Meet Our Team

Jane Davis-Munro

Artistic Director

Jane Davis-Munro is a dance educator with four decades of success in operating a thriving dance and art studio in Toronto, Canada. As a Registered Educator, Mentor, and Practical Teaching Supervisor affiliated with the Royal Academy of Dance, she has been recognized for her exceptional contributions with invitations to conduct masterclasses for both the RAD and Canada's National Ballet School's esteemed teacher training program.

Specializing in Ballet and Early Childhood dance, Ms. Davis-Munro holds Advanced certificates in Ballet from the Royal Academy of Dance, as well as certifications in Modern and National Dance from the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dance. Her academic journey includes graduating from Toronto Metropolitan University's theatre department, with a focus on dance, and obtaining a certificate in Early Childhood Education. Ms. Davis-Munro, alongside her daughters, serves as the co-creator of the Childhood Expressions™ Fine Arts Curriculum. Together, they are dedicated to advancing and sharing this legacy affiliate program, a collaborative project initiated with her mother, Lynda Johnson, a visual artist.

Amanda Timpson

Jazz, Tap

Amanda has been teaching dance for several years and absolutely loves helping students grow and enjoy moving. She completed Year 1 of the ADAPT Teacher Training School, which really helped her build strong teaching skills and deepen her knowledge of dance. Her favourite styles to teach are lyrical and jazz, and she focuses on helping dancers connect with the music and express themselves, not just learn the steps.

She’s worked with dancers of all ages and skill levels, so she knows how to make classes fun and challenging for everyone. Amanda believes dance is a great way to build confidence and creativity, and she always tries to create a positive, supportive space where students feel comfortable to try new things and improve at their own pace.

Amanda also loves putting together choreography for shows and competitions, helping dancers tell stories through their movements. Whether you’re just starting out or have been dancing for years, Amanda is excited to dance with all, making sure everyone feels inspired and excited about dance.

For Amanda, teaching dance is all about sharing her passion and helping others discover how fun and freeing dance can be.

Ava Phenix-Ng

Costume and Dancewear Manager, Ballet

Ava is a registered teacher with the Royal Academy of Dance and a graduate of the Teacher Training Program at Canada’s National Ballet School. Under the mentorship of her Pegasus teachers, she successfully completed graded and vocational examinations with the RAD, including Advanced 2. She holds her Progressing Ballet Technique certification, and is committed to ensuring that her students derive the physical, social, and emotional benefits of dance. Ava aspires to foster a love and appreciation of dance within her students and is eager to support them in reaching their goals. She looks forward to contributing to the inclusive environment at Pegasus through her teaching, as well as through her role as Costume and Dancewear Manager.

Briar Munro

Marketing Manager

Briar Munro grew up dancing and working at Pegasus Dance Studios, where she developed a deep love for movement, creativity, and community. Her journey through the studio shaped not only her passion for the arts, but also her belief in the transformative power of dance. She holds a diploma in Fitness and Lifestyle Management and is a certified Personal Trainer, Holistic Lifestyle Coach, Pilates Instructor, and Physiotherapy Assistant. Her background in health and wellness, combined with a lifelong connection to dance, gives her a unique perspective on supporting both physical and emotional development in young dancers.

As the founder of Fly Girl Fitness, Briar built a successful business rooted in empowerment and wellbeing. There, she developed marketing and business strategies that she now brings to her role as Marketing Manager at Pegasus Studios.

Returning to Pegasus has felt like coming home. Working alongside her family and the Pegasus team, Briar is excited to support studio families and share the heart of Pegasus with the wider community. She is dedicated to helping the studio continue to grow as a nurturing, inspiring space where children are encouraged to move freely, express themselves fully, and discover who they are.

Carolyn Pratley

Curriculum Manager, Ballet, Pre-school

Carolyn took her first Ballet class in Dorval, QC, when she was four years old. It was an instant love affair that has resulted in a teaching career that has now spanned over 20 years. In addition to her BA in Psychology from the University of Ottawa, Carolyn holds the Royal Academy of Dance (RAD) Teaching Certificate, as well as the Teaching Diploma. Carolyn studied under her mentor, Helene Tassie of Rockland, ON, exposing the small Eastern Ontario town to dance classes in a bilingual setting. Here, Carolyn continued to enjoy much success, entering many students in RAD Ballet exams, ADAPT (Associated Dance Arts for Professional Teachers) Jazz exams, and amateur dance competitions. She took great pleasure in watching her small studio grow and her dancers flourish. It was difficult to leave the Ottawa area, but Carolyn is happy to have found Pegasus and to continue to share her love of dance. Carolyn lives in East York with her husband and their teenage son, William.

Caitlin Gillespie

Performance Company Director, Social Media Manager, Lyrical, Jazz, Tap, Musical Theatre

Caitlin is both a Pegasus alumni and a graduate from Toronto Metropolitan University, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in Sport Media. Through her many years at Pegasus, Caitlin honed her skills in various dance styles, including RAD ballet, jazz, tap, lyrical, contemporary, hip hop, and musical theatre.

Performing has always been an integral part of Caitlin’s life, as she has participated in musicals, our Pegasus Performance Companies, and much more. She is thrilled to continue her role as Performance Company Director, and ready to share her passion for dance with the Pegasus community.

Caitlin looks to foster a sense of community in all of her classes, allowing every child to shine and grow into their most confident selves through dance. Believing in the transformative power of storytelling through movement, Caitlin looks forward to continuing to express her passion through choreography and her work with students.

Additionally, she is excited to contribute to the welcoming atmosphere at Pegasus as both a teacher and as the Social Media Manager, capturing the magic that happens behind the scenes.

Devon Inrig

Administrative Assistant

Devon is a Pegasus Dance Studios alumni as well as a former musical theatre assistant who choreographed three recital dance pieces and taught children from the ages of 4 to 12. Devon attended and graduated from Humber College with a Fashion Arts diploma. Devon has had a love of dance from an early age and has danced in both the 30th and 35th Pegasus anniversary recitals. After Pegasus, Devon also got an opportunity to dance in a K-Pop showcase in 2019.

She continues to dance whenever she can as dance has always been her first love.

Dryden Graham

Art

Dryden is a graduate of Pegasus Dance Studios and began taking the Saturday morning art classes at Pegasus at the age of four, continuing for fifteen years. He has also assisted in these classes during the school year and at the summer Dance and Art camps for the past five years, and works at the reception desk at Pegasus.

His art education also includes studying at Luc Sculpture and Wexford Collegiate School of the Arts. Dryden has pursued other areas expressing his visual arts with work on set construction and painting for community theatre. He has graduated from Art College for Illustration and Sequential Arts and is currently working with IATSE local 58 Theatre Union.

Kennedy Dale-Johnson

Ballet

Kennedy is a graduate of the Teacher Training Program at Canada’s National Ballet School and holds registered teacher status with the Royal Academy of Dance (RAD) and the International Society of Teachers in Dance (National Branch). She also carries teaching qualifications with Progressing Ballet Technique (PBT), Silver Swans, and Dance for PD with the Mark Morris Dance Group. Kennedy’s choreography has been seen in collaboration with the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber Orchestra, and Fuse (formerly Vera Causa Opera).

Kennedy is passionate about the importance of dance and the positive influence it has on people of all ages and walks of life. She is excited to join the Pegasus faculty and looks forward to sharing her love and knowledge of dance with her students.

Lara Munro

Studio Manager, Modern, Early Years

Lara Munro was introduced to dance at the age of three and as an older child joined the Modern dance company at Canadian Children's Dance Theatre. She completed her Intermediate (Advanced One) Ballet Exam under the Royal Academy of Dance. Lara trained as a Pilates instructor with the Stott Pilates Method. She began teaching preschool aged children at Pegasus in the Childhood Expressions™ program and is an accredited Kindermusik Educator. Lara has continued her work in the community outside the dance studio as a La Leche League Leader and a board member of the Storytellers for Children. She has three sons with whom she spends her days telling stories, rhymes, and riddles and singing songs.

Lia Munro

Business Manager

Growing up at Pegasus, Lia has trained in Ballet, Jazz, Tap, and Modern. She holds a Masters of Arts in Drama from York University and has worked as a dramaturge, director, company manager, and producer in the independent theatre and dance scene in Toronto since 2012. Lia has managed the costume and performance departments at Pegasus since 2008 and is excited to now be managing the business side of the dance studio where she was raised.

Nicola Pantin

Jazz

Nicola Pantin is a dance instructor, choreographer, and dancer. Some selected teaching credits include Ryerson University, Shanghai Theatre Academy, Etobicoke School for the Arts, RHSA, Wexford Collegiate, numerous TDSB schools, and private dance schools. Selected choreography credits include numerous dance and theatre productions at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival (2004-2012) Charlottetown Festival, Shanghai Theatre Academy, Imusicals, George Brown Dance (Unleashed, Nextstage), Sheridan (Musical Theatre), La Jolla Playhouse (assoc. choreographer for Yoshimi), Harbourfront World Stage, Nuit Blanche, Summerworks, Springworks (Stratford ON), YPT, TNB, Citadel Theatre, Second City, Spark/Expect Theatre, Red Barn Theatre, Humber River Shakespeare, Shakespeare in the Rough, Ffida, and Theaturtle. She has received two Dora Mavor Moore awards for Outstanding Choreography (Jacob Two Two Meets the Hooded Fang, RJ Remixed) and a gold medal at Les Jeux de la Francophonie (Corpus). Selected film and video choreography include Mise En Scene (NFB), Bare Knuckle Duet, the Table Dance, and various music videos. Nicola also performs as an independent dancer locally and internationally. Nicola is co-artistic director for 3degrees, an independent dance theatre company in Toronto. Nicola has been teaching online jazz and modern classes for Creative Children's Dance Centre and Pegasus Dance Studios and will continue with several online dance classes for Canada's Ballet Jorgen, Ballet Creole, and TEADE (Cuban dance festival). She also be choreographed the online version of Beats and Intentions in the Fall 2020 and is on faculty at George Brown Dance.

Olivia Radcliffe

Hip Hop

Olivia Radcliffe has been dancing since the age of three, beginning her training at Pegasus before expanding her education at Art and Soul and joining renowned companies such as Artists in Motion and Millennium Dance Crew. She is trained in a wide range of styles including hip hop, jazz, contemporary, acro, lyrical, heels, ballroom, and more.

Her performance career includes dancing on a Royal Caribbean cruise ship for a year, touring internationally with a production show, and performing with professional sports dance teams, such as the Argos A-Team and the Raptors Northside Crew. Most recently, Olivia appeared in Drake’s latest music video, Nokia.

Olivia currently teaches at Pegasus Dance Studios and offers pop-up classes while continuing her own training and preparing for upcoming professional opportunities. Dance has always been the driving force in her life, and she is passionate about passing that love and inspiration on to the next generation of dancers.

Rosie Saunders

Hip Hop, Jazz, Tap, Musical Theatre

Rosalind Saunders (Rosie for short) is a dancer, actor, musician, and educator. Her first ballet class was when she was four, but she has studied ballet, tap, jazz, musical theatre, hip hop, and modern over the years. Rosie holds an advanced diploma in music theatre performance from St. Clair College, and an Honours Bachelor's degree in Acting from Atlantic Technological University in Sligo, Ireland. In her educational and professional life, Rosie has performed in shows such as A St. Clair Christmas, Pélagie, The Laramie Project, A Huron County Christmas Carol, and The Masque of the Red Death. Rosie is also experienced as a production assistant, assistant stage manager, and usher, among other theatrical responsibilities.

Rosie has been teaching for about three years, and her goals as an educator are to get to know the students so she can help them reach their personal goals, and to inspire the students to think creatively and ambitiously. Alongside teaching, Rosie is writing a musical and auditioning for theatre projects.

Sara Lopez Videla

Ballet

Born and raised in Bolivia, Sara started her dance training in various styles at the age of four at CAP Escuela de Danza, located in her hometown. Throughout her training, she attended multiple workshops and masterclasses, including the American Ballet Theatre’s Summer Intensive in Texas.

After moving to Toronto in 2019, she completed three years of the Dance
program at York University and then joined the Teacher Training Program at Canada’s National Ballet School. After graduating from both, she obtained her Registered Teaching Status with the Royal Academy of Dance, and has completed multiple exams, including Cecchetti, National dances with the ISTD, and RAD throughout her journey in TTP.

Her skills in performing, choreographing, and teaching have given her opportunities to teach a wide range of ages and levels at NBS, from 5-year-olds to adults. Sara hopes to create a safe learning space where students can explore their own identity and abilities through movement, technique, and artistry.

TESTIMONIALS

Why our students love PDS:

"This has been such a special place for our family. From the very first toddler music and movement classes to their gentle arts preschool to the later dance classes, Pegasus has been a nurturing space for our child to discover beautiful things about herself and to have rich creative experiences with kind teachers and new friends."

- Carrie, Parent

"My daughter has been attending dance classes at Pegasus Dance Studios for many years and our experience so far has been fantastic. Jane and teachers are trying to do their best to give everything they have to our children and it also contributes to their character development and confidence as well as physical health."

- Yalcin, Parent

"My child attends Childhood Expressions, the Fine Arts preschool program and absolutely loves it. Carolyn and the other teachers are so welcoming, safe, gentle, kind and my daughter absolutely loves going there. She is always asking if it's a "dance school" day and wishes she could go every single day! Growing up as a former competitive dancer I'm quick to spot different dance culture, and Pegasus is really special. Everyone I've encountered is warm, joyful and supportive. I am certain both my kids will be participating in various dance classes for many years to come!"

- Nicole S

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