lynne Marie rejoined Clog America in 2001 & toured the world with the group for several years (until her poor knees just couldn't take one more parade!). She also served on the Clog America Board of Directors and continues to volunteer on the Clog America Advisory Board. She directed High Uinta Dance Studio in Vernal, Utah from 2002-2003, and taught Social Dance for Granite Peaks Community Education until she joined the Starz family in 2008.

Lynne Marie describes her love of the West Coast Swing as an addiction, loves cooking, organizing, and entertaining, and will do almost anything for a good s'more. She recently "retired" from her career in Events Management, and now spends her days taking iPhone photos of her baby, balancing way too many projects, and writing mental blog entries that she never has time to post.

Tumbling & Creative Movement Instructor

Malisa began tumbling at the age of 8, but became serious about it when she was on a performance team at the age of 15, as a level 7. She loves tumbling and still tumbles for fun in an adult class. She began clogging on a team at Starz Unlimited when she was 14 and enjoyed the fun of performances and friends. Malisa continues to spend time tumbling for fun, with her husband Joe, who is a competittive tumbling coach. Malisa also works as a cake decorator.